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Roxio Toast 9 Titanium

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Roxio

April 01, 2008
Great product though the customer support has a lot to be desired. Toast 9 introduces a few new enhancements but the manual, online help, and Roxio dont provide more than a paragraph of explanation.

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Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 Platinum Pro Pack

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Sony Creative Software

August 01, 2008
I purchased this item to work on my own movies and because it has more transitions and events that you can chose from. It took me a bit to get the hang of it but Once I used the tour guide it was easy to continue on my own. Cool software for people who like to make movies of vacations and special events.

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Corel VideoStudio Pro X2

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Corel

September 18, 2008
Like many of you, I am no video editing professional. I just need a simple tool to stitch together the videos taken in my digital camera and convert them into MP4 format.

The original format comes out of my camera is Motion JPG like almost all digital cameras, those files are pretty big. I was hoping by converting to MP4 it would save me some disk space.

But I found the quality of the converted MP4 is rather low, the color is faded and some details, highlights are lost. The output bitrate is **FIXED** at 2000k for MP4 format, That's right, you read me correct, you can NOT change the setting! Contacted customer support, they claim this is normal. So now I ended up having to keep both the original files and converted files ... Read More:

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Final Cut Express 4

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Apple

November 22, 2007
I had been wanting to do a video or two for fun and to see if I could use the creative potential of video. The iMovie that came with the computer never wanted to work right. This software is so simple yet strait forward enough to learn in a few hours. And still give great high end looking results. (As high end as I need anyway). Very cool.

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Roxio Creator 2009

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Roxio

September 09, 2008
ROXIO Creator 2009

Introduction
With Roxio Creator 2009, a new front end menu is added. From this menu you choose the feature you want to use. The left side of the menu lists the main areas:
Data-Copy
Video-Movies
Music Audio
Photo
There is also a Home selection that lists the recent six sub-features used as well as an Online connection. Each item opens a list of categories in the right side panel. It looks nice, but is a little vague, not clear what you are going to do in a category. Between some categories it is not clear what the differences are - for example in Video-Movies there is Create DVDs and Create DVDs Advanced. If you hover over the category it will tell you that the advanced lets you customize ... Read More:

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Final Draft 7 Professional Scriptwriting Win/Mac

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Final Draft

April 01, 2004
Final Draft is seriously the best screenwriting software out there. I'm a college student looking to go into the Film industry, and with the help of Final Draft, I am able to get my ideas easily into the script format!

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Roxio Creator 2009 Ultimate

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Roxio

September 17, 2008
I don't know why I got the Roxio Creator Ultimate 2009, considering all the problems I've had with the previous versions of Roxio. I am pretty computer savvy but even with a non-tweaked, newer system (Vista) it was a problem to install and crashes all the time. This happened with the previous versions on my stable XP machine also. Fool me thrice, I'm an idiot for buying this.

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ACID Music Studio 7

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Sony Creative Software

May 06, 2008
ACID Music Studio is a useful tool for intermediate-level music production. With this software you can record & produce your own music as well as layer your song with loops, which are bundled with the software to help you hit the ground running. Loops are also available for free online, just do a search for "royalty free loops."

ACID Music Studio also gives you the ability to remix, create mashups, make your own loops from scratch, collaborate with other artists from afar, etc.

In the beginning it can be frustrating; it isn't very intuitive and the tutorial is sub-par, but, with some picking & poking, you will understand the basics in no time.

Sony's own acidplanet.com is a wonderful community of musicians for musicians. So many ... Read More:

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PowerDirector7 Deluxe (Amazon Christmas Exclusive)

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: CyberLink

April 30, 2008
Years ago, this sort of power in personal video editing would cost at least $20,000 in hardware and dedicated video editing PC cards. Amazingly, all of this computing power has increased many fold since those days, and has been brought down to only a fraction of its original cost -- PowerDirector is the result.

Pros: PD has a very well rounded suite of special effects, titling routines, automatic color balance, photo adjustments, and a series of "magic" effects that will help you to assemble a slide show, add music to your videos, correct for defects and a host of other things with just a few clicks of your mouse.

The layout for the editing screen is non-cluttered and well designed. For those who are familiar with video editing, it will only take you a day to ... Read More:

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Adobe Premiere Elements 7

Childrens Toy Shop > Software > Video and Music
from: Adobe

October 13, 2008
I am running Win XP Pro SP3 and this package refused to run.
It installed, but crashed within seconds after starting a video file.
$90 wasted i guess. :(
If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

System components are:
Thermaltake VC3000BWS Armor Junior ATX Case with Window (Black) amazon-ordered $119
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz LGA 775 95W Quad-Core Processor Model BX80569Q9450 - Retail
CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN3X2048-1333C9 - Retail
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD5000AAKS 500GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
EVGA 01G-P3-N869-AR GeForce 9600 GT 1GB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card ... Read More: