Video editing made easy. Record - Edit - Burn – Impress. The award winner has many useful 1-click functions and lots of new features: EasyBurn Mode, optimized scene recognition, batch processing, MAGIX Screenshare and much more.

Pros: With MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 14 you can process your own video recordings quickly. You can get the post processing done and make the video suitable for not only your TV but mobile video players or post it on-line. The application has many useful 1-click functions and lots of new features EasyBurn Mode, optimized scene recognition, batchprocessing, MAGIX Screenshare etc that make the post processing easy and quick. Creating theater quality videos from home grown videos is done in simple 1-2-3 steps. Adding background music, animated transitions, text and special effects are simple 3 step process. Add suitable music, professional fades/transitions. Wizards help you all the way to do things quickly. Raw clips can be from HDV camcorders, DVD recorders, webcams, digicams, cell phones like diverse sources. You can write the processed data in real time into DVDs, upload directly to YouTube. Audio mixer too is real-time. Optimized scene recognition helps transitions to appear at the exact spot you wanted it to. Support exists for next generation gaming consoles that also play videos. The program can process batches of files. MP3 soundtrack is supported and Blu-ray disk read and write is supported on the application. The EasyBurn Mode puts you directly in touch with the most important settings for your personal video DVD even faster.

For publishing all you need to do is to simply select a suitable menu. Using motifs from your video project you can automatically create DVD menus indistinguishable from those found on store-bought movie DVDs in just minutes. A selection of high-quality animation effects ensures lots of variety in your menu composition.

Cons: So many formats being handled can create some combinations where there could be issues in video creation. Various compression schemes in use make the problem more complex. You need to understand the implications of video editing for using it effectively too.

Overall this is a 4 star application.