Serif MoviePlus X5 HD Digital Video Studio

Product Description: A top rated Windows video editing or making software solution at Best-VideoSoftware.com, Serif MoviePlus X5 is perfect for Movie enthusiasts or people wanting to make a professional looking DVD from their movies such as wedding, birthday, christening etc. MoviePlus X5 is an excellent choice for beginners and enthusiasts alike. Two editing modes make it easy to create stunning home videos as well as sophisticated projects - all possible in stunning HD! Enhanced editing tools and over 200 studio-quality effects and transitions give movies a professional look and feel. Share HD movies on Blu-ray and AVCHD DVD with integrated burning, and export your productions for playback on popular hardware devices such as iPod and PSP, as well as uploading directly to YouTube. MoviePlus X5 makes it easy to share your movies with friends and family, even the world! Video enthusiasts on a budget will appreciate MoviePlus X5’s powerful features and competitive price point. Those with video editing experience under their belt will also be attracted by an intelligent smart ‘proxy’ engine when editing footage, Blu-ray Disc and AVCHD DVD burning, unlimited tracks for video and audio, keyframe controls, blend modes and over 200 video and audio effects.

New and improved features of MoviePlus X5 include:

• Advanced support for HD video – working with HD videos is now faster than ever with an improved smart ‘proxy’ engine and the ability to prioritize processes working in the background.
• Blu-ray Disc and AVCHD DVD burning – preserve your memories in high definition by burning movies to Blu-ray Disk or an AVCHD DVD directly from the software.
• New tools and effects – the new multi-trim dialog trims and splits video and audio into many separate clips. New effects have also been added to reduce video noise and camera shake.
• Usability enhancements – finding audio and video clips is quicker than ever before with Media Pane sorting and customizable keyboard shortcuts speed up user work flow.
• Improved user interface – the contemporary new look with intuitive panes makes it easier to find the tools needed to produce remarkable results in minutes.

Storyboard Mode & Improved Timeline
Making movies in record time is a breeze with MoviePlus X5's Storyboard mode. Simple drag and drop of images and video clips effortlessly produces an engaging movie – that can quickly be resequenced and enhanced with pan and zoom, narration, music, stunning transitions, effects, and titles. Real-time previews and context-sensitive task buttons make sure it's as easy as possible to enhance movies without requiring specialist video editing experience.

For those who prefer to use advanced non-linear video editing, MoviePlus X5 offers a powerful and flexible multi-track Timeline – now also improved with context-sensitive task buttons for a smoother workflow. Plus, users can seamlessly switch between Storyboard and Timeline modes at any time to get the best from each for the fastest results.

Interactive ‘How To' Guides
Ideal for new users, MoviePlus X5's invaluable, interactive and automated ‘How To' guides offer instant on-screen advice on wide range of popular editing operations, as well as more in-depth information on movie-editing techniques. The smart ‘How To' pane is also able to automatically carry out editing steps for users at the click of a button, quickly making experts from novices with no effort at all. These handy guides cover everything from importing and capturing clips and applying effects to exporting full movies, and are always at hand so workflow is uninterrupted.

Fantastic Animated Titles
Creating fantastic text & titles is easy with MoviePlus X5. Text can simply be edited directly over the movie preview, and easy new animation presets make text fade, zoom, explode and fly with style. There's also a new text styles gallery for instantly achieving just the right appearance for text, from colourful and funky introductions to smart, professional-looking credits.

Powerful New Audio and Video Effects
MoviePlus X5 introduces a whole new range of impressive audio effects to get the best possible soundtrack every time. Movies can be transformed into works of art with the ‘Old Movie' effect – perfect for giving a vintage look and feel, plus improved Chroma Key support offers enhanced blue-screening. Multiple special effects can be combined together for truly unique results, and there's a new range of outstanding, royalty-free animated overlays to add a professional touch to projects.

Great Compatibility and Easy Sharing
Movies, audio and images can be imported from almost anywhere with MoviePlus X5's comprehensive device and file format support – including grabbing from AVCHD and other video cameras, importing MPG, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, MPEG-4, and HD video files – and others. Plus MoviePlus X5 also adds a new “Download from Device” wizard to help users find files quickly and easily on PCs, cameras, or memory sticks.

Spending time experimenting with output settings is a thing of the past with MoviePlus X5's new Export Wizard feature, offering easy presets for popular gadgets and settings templates for popular file formats. The Export Wizard can publish direct to YouTube, create files for iPod and PSP playback, has templates suited to low bandwidth, broadband, and local playback, as well as built-in DVD authoring with newly-customizable, stylish animated menus.

Serif is pleased to include more customer-requested features and tweaks in Serif MoviePlus X5, including: recording narration during playback, improved pan, zoom and cropping that are easier to apply, customizable scene detection, Dolby Digital stereo import and export, and digital audio CD ripping. The powerful core at the heart of MoviePlus continues to offer fast processing with real-time previews, high-quality results and unprecedented flexibility with unlimited and nested groups of tracks, keyframeable effects and transitions, animated transforms and picture-in-picture effects – and much more!