MAGIX Movies on DVD 8

The fastest way to make your own video DVD: With MAGIX Movies on DVD 8, you can edit your own personal video recordings with ease and burn them to DVD with animated menus – without any prior knowledge required!

Creates video DVDs that can be played with any DVD player! Simply import complete videos or clips from any source, select a menu, customize it if desired, and burn to disc completely automatically. You'll find it hard to tell the difference between the DVDs you make and those you purchase.

MAGIX Movies on DVD offers top quality functions for all steps of video editing: it doesn't get any quicker and easier! Pure cinema: Impress with professional DVD menus, experience the advantages or high resolution HD and Blu-ray formats, take advantage of an efficient, smooth preview function.

Import, cut and burn in Dolby Digital sound without any recalculation, present videos on your own video website, and much more.

No time for getting used to a complex video editing program? Do you need to back up your camcorder or TV recordings onto your PC quickly or burn them directly to DVD with animated menus? Then MAGIX Movies on DVD 8 is the perfect solution or you!

It's never been easier to edit recordings from video cameras, DVD recorders, webcams, etc. and burn them with menus to disc. In just three steps, create professional video DVDs – even without any prior knowledge. Watch them again and again or present them as a personal gift to friends and family.

NEW! Present videos directly on YouTube™
NEW! Effects controls are now even easier
NEW! Optimized task wizard
NEW! Animated menus for Blu-ray Disc™
PLUS: Includes free video website from MAGIX

Finished movies in just 3 steps:
1. Import movie

• Camcorder recordings (DV, analog, etc.)
• Homemade video CDs & DVDs
• File import (video, audio, image)

2. Customize individually

• Edit videos with ease
• Optimize picture and sound
• Add credits and titles

3. Experience perfect home theatre

• Watch movies directly on your PC
• Burn onto a DVD with menus
• Enjoy with your DVD player on TV

Animated DVD menu templates
Something to be seen: With numerous high-quality templates for animated menu backgrounds, your recordings will look like professional, store-bought DVDs: Subjects from your own recordings are used to create matching menu backgrounds automatically – guaranteed to be perfect.

Optimize camcorder recordings
Import your homemade videos straight from your camcorder and enhance your work with precise cuts, transitions, background music, opening credits, and titles: With the integrated MAGIX MovieShow Maker you can automatically add your choice of ten different styles (for example, Christmas, winter holidays, party, and more). MAGIX Movies on DVD 8 also offers numerous options for quickly and easily optimizing sound and image for poor recordings.

Digitally archive VHS videos
Automatically transfer your VHS movie collection's tapes to PC and then easily burn it all to disc, including automatic chapter markers and animated DVD menus. All you need is the practical MAGIX USB video converter to connect your VHS recorder directly to your PC. The MAGIX USB video converter is available in the MAGIX Online Shop.

Record TV programs
The integrated video recorder and a TV card (not included), TV programs can be directly recorded with a click – in the best digital picture and sound quality available. The recordings are saved on your PC and can be freed from annoying advertisements with just a few clicks.

Enrich recordings from DVD recorders
Import video DVDs created by your DVD recorder, remove annoying ads from movies and TV shows, or add stylish DVD menus to your recordings in seconds.

Create backup copies of video CDs & DVDs
Save copy-protected video DVDs with your own DVD menus onto disc by analog transfer from your DVD player in just one step, or create digital backup copies of non-copy protected video CDs/DVDs and DVD videos with storage space compression to standard 4.7 GB blank DVDs ("9.5 shrinking").

Compile & burn Internet movies
Burn your favorite videos from the web as a cost-cutting data CD, for example, in DivX format (with installed codec) or with matching DVD menus for your DVD player. Practical: Use the integrated WebVideo recorder to record Internet movies directly on your PC. It doesn't matter what you watch – web TV, video portals, or movies: simply record and enjoy your media again and again!

Free video website by MAGIX included
On your own free video website you can now present your video with a DVD menu, which is great for splitting longer movies into chapters and making them easier to experience again and again. In mixed-mode albums you can present your videos and photos together – pure multimedia enjoyment!

NEW! Present movies on YouTube
Share your most beautiful, funniest, and spectacular videos with the whole world. Publish finished videos directly in the huge video portal YouTubeTM via the "Online" menu option. Video enthusiasts from all around the world will be able to experience your work and even comment it.

NEW! Effects controls are now even easier
All video effects have been concentrated centrally and clearly laid-out in the new Media Pool. With just a few clicks, you'll be able to find any effect without having to do a lot of searching. That saves time, and it's simply more convenient.

NEW! Optimized task wizard
Now even better: The new task wizard explains jobs precisely, and it can be started with just a click! You also get access to the integrated help database. Simply click in the menu on "Tasks", select a topic, and get information. You can start the task immediately if you want to.

NEW! Animated menus for Blu-ray Disc
If you need more space: Burn your movies on the new Blu-ray Disc™ medium – now with animated menus. Ideal for large, high-resolution videos.