Tests & Awards

"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."

"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."

Award: "Michael's Choice of the Month"


"It was immediately obvious that as soon as I started looking at this next title that it would be the clear winner of this month's award; this software might not improve the performance of my system, set up barries to protect the system from outside influences, nor increase my productivity - in fact it could easily decrease my productivity as it was so much fun to use. This month's award winner is Magix FunPix Maker ... There is no limit to the fun you can have with this product, but do be careful where you save your creations as you might not want others to see what you have done to their images. In short this is a morphing product that will give you hours of fun."

“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 freatures 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."

“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”.

“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."  

“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."

"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".

“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.”



 

"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".



 

“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.”

“..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”.

 

“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.”
 



 

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

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

"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."

"Cleaning Lab 15 is just what you need for cleaning-up old vinyl recordings or removing unwanted noises from home videos. When you consider the price tag, it really is excellent value for money. It is very easy to use too. I like the three ways to clean up you files, automatic, assisted or manual, giving you as much control as you need over the clean-up functions, while keeping things as simple as possible. I recommend MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab 15 deluxe to bring new life to your old recordings, and new life to old memories".
 

“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."

"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."
 

“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”.

"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."

"Rating: 4/5"

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

"There's a set of audio cables included with the pre-amp, and the company provided a good introductory video tutorial on the disc that explains the main features of the Cleaning Lab program."

"MAGIX 3D Maker does what you want. It IS easy to come up with impressive results after just playing around for a little while. The process is uncomplicated: you take any TrueType font on your PC and some included graphics templates, to create superb 3D logos, banners, movie titles, advertising graphics, photo captions, decorative email messages, MySpace and eBay pages, and much more."

"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 witha large collection of old records or tapes ready to transfer to a computer."

"Magix Music Maker Helps You Make Magical Music"

"It was quite easy, and a lot of fun."

"Music Maker 14 is where the musical rubber meets the virtual road, so to speak - at least so far as really creating that musical masterpiece is concerned."



 

"Overall: 8/10"

"Quality: 8/10"

"Value: 9/10"

"Another good value product from Magix ... recommended"

"Award: Recommended by ITreviews"

"Given that the product is sold for a specific purpose, it's refreshing to report that not only does it match its claims, but it also includes, in Audio Cleaning Lab, an application that would easily warrant further exploration. There are plenty of features awaiting investigation - which, for a £50 asking price, you really should take a look at - but in true Ronseal fashion, this is a product that does what it says on the tin."

"If your audio equipment outputs the appropriate connections, then this is a fine way to get your old analogue recordings over into the digital age. A very good package and an easy recommendation."

"Features: 5/5"

"Performance: 5/5"

"Ease of Use: 4/5"

"Value for Money: 4/5"

"Overall: 4/5"

"Verdict: 4/5"

"Those with musical ability can create backing or accompaniment with ease, while beginners can start making listenable sounds with minimum skills."

"Summary: Great package to save old and dying formats! Makes it easy, and it is fun too."

"Overall, MAGIX Rescue Your Videotapes! is a great all-around package for doing just that - saving old and dying formats. It's easy to use, quick to pick up and fun to work with. Videotape may be gone forever soon, and now is the time to save those memories."