CineMagic is a great and easy way to produce a simple video project. You can select scenes and add music to get a pretty polished productions.
There are some limitations, the native audio track of the original video cannot be used and one has to be careful to balance the audio with the video lengths. PIP, aka overlays (picture in picture) cannot be used. If the video has important images near the edges of the video, then those images may not fit into the TV safe zone.
As an alternative, you could put the entire video in Video Wave and cut out the parts you don't want. This is the usual way to edit a video. You'll have the original audio track, you can use overlays, transitions, add music in addition to the native audio track and much more. You can add the video as an overlay and then resize it to fit into the TV safe zone.
If you have a lot of video that will need to be cut out, then this can be time consuming using Video Wave.
A second way of doing it is more of a hybrid to both CineMagic (scene detection) and Video Wave (multiple options for music/audio/overlays/transitions etc.
This short flash video will show how this can be accomplished. For best results, when the video starts playing, pause it until almost all of the video is downloaded -- the green progress line is almost all the way to the right. This may take 3 or 4 minutes to download.
A link to a smaller display non-narrated version is here.
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CineMagic is a great and easy way to produce a simple video project. You can select scenes and add music to get a pretty polished productions.
There are some limitations, the native audio track of the original video cannot be used and one has to be careful to balance the audio with the video lengths. PIP, aka overlays (picture in picture) cannot be used. If the video has important images near the edges of the video, then those images may not fit into the TV safe zone.
As an alternative, you could put the entire video in Video Wave and cut out the parts you don't want. This is the usual way to edit a video. You'll have the original audio track, you can use overlays, transitions, add music in addition to the native audio track and much more. You can add the video as an overlay and then resize it to fit into the TV safe zone.
If you have a lot of video that will need to be cut out, then this can be time consuming using Video Wave.
A second way of doing it is more of a hybrid to both CineMagic (scene detection) and Video Wave (multiple options for music/audio/overlays/transitions etc.
This shortflash videowill show how this can be accomplished. For best results, when the video starts playing, pause it until almost all of the video is downloaded -- the green progress line is almost all the way to the right. This may take 3 or 4 minutes to download.A link to a smaller display non-narrated version is
here.Thse and other video demos here.
Feedback appreciated.
Have fun !
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