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MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe is your
product of choice for creating multimedia video and
slideshows – quick and easy!
With over 40 great extras!
• For TV, PC, the web, digital picture frames & on the go
• Full HD support for stunning image quality
• Endless creative options
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Truly impressive multimedia slideshows!
Transform precious memories into multimedia
slideshows and bring them to new life!
1. Select photos & videos
Import photos and videos from digital cameras, mobile phones, memory cards, the web, and other
sources.
2. Add music & text
Handy task assistants & effects will quickly turn your slideshows into theater-quality adventures:
Fully automatic:
The countless style templates in the integrated NEW! Slideshow Maker offer atmospheric plot
contexts. Thanks to thematic video sequences, animations with countless effects, and appropriate
music for all occasions, your multimedia slideshow will be up and running in minutes!
Individual:
Or create your slideshows in your own style with individual zooms, camera pans, rotations, and
personal embellishments. Add a little magic to your photos & videos with animations, effects, text,
and music – just the way you want.
3. Excitement guaranteed!
Enjoy the moment with your family, friends, or acquaintances. You can experience your memories
on TV using your DVD player or on the big screen with a projector.
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Present & share
Experience your photos and videos as exciting
movies with interactive DVD menus: at home on
your TV, on mobile devices, or worldwide on
the web!
All disc types & full HD support
Creates all standard disc types for playback on
DVD players and PCs including Blu-ray Discs
TM
.
Digital picture frames
Would you like to enjoy your images & videos o
n
the shelf or on the wall? Digital picture frames
make it possible, since they play photos and
slideshows, even with music. MAGIX PhotoStory
on CD & DVD 9 deluxe transfers them directly to
the device.
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Endless possibilities
NEW! Travel route animation
Use online maps to show your audience all the
places your journey took you. Perfect for chapter
markers in vacation slideshows and interactive
DVD menus.
Zooms & camera pans
Create virtual camera pans across your photos
and videos to highlight important image content.
Text & 3D titles
Take advantage of the diverse range of fonts and
create animated text for opening/closing credits
and subtitles, incl. templates for spectacular 3D
title animations.
Fades
Use soft, flowing transitions complete with
animated patterns and objects or "turning pages"
effects to add a cinematic touch to your
slideshows.
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Panoramas
Automatically create seamless panoramas from
up to 6 images. NEW! Including animation effects.
3D effects & transition series
Motifs may be distorted into objects and moved
across the picture. Animations help create
attractive backgrounds for presenting your
creations (museum, billboard, etc.).
Enhancements & special effects
Highlight specific aspects of your slideshow by
adding speech bubbles or amusing decorative
elements. Hide the black borders of portrait
photos and use them as backgrounds.
Artistic & image distortion filters
Distort or enhance your pictures just the way you
want – for even more creative freedom!
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Video clips & audio dubbing
Slow & fast motion
Use fast motion as a special video effect or try
slow motion to make faster sequences easier to
view. Reversing the playback is just as easy.
Video stabilizer & optimization
Rescue shaky video sequences, optimize image
quality and remove bothersome noise from
sound recordings.
Rhythmic image cuts
Add a special touch to your slideshows by
having the images change automatically in time
with the selected background music.
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Program interface
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Well-connected: MAGIX Online Services
Discover the possibilities offered by MAGIX
Online World! Every MAGIX product offers a
direct and easy-to-use gateway to the world of
online multimedia.
• Your s
lideshow in your Online Album or in
worldwide Internet communities
• Personalized websites in professional
Flash
®
design with photos, videos &
music
Experience these and many more online
services on www.magix-online.com
Do you have any questions?
At magix.info, our Multimedia Knowledge
Community, you'll receive quick and direct
answers to all of your questions about
photography: Just write in the text field and
send your questions online.
magix.info – Ask. Learn. Discuss.
MAGIX Screenshare makes it possible to share
the contents of your screen with other users live
over the Internet. Users who install MAGIX
Screenshare can see each others' screens and
admire photo and video slideshows created by
others.
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All functions at a glance
Import
Digital camera photos & videos
Also ideal for 16:9 photos, from digital SLR cameras, etc.
Pictures from memory cards, photo
CD/DVDs, mobile phones, etc.
Also supports Kodak
®
·Photo CD·(PCD) and external drives via USB
1&2, serial ports, etc.
Scan in paper prints
Direct TWAIN
®
scanner connection
Enter spoken comments
Record speech in sync with the images using microphones
Automatic format adjustment
Automatically display photos in 3:2 format full screen without black
edges (4:3 or 16:9)
Exchange mode
Reuse old projects for new pictures or slideshows for friends
Optimization
1-click picture optimization
Auto exposure, auto color, selective brightness, focus,
brightness/contrast, white balance, color adjustment NEW! Automatic
red eye correction, cropping, rotation
Fine tune your photos & videos
Precise image size, position, rotation, and mirror
Sound optimization
Polish up video sound, background music, and spoken comments
Top quality for TVs, PCs, projectors
100% true color, full screen without cut edges or flickering
Non-destructive editing
Practical and secure: Original files remain unchanged
Design
Automatic Slideshow assistant NEW! Automation for stylish results in record time with new style
templates (20 in total), background music, individual settings options
(may be saved), provisions for special features (portrait photos,
panoramas, etc.), splitting into several slideshows, etc.
Overview, storyboard, timeline
Easily sort, rotate, arrange, and add sound to photos
Freely adjust shape & aspect
Add photos, videos & text precisely into motifs
Add amusing decorations
Over 100 decorative elements incl. sounds (speech bubbles,
animations ,etc.)
Individual color fields NEW! As text background in intros/outros, between chapters, behind
portrait photos.
Panorama automation
For panorama pictures that are true to nature and creative photo
montages
Enhance portrait photos
Avoid black bars, create your own backgrounds, creative effects
1-click animations Bring single photos to life (NEW! Panorama effects, NEW! Picture-in-
picture animations)
Transition effects
Over 100 templates (picture-in-picture, 3D effects and fade sequences,
etc.)
Video effects & camera pans 30 templates for zooms, camera panoramas, etc.
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Thematic background music NEW! Lots of new songs for vacations, parties, hobby, etc.
Detailed audio dubbing
Sound optimization, arrangements for photos/events in videos
Soundtrack Maker
Creates background music mood changes to match your individual
pictures (fun, exciting, etc.)
Title generator NEW! Titles with direct preview and improved quality (sharper font
and softer shadows even for small text), NEW! 1-click templates for
3D titles & text animations (over 150 in total)
Presentation
Interactive DVD menus
(4:3 and 16:9)
NEW! Individually customizable templates with intros, backgrounds
(video/music), animations, etc. (over 90 in total)
Menus from your own images
40 templates for menus using motifs from your slideshow images (3D
animations, fluid introductory transitions, etc.)
Burn slideshows for TV
For all disc types (DVD, (S)VCD, miniDVD, etc.)
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Archiving
Stores photo/video/audio files + project backups
Present online for free
Your own album website, NEW! Flickr
TM
upload, IMPROVED!
YouTube
TM
upload, exchange with other users
Supported formats
Photo: Imports/exports JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PSD, etc.; imports from Kodak
®
Photo CD (PCD); use
animated Internet graphics as decorative elements (animated GIF import)
Video: Imports MOV; imports/exports AVI, WMV 9, MPEG-1&2
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, etc.; import and export MPEG-4
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videos,
NEW! Import and burn high-resolution AVCHD videos incl. AC3 sound
Audio: Imports camera sound, non-copy-protected CD tracks, MP3, OGG, WAV , etc.; sound recordings
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System requirements
For Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP I Vista
TM
I 7
TM
Minimum configuration:
• PC with Intel
®
Pentium
®
or AMD
®
Athlon
®
1 Ghz, or higher
• Min. 512 MB RAM
• Min. 500 MB free hard disk space for program files, for video files min. 1 GB (5 GB
recommended), 16-bit sound card, DVD drive, Microsoft
®
compatible mouse
• SVGA graphics card with min. 32 MB RAM, PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe: min. resolution
1024 x 600. Additional programs included: min. resolution 1024 x 768 at 16-bit high-color
• 3D power effects with OpenGL/DirectX 9 support and Microsoft
®
Windows Media Player
TM
version 7.0, or higher
• Min. 32 MB XVGA card memory recommended for 3D power effects in HD slideshows (64 MB
recommended)
• Minimum requirements for hardware accelerated preview: DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card,
min. 128 MB graphics card memory (256 MB+ recommended), and Pixelshader 2.0, ATI X300
and better, NVIDIA GeForce 6600 and better
• Creates CDs with SCSI or IDE CD-R(W) burners, DVDs with DVD+/-R(W) burners and Blu-ray
Discs
TM
with Blu-ray burners
• MAGIX Online Services, travel route animation, and integrated browser require an Internet
connection and Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer
TM
version 6.0, or higher.
• Min. 56kBit modem for transferring screen contents via the Internet. ISDN or higher Internet
connection recommended
•
MP3 export requires Windows Media Player
TM
installation version 10, or higher.
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Your advantages at a glance
Only MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe offers over 40 great extras in the following fields:
Creative design
• NEW! Animated travel route animation
• Individual camera panning & zooms
• 3D animation, video functions
Templates
• NEW! Slideshow styles (+10), decorative elements (+40), video effects (+5)
• NEW! 3D titles (+50), fades (+10)
• NEW! DVD menus (+30)
Audio dubbing
• Image changes synchronized with the background music
• NEW! Songs + sounds (500 in total)
• Editable volume curve
Advanced CD/DVD authoring
• NEW! Flexible buttons, menus, and hierarchies, design in image editing programs
• TV showtime discs (optimized single picture playback for DVD players)
• Archiving
HD quality
• NEW! Supports raw formats (RAW)***
• Creates Blu-ray Discs
TM
+ WMV-HD discs
• NEW! File export in HD formats (ideal for presentations using a projector)
Internet
• Additional media available via the Internet
• Exports to Flash
®
video players
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• Slideshows via email
Mobile devices
• Export to portable playback devices (Media Player, etc.)
• Transfer photos and slideshows with accompanying audio to digital picture frames
Bonus tools
• MAGIX Xtreme Photo Designer 6 (image editing)
• NEW! MAGIX Music Editor 3 (sound editing)
• MAGIX Xtreme Print Studio (CD/DVD cases/labels)
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What the press has to say!
** From the leading multimedia company: MAGIX sold the most products of all publishers in the European retail segment for "photo,
video and music software". Based on: GfK Weekly TrendSetter Software / Germany; GfK Panelmarket Software Benelux, Spain,
France; Chart Track UK; Period: April, 2009 to April, 2010. [As of April, 2010]
*** 50-time award winner refers to the following versions of MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD (classic and deluxe versions): 8,
7, 6.5, 6, 5.5, 5, 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3, 2.5, 2, 1. Award wins from other countries refer to the country-specific version. More information at
www.magix.com.
*** For an updated list of all compatible camera models, see www.magix.com
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MPEG-2 codec can be used immediately after free activation. MPEG-4 codec only after a fee-based activation
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