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

My husband who is pretty good at this kind of thing is having an issue getting it installed. He is going to work on it again this weekend and I will update my review on how that goes

I got this to attempt to make our own home movies with high quality effects. I was impressed with how easy this software was to setup, and got started right away. I love all the neat effects and features this program has to offer. This is an awesome beginner software for anyone looking into video editing. I highly recommend.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

Ive used a number of video editing programs over the last several years. This one has good instructions and tutorials but is pretty intuitive so its learning curve is not too steep. Installation can be done via a accompanying DVD or through a downloadable .exe. I opted for the former method, using a USB-C external DVD drive I keep handy to pair with the laptop I use for such projects. Note that this software will perform at its most optimum when used on a device with sufficient ram and other internal specs. The software has a a considerable variety of features able to give all kinds of effects. Video editing software can be quite expensive so retail price of this one is an exceptional bargain and should count as one of its most important features. Beginners in particular should give this really close consideration due to its ease of use.

Magix makes great products as usual. This movie edit software is really great. I like that it gives u a installation cd as well allows you to down it as well. I would recommend this software to anyione

This program was easy to install. It has an older style of layout and there is definitely a learning curve to using it. Some of the functions are better in other video editing software such as trimming video. Overall it works and gets the job done for creating home videos of all my footage and adding music to them along with using the transition effects.