Video Deluxe
July 27, 2010 | Posted by vvt9 
- This incredible tool allows you to import your Digital Video(DV) from any digital or analog camera
- Edit the video, add titles, a new soundtrack, and even special effects
- You can save your newly edited files and mail them as e-mail attachments
- Over 800 different samples to choose from
- Burning tools make saving your DV files to CD easy
Product Description
Video Deluxe is your one-stop solution for every kind of video manipulation! Perfect for creating great-looking home videos! Video Deluxe gives you the freedom to do the most with your home video!Amazon.com Review
Magix Video deLuxe provides professional video editing tools at a budget price. Those who have used video editing software before will find the 16-track timeline easy to work with; drag clips, effects, and background sound in from the file br… More >>
Categories: Media Software | 
Tags: Deluxe, Video | 
5 Comments »
This product is a great buy. Most video editing software with this many features easily runs for about $(…). Video deLuxe is easy to use and came with a load of features …..for (a lot less).
Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this software for one reason: It indicated that it could import lots of file types. Much to my horror I can’t open anything! NOTHING! Not .mov files, not any .mpeg files, not .wm files, not .avi files. It keeps telling me “bad file type.” After having numerous files custom rendered off an avid system I was able to open them with Adobe Premier but NOT with this program. I wanted to scream each time. Magix got my money but I will always remember the name “Magix” and never EVER buy another product from this quack company again.
Rating: 1 / 5
It sounds extreme, but in my opinion, this program is terrible. I got it for $$ and now I am trying to get my money back. In the reviews it sounds very good. I used it on a Window 2000 computer with 768 meg. of memory and an 80 gig hard drive with an AMD 1.3 ghz processor and a NVidia TNT2 32 meg. video card. My regular job is as a Computer Support Specialist and Programmer so I work with – many programs. Here’s my experience that supports the poor rating I give the program…
= Right after the installation of the program, it automatically starts up the Video Deluxe program. When it did, immediately it came up with an “Error loading audiovis.dll” message. The program did continue to load. Twice when I subsequently started the program, that error message occurred. What effects it has in using the program I don’t know.
= Twice when I exported a movie using QuickTime Movie Export with all default settings except sound set to 11k and Mono, the Video Deluxe froze up the computer an hour into the render. I gave up. (Note – I have 25+ other major software programs on this machine that I’ve used for a year and they work fine..
= When you are Exporting (rendering), which can take 9 hours like it did to an .AVI file, there is no dialog to Cancel it once it begins. When I did ESC to stop an export, the Video Deluxe froze up and in the Win 2k – Task Manager it said “Program not Responding” and I had to crash the program to stop it.
= The Help in the program is terrible. For instance, when I went to do an Export, a dialog popped up asking if I wanted to export a range or the whole movie. In Help, there is no data at all on how to set a Range. At times the Help came up in German, not English.
= I finally dug up some info that – inferred indirectly – on how to set a Range when I looked in help on info about the “Edit Menu”. I used the info to set a Beginning Marker and End Marker per their directions. I even tested the settings by using Zoom to Range between Beginning and End markers, and the program – did – zoom to the range I setup. But then when I used the Edit Menu – Range Extract which Help says will delete everything in the video – except – the range, Video Deluxe did the opposite. It removed the range I wanted to keep instead and kept the rest of the movie.
I could go on about other things that were disappointing in the 3+ hours I wasted on the program (like how their Tutorial video is so distorted when it plays, you cannot even read it’s screen examples).
My job is working with software 50-60 hours a week and the 3+ hours I spent repeatedly trying to use this program to perform the simple tasks I purchased it for, were wasted. The program might have been conceived of by a genius, but it was implemented by poor design and bugs.
Rating: 1 / 5
I enjoyed learning how to use Magix’ Video Deluxe in version 1 and liked it so much I bought version 2. Version 2 includes DVD menus and authoring, which version 1 does not. If you don’t need DVD authoring – if you can make do with emailing your videos, posting them online, or sending back to your camera for VHS, this is an excellent program.
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this program in the hopes of being able to edit some older video material I had, and I have been disappointed to the point of abandonment that I have not been able to get the job done. While the program appears to have all the right editing features, clever transitions, easy “drag and drop” manipulations, and multiple tracks for video and audio sources, I have been unable to import the video material using the ATI Rage Fury Pro capture card on my motherboard. When I attempted to get technical help, I was unable to make any “live” contact using the USA number provided and was referred to an email service from Europe. I did receive a response from Holland and one from Germany as well, but even those technicians were unable to come close to solving the problems. Video processing is an art in evolution and there are many formats and other technical issues to consider. There seems to be a host of compaitbility problems out there and unless you are a real whiz at that stuff and can solve your own problems, this product will disappoint you because of the VERY sketchy support. I ended up getting a G4 powerbook with iMovie out of frustration. I think that PC video editing has a long way to go and that this program does not advance the state of the art.
Rating: 2 / 5