MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 User manual
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- Graphics software
- Type
- User manual
MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9: Effortlessly transform your photos and videos into stunning slideshows with a variety of effects, music, and text. Create memorable multimedia presentations for any occasion, whether it's a family celebration, travelogue, or professional showcase. Easily burn your creations to disc or share them online for a captivating viewing experience on TV, PC, or the web.
MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9: Effortlessly transform your photos and videos into stunning slideshows with a variety of effects, music, and text. Create memorable multimedia presentations for any occasion, whether it's a family celebration, travelogue, or professional showcase. Easily burn your creations to disc or share them online for a captivating viewing experience on TV, PC, or the web.
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Turn your pictures and videos in record time
into impressive slideshows complete with suitable
background music, text, different effects, interactive
DVD player menus, etc.
Perfect movie
slideshows in
3 minutes!
Ideal for
►TV
►
PC
►
Web
Upgrade your pictures with • videos • music • text • effects • DVD menus • and more
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The original: easy • quick • impressive
Take your pictures, and turn your experiences into fantastic slideshows that you can share with family and
friends - faster than you ever thought possible. Easy to create!
You've never experienced your
photos and videos like this before!
Simply import pictures, and transform them into
multimedia slideshows that will impress any
audience. Burn them to disc complete with DVD
menus and watch them on any TV with a DVD player,
on your PC, or share them on the web.
BONUS! MAGIX Xtreme Print Studio for creating individual CD and DVD cases & labels
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Bring your memories to life again
Family & celebrations
Hold on to treasured moments at birthdays,
weddings, or Christmas. Turn your multimedia
chronicles and portraits into unforgettable party
events and capture your children's development for
eternity.
Gifts
Surprise your family, friends, and acquaintances with
entertaining slideshow CDs and DVDs of your
personal or shared experiences or wish a slideshow
for yourself.
Vacation & travel
Surprise your friends with images from your latest
trips, excursions to museums, or sporting events.
Design fantastic travel logs and share your
experiences.
Hobbies & professional use
Document and present your favorite leisure-time
activities as entertaining slideshows and convince
your clients of your products and offers with
professionally designed presentations.
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Easily impress your audience with multimedia slideshows
Create automatically
Take advantage of the countless style templates
included in the Slideshow Maker to create the right
atmosphere for any slideshow. Thanks to thematic
video sequences, animations with countless effects,
and fitting music for various occasions such as
vacation trips, your slideshow will be up and running
in just 3 minutes!
Tell your story
Design details according to your own imagination.
It's all about your ideas! Add a variety of high-quality
effects and fun animated elements, and use camera
pans to dynamically enlarge specific image motifs.
Experience your slideshows on TV
Treat yourself and your audience to great
entertainment by presenting your slideshows on TV
with a DVD player. You can choose between the
classic 4:3 format or 16:9 widescreen format. Show
off your pictures on any high-definition screen,
quickly and easily!
Present online
Present your creations online directly from the
program. Integrate them into your website as a video
player or publish them directly on the video platform
YouTube™.
Thanks to your personal Online Album, your family
and friends can be part of your experiences any time
(free 500 MB of storage space, password protection,
possibility of ordering prints).
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Your benefits
Import anything
Load photos from digital cameras, mobile phones or
scanners, video sequences, CD tracks, and MP3s or
complementary media from the web straight from the
program!
Personal text
Add titles for opening and closing credits, subtitles or
chapter markers, design and animate them, even in
3D.
Includes audio dubbing
Automatically create soundtracks with a single click,
or choose from a wide variety of music tracks.
Directly record voiceovers or even restore audio in
the program.
Perfect quality
Enhance and correct your snapshots, or turn your
pictures into panoramas. Originals always remain
unchanged (non-destructive optimization).
Exciting effects
Highlight motifs by applying transitions, zooms,
animations, 3D effects and picture-in-picture
collages. Adjust size to avoid black bars around
portrait photos.
Interactive DVD player menus
Choose from a variety of ready-to-use templates or
integrate your own motifs, text, and much more.
Create all standard disc types for playback on DVD
players and PCs (Video DVD, VCD, SVCD, and
much more)
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New highlights
• NEW! New automation for elegant slideshows in record time (incl. settings options and much more)
• NEW! Templates for picture-in-picture collages, panorama animations, DVD menus, and
background music
• NEW! Create individual color fields as background for texts, for example (incl. templates)
• NEW! Automatic red eye correction, video clips can be rotated, integrated Title editor
• NEW! Publish directly on the Flickr™ Internet community portal, and much more
Program interface
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All functions at a glance
Import
Digital camera photos and videos
Also ideal for 16:9 photos, from digital SLR cameras, etc.
Pictures from memory cards,
photo CD/DVDs, mobile phone, etc.
Also supports Kodak
®
Photo CD (PCD) and external drives via USB
1&2, serial ports
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 & movies
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 and much
more
Non-destructive editing
Practical and secure: Original files remain unchanged
Design
Automatic Slideshow assistant
NEW!
Automation for stylish results in record time with new
thematic style templates (15 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
50 deco elements incl. sounds (speech bubbles, animations, etc.)
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Individual color fields
NEW!
As text background in intros/outros, between chapters, behind
portrait photos, etc.
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 90 templates (picture-in-picture, 3D effects, and fade
sequences, etc.)
Video effects & camera pans
Over 40 templates for zooms, camera pans, etc.
Title generator
NEW!
Titles with direct preview and improved quality (sharper font
and softer shadows even for small text), 1-click templates for 3D
titles & text animations (over 90 in total)
Soundtrack Maker
Creates background music mood changes to match your pictures
(fun, exciting, etc.)
Detailed audio dubbing
Sound optimization, arrangements for photos/events in videos, etc.
Thematic background music
NEW!
Lots of new songs for vacation, etc.
Presentation
Interactive DVD menus
(4:3 and 16:9)
NEW!
Individually customizable templates with intros, backgrounds
(video/music), animations, etc. (over 20 in total)
Menus from your own images
20 templates for menus using motifs from your slideshow images
(3D animations, fluid introductory transitions, and much more)
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, YouTube
TM
&
NEW!
Flickr
TM
upload,
exchange with other users
Supported formats
Photo
Imports/Exports JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, PSD, etc.; imports from Kodak
®
photo-CD
(PCD)
Video
Imports/exports AVI, WMV 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
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, MPEG-4
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, etc.; imports MOV,
NEW!
Import
and burn high-resolution videos incl. AC3 sound
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Audio
Imports non-copy protected CD tracks, MP3, OGG, WAV, etc.
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System requirements
For Microsoft
®
Windows
®
XP
TM
I Vista
TM
I 7
TM
Minimum configuration:
• Intel
®
Pentium
®
or AMD
®
Athlon 1 GHz, or higher
• 512 MB of memory
• 500 MB free hard disk space for program files, 1 GB for video files (5 GB recommended)
• CD drive, PC mouse, 16-bit sound card
• SVGA graphics card with min. 32 MB RAM, min. resolution 1024 x 600 at 16-bit high-color
• Create CDs with SCSI or IDE-CD-R(W) burners, DVDs with DVD+/-R(W) burners
Optional:
• Online services: Internet connection (min. 56 kBit modem, ISDN or DSL recommended), Microsoft
®
Internet Explorer™ version 6.0, or higher
• 3D power effects: Open GL/DirectX
®
9 support and Microsoft
®
Windows Media Player
TM
, version 7.0
or above. Min 32 MB XVGA card memory for HD projects (64 MB recommended)
• Hardware accelerated preview: DirectX
®
9.0c compatible graphics card, min. 128 MB graphics card
memory (256 MB+ recommended), and Pixelshader 2.0, ATI X300, NVIDIA
®
GeForce
®
6600 (and
better)
• Sound recording: microphone
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What the press has to say!
These press comments refer to the previous version, MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8.
Copyright © MAGIX AG, 2002-2010. All rights reserved.
MAGIX is a registered trademark of MAGIX AG.
Other mentioned product names may be registered trademarks of the respective manufacturer.
This product uses MAGIX patent pending technology.
"Perfect movie slideshows in 3 minutes!” refers to the average time required to automatically create a slideshow from approximately 250 loaded
photo/videos depending on the number of applied editing options and using average processing power (minimum recommendations see system
requirements) – for example, a 30-minute multimedia slideshow with various effects and deco elements. Adding additional photos/videos as well as
output require extra time (depending on the target medium and format).
* From the leading multimedia company: MAGIX has sold the most products of all publishers in the European retail segment for "photo, video and
music software". Based on: GfK Panelmarket Software Benelux, Spain, France; Chart Track UK; Period: April, 2009 to April, 2010. [As of April, 2010].
*** 30-time award winner refers to the program versions 1 to 8 (international). More information at www.magix.com.
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MPEG-2 codec can be used immediately after free activation (for burning video CD/DVDs). MPEG-4, AVCHD, and AC3 codecs can be used after a
fee-based activation (optional for importing and exporting special video formats such as special mobile devices or for burning AVCHD discs).
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MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 User manual
- Category
- Graphics software
- Type
- User manual
MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9: Effortlessly transform your photos and videos into stunning slideshows with a variety of effects, music, and text. Create memorable multimedia presentations for any occasion, whether it's a family celebration, travelogue, or professional showcase. Easily burn your creations to disc or share them online for a captivating viewing experience on TV, PC, or the web.
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