Magix Movie Edit Pro

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro

Developer(s)	MAGIX
Stable release	17, 17 Plus
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Video editing software
License	Proprietary
Website	MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Site

Movie Edit Pro is a consumer-based nonlinear video editing software designed by German MAGIX AG for the PC. It is the best selling video software in European retail.^[1] The first version was published in 2001. According to the developer, it applied the principles of non-destructiveness and object orientation to a video editing program for the first time. ^[2]

Features (Version 17)

Similarities of both Versions

• HDV camcorder support
• storyboard and timeline-oriented editing
• freely adjustable user interface
• Screenshot
• one way color correction
• title editor
• Keyframing
• batch processing
• burn DVD and Blu-ray Disc with animated menus
• Scrubbing
• Chroma keying

Differences between both Versions

	Movie Edit 17 HD	Movie Edit 17 Plus HD
Number of multimedia tracks	32	99
Multicam Editing	No	Yes
Stereo3D workflow	No	Yes
Secondary color correction	No	Yes
Effects, titles, fades...	>1,000	>1,500
Dolby Digital	Stereo	Stereo/5.1
AVCHD camcorder support / native AVCHD editing	No. Can be purchased directly from within the program.	Yes
Codecs	MPEG-4 has to be purchased directly from within the program.	All included

Supported File formats

	Import	Export
Video	AVI, DV-AVI, M2TS, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MKV, MXV, MJPEG, QuickTime, WMV(HD), VOB	AVI, DV-AVI, MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, WMV(HD)
Audio	WAV, MP3, OGG, WMA, MIDI, Dolby Digital	WAV, MP3, Dolby Digital
Images	JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIF, TGA	JPEG, BMP

System requirements

Minimum

• Intel Core 2 duo with 1.83 GHz, AMD Dual-Core with 2.0 GHz
• 1 GB RAM
• 1 GB free hard disk memory and a DVD drive for program installation
• Graphics card with a screen resolution of at least 1024 x 768
• Multi-channel sound card recommended for surround sound editing

For AVCHD/HD editing

• Intel Core 2 quad processor with 2.83 GHz (Intel Core i7 recommended)
• 4 GB RAM
• DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, min. 512 MB graphics card memory

Supported devices

• IEEE1394/DV interface for use with DV/HDV camcorders
• USB camcorders (DVD/hard disk/memory card) and webcams
• VfW or DirectShow compatible video, TV or graphics cards with video in o WDM-compatible TV tuner cards, DirectX9 and BDA driver compatible DVB T/S tuner cards
• Blu-ray, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW burners

References

1. ^ News on unitednetworker.com from 2009, Sep 23 (German)
2. ^ MAGIX company website