Awards & Reviews

8/10

“Quite a sophisticated program that does what it says on the box.”

"Xara Photo & Graphic Designer"(...)"is an all-in-one tool that can edit photos, 2D and 3D graphics, animation, text, and page layouts--for online or print media--seamlessly, without switching programs."
 
"If you are considering splashing out about $1,000 on Adobe Creative Suite Standard (Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign bundled) or pretty much any other photo editor, illustrator, or page layout program, try out Xara's Photo & Graphic Designer first. The staggeringly affordable Photo & Graphic Designer is worth your time and the price of a few antacids while you learn. Plus, with $910 change in your pocket, you may never look back."

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4 out of 5

“Rescue Your Vinyl and Tapes 3 is more than capable of producing the means to safeguard your vinyl and audio based music.  The product takes over the hard work, leaving the user to make minor adjustments.”

4 out of 5

“A good combination of easy tools and advanced features for audiophiles”

"GOLD AWARD"
"Overall Rating: 4/4"
"Audio Editing: 4/4"
"Recording/Burning: 4/4"
"Ease of Use: 4/4"

"Pros: It has an extremely easy to use interface with great effects and high quality tools loops"; "The Verdict: This is by far the best audio editing software we tested."

"..well-rounded audio editing software that has easy-to-use tools and applications, considering its large, complex feature set and overall versatility, which makes it an easy pick for the best program in this category.", "..easy-to-use tools that provide a precise, professional audio editing experience.", "The set of tools, features and applications makes embellishing, editing and even creating new tracks from scratch an enjoyable experience that is built to accompany to users familiar with audio editing and production software and those trying for the first time.", "..offering a simplicity and presentation that many audio editing software programs lack.", "..your songs are going to sound better than ever with this program."

"Gold Award (Drawing Software Category)"

"Pros: PhotoStory on CD & DVD Deluxe has output formats specifically for digital photo frames and netbooks."

"Ease of Use: 3,5/4"
"Design Features:4/4"
"Input/Output:4/4"
"Slideshow Quality: 4/4"
"Help/Support:4/4"

"This product quickly and efficiently guides you through making a photo slideshow without any hassle."
"PhotoStory on CD & DVD Deluxe has the most robust feature set and publishing and sharing options of all the products we reviewed."
"PhotoStory on CD & DVD Deluxe is our top pick for photo slideshow software because it combines the most robust feature set and publishing options with ease-of-use. It is also one of the best values because it comes with a photo editor and a music editor. "

"The  MAGIX Music Maker 17 package is a very powerful music making program that, for the price, could go toe to toe with a lot of much more expensive options out there at this time.
In this version, priced at RRP £49.99, you pretty much get all the tools you need, including some items in the sound pool, to get you started on making some pretty cool music here."

80%

“Capturing, cleaning and remastering audio recordings doesn't come much easier than this”

"MM17 has a great mixing desk but the Magix Mastering Suite has been the best one I've come across, so if you want that tad more control over the finished product head for Mr Premium himself!"; "There is no steep learning curve with Music Maker so you don't have to worry that your brains will be fried by semi-unintelligible techno-babble; no siree, straight out of the box, on to your PC and away you go - a trip to happyland guaranteed."

4/5

“Audio Cleaning Lab makes audio recordings sound as shiny & loud as possible”

Editors Choice Award 9/10

“A great and inexpensive program that can work wonders for audio files…”

4/5

“Rescue your Vinyl & Tapes can certainly help in the transfer, cleaning and enhancement of your audio content. The product does all the hard work, leaving you to make the adjustments to achieve the results you want.”

4/5

“Rescue your Vinyl & Tapes can certainly help in the transfer, cleaning and enhancement of your audio content. The product does all the hard work, leaving you to make the adjustments to achieve the results you want.”

"GOLD AWARD"

"Overall Rating: 4/4"
"Audio Editing: 4/4"
"Recording/Burning: 4/4"
"Ease of Use: 4/4"

"Pros: It has an extremely easy to use interface with great effects and high quality tools loops""The Verdict: This is by far the best audio editing software we tested."

"..well-rounded audio editing software that has easy-to-use tools and applications, considering its large, complex feature set and overall versatility, which makes it an easy pick for the best program in this category.", "..easy-to-use tools that provide a precise, professional audio editing experience.", "The set of tools, features and applications makes embellishing, editing and even creating new tracks from scratch an enjoyable experience that is built to accompany to users familiar with audio editing and production software and those trying for the first time.", "..offering a simplicity and presentation that many audio editing software programs lack.", "..your songs are going to sound better than ever with this program."

8/10 – "Remarkable results are accomplished very easily and quickly."

90% Gold Award – “Very simple to use and packed with effects and transitions."

“For me, it remains the standard by which all other home audio editing apps must be judged.”

"Well worth the money, and beats Movie Maker by miles (…)"

"Rating: 9/10"

"We like ... Complete bundle, great results, hugely flexible - easy or advanced modes"; "We think that for £50 (£42 at Amazon) you can't go wrong ... As it stands, it easily makes 9/10 and comes highly recommended for dragging your vinyl and tapes into the 21st century.", "Good arranged, useful collection of high quality."

"WELL, well, well, - every year our Berliner friends MAGIX update their software and each year it just gets better and better. Where will it all end? I guess in a few short years you'll be able to sing into the box, press a button and have milion-selling albums worldwide! Simples."

"From the user-friendliness of the program to the stunning sound quality and the incredibly cheap price for what you get - check out the likes of SonyAcidPro/Reason/Cubase for comparison - the MM series over the past 15 years stands head and shoulders above many DAWs."

"For the price, this is an excellent piece of software, able to take material from a wide variety of sources, assemble it using intuitive tools, add a realistic musical soundtrack (you've got to love a program that includes the buttons ‘Add emotion' and ‘Delete emotion') and then save, upload or burn the resulting movie to disc using the most popular formats of the day. There are those of us who still wish Movie Edit Pro 16 Plus paid a bit more attention to Windows' interface design rules, but that aside, this is a more-than convincing alternative to Adobe Premiere Elements."

"Softwarecrew Rating: 5/5"

"A great tool for not only managing and playing back your music collection, but also editing it and adding new tracks with ease. "

"Award: Recommended by Itreviews"; "........for anyone who's got old records and tapes that need a wash and brush up, this is an excellent choice."

"Overall: 7/10"; "A suite of packages that work together to improve PC performance"

"Novices to web page design can quickly and easily build their own Flash based site using this program. With embedded audio, video, animations and so on, the results can look pretty impressive."

"79%"

"Verdict: ... the bundled connector make this an attractive solution for VHS transfer."

"..we hadn't, until now come across a software package that actively monitored the whole system and provided easy and simple maintenance tips in the same way that MAGIX PC Check & Tuning 2010 does.", "Each tool is very well expained in the software as well as being supported in the supplied handbook.", "It is easy to imagine that the software would be of great benefit to older and more heavily used PCs that don't benefit from any form of maintenance, and the ease of use makes it suitable for everyone from beginners upwards.", " Given the very respectable pricing of £29.99 (..) the software provide excellent value for money.."

"TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award"

"Overall Rating: 4/4 (Excellent)"
"Ease of Use: 3.5/4 (Excellent)"
"Design Features: 4/4 (Excellent)"
"Input/Puput: 4/4 (Excellent)"
"Slideshow Quality: 4/4 (Excellent)"
"Help/Support: 4/4 (Excellent)"

"Quality doesn't get much better.."
"..our top pick for photo slideshow software.."
"..combines the most robust feature set and publishing options with ease of use."
"..patently easy."

“A fun and easy to use program that helps you create your own music”.

“Award: PC Utilities Recommended"

"Rating: 85%"

"Verdict: This TV slideshow creator is intuitive and comprehensive, giving you plenty of features for the money”.

“Overall Rating: 4/5"

"A fun and easy way to share or archive photos on DVD”
"The slideshow can be easily previewed as it is created, and can be burned to DVD or CD or even uploaded directly to Youtube. Magix Xtreme Photo Story is easy to use and we liked the flexibility it offered."

“Verdict: 9.0"

"A comprehensive slideshow program that is enjoyable and addictive to use.”
"Xtreme PhotoStory has an affordable price tag and requires no previous experience. It's perfect for any level of creativity, whether you're looking to make simple presentations or creat full-on audio and visual slideshows to entertain family and friends."

“Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus is a very solid up grade and is very reasonably priced,especially in the package offered. It is one of the few pieces of good software for which a printed manual is provided – two, in fact, in the box and also available as PDFs. This is an excellent product and one that I do not hesitate to recommend”.

“Award: WebUser Gold Award"

Features: 5/5"
"Performance: 5/5"
"Ease of Use: 5/5"
"Value for Money: 5/5"

"Website Maker 3's software can help you produce stunning results and is well worth the asking price”.

"If you want an easier start to creating music on your computer, Music Maker 15 is a good bet. This popular application includes thousands of sounds, effects and a mixer, in an easy-to-use package to help you build your own audio."

“Although it doesn't really offer anything substantially different from the competition, Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 Plus is a fine piece of software enabling home users to create a well-crafted video and clever edits with minimum fuss. To call it ‘Pro' software is a bit of an overstatement, but there's no denying it offers up plenty of scope for producing head-turning movies at a reasonable price. Some of the extra bits of software aren't vital to this package and the installation process was spoilt a little by having unwanted extras force-fed. It's a good and cheaper alternative to Adobe Premiere Elements, though, especially if you think you'll appreciate the extra photo editing and managing software.”

"Quality: 9/10"
"Value: 8/10"
"Overall: 8/10"

"Create an entertaining slideshow in seconds"
"Undeniably good at what it does, Xtreme PhotoStory is certainly worth investing in ... Xtreme PhotoStory won't turn you into a multimedia editing genius, but it might just ensure that your guests don't start nodding off next time the holiday pics get brought out".

“MAGIX Xtreme Photostory on CD & DVD 8 certainly provides an excellent and simple way of enhancing and publishing still images and as such the price of £29.99 is very reasonable.”

“And when I’d finished impressing myself with the pans and zooms I’d achieved on your photos, all that was left to do is put a soundtrack to it and make a super sleek (but incredibly easy to implement) DVD menu to make it easy for friends and family to view my photos at their leisure. Now why can’t all software be as easy to use.”

"Award: PC Utilities Recommended"

"Rating: 88%"

"With an excellent range of features, a bumper crop of bonus utilities and a user-friendly interface, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 PLUS has a lot to recommend it. Budding movie producers should find this a great help in getting their productions looking best".

“..this software is really getting the stage where it can rival packages costing 10 times it’s price, with colour correction quick and easy to apply, as well as much closer control over frames, thanks to MAGIX incorporating the one thing I felt was missing before - a jog shuttle navigation system”.

"Quality: 8/10"
"Value: 8/10"
“Overall Ratings: 8/10”

"Another box full of goodies from Magix for the video enthusiasts".

"For the price, Magix Music Maker 15 offers some impressive tools for putting together professional sounding tracks without getting too bogged down in technical editing. The introduction of an ‘Easy Mode' means it is possible for those with limited music production talent to put together a toe-tapping tune from scratch, master sound dynamics and edit out a good quality MP3 in a matter of minutes. The Soundpools included with the software all sway towards dance/hip-hop genres with the obligatory rock guitar riff and a few opera-style vocals, but with scope for importing your own files you can delve a little deeper and get more creative if you wish."

“Overall, we think this programme gives very good value for money, offers sustained interest value with a wide range of facilities and the tracks created integrate well with other media”.

"...It’s absolutely perfect for the home user and there’s a huge range of programs that cover web design, photo editing, music maker and of course movie editing. Most of the programs have a novice user edition with plenty of online help."

“MAGIX Website Maker 3 really is a fantastic tool for introducing amateurs to website design and really simplifies the whole process, providing huge amounts of templates and objects to produce a great website. The included manual even runs throught the basics of web design, marketing etc. The only slight drawbacks that we could see was the inability to totally export sites and the fact that everything is tied to the MAGIX webhosting service, which after 12 months requires a paid subscription. However as a starting point to learn the ropes of web design MAGIX Website Maker 3 is the best we have seen for a long while”

"Video Pro X makes real the hope that pro level editing can be simple."; "One of the biggest strong points of Video Pro X is the multi-cam option, which essentially turns the cut-by-cut post-production process into a live, technical directing process. We liked the idea of beginning a live edit by simply lining up our shots together and clicking the multi-cam tab. This is a huge time saver - we think all editing programs should come with this option, especially those designed to satisfy the professional crowd."; "The Verdict: MAGIX Video Pro X is a good program. It takes beginners up to the next step and applies that same user-friendly workspace so that they don't get confused in the process. The new features offer an impressive reason to purchase the program, and, at $299, it is definitely worth it."

"Thanks to Rescue Your Vinyl & Tapes you can pluf a record player or cassette deck into your PC using the included phono pre-amp and digitally convert your music. The software enables you to edit and restore your music, and you can then add your music collection to your MP3 player or listen to it on your PC."

"Overall Rating: 4/5 stars"

"Verdict: A decent kit if you have lots of records to
copy to the computer"

"... the kit’s easy-to-userecording and cleaning features make it a worthwhile investment for anyone with a large collection of old records or tapes ready to transfer to a computer."