MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus – Movie editing for beginners

Pure performance: Thanks to the optimized MAGIX Hybrid Video Engine, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus bundles the efficiency of the graphics processor and CPU, while supporting standard technology such as CUDA and OpenCL for NVIDIA® and AMD® Vision graphics cards*. The result: a speed gain of up to 350% compared to the previous version, Movie Edit Pro 17, during output of AVCHD footage.

* see Technical Data

NEW! Shorter loading times

Even better: Thanks to countless improvements to program performance, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus doesn't just start drastically faster, but also minimizes waiting periods of loading processes and program event launches.

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus supports all common video formats and sources. Import your videos from digital and analog camcorders and TV cards, webcams, digital cameras with video function, DVD and hard drive recorders and many other devices.

Open timeline

MiniDV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders, digital SLR cameras and Smartphones save videos in different formats and resolutions. With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can import your video into your project immediately and at the same time – without first having to convert them to the same format.

Screen capturing

With screen capturing in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can quickly create your own tutorials and screencasts. Screen capturing records objects pictured on a screen – fullscreen or from a selected region. This way you can easily describe how, for example, a program works.

Easy: AVCHD recordings can be imported and edited in MAGIX Movie Edit 18 MX Plus without any recalculation. Simply import the AVCHD material with one click, edit video, burn to Blu-ray Disc complete with animated menu and present on TV!

AVCHD import assistant with preview function

You can view, sort, pre-select and import your clips directly into the timeline with the help of import assistants for AVCHD videos and video material from all other file-based sources (such as memory cards, digicams, hard disks and Smartphones).

Full support for recordings in 50p

For even sharper recordings: With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you fully exploit the 50p technology now supported by the latest camcorders and TVs.

The new technology delivers twice as many full frames as before. The advantage: Smoother moving objects and even more detailed pictures - for perfect movies in top quality.

PC performance benchmarking

In order to always offer the most optimal presets when editing AVCHD material, MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus automatically offers the best settings for your PC.

Customized video editing

Space for creativity: A total of 99 multimedia tracks for any content guarantee freedom to be able to arrange and optimize even large and complex projects - keep your eye on everything and finish in seconds. With only a few clicks and easy editing tools you can edit your videos, add transitions, effects and titles and create a captivating soundtrack.

Automatic video editing

Create fantastic movies and slideshows with this video editor, even without any prior skills. Simply select from several styles and topics (such as vacation, party, Christmas), and the integrated automation turns your footage into a professional video with titles, transitions, effects and music.

NEW! Useful project browser

Even clearer: Zip through your existing Movie Edit Pro projects with the integrated project browser in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus and load individual elements directly into your current project – including all used effects.

NEW! Zoomable thumbnails

For preliminary selection, just one glance at a thumbnail is often enough - to make selection even easier, thumbnails can now be zoomed into directly in the Media Pool.

NEW! Individually adjustable track heights

For perfect overview: The height can be adjusted individually for each separate multimedia track. You can minimize those tracks in your arrangement, on which you've already finished editing, and expand those you are currently working on - also perfect for enlarged view of audio tracks for cutting on the beat.

Intelligent mouse mode

Until now, adding video sequences into longer projects or closing large gaps was very complicated, especially when working on longer projects. A new, intelligent mouse mode now offers a solution, enabling the entire project to be moved conveniently with just a few mouse clicks - on one or multiple tracks.

Fully adjustable user interface

Design your own video editing interface: With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can move all elements according to your wishes, scale in size or remove all together.
Ideal for making windows with numerous contents large enough to view everything at a glance.

Zoom in video monitor

Perfect for titles or picture-in-picture effects: The zoom function in the video monitor lets objects outside of the image area be easily animated. Simply reduce the video image in the preview monitor and select the objects directly on the expanded screen.

Perfect for recordings from two cameras: Often, more than one camcorder is rolling at concerts, interviews or weddings. In Multicam mode from MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can direct in realtime, switching between camera perspectives which play next to each other in a preview window live with a simple mouse click.

High-quality effects, transitions and templates

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus offers an exclusive selection of professional video and audio effects (such as Chroma Keying, color correction and an Audio Mastering Suite), carefully designed transitions, animated menu templates, thematic intros and outros, deco elements, etc.

NEW! Accelerated effect preview

Demanding arrangements and complicated effect design can take a toll on PC performance; with MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus this is a thing of the past: Thanks to the new segment rendering, even difficult editing passages will be played back smoothly on old PCs - simply select the critical section, render and play.

IMPROVED! Faster image stabilization

Praised by the press: MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus image stabilization is the perfect tool against shaky, unsteady video recordings Thanks to countless performance improvements in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus, video stabilization is now up to 11 times faster*, letting you get to your goal even quicker than before.

* refers to an Intel® Core™ i7 system

For special moments: Create impressive slow motion effects with smooth speed transitions - this way you can accentuate exciting or funny situations even better.

Forget jerky slow motion - with MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can slow down your material like never before: Smooth playback is ensured even at extreme values by calculating intermediate images (frame interpolation).

Secondary color correction

Secondary color correction is the tool of choice for detailed color adjustments, aimed at individual colors: For example, you can change just the skin tones to alter the hue or make the image black-and-white to create the color-pass effect known from movie productions such as Sin City.

Primary color correction

The overall video image can be changed using primary color correction: Set white balance after the fact, change saturation, correct color balance automatically or use the handy color wheel to remove color shift in video image quickly and easily, or increase the shift for effect.

You've never experienced your videos like this before: Create fascinating trailers using new movie templates. The soundtrack has been carefully composed, the editing sequence adjusted to fit, and everything has been topped off with detailed title animations. And using the templates is so easy: Drag your video material onto the placeholders, change the title text as desired and enjoy.

Add some variety to your videos: With new effect transitions in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus you can freshen up every shot step by step. All transitions already feature just the right sound effects, including TV noise, burning film strips and much more. All fades already have the right sound effects, including TV noise, "film burn" and many more.

With the help of effect masks, any image range can be selected in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus for effect application: this way you can create minute out-of-focus effects, color vignettes or wild distortions.

No detours: Titles and texts may be entered directly into the preview window and moved using the mouse. Assign colors, fonts or sizes to individual letters, words or lines. However you design your titles - MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus advanced title engine always creates perfect edge sharpness and brilliant-quality for all your titles.

Object zoom function for even more precise effects control

Editing individual objects on a time axis has never been so easy: Simply select one or multiple objects that you would like to edit, for example, to change their volume or transparency. Selected objects may be zoomed into to fill the entire time axis simply by clicking. This lets you adjust effect settings easily and precisely.

Professional audio editing

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus offers an exclusive selection of high-quality instruments and tools for dubbing, mixing and audio restoration: The handy Soundtrack Maker for automatic dubbing, the powerful realtime audio mixer with studio capabilities and the effects suite for detailed audio editing - plus a VST plug-in interface for embedding external effects.

Countless tools and wizards ensure beat- and point-exact arranging of your tracks: from automatic beat recognition to rhythm edit adjustment – advanced MAGIX ProAudio technology always delivers perfect sound.

Automatic audio dubbing

The MAGIX Soundtrack Maker produces background music tailored to your wishes. Simply select the image mood or the desired emotion (action, excitement, fun...) and the software creates your personalized soundtrack from a huge sound archive – fully automatically.

Dolby®Digital 5.1 (Surround sound)

Experience new dimensions in sound - with the integrated Dolby®Digital 5.1 Creator. Mix your audio tracks optimally for your 5.1 stereo set and enjoy Surround sound at home for a true at-the-movies experience.

Sound restoration

Optimize old or flawed audio material: with Music Editor 3.0 you can reduce noise and volume fluctuations, removing pops, mains hum and camcorder noise manually or completely automatically. For great films with impressive sound quality.

Show your family, friends and neighbors the route along which you traveled with just a few clicks, using the reworked travel route animation from MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus.

Select the means of travel, set all the stops along the way and adjust route display to just how you want it; thanks to online contents, you will always have current map materials (Internet connection required).

Especially suited for creating professional and attractive travel documentaries.

Faster results: The new export assistant displays the most popular export options at a glance. Simply select an export format and follow the instructions or specify further settings.

Output directly to SD cards

Transferring your finished videos to the TV screen has never been faster: Use the export wizard to export your movies directly to SD cards without long burn processes, perfect for combinations of high-res AVCHD recordings and TVs with SD card readers.

Enjoy on TV

Automatically burn your finished film and animated menus onto DVD or Blu-ray Disc™ in professional quality. Simply choose from a number of professionally designed menu templates.

Experience on the go

Transfer films to countless devices including smartphones, media players and other mobile devices: you'll find a large selection of current device presets for iPhone, iPad and Android Smartphones in MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus.

Batch processing

Use the practical batch processing feature to convert and transfer any number of videos into the format you need. Your favorite movies will always be with you, wherever you go: on vacation, in the office, or on the go.

With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus it's even easier to design unique menus for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Add background graphics, videos and music, create additional menu pages and your own buttons or place your own text and graphic objects on the pages. Thanks to an adjustable grid, all elements can always be optimally positioned and aligned to each other.

AVCHD discs

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus makes it possible to burn AVCHD videos with animated menus to low-cost DVDs or high-quality Blu-ray Discs! It's ideal for bringing your HD videos to your home screen without any detours – easily playable with many Blu-ray players.

Intelligent: During video export from AVCHD camcorders, only ranges edited with titles or effects will be recalculated, while all others will be transferred directly, true to the frame and without time-robbing new calculations. This reduces the time needed for rendering by up to 90% and allows you to finish your movies even faster - in AVCHD or on Blu-ray Disc™.

Optimized memory usage on 64-bit Windows® systems

Improved performance: Memory usage on 64-bit Windows® systems has been improved. As a result more RAM is made available for MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus. More memory for adding images and graphics to the clipboard (so-called "bitmap caching") ensures noticeably smoother playback.

Perfect presentation: MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus offers 35 new, animated menu templates for DVD and Blu-ray discs. Impress your viewers with professionally designed menus – just right for any occasion: Present your finished videos like "real" movies, complete with menus in various film genres and countless other templates with high-quality animations.

Facebook®, the world's largest social network, has over 500 million members worldwide. Are you on it?
You can upload videos to Facebook® directly from the video editing program and share them with friends around the world. This saves you from detours via other video portals, which means your movies will be online faster. Now you can also upload your videos to the popular Vimeo® video portal.

Upload videos to YouTube directly in HD quality

It just looks better: Present your videos in full HD resolution (1080p) on YouTube®. Simply upload your high-resolution videos directly from the program to the famous video portal and let the whole world experience your work - in perfect quality.

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus is the world's first 3D video editing program with a full Stereo3D workflow. Stereoscopic recordings can be imported directly from 3D camcorders and edited in the timeline. 

Practical: The video editing process is just as easy as with 2D video footage. You can check the result at any time, simply by switching the preview monitor into 3D mode with a click. 

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus supports numerous 3D camcorders - e.g. The latest 3D camcorders from Panasonic, Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 or W3, Aiptek i2 or Sony Bloggie 3D. Plus 3D camcorders that record in the new MVC format* are also fully supported my Movie Edit Pro 18 MX.

* fee-based activation from within the program required 

Editing of your own 3D recordings

You can make impressive 3D recordings even without a 3D camcorder: for example, with two camcorders or digital cameras mounted in parallel.

MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus has a function for automatic alignment of both recorded video tracks – this way you can quickly edit recordings made using your own 3D set-ups and create breathtaking 3D impressions.

Real 3D transitions and captions

A highlight in any 3D video: MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus offers a range of real 3D fades and titles that you can use for your 3D design.

The depth of 3D titles can be adjusted freely, allowing you to integrate them into your project in the best possible way to achieve perfect depth effects!

By the way: You can create impressive 3D projects using 2D videos or photos.

Preview and output to all conventional 3D display devices

Ready for the future: Be it 3D TVs, projectors, Blu-ray players or PC/TV with shutter glasses – MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 18 MX Plus supports all common display devices for 3D playback.

Output in 3D in all formats

Universal output options: Export your finished 3D videos as files to be viewed on PC, on DVD or Blu-ray discs to be enjoyed on TV or upload them directly to YouTube.

The direct connection to the Multimedia Community "magix.info" makes it easy for you to quickly find the right solutions to your exact problems. Simply write your question within the program and upload it directly!

So you want to know which format is the most suitable for your movie? At magix.info, you'll get clear, understandable help quickly and directly from other users, either in the form of answers or complete workshops.

Using your free online account, you can upload your work directly to magix.info and discuss production tips & tricks. But that's not all! If you want to learn more about new features that may be available for your video editor software, or even if you want to make suggestions about new features yourself, then just visit our discussion groups.