Perfect movie slideshows in 3 minutes
You'd love to turn your photo memories into slideshows more often, but simply don't have the time? Need a personalized gift quickly? Your guests are just about to leave, but before they go you'd like to surprise them with a multimedia slideshow of all the party pictures? Let the brand-new slideshow automation impress you and your audience. Create stylish slideshows with unique aesthetic appeal in record time.
More detailed features
- Many new subtle style templates
- Countless thematic style templates for popular occasions like vacation, party, Christmas, New Year's, etc. (complete list)
- Suitable background music (multiple songs per slideshow possible) and thematic decorations may be added automatically
- Detailed settings options for slideshows, fades, effects, titles, background music, etc.
- Random settings possible
- Personalized slideshow styles may be saved
- Automation may be applied to parts of slideshow only (even multiple times with changing settings)
- Provisions for special image formats (avoid black borders around portrait photos and panoramas, etc. / incl. varied animations)
- Automatic separation of pictures into multiple slideshows that can be selected separately in CD/DVD menu (according to creation date, number of photos, videos per slideshow, etc.)
- Creation date may be faded in automatically
Travel route animation
Everyone enjoys taking pictures when they are on vacation, now you can transform your photo-journeys in exciting slideshows that can track your travels with constantly updated online maps of the world. Animate your trips and let people know exactly how far you have travelled!
Ideal for animated chapter markers
This feature is ideal for animated chapter markers that add that bit of movie magic to your vacation slideshows, and descriptive travel documentaries and for background videos in interactive CD/DVD menus.
Simply select the desired mode of transportation, be it by plane, car, bike and more, set any number of intermediate travel stops, adjust the type of route representation and animation effects to your wishes and impress your audience!
Zooms & camera pans
Create virtual camera pans across your photos and videos to highlight important image content.
Fades
Use soft, flowing transitions with animated patterns and objects or "turning pages" effects to add a cinematic touch to your slideshows.
3D effects & transition series
Motifs may be distorted into objects and moved across the picture. Animations help create attractive backgrounds for presenting your creations (museum, billboard, etc.).
Artistic & image distortion filters
Distort or enhance your pictures just the way you want – for even more creative freedom!
Picture-in-picture animations
Easily create well-known “classic effects" using automatically animated collages from multiple single images or videos. Split screens familiar from parallel-running scenes in movies, picture-in-picture compositions like on the news, or place portrait photos next to each other to avoid black edges, etc.
Panoramas
Automatically create seamless panoramic images from up to 6 separate sources. NEW! Now with over 50 new templates for impressive picture-in-picture and panorama animations.
Slow & fast motion
Use fast motion as a special video effect or try slow motion to make faster sequences easier to view. Reversing the playback is just as easy.
Video stabilizer & optimization
Rescue shaky video sequences, optimize image quality, and remove bothersome noise from your sound recordings.
Include 3D titles and captions
3D titles – Use the wide range of fonts to easily create animated text for opening/closing credits, chapter markers, and subtitles.
PLUS! Over 30 new templates for impressive 3D title animations, and 130 title captions, and subtitles just like TV news programs.
Color fields
Create color fields that you can compose 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.
PLUS! More than 30 customizable graphic templates Add amusing adornments
Decorate your pictures and highlight motifs with funny, animated decorative elements like speech bubbles and snowflakes or embellish your photos by adding frames and flowers.
Choose freely customizable decorative animations incl. sound and audio effects from various template categories like: fun, comic, or frames. Have decorative elements follow content in videos ("magnetic objects"). Or import animated web graphics (GIF) to create unique eye-catchers.
This is how easy it is to add fun, jokes and originality to your slideshows!
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 on your audience.
Can't find the right background music on your CDs or MP3s? No problem, simply choose from 100 new songs from 20 international genres, all created by professional music producers for their sound quality, and you'll be sure to be able to find the right soundtrack for any occasion, from vacation and parties to nature and atmospheric sound creations.
mufin player
Helps you find specific songs that can be used as background music in your slideshows (similarity search according to genre, musical properties, etc.)
MAGIX Music Editor 3
Ideal for detailed restoring, optimizing and editing of background music and video sound. Now with new, more intuitive user interface and many new, practical functions (remove bothersome noise, balance volume fluctuations, etc.).
Automatic audio dubbing
The integrated MAGIX Soundtrack Maker creates music soundtracks according to your requirements. Simply set the mood that matches the atmosphere of your slideshow be it action filled, suspense, or even a bit of fun! Then watch as the program creates a personalized soundtrack for you from a large sound archive.
Rhythmic image cuts
Add a professional touch to your slideshows by having the images change automatically in time with the background music.
Creating scrapbooks made easy
MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe as a scrapbooking program allows you to take what was once a time consuming, expensive hobby, and turn it into something anyone can do in minutes rather than weeks or months. You can experiment with colors and designs without having to worry about wasting costly scrapbooking supplies.
Present online
Once you’re done with your scrapbooking pages, you can burn them to DVDs, video CDs, Blu-ray™ discs or share them with online user communities or web albums like the MAGIX Online Album.
Templates for interactive DVD 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 5 new, individually customizable templates for personalized CD/DVD menus for any occasion (90 in total).
Advanced menu design
Design professionally animated menus for DVDs and Blu-ray™ discs, modifying even the smallest detail is even easier than before!
- Add and design menu pages, submenus, and buttons:
- Design buttons in detail using image editing programs (e.g. the included MAGIX Xtreme Photo Designer 6)
- Create your own text/graphics objects on menu pages
- Freely definable interactive hierarchies
- Adjustable grid for exact positioning of buttons and menu objects
- Select and edit multiple menu objects
Supports RAW formats
MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe also supports uncompressed image data (raw formats / RAW) of over 280 popular camera models (device list), offering an extensive HD workflow from importing to high-resolution output (file export and disc authoring).
What means RAW support?
RAW is a format where the data is saved on the camera after digitization without further editing. This guarantees higher image quality. Usually a special program is required to process, display, and save the pictures in commonly used file formats. This process is integrated in MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe, which features automatic support of RAW files.
Full HD support
Make the most of HD quality throughout the entire editing process and now even burn your slideshows fully automatically onto high-resolution Blu-ray™ discs, complete with animated menus.
Use full HD with a maximum resolution of 1920-1080, a maximum play time of 4.5 hours, and an enormous capacity of up to 27 GB (single-layer/double-layer up to 54 GB).
Optional: AVCHD support
With the included AVCHD plug-in that requires fee-based activation, you can import high-resolution AVCHD videos incl. AC3 sound and burn them in HD quality to Blu-ray™ discs and even inexpensive DVDs, including animated menus and Dolby®Digital 5.1 sound.
Ideal for bringing your high-resolution slideshows to your home screen - without any detours! Easily playable with many Blu-ray™ players
Transfer screen
MAGIX Screenshare makes it possible to exchange information with other users live over the Internet (Transfer screen).
MAGIX Photo Manager 9
Ideal for managing and presorting your photos and videos now included free when you purchase MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe.
Covers & lables
Personalized CD/DVD cases and labels. With the integrated MAGIX Xtreme Print Studio, you can create appealing CD/DVD cases & labels for your slideshow discs, etc.
Practical: The CD/DVD menu picture and the name of the included slideshow are both added into the cover & labeling project automatically.
Detail functions
Additionally, MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe offers many new detail functions:
- Automatic red eye correction (non-destructive)
- Picture can be sorted in the Media Pool according to creation date (Exif information of photos)
- Improved image quality for slideshows with dynamic effects, complex zooms, and pans thanks to new anti-flicker filter and revised anti-interlace filter ("soft focus lens") in CD/DVD authoring.
- Video clips can be rotated (by 90° + freely). Practical for integrating videos recorded in portrait format.
- Create screenshots and add them directly to your slideshow projects. Practical for quickly adding illustrations from the Internet.
- Media search function in the Media Pool with access to the Windows search index
- Cleaned-up fade menu
Advantages of the deluxe version
Compared to its classic version (MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9), MAGIX PhotoStory on CD & DVD 9 deluxe, the international product of choice for easy multimedia slideshow creation, offers over 40 powerful extras related to all aspects of design and presentation:
- Creative design
- Templates
- Audio dubbing
- Advanced CD/DVD authoring
- HD quality
- Internet
- Mobile devices
- Bonus tools
Advantages & basic functions (PDF) 
