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Muvee Reveal – Easy Video Editing for Everyone

TheDragon — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:43:43 +0000

Muvee Reveal – Easy Video Editing for Everyone is a post from: Stuffworks.com

Home movies don’t make themselves. Until now.

Introducing muvee Reveal

muvee Reveal lets you create and share personalized, professional looking home movies in a few quick steps. With automatic motion and face detection, your photos and video are synced to the beat of your favorite music.

Tell your story the way you want to through advanced personalization features including captions, voiceover and music trimming. Post to YouTube, Facebook or burn to DVD – the sharing possibilities are endless. Home movie making has never been so easy.

Features

Tell your story
Give your movies your special touch. Personalization features include music trimming, logo insertion, captions and voiceover. Even have your very own rolling credits at the end!

Share easily
With muvee Reveal, you can instantly share your movies with your favorite social networks too! Upload to Facebook and YouTube. Burn DVDs, or export your movies to your iPod, iPhone, mobile phone and PSP directly. Share your movies anytime, any place.

Music trimming
Now you can choose the favorite parts of your music. Take out the beginning or use just the chorus, the choice is yours. Our music trimming feature lets you choose the specific portion in a soundtrack you want.

Styles
Styles help you tell your story in just one click. Each of our 10 styles has unique effects, animations, and transitions to complete your home movie. Our new customizing tools let you change the pace and background, adjust your color saturation and effects, and more! There is a style to match every event and occasion!

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NVIDIA® CUDA Acceleration
Movies save up to 8x faster with Nvidia CUDA!
For systems with NVIDIA CUDA-enabled graphics card, you can enhance the processing power of saving and rendering your movies up to 8x faster than before

Optimized for NVIDIA® CUDA
NVIDIA CUDA technology empowers muvee Reveal to encode HD video in H.264 format significantly faster by leveraging the power of the graphics card. Media players like iPod, iPhone and PSP also use H.264 format for video playback

Full HD Support
Make crystal-clear movies using your photos or HD video. Choose between 1280×720 (720p) and 1920×1080 (1080p) resolutions. Input HD directly from devices including the Flip and AVCHD/HDV camcorders.

Instant Full Screen Previews
Watch your movies instantly in a full screen, DVD-quality preview. This allows you to edit your movies exactly the way you want them before saving. It’s video editing software without the fuss.

shwup
A new way to share movies privately in one click. Upload your movies directly. Send invites to friends and family to view the album. They can contribute photos or just leave a comment. Learn more at shwup.com »

Easy to use editing tools
muvee Reveal makes everything easy. Automatic brightness control, color correction and red eye reduction. Zoom in on specific details, rotate images and change the sequence of images. You have complete control.

Easy transfer
One-touch transfer from your camcorder, phone, or camera makes it easy to import any media regardless of format.

Supported input formats

Video
WMV, Quicktime, MPEG4, H.264, MPEG2, MPEG1, DV-AVI, 3GPP, DVD Camcorder MPEG2, AVCHD, AVCHD Lite, HDV

Pictures
JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIF

Music
MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV

Supported output formats

Video
WMV, WMV-HD, Quicktime, MPEG4, H.264, MPEG2, MPEG1, AVI

Supported languages
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal), Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish

Price $29.95

PowerDirector 8

TheDragon — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:02:14 +0000

PowerDirector 8 is a post from: Stuffworks.com

Powerful Video Editing With Unlimited Possibilities

Powerful video editing with unlimited possibilities, PowerDirector 8 lets you create movie masterpieces with unlimited effects via DirectorZone, mega magical tools, 6-track PiP effects, Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator for surround sound creation, and loads of sharing options via YouTube, Flickr, and Blu-ray discs.

More powerful and even faster, CyberLink PowerDirector 8 offers more video enhancement and editing tools, designer tools and more timeline tracks to let you create great videos. Spice up your projects too by downloading any of the 1000s of free effects and templates already uploaded to DirectorZone by PowerDirector users.

A host of new tools and technologies are designed to save editing time and improve your video quality. Leveraging PowerDVD’s video enhancing TrueTheater technology, PowerDirector delivers HD-like results from standard definition content by upscaling video resolution, smoothing out playback in slow motion and enabling virtual surround sound.

With easy-to-use settings, PowerDirector’s TrueTheater technologies fix common video shooting errors such as extreme backlighting, poor white balance, and inadequate lighting.

PowerDirector 8′s suite of design tools—for creating titles, animated objects, and disc menus—now offers a Particle Effects Designer, letting you experiment with movie-like special effects. As with PowerDirector’s other design tools, particle effects can be uploaded and shared with other users on DirectorZone, PowerDirector’s community website.

Enjoy working with more editing tools such as Reverse, Crop, Speed and Rotate video tools. For precise trimming, retain frame-level control with the patented Zoom-In Cut™.

While the expanded 16-track timeline offers more creative possibilities including the ability to cut & paste sequences to other parts of your production.

The first consumer video editing software to be optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream technology, PowerDirector delivers up to 5X faster performance for rendering effects and transcoding videos, with vastly improved editing and previewing speeds.

PowerDirector is also optimized for efficient hardware decoding, enabling faster production of home videos that are captured using MPEG-2 and H.264 formats.

Ever wondered how home movies achieve their memorable effects? Find out how by viewing other PowerDirector users’ timelines on DirectorZone.com. This glimpse into other editors’ creativity is a remarkable learning tool, offering insight for your own video projects.

Also, download and upload DVD menus, particle effects, PiP objects, and more, via DirectorZone.com .

Video editing software, PowerDirector, provides direct HD video uploading to Facebook and YouTube, enabling easy sharing on today’s most popular social networks and video blogging sites.

Enjoy your finished movie in HD at home by producing Blu-ray Discs or AVCHD discs in high-definition resolution. If it’s mobility you are after, you can produce files for playback on your iPhone, iPod, or PSP. PowerDirector allows you to output AVCHD projects to an SD Card too.

NOTE:

PowerDirector 8 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows® 7.
Windows and the Windows logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
Images are for illustration purposes only.

Price $99.95

Audacity – Free Audio Editing and Recording Software

TheDragon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:11:07 +0000

Audacity – Free Audio Editing and Recording Software is a post from: Stuffworks.com

About Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

Features
This is a list of features in Audacity, the free audio editor. For more information on how to use these features, go to the help pages.

Recording
Audacity can record live audio through a microphone or mixer, or digitize recordings from cassette tapes, vinyl records, or minidiscs. With some sound cards, it can also capture streaming audio.

Record from microphone, line input, or other sources.
Dub over existing tracks to create multi-track recordings.
Record up to 16 channels at once (requires multi-channel hardware).
Level meters can monitor volume levels before, during, and after recording.

Import and Export
Import sound files, edit them, and combine them with other files or new recordings. Export your recordings in several common file formats.

Import and export WAV, AIFF, AU, and Ogg Vorbis files.
Import MPEG audio (including MP2 and MP3 files) with libmad.
Export MP3s with the optional LAME encoder library.
Create WAV or AIFF files suitable for burning to CD.
Import and export all file formats supported by libsndfile.
Open raw (headerless) audio files using the “Import Raw” command.
Note: Audacity does not currently support WMA, AAC, or most other proprietary or restricted file formats.

Editing

Easy editing with Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
Use unlimited Undo (and Redo) to go back any number of steps.
Very fast editing of large files.
Edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks.
Use the Drawing tool to alter individual sample points.
Fade the volume up or down smoothly with the Envelope tool.

Effects

Change the pitch without altering the tempo, or vice-versa.
Remove static, hiss, hum, or other constant background noises.
Alter frequencies with Equalization, FFT Filter, and Bass Boost effects.
Adjust volumes with Compressor, Amplify, and Normalize effects.
Other built-in effects include:
- Echo
- Phaser
- Wahwah
- Reverse

Sound Quality

Record and edit 16-bit, 24-bit, and 32-bit (floating point) samples.
Record at up to 96 kHz.
Sample rates and formats are converted using high-quality resampling and dithering.
Mix tracks with different sample rates or formats, and Audacity will convert them automatically in realtime.

Plug-Ins

Add new effects with LADSPA plug-ins.
Audacity includes some sample plug-ins by Steve Harris.
Load VST plug-ins for Windows and Mac, with the optional VST Enabler.
Write new effects with the built-in Nyquist programming language.

Analysis

Spectrogram mode for visualizing frequencies.
“Plot Spectrum” command for detailed frequency analysis.

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