Computer movie editing

NEW YORK -- Roxio Inc. has introduced the VideoWave Movie Creator, an automated solution for consumers who wish to edit video, bum it to DVD or CD and share with family and friends.

According to the company, the solution enables users to easily capture video from analogue or digital sources and advance from automatic or guided editing to precision editing with easy-to-use tools.

Users can clips, insert transitions and personalize titles and credits. They can also spice up their movies with graphic character overlays and special effects such as emboss, 3-D shapes, slow/fast motion and more.

Further movie creation involves dragging and drop video clips into DVD menu templates and going directly to selected scenes using on-screen menu buttons and a DVD remote control.

Company officials said VideoWave Movie Creator provides three different editing modes with varying levels of automation: CineMagic, StoryBuilder and the StoryLine Editor.

With CineMagic, the customer can make movies in minutes by transferring their video to their computer, adding their favorite music tracks and choosing a creative style that best suits their content.

The CineMagic mode automatically edits the video, synchronizes it with the music and adds visual effects and transitions, according to the firm.

The StoryBuilder option guides the consumer through the entire movie-making process step by step, using theme-based templates to make movies with titles, transitions, background music and closing credits. The user chooses the introduction and ending templates, personalizes the titles, drags and drops video clips -- and StoryBuilder takes care of the rest, officials said.

The StoryLine editor gives the consumer complete control to edit or enhance all of the individual elements that make up a movie. A storyboard view of the movie which offers a set of editing tools, transitions, text overlay, graphic overlay and more than 100 special effects, StoryLine is useful for enhancing a movie previously created in CineMagic or StoryBuilder, or for making a new movie from scratch, the firm said.

Video Wave Movie Creator is now available for a suggested retail price of US$79.95.

Contact: Roxia, www.roxia.com.