Ideal for vacation, parties, hobbies
Holidays & travel
Bring your holiday memories back to life and surprise your friends with travel logs and images from your latest weekend trips and holiday excursions.
Family & celebrations
Hold on to treasured moments at birthdays, Christmas or weddings, capture your children's development and impress your friends with multimedia chronicles.
Hobbies & profession
Present your favorite leisure-time activities as entertaining slideshows or convince your clients of your products and offers with professionally designed presentations.
Gift ideas
A slideshow is a unique and personal gift that's great for any occasion.
Surprise your family, friends, and acquaintances with entertaining slideshow CDs and DVDs of your personal or shared experiences or wish for a slideshow yourself.
Slideshows in 3 minutes!
You wish to turn your photo memories into slideshows more often, but simply don't have the time? Need a personalized gift quickly? Or would you like to give your visitors who are just about to leave a multimedia slideshow of your latest party?
Let the unique slideshow automation impress you and your audience. Use the 15 style templates included in the package to achieve impressive results in record time.
Deco elements
Enhance and highlight your images by adding animated decorative elements.
Choose decorative animations including sounds and sound effects from various template categories like fun, comic, frames and customize their size and position any way you please. Or import animated web graphics (GIF) to create unique eye-catchers.
In addition to the previously included elements, there are more than 10 new decorative elements to choose from. Use the many realistic templates included in the program to bring the original mood of your experiences back to life and relive your vacation, for example! Enhance photos of sunsets by adding a red shimmer or beach shots by adding realistic sun rays.
You can also add some fun and originality to your slideshows with fun animations such as a fire alarm.
Tell your stories
Design everything just the way you want to: use high-quality effects, animations and fades to make your photo story come to life.
Tracking shots & zooming
Choose from countless templates for zooms and pans to add movement to your pictures and highlight important image content. Now with improved ease of use and enhanced functions to achieve angled tracking shots with black-out edging.
Transitions
Use soft, flowing transitions with animated patterns and objects or "turning pages" effects to add a cinematic touch to your slideshows.
Effects & transitions
With a variety of effects and transitions, motifs can be transformed into objects and made to move across the screen. Animations give your photos attractive backgrounds (e.g. museum, billboard, etc.).
Adjust shape & aspect
Accurately add your photos and videos to background motifs and position them for example on signposts and signs with correct perspective.
Color fields
Create colorful backgrounds just the way you want.
Ideal for thematic separators with text that fade in between individual scenes of your slideshow (different holiday destinations, for instance) or as background to replace black edges around portrait photos.
More than 15 customizable graphic templates.
Panorama montages
Combine individual images seamlessly to create fantastic panorama pictures. Automatic focal distance detection and lens distortion and perspective correction ensure impressive results.
Improved technology: Now with even more realistic results, even with detailed motifs.
Animated titles & texts
Titles for opening/closing credits, chapter markers, and subtitles may be entered directly into the preview window and positioned precisely. Assign individual colors, sizes, fonts and effects to letters, words, or lines of text.
Experience title captions with perfect edge sharpness and in brilliant quality just like the ones you know from professional TV shows and motion pictures (e.g. softer shadows even in small text).
Audio Dubbing
Background music
The right background music is what makes a slideshow perfect! The way image and sound harmonize with each other is essential to the effect your pictures will have.
Can't find the right background music on CD or MP3? No problem, simply choose from 40 new songs on the DVD from 7 international genres (all in professional production and sound quality), and you'll be sure to find the right soundtrack for any occasion, from vacation and parties to nature and atmospheric sound creations.
Soundtrack Maker
The integrated MAGIX Soundtrack Maker creates music soundtracks according to your requirements. Simply set the mood that matches the mood progression of your slideshow (action, tension, fun...) and watch as the program creates a personalized soundtrack for you from a large sound archive.
Recording function
Directly record spoken commentary, optimize sound, and even remove bothersome noise.
Experience your slideshows on TV
DVD player menus
Add the finishing touch to your slideshows with animated CD/DVD menus just like the ones on store-bought DVDs complete with scenes from your own pictures as backgrounds, intro videos, music playback, animations, interactive buttons, etc.
Now including a variety of customizable templates for personalized CD/DVD menus for any occasion
Output on CD & DVD
Create all standard disc types for playback on DVD players and PCs (Video DVD, VCD, SVCD, and much more).
Present it on your TV set
Present your slideshow on your TV set with a DVD player using your remote control. You can choose between the classic 4:3 format or 16:9 widescreen format.
Online services
Online Album
Impress others with photos and graphics on your very own album website on the Internet and present your most beautiful moments and creations to the world.
NEW! Now available as an HTML 2.0 version (view example) with flexible setting functions and various additional options: Choose between display as a gallery or as a high-quality slideshow with zooms, music and effects, integrate video players, a visitor counter, download and Facebook links, enhance your recording with background music or give selected persons a guest access. Includes iPhone and iPod support.
Online Print Service
Experience your images in brilliant quality on premium photo paper and high-quality photo gifts. Including lighting-fast delivery to any address you like!
Download new templates & effects
Catooh – the Online Content Library is your online media archive. Whatever it is that you are looking for – photo material on a specific theme, menu templates, fades, background music or sound effects – the program provides a direct connection to this vast library and supports every one of your ideas with the fitting material.
Screenshare
The included MAGIX Screenshare makes it possible to exchange information with other users live over the Internet (Screen transfer).
Facebook, Flickr & YouTube
Share your most precious, most spectacular, or funniest photos with the whole world and publish them on the popular community website Flickr® or on YouTube®.
Facebook® upload: The world's largest social network, with over 500 million members worldwide. Are you on it? You can upload slideshows to Facebook® directly from the program and share them with friends around the world. It makes it so easy for friends and family around the world to experience and comment on your creations.
Even easier to use
Optimized user interface
The current version features a revised design and improved program interface. Straightforward symbols and icons make the program even easier to use, save time and make it easier for users to familiarize themselves with the program.
Thanks to the dark interface colors, photos and video clips are displayed in more detail, making it easier to achieve flawless editing results.
Faster performance
Experience the quickest and most powerful version of all time!
Benefit from increased performance; e.g. real-time effect previews, quicker loading times and an enhanced undo/redo tool includes storage space economy and practical drop-down menus for the most recent actions.
Operating systems with 64-bit technology moreover benefit from the additional memory capabilities when editing particularly large slideshow projects.
Play slideshows more smoothly
Thanks to the increased performance slideshow projects that use multiple effects simultaneously can be played judder-free.
Zoomable preview monitor
You can now control titles, zooming, tracking shots and decorative elements from outside the image area easier than before.
Precise editing is now child's play thanks to the new zoom function for preview monitors, and the ability to edit outside of the image area. Simply reduce the photo display in the preview screen, add your titles or effects and animate the elements however you like.
Export assistant
This practical feature shows you the most important export and archive functions at a glance, it provides additional information and helps you achieve your goals quicker and easier.
Manage & print
MAGIX Photo Manager 10: is ideal for convenient pre-sorting, management, and archiving of your photos and videos.
Personalized CD/DVD cases and labels: With MAGIX Xtreme Print Studio, you can create appealing CD/DVD cases & labels for your slideshow discs, etc. Practical: The CD/DVD menu image and the name of the slideshow are automatically added to the Cover & Label project.
Rescue Your Data!
Afraid you might lose your data? Secure your memories quickly and reliably before it's too late! BONUS in version 10: the backup software MAGIX Rescue Your Data valued at $38.95# included for free!
Back up your precious photos, videos, music files, emails, documents, etc. automatically and without any complications to external hard drives, DVD(s) or other storage media.
Ideal for desktop PCs and netbooks!
All functions
Turn memories into unique multimedia experiences that you can relive time and time again.
The benefits:
- Reads all formats
- Perfect quality
- Animated text
- Effects
- Audio dubbing
- Interactive menus
