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MAGIX Music Maker Professional Audio Software (page 2)

Music Maker Pro has some simple-but-cool video features. You can drag a video clip onto the timeline and edit it much as you would an audio track. A preview windows opens, and you can apply a variety of filters and special effects to your clip. To get you started, MAGIX includes four CDs of video clips featuring stock footage and various visual elements. With a capture card, you can import your own video too. Although you may not want to use Music Maker Pro for complicated video editing, you can do all the basics with it. Cuts, fades titles and various effects are all included.

Perhaps the best use of the video features of Music Maker Pro is to synchronize video to the audio that you?ve created. You could put your video onto a track, and as it plays in the preview window, time the big changes in your music to match.

Music Maker Pro?s music creation capabilities can be used to create interesting, royalty-free music. Non-musicians won?t have too much trouble working with it either. It costs about the same as a decent buyout music collection, but has so much more to offer. The fact that it includes some basic video editing capabilities will make it even more appealing to new video producers. When you add in its ability to create streaming audio and video files, this program could find a home in the software libraries of many videographers.

Platform: PC
Minimum System Requirements
Processor: Pentium 166MHz or compatible
Memory: 32MB
Operating System: Windows 95/98/NT
Hard Drive: 50MB free
Other: 16-bit sound card, CD-ROM

Recommended System
Hard Drive: 9GB or larger A/V-rated
Other: full-duplex sound card

• runs on almost any computer
• easy-to-use
• makes endless variations of music
• allows basic video editing

• music can sound canned

A great tool for making music and performing basic video edits.

Music Maker Professional
($600)
MAGIX Entertainment Corp.
429 Santa Monica Blvd. #120
Santa Monica, CA 90401
(310) 656-0644
www.magix.com

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