3D Maker

Universal area of application

Design and animate three-dimensional text & graphics

Design and animate three-dimensional text & graphics

Use MAGIX 3D Maker with your own texts, included form templates, or freely importable graphics to create fantastic 3D titles, objects, and animations, then export it all in the desired format as an image, graphics file, or animated video file:

  • Titles, slideshows & videos    
  • Artistic fonts on pictures
  • Headlines, logos & shapes
  • Web graphics, banners & buttons
  • As a compliment to word processing programs
  • Export as screensavers, icons, and much more

You have the choice between over 1,000 objects, surface textures, and font types, plus 100 animation templates, styles, and completely open designs.

Titles, slideshows & videos

3D title editor for slideshows & videos

MAGIX 3D Maker is great as a 3D title editor for slideshow & video programs from numerous different developers.r.

For example, create dynamic title animations, spectacular intros & outros, lively decorative elements, and chapter and DVD menu titles.

Use it with other MAGIX programs

Use it with other MAGIX programs

Use it with the following MAGIX slideshow & video programs, since all 3D titles and animations made in MAGIX 3D Maker are created with a transparent background and exported in the standard format (*.cfx), making it easy to place them in front of the images in your slideshow or video.

  • Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD (version 6.5 and up)
  • Movies on DVD (version 6 and up)
  • Movie Edit Pro (version 2007/2008 and up)


TIP: In the following programs, MAGIX 3D
Maker can be used immediately after installation
directly as a plug-in besides being used as an
independent program.

  • Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD (version 8 and up)
  • Movies on DVD (version 8 and up)
  • Movie Edit Pro (version 15 and up)

Ideas for other programs

Diverse applications

Diverse applications

Besides application as a title editor for slideshow & video programs, MAGIX 3D Maker is also ideal for the following purposes:

  • Artistic fonts on pictures
    e.g. use in word processing programs
  • Headlines, logos & shapes
    e.g. graphic design, printed documents, etc.
  • Web graphics, banners & buttons
    e.g. graphic elements and logos for webpages, Ebay® pages, community profiles, email newsletters, etc..
  • For word processing programs
    e.g. Microsoft® Word™, OpenOffice® Writer™, etc.
  • For presentation programs
    e.g. Microsoft® PowerPoint™, OpenOffice® Impress™, etc.
  • Export as screensavers, icons, and much more

Tip: Graphics and presentation programs by many developers only enable the user to design 2D graphics and export them as a Windows metafile (*.wmf, *.emf, etc.). These formats can be turned into high-quality 3D objects or animations with MAGIX 3D Maker so that they can be used in the original program (for more formats, see "Additional functions").

Easy to use

Free text entry

Free text entry

Enter text directly, select a font, and format it however you like, just like with conventional word processing programs. Special design variations, e.g. super or subscripts, are no problem.

Design areas separately

All attributes can be designed just as easily, e.g. color, edge type, font, texture, animation style, line spacing, and print tracking – for the complete text or separately for selected areas or characters.

Unique results

Spatial depth & 3D perspective

Specify the spatial depth and perspective of your 3D graphics easily and in real time simply by dragging with the mouse or by rotating the object freely on its axes.

Detailed design

Light & shadows

Two freely positionable light sources enable you to specify the direction and color of light on your 3D object intuitively with the mouse.

It's just as easy to position spatial shadows and their colors, blurs, and transparency.

Intuitive 3D animation

Bring life your texts to life!

Use the intuitive animation tool to liven up complete areas of text, individual characters, or selected objects fully automatically (e.g. turns, rotations, in and out fades, pulses, swings).

You can also easily specify the number of movements per sequence, turn direction, speed, pauses, number of repetitions, and animate text and light separately.

Additional features

  • Unlimited restore options make experimentation uncomplicated
  • A total of 27 different edge types and different edge angles
  • Edge smoothing for precise screen presentation (anti-aliasing)
  • Flexible control over color and texture in all areas of the image
  • Even background textures can be scaled, rotated, and colored in
  • Images can be displayed as front and rear sides or made hollow.
  • Create images matte or with shine
  • Animation of any truetype fonts
  • Real-time presentation of shadows, borders, textures, spaces, and much more
  • Open/Import: Windows metafile (*.wmf, *.emf), texture (*.bmp, *.gif; *.ico, *.jpg, *.png), MAGIX3D (*.X3D), Xtreme (*.xar, *.web)
  • Export of still graphics: JPEG (*.jpg), bitmap (*.bmp), PNG (*.png) [including full PNG alpha channel for transparent background], GIF (*.gif), Flash bitmap (*.swf), Flash vector (*.swf), icon (*.ico), cursor (*.cur)
  • Export as animation: AVI (*.avi), GIF (*.gif), MAGIX CFX (*.cfx) [including full PNG alpha channel for transparent background], Flash bitmap (*.swf), Flash vector (*.swf), screensaver (*.scr), animated cursor (*.ani)
  • Save project: MAGIX3D (*.X3D)

Examples

Here are a few examples of text & graphics designed with MAGIX 3D Maker. Of course, this is just a small selection of the various design possibilities offered by the program.

Interesting offer

Multilingual program version

Multilingual program version

MAGIX 3D Maker is available exclusively on this webpage as a multi-lingual CD-ROM version* (box order) and as an immediately usable download version (direct download).


* Includes these language versions: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch