Cheapest MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus
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The plus version of MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 2013 comes with a variety of extras such as: 99 tracks, more templates, 2D and 3D video editing, multicam editing, travel route animation, advanced audio dubbing (i.e. Dolby Digital 5.1), etc. Developers at MAGIX worked hard at making the new version even faster and more efficient, and they were successful! AVCHD file import has been improved and is now more than 40% faster. Rendering test projects (AVCHD Full HD) with Intel Quick Sync Video, AMD/OpenCL or NVIDIA CUDA for the Apple iPad is now up to twice as fast as in previous version. When activating hardware acceleration, your graphics card will be automatically recognized by the program. Calculating effects directly on the graphic card's GPU is therefore now over 90% faster which represents the biggest speed boost out of all the improvements. The new chromakey engine allows you to create impressive video effects in movie quality. Simply record footage of people or things in front of a plain-colored background and layer new photos or videos on top of it - just like a green/blue screen. As in previous versions, finished projects can be burned to DVD/Blu-ray or shared online (e.g. on YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, etc).
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- Exclusive extras: 99 tracks, more templates, 2D and 3D video editing, multicam editing, travel route animation, advanced audio dubbing (i.e. Dolby Digital 5.1), etc.
- Preview rendering of Stereo 3D & multicam projects: the new segment rendering feature allows for Stereo3D and multicam projects to be played smoothly, even on slow computers.
- Automatic synchronization of multicam projects using the audio track
- Fast effect preview: Effects are calculated directly on the GPU (graphic processor) which decreases the load on the CPU and provides smooth playback when previewing effects.
- Support of new video standard AVCHD Progressive (50p); accelerated export of AVCHD videos with automatic graphics card recognition; fast and direct GPU calculation of all essential video effects
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Previous version (v18 "MX") is fine. This one still in beta!
By Mike
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3LAF4ME3S4LN9 I'm writing this review from the perspective of an upgrade. For fuller reviews of MEP, see my 4 star review of MEP v17 and my 5 star review of Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus. (Always buy the "Plus" version of MEP. Encoders are free, you get a dedicated music and photo editor, plus some other important enhancements.)
Bottom line: MEP 2013 (a.k.a v19) is really a "point" or incremental upgrade rather than a new version. There's no compelling reason to buy this "version." (I guess, like cars, they have to introduce a new model every year, whether needed or not.)
In fact, in my tests, when it comes to encoding YouTube video (MP4) it's worse that the previous version. (See my accompanying video, where I recorded VLC player video of the same MP4 project encoded by MX vs 2013.) In fact, per the update below, the third party MP4 encoder that ships with Magix 2013 is still "beta!" So the previous version 18 (a.k.a. Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus) is what you should buy.
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UPDATE November 24, 2012: First, Magix just issued its second patch for v2013. Current version is now 12.0.2.2. They say they fixed a few things and I'll take their word for it. (Update December 6, 2012: After the patch, or after upgrading to a new (better) video card, I cannot play the Magix Demo anymore without the program hanging. Whereas I can play the Demo just fine on old v18 MX.)
Second, they updated the third party Main Concept MP4 encoder! But it's still not right.
Well at least Main Concept is updating their encoder. So there's hope. It's still not ready for prime time and I still have to use Magix MX (v18) to encode MP4 to get the results I want.
Update November 2012: On an aside, Fry's Electronics had an Nvidia GT610 2GB video card on sale for $15 after rebate today. (CUDA 2.1) I installed and tried it this evening (pre-patch) with v2013. The new card works better with v2013 than my old card, an Nvidia GeForce 210. (CUDA 1.2) But even with a CUDA 2.1 engine, MP4 encodes in v2013 are still problematic.
So I still say MX (v18) is the version to buy. Even though MX doesn't recognize my new GT610 video card for Hardware encoding ( I even uninstalled and reinstalled MX after I had installed the new video card. Perhaps the card is too new?), I get the best results encoding in software anyway. Faster than using the GPU too. (4 core AMD Phenom, 3.4GHz.)
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Review: I've been a happy MEP user from v12 to v15, then v17, v18 (a.k.a. "MX") and today, this, v19 (a.k.a. "2013"). It just came out. Fry's sold it for $25. While I don't mind having spent only $25, it was a waste of money and it's not worth upgrading. In fact, it's arguably worse! Stay, or buy, Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus and you've gotten the biggest bang for your buck. (See my 5 star review there.) For example, v18 came with a nice, thick, printed user's guide. v2013 does not. (Instead the PDF on the DVD.) As it turns out, there's a reason for not supplying a printed version this time. The product was released before even the PDF caught up!
I use MEP to make YouTube videos. Probably overkill, since MEP is a professional package, a consumer version of Magix's Video Pro X series. But I have availed myself of some fancy features in my YouTube videos using the Multi-cam feature and Picture in Picture. (If you can imagine it, you can probably do it in Magix.)
So my focus is on basic time line editing stuff. I don't burn DVD's with fancy chapters or menus. I don't do 3D. (A dying fad.) I don't have a fancy AVCHD camera either. I just import MPEG-2's or MOV's or AVI's, which goes fast enough in v18. (I suspect, in this day and age of cell phone cameras and pad cameras, not many people are doing AVCHD and/or 3D either.) MP4 performance for YT uploads is what's important to me.
Here's the biggest difference I can tell with this new version: The third party Main Concept H.264 MP4 encoder has been updated in v2013.
So first off, I couldn't import my old export presets (.PRU files) to the new version. Well, I could. But I don't think everything transferred the same. Or maybe the new encoder is a bit buggy and switches aren't getting set properly. For I took old v18 projects, opened them in v2013, and encoded to MP4 as before. While the time to encode was about the same or perhaps slightly faster (when I used my CPU, as opposed to my GPU), the file sizes were larger and, at first, the videos wouldn't play completely through! And when they would (after some tweaking of complicated MP4 encoder parameters) they were badly pixelated on zooms. (See my video review here.)
I tweaked the "academic settings" in the advanced options of the MP4 encoder for hours in MEP 2013 to match the parameters in v18, but even then I could not achieve the same excellent results as I had gotten in v18. (Defined as good quality video and low file size.) So maybe I'll edit in v2013, and encode my projects in v18. (I presume project files are backward compatible, but that wasn't true from v15 to 12. Update: I have made a few projects now in v19 and opened them in v18 without any problems.) Or maybe not. There's no real difference in the interface that I can tell either.
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UPDATE: I was finally able to get v2013 to make good MP4, but at twice the file size of MX! I wonder if this isn't a purposeful decision to win speed contests (at the expense of file size) to win PC Magazine reviews as the "fastest." But I'd rather take an extra minute encoding to a smaller file size now to save 10 minutes uploading later.
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To give some history, Magix made its biggest speed and interface improvements in v18 ("MX") which took advantage of your graphic card's GPU. That made it so encoding went faster but used your CPU less! Amazing. It's obvious Magix has written even more code to use your GPU in v 2013. But I only have a low end Nvida card, with limited CUDA support (albeit DirectX 11). As such, when I tell the program to use my GPU to encode an MP4, it takes four times longer to encode as compared to letting my CPU do it! (Although my CPU is only at 20% when using the GPU vs. 75% w/o.) But when I let the GPU do it in v2013, I lose some MP4 encoder functionality. Fortunately, using the GPU is user selectable. YMMV, depending on the graphic card you have. But I suspect we're already on the diminishing returns part of this curve. I mean, it takes only a few minutes to encode a five minute YouTube video with v18. Would it really matter to me if it did it in a minute? (I guess if you're making family videos that fill entire DVD's, speed becomes important. But in this day and age of Twitter and 140 character messages, does anyone sit down that long to watch long videos anymore?)
As far as interface improvements on v18, Magix is moving toward more use of the preview monitor for some editing tasks. So now you can open a video in the preview monitor and do your in and out trims intuitively before placing them in the movie. (No multi-trim, per se, but you could trim here, drag and drop, and then repeat to get the same result as multi-trim.)
Magix claims some "improvements" from v18, but nothing I thought was lacking in v18. For example, Magic says the Title Editor is improved. But I'm hard pressed to notice any real difference. (I think they undid some of the "improvements" in Patch 2.)
The only really new thing Magix hypes is speed improvements for high end AVCHD importing on high end systems. "The AVCHD file import feature has been improved and is now more than 40% faster*. Rendering test projects (AVCHD Full HD) with Intel® Quick Sync Video, AMD®/OpenCL(tm) or NVIDIA® CUDA(tm) for the Apple iPad is now up to twice as fast in Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus*." But that's for the iPad. Frankly, I bet most people download stuff into their iPad off the net instead of making their own videos for them. Again, I make videos for YT. So, not to take anything away from the Magix software engineers, none of these speed improvements matters to me.
"Calculating effects directly on the graphic card's GPU is now over 90%* faster, the biggest speed boost out of all the improvements." Maybe so. But I must not have any bizarre effects that slow things down because I've never noticed a problem with previews. Version 18 came with preview rendering, where you could pre-calculate difficult transitions. But I never needed to use it. I don't make eye candy transitions and effects. (Content is what matters.) Update: For grins, I tried a fancy 3D transition. Okay, on my overclocked 4 core AMD (3.4GHz), the playback is jerky if you don't pre-calculate. I suppose if I had a high end GPU graphics card, it would play smoother on preview. But I don't ever expect to use this transition. Update December 2012: With my newer video card, the transitions do render better in preview.
So, if you want to update MEP from an earlier version, update to v18. If you own MEP v18, stay there. If you're looking to buy MEP, buy v18. It's cheaper and makes better MP4's than this newer version. At least at this point in time. If they ever fix the Main Concept MP4 encoder, then this version would be acceptable.
I usually only update to every other version and I would have been wise to wait for a v20 before spending any money. Although, at this point in the life of MEP, I don't know what else they could add. (It would be nice if the program could read my mind so I didn't have to change between ripple modes.) As it is now, v18 does most everything I want and it does it well. (Even if I had the full blown Video Pro X, what difference would it make? I don't even know what "3-way color correction" is. Update: I watched their tutorial on this on YT. Okay, even now that I know what 3-way color correction is, I don't see any need for it.)
Truly, I don't know what more one could want in a video editor. (Some professional reviewers want "multi-trim.") But Magix, if you're reading this, I'd like an in sutu bitmap editor, where I could draw a mask (square, rectangle, circle, ellipse, with or without feathering) in the video monitor and use that as a selection to pixelate parts of images, etc. (To be fair, in v19 (2013), Magix did make it so you could open their bitmap editor from MEP, make a mask, and kinda sorta resave that new image for use in MEP. So they're getting there. It's a bunch of steps now, which I expect will be streamlined into the Preview editor in a future version someday.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Enthusiasts look no further!
By R. M. Chesney
If you are a video editing hobbyist and are struggling to find a good application I can't recommend Magix Pro 2013 enough.
I have spent so long attempting to video edit using a number of popular products, most notably Sony Vegas and Power Director. I have a decent PC with plenty of CPU and RAM grunt as well as a credible video card. I don't normally write reviews but if I can save someone else the time I have wasted it will be worth it.
My criteria...
Time-lapse and Slow motion
Easy to use
High Quality Output
Solid Responsiveness (eg. When scrubbing through footage)
Solid Performance (doesn't crash all the time)
Stabilization
Multi-Track
Something I could grow in to as I became more experienced
Affordable
I originally (2006ish) started using Sony Vegas and found the interface quite intuitive and user friendly and that is where the Pro's ended. I had a nightmare of a time rendering and would forever get interlacing or ghosting issues. While there may be ways to fix this I found no easy way to do so and by default this is the only program I used that has these issues. FYI - I downloaded a trial of the 2012 version and still had the same problems.
I finally decided to go on the hunt again and found Power Director (v9). This was a lot more simplified and was not quite as user friendly (eg. Being able to automatically cross-fade by dragging clips together). Aimed at the most very basic consumer it has limited effects and has wickedly lame templates. To its credit its stabilization feature is probably the best I have seen and is what keep me hanging on to it for so long.
What made me start looking was the fact that the better specs my PC got the poorer it seemed to perform (including a trial of their 64 bit "Ultra Fast" version). The renders were temperamental and the editing took ages due to the performance glitches. The trap with programs like this is they have lots of ticks in lots of boxes but in the end it was too low end and unstable. One real performance bug-bear was that as soon as you add transitions it runs like an absolute dog.
I downloaded a boat-load of trial versions including Premiere Pro, Vegas, Videopad, Roxio and found none of them as good as Magix. Magix is a solid application with good features and it performs brilliantly, it is so relieving to actually start a video project and not hit a roadblock.
In conclusion, I hope this helps any budding video editors and suggest if you are having issues like I was it's worth downloading the Magix trial and giving it a go.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Yet another excellent release!
By Casa_Hernandez
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2XVY1PI56S38C I just received my NEW Magix Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus. As I am writing this review, I am installing the program. So, while the program is installing I thought I would first say that this is not my first Movie Edit Pro. I have been using the software for a couple years now and I have been very pleased with the results thus far... especially for the price. The last couple releases have seen dramatic improvements in GPU support, which for those "videographer" among us, would be seen as a gift from the almighty master coder.
The installation has finished and the Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus has started for the very first time. So from here on, you will get my first reactions to the software.
At first glance, the program seems identical to the previous release, but after looking around I noticed a tab section for the movies within the project. I actually use this within the software and I am happy with this improvement... But, as you might not have this version, I will try to explain. In previous releases you could create a new movie within an existing project by pressing a "Reel" icon on the arrangement toolbar and selecting "New Movie". To change from one movie to another within the same project required you to go to this "Reel" icon and select the movie you want to work with... now, everything is a tab, so its easy to locate, click and work. Greatly improving workflow.
I will admit though, much of this release is the same on the interface as it was in the previous release (Movie Edit Pro MX Plus) but from what I have read, this release has had some engine work done on the graphic engine, support for OpenGL and CUDA as-well-as optimization for Windows 8... Yes, its coming. I tested the claim that it was faster, and yes... the export was faster, decisively faster.
I made a video of the export process using a project that was 00:10:56:04 in length, but was also from mixed media (different file types) to get an idea of the total process. I exported the exact same project build in both the Movie Edit Pro MX Plus and the Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus as a MPEG-4 file. During the export of each, I was capturing the export progress bar. I later assembled this in a new project and reduced the duration time so it wouldn't be a 27 minuted video.
Movie Edit Pro MX Plus took 00:26:26:20 to complete the encoding.
Movie Edit Pro 2013 Plus took 00:17:29:13 to complete the encoding.
Both results seem identical, at least as far as the quality is concerned.
In my opinion, If you do not have Movie Edit Pro and you are looking for a video editing software to perhaps replace something you currently use or simply to start in the process of editing video, I think the newest edition is prime and ready for you to explore.
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