MAGIX Movie Studio Suite 2023 – For memories that last forever | Video editing software | Video editing program | for Windows 10/11 PC | 1 download license

Software has glitches all over the place. No good. I had the old Vegas and never had an issue.

Had my computer savvy son install it for me & he had no problems. Since this is my 1st video editing software experience it did have a learning curve for me. I love that now I can take my content and add music to it & create such amazing videos. Very happy.

I recently ordered the Magix Movie Studio Suite to use to make some video of a recent trip. The disk arrived quickly. Typically, a CD installs just run and when you open the software, it asks for the serial number to actually use it. This was the most convoluted installation process Ive ever experienced. The disk arrived with a voucher number which has to be entered on a website, which of course you have to create an account first. You then receive an email with the serial number. Just this aspect, took a while. With the initial email, you also get some bonus plug-ins serial numbers as well. Well, you have to create an account with that maker and then you get more serial numbers. I downloaded these plug-ins and entered the numbers within but required I download again from within the software. It took me over 2 hours to get this installation completely installed, updated and ready to go. Im no novice with computers and I have not been this frustrated in a long time. Having finally gotten it figured out and updated, I got to play around with the functions. Although my computer is fast, this software stalled a lot and took a while to upload videos. I had to force close a couple of times. It is also important to note that I constantly get pop up advertisements to upgrade my software subscription and there isnt a way to stop it. I will likely just keep using my windows movie maker instead of this software.

I installed on my new Microsoft Surface Book 3, 64 bit Windows 11 Home, Intel Core i7 CPU, RAM 32GB, GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 It is a 1.2 GB download. I have 300 Mbps download speeds, but the download was throttled at the server, it took 20 minutes to download plus 10 minutes for install and configuration. Installation and registration went smooth at that point. There are some nice tutorials, click on Help-> Multimedia Community, this brings you to a webpage with several videos to help you get started. I installed some add-ons, which included demos, templates, effects, etc. The product does come with some audio files for adding to your project, you can always download your own. After all the setup and addons, I used the wizard to create a nice video merging my videos, and still pics, with transitions and music in no time. Do not try to install this on PC/laptop with older graphics cards. On my first attempt I installed this on an computer that did not have a compatible graphic card and received an error when attempting to run the software. I would think during installation, the computer specs would be checked and if not compatible, a message would appear at that point. A waste of 30 minutes. The support FAQs confirmed the error.

I had an older version of this but wanted to update to the latest and greatest. When you purchase this, you receive a package with a CD and a slip of paper with a code on it. You can install off the CD, if you have an optical drive, but youll probably have to immediately update it, so just get the download to start with. Maybe it was just a bad day, but Magixs servers were painfully slow. The download took over an hour. You also have to go to a website, enter the code, and then they email you the actual license code you need. Thats an unnecessary step - but it gets worse. The email with the license code also includes codes for the Newblue packs that are included. You need to download and install them, which involves restarting Magix several times and a separate application manager to handle the expansion packs. However, they show up in the manager as trial versions. The codes that came in the email do not work in the manager to register them. Instead, you have to go into Magix Movie Studio, to the effect menu, and find the entries for each. THAT screen finally has the actual codes that you need to activate them. Once you get through all the hoops, the software works and doesnt require a monthly fee like other editors. Just allow time to get it set up.

We had a hard time getting it installed and activated. Once activated it was very glitchy, freezing and crashing multiple times.

This product may be what some are looking for, but not me. It just wasnt what I was looking for.

I have other software by Magix that I liked, so when I had a chance to get this, I jumped at it. Im on their mailing list and I frequently get offers to get their prior-year software at a bargain price. In fact, if youre unsure about whether their software style is right for you, you may want to consider a prior-year version... theyre usually a fraction of the price of their current offering. Check their website or get on their mailing list if that appeals to you. For my business, I have a subscription to Adobe that gets me Premiere Pro and After Effects. I am not a professional editor, but Ive slogged my way through those programs to produce a video that had effects that Im proud of. However, it took hours of watching YouTube videos and trial-and-error to get a finished product, and Im no closer to being comfortable with those programs than I was when I started. Meaning you really have to devote a good part of your life to learning that skill. For an amateur video that wont be watched by more than a handful of people, is it worth all that effort? You decide. Then theres this software. Installation, as others have noted, is excruciatingly slow for reasons I dont know. I didnt actually time it, but others have said about 30 minutes and I believe them. Fortunately thats a one-time thing and once you get past that, you can do some exploring. I tried to resist constantly thinking well, Premiere would let me do that..., but it did come up often. I soothed myself by thinking but this costs pennies on the dollar compared to Premiere. And the fact is that this Suite of software can do many higher-end editing effects that youd expect only from a costlier product. Its impossible to go through everything with a comparison to Premiere or any other editor, but suffice it to say that you can take raw video sources and create a very polished final product with this software, as long as you study your options and do a lot of trial and error. Along that line, be sure to save your work frequently along the way. There are functions that are difficult or impossible to undo, which means you may destroy hours of work if you cant revert out a bad decision. With frequent intermediate saves, at least you dont have to start over from scratch. I learned this the hard way. Look around and on their website for videos that have been produced with this software, and youll see some effects that will impress you. The current price (as I write this) is less than most other video editors with similar capabilities, so it may be a good place to jump in to a semi-pro level. Its certainly more full-featured than any of the free-but-locked-down products Ive seen. If youre looking for pro, though, bite the bullet and try a few months of Adobe. Youll either go on to be a famous editor, or youll come running back here screaming obscenities. ;-) Recommend.

I was impressed with the entire editing suite youd pay a lot for this on a pro level and you get a lot of the same features and expansion options here. It makes movie files for you in short order you can use your own source materials it gives you options for bringing in stock footage or slides you can do kind of like PowerPoint but the new version of. It reminded me heavily of paint shop Pro which is my personal preference over Photoshop and stuff like that I have always been a PSP fan for photo editing and such for at least a decade now I started out waiting to be getting and I noticed while not made by the same company the format the feel of the menuing system and everything else is really close which is great because then you can use both of those programs in tandem and not go from one interface totally to something different you can keep that continuity between them. It does come with everything you need in the kit itself the license is what you really after but it does give you options for downloading or installing it although most of us dont have cds/dvds anymore in our equipment or even in our laptops, this will easily come down under your unit and let you get at it right away. If you have that kind of a rig setup. It doesnt seem to tax memory heavily for its processing but obviously the better rig you have the better machine youre using the faster the results youre going to end up seeing at the very end but very nice video software suite.

I wish I could say otherwise, but this software feels incredibly outdated compared to other versions of video editing software that I have either paid for or downloaded for free. I had a hard time navigating the software itself. Nothing about it felt intuitive, and it was even hard to find any good tutorials for it online. It is incredibly hard to figure out how to apply the effects, and once you do, it affects the whole video. In order to apply it to certain parts (say for example you wanted to use lens flare) you need to cut your video where you want to apply it, and then make sure it only applies to that clip. You have to be careful about playing with the toggles as well, because if you arent paying attention to what youre doing it will ruin that entire portion of the clip, and sometimes the program wont let you undo an action, claiming that an undo is not possible. You can learn the keyboard shortcuts quite easily if you play around with the menus and make note of them, but again, this information isnt just readily available which made me feel like I wasted a lot of time editing manually (if youre going to edit videos for a living or as a side hustle its incredibly important not to waste time and to learn or implement your own shortcuts). This program might be good for beginners, or for kids working on projects for school - but I dont know that I would recommend this for anyone else.