MAGIX PhotoStory on DVD Deluxe – Create amazing slideshows

Enjoy the advantage of the non-stop workflow from creation to output now with direct import from cameras, hard drives and data storage devices (e.g. SD cards, USB sticks, external disk drives etc.).

Transfer your images directly to your computer and into your slideshow without time-consuming searches. Includes helpful color highlighting of various media types, dates and times.

You'd like to turn your photo memories into slideshows more often, but simply don't have the time? Need a personalized gift quickly? Or would you like to give your party guests a video of the evening's festivities to take home with them?

You and your audience will be amazed by the unique slideshow automation that will have you producing impressive results in record time.

• 27 stylish theme templates for popular occasions like vacation, party, Christmas, New Year's and more. (complete list)
• Suitable background music (multiple songs per slideshow possible) and thematic decorations can be added automatically
• Detailed settings options for slideshows, fades, effects, titles, background music, etc.
• Settings can be randomized
• Personalized slideshow styles can be saved as presets
• Automation can be applied to specific parts of slideshows (even multiple times with changing settings)
• Provisions for special image formats (avoid black borders around portrait photos and panoramas, etc. / incl. different animations)
• Automatic separation of pictures into multiple slideshows that can be selected separately in CD/DVD menus (according to creation date, number of photos, videos per slideshow, etc.)
• Creation date may be faded in automatically

Get your audience's full attention by creating spectacular film trailers, short slideshows or imposing intros and opening credits with the help of professional templates.

Includes title animations, special effects, cinematic soundtracks, image transitions to the beat of the music and disc player menus.

Simply choose from 15 detailed templates, drag & drop your pictures and video clips into place and apply titles and effects as you like. Presto!

Themes: Travel documentaries, best friends, heart and soul, pets, adventure, action, clandestine, love story, blockbuster, drama, film noir, sports, news, thriller, winter wonderland

Transform your vacation memories into exciting slideshows and show your audience all the places your journey took you to by using constantly updated online maps of the whole world.

Great for animated chapter dividers, picture transitions and as background videos for interactive disc menus.

Simply choose the stops on your trip, the style of the route display and the animation effects and select the modes of transportation (plane, car, bus, train, bicycle, motorcycle) for each stage of your voyage.

Compatible with Google Earth coordinates and data from standard GPS trackers (gpx, kml, etc.)

NEW!

• All modes of transportation are shown with a perspective display that marks out your route graphically.
• Freely customizable travel route allows you to make certain stops "invisible".
• Freely customizable length of stay at all stops
• Easier to use thanks to a newly improved user interface. Simply click on each location on the map to quickly plot out your route.

Titles for opening/closing credits, chapter markers, and subtitles can be entered directly into the preview window and positioned precisely.

Assign individual colors, sizes, fonts and effects to letters, words, or lines of text. Or create impressive 3D title animations & captions from a variety of text styles.

You can also take the metadata for the date the photo was taken and add that to the image title.

Design your photo story in your own style using animations and effects.

NEW! Transition effects transform photos into films

An especially important part of any slideshow is to have eye-catching animated transitions between the photos and video clips.

• All of the new transition effects are now in high-resolution full HD quality and automatically adjusted to all formats (e.g. 16:9 or 4:3)
• 50 completely new transitions (150 in total)
• New 3D transition effects
• Transition includes a matching sound ("effect blends")
• Quickly find the right transition in the simplified folder setup.
• Smoother preview of the most commonly used transitions

3D animation for slideshows

With a variety of 3D effects & transitions you can transform motifs into animated objects that move across the picture (e.g. photo table, pin board, museum etc.).

Slideshows with "picture-in-picture" effect

With special templates for picture-in-picture collages you can perfectly place several images into any scene.

Or place portrait images side by side and avoid the usual screen edges.

Background for photos in portrait format, intros and chapter dividers.

Create freely colorable background screens! Ideal for thematic separators with text that fade in between individual scenes of your slideshow (different holiday destinations, for instance) or as background to replace black edges around portrait photos.

PLUS! More than 30 customizable graphic templates

Present your photos with dynamic zooms and camera panning

Create unique zooms and camera pans to highlight important image content.

Decorate your slideshows with graphics and animation

Highlight special moments in your slideshow with animated decorative elements.

Choose from over 150 templates including audio and effect sounds and adjust the position and size as you like.

Or use free animated graphics that you find online ("animated Gifs") and let your decorations follow moving images in your video clips (magnetic objects).

NEW! Perfect slideshows with face recognition

Prevents unwanted cropping of faces when zooming, panning and transforming from the 4:3 to 16:9 format.

Create panorama pictures automatically

Seamlessly combine individual pictures into horizontal or vertical panoramas including automatic focal length detection, correction of lens distortion and perspectives. It's also great for full camera panning without any black edges.

Edit photos with artistic & distortion filters

Distort or enhance your pictures just the way you want – enjoy even more creative freedom!

NEW! „Artificial blur“ effect

Change and match color ranges

Create artistic moments with specific color adjustments. For example, try editing only the blues in a photo or video clip to make the sky look brighter or add some red to simulate a sunset.

Dynamically adjustable: Let various colors flow into one another.

Change picture perspective (shape & tilt)

Accurately add your photos and videos to background motifs and position them on signposts and signs with correct perspective.

Slow & fast motion

Use the fast motion effect to spice up boring clips, or try slow motion for those moments that need to be savored. Or throw in a few surprises by playing some sequences backwards.

Stabilize shaky footage

Rescue your shaky video clips

NEW! Video stabilization is now 10 times faster

The right soundtrack for your story

The way image and sound harmonize with each other is essential to the effect your pictures will have.

Can't find the right background music on CD or MP3? No problem. Simply choose from 100 new songs from 20 international genres all in professional production and sound quality. You'll be sure to find the right soundtrack for any occasion, from vacation and parties to nature and atmospheric sound creations.

Create background music automatically in the slideshow

The integrated MAGIX Soundtrack Maker creates music soundtracks according to your requirements. Simply set the mood that matches the emotional progression of your slideshow (action, tension, fun...) and watch as the program creates a personalized soundtrack for you from a large sound archive.

Quickly find your favorite music

Helps you find specific songs that can be used as background music in your slideshows (similarity search according to genre, musical characteristics, etc.).

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Change images to the beat of the music

Add a professional touch to your multimedia slideshows by having the images change automatically in time with the background music.

Note: The video displays the user interface from the previous version.

Edit the music, sounds and speech in your slideshow

BONUS! MAGIX Music Editor 3

Ideal for detailed restoring, optimizing and editing of video sound, spoken commentary, sounds and background music.

Slideshows for TV, PC, Internet and mobile devices

Experience your photos and videos as exciting slideshow movies with interactive CD/DVD menus either at home on your TV, on your computer, using a projector on a large screen, on the go with mobile devices or worldwide on the Internet!

NEW! Interactive menus for DVD players (integrated disc authoring)

Add the finishing touch to your slideshows with animated CD/DVD menus just like the ones on store-bought DVDs complete with scenes from your own pictures as backgrounds, intro videos, music playback, animations, interactive buttons, etc.

Now including a variety of customizable templates for personalized CD/DVD menus for any occasion

NEW! Plus over 20 new animated disc menus to make the presentation of your slideshows on TV even more impressive (100 templates in total).

Advanced menu design

Create professionally animated menus for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs™ down to the finest detail:

• Add and design menu pages, submenus, and buttons
• Create your own text/graphics objects on menu pages
• Freely definable interactive hierarchies
• Adjustable grid for exact positioning of buttons and menu objects
• Select and edit multiple menu objects

Every element of the disc menu can be customized in graphic design programs supporting PSD format e.g Xara Photo & Graphic Designer. Your disc menu will be one of a kind.

Burn video, photo or Blu-ray discs of your slideshow

Create all standard disc types for playback on DVD players and PCs (DVD, VCD, SVCD, etc.) – choose between the classic 4:3 or modern 16:9 widescreen format.

It's even possible to burn high-resolution Blu-ray discs^TM in razor sharp quality.

Print personalized CD/DVD cases & labels

With the included MAGIX Xtreme Print Studio you can create amazing CD/DVD covers and labels for your slideshow discs.

Export slideshows for all media (Output Wizard)

This practical feature shows you the most important export and archive functions at a glance.

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NEW! Watch your slideshows on a home network + Media-X-change

These days, with the help of home networks, you can effortlessly use all of your media throughout the house by connecting your TV and other devices to your computer through WLAN. You can access your media collection in any room and no longer have to waste time transferring your media to DVD or storage devices.

Practical! Enjoy the advantages of being able to save your multimedia slideshows as virtual DVDs with interactive menus and all the other features you would find on a real DVD. If you want to burn your projects to DVD later, you can do it easily without any extra encoding.

NEW! Create slideshows for homepage software (Media Player Export)

Direct export of multimedia slideshows as Media Players (Flash® technology) for convenient viewing on your PC through an Internet browser and for embedding in websites (export includes HTML source code).

Choose between a video file with all effects or skim through as freely navigable single media files.

* Output in Flash^®-format requires a compatible MPEG-4 codec and initial activation directly from the program (RRP $9.99). For detailed information please refer to "Technical Data".

Complete HD workflow

Export your slideshows as high-resolution video files based on international HD quality standards (720p, 1080i). Ideal for presentations using a projector on large screens for example.

You can also burn your slideshow on high-resolution Blu-ray Discs™. Enjoy the benefits of full HD with a maximum resolution of 1920-1080i, a maximum play time of 4.5 hours, and an enormous capacity of up to 27 GB (single-layer/double-layer up to 54 GB).

MORE! Import RAW formats

Support of 130 new raw formats (over 400 in total). View list of camera models

Create professional HD slideshows with AVCHD, MPEG-4 and AC3*

Using the optional codec plugins you can import high-resolution AVCHD videos including AC3 sound and MPEG-4 format to create animated menus and Dolby^®Digital 5.1 Surround Sound in HD quality for burning to Blu-ray™ discs or even low-priced blank DVDs. You can then view them on most Blu-ray™ players or on your PC.

* Requires initial activation directly from the program (RRP $9.99). For detailed information please refer to "Technical Data".

The complete 3D workflow enables surprising 3D experiences just like in a movie theater - even without special equipment!

Handy: creating 3D slideshows is just as simple as working with 2D footage. Thanks to the internal preview monitor, you can easily determine the type of spatial display at any time.

3D slideshows made from regular images

Don't have any 3D images?

With the new, special 3D Slideshow Maker styles it's easy to enjoy your regular 2D images and video clips in three dimensional space, complete with realistic spatial effects and animations.

Or decorate your classic slideshows. You can choose from among 10 new 3D collages and over 100 different types of real 3D text. You can also determine the spatial positioning of regular titles and text animations simply by using the fader. This allows you to place decorative elements "in front" of your photos in order to present them in a special way.

Create real Stereo 3D looks yourself

Want to create your own 3D images but don't own a 3D camera?

Now you can create absolutely realistic 3D experiences with any regular digital camera! All you need are two photos showing the same motif that were shot with an offset equivalent to the distance between the eyes. A series of moving snapshots that were shot immediately one after another (e.g. from cars, trains or planes) can work too.

The program then combines the single pictures into a real 3D photo, creating a realistic impression of depth, which can be reduced or increased any way you please.

Photo presentation with full stereo 3D support

You already own a 3D camera or are planning to buy one?

If so, you are sure to benefit from the program's full Stereo 3D workflow, covering everything from import to presentation. Stereoscopic photos and video clips from any standard 3D camera (e.g. Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D®) can be imported, edited in detail, optimized with effects and exported in various ways.

NEW! A 3D experience without special glasses

Create entertaining 3D lenticular images and be amazed by the depth effect without 3D glasses even on conventional monitors & TVs.

Great for enhancing TV slideshows with 3D eye catchers or for exporting as an animated graphic (.gif) for embedding in websites (see example on the left).

Note: Export as a 3D lenticular image requires standard 3D image material or two photos of the same subject with a slight movement shift (creation with regular cameras is possible).

Burn and export slideshows for all types of 3D playback

• Standard TV devices and PC screens
• Modern 3D displays and projectors
• CD, DVD, Blu-ray, WMVHD Disc
• Output as video files in HD quality
• Presentation on YouTube®
• For all 3D glasses (red/cyan, polarized filter, shutter technology)

You'll be ready for a future free of hardware restrictions and completely prepared to enjoy unique 3D home theater experiences!

Share directly to YouTube, Facebook & Flickr

Share your most beautiful, most spectacular, or funniest photos with the whole world by uploading them to popular video hosting sites such as YouTube^® or social networks like Facebook^® and Flickr^®.

Use the free Online Album with password protection

Impress others with photos and graphics and present your most beautiful moments and creations to the world with your very own album website.

NEW! Now available as an HTML 2.0 version (view example) with flexible settings and various additional options. Choose between a gallery display or a high-quality slideshow with zooms, music and effects, integrate video players, a visitor counter, download and Facebook links, enhance your recording with background music or set up guest access. Includes iPhone and iPod support.

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Download templates and effects for your slideshow

Catooh – The Online Content Library is your online media archive. Whatever it is you are looking for – photo material on a specific theme, menu templates, fades, background music or sound effects – this program provides a direct connection to a vast library that will help you complete your project with exactly the right material.

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Free screen transfer allows you to get help and give assistance to other users

The included MAGIX Screenshare makes it possible to exchange information with other users live over the Internet (Screen transfer).

MAGIX PhotoStory on DVD MX Deluxe offers 50 amazing extras for all aspects of design and presentation.

All features at a glance (PDF)