Feature-by-Feature Magix Review
Magix Photostory Deluxe is powerful software for photo enthusiasts that allows to make thrilling photostories. But what is a photostory to begin with? It is a short movie made up of pictures, videos, and GIFs that tells a story of your family events, trips, and happy moments. Magix Photostory built-in templates let you turn your still images into beautiful slideshows in mere minutes. But you can also create your own photostory from scratch. There are plenty of animation effects, transitions, and title cards for that. The program has a music library as well.
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Collection of Effects & Animation
The software is equipped with 100+ photo collage templates, 1500+ artistic effects and transitions, 200+ frames, cliparts, and text styles that will help you make your slideshow impressive. Besides, Magix slideshow maker has Travel Maps, an animation of your journey from destination to destination on a map. The latest version of the program features an extended collection of 3D transportation avatars, so users can make their animation more realistic.
Built-In Photo Editing Tools
Magix Photostory has a set of image enhancement tools that will help improve the quality of your pics. You can either edit your pictures manually or go with easy one-click features like Automatic Shot Matching. What’s more, you can funk up your photos with a diversity of stickers and clipart that the program offers. Also, the newer version of the software optimized the Storyboard mode - now, users can preview their pictures in high resolution.
Library of Music & Sounds
You can add up to 16 soundtracks to your photostory project: music, comments, sound effects. Choose sounds from the Magix Photostory music library of 50 free songs and soundscapes and modify them according to the mood you want to set. Automatic Volume Regulation will make sure your music isn’t too loud in case you add a voiceover. For more freedom in the choice of songs, buy extra music in the program or just add melodies from your playlist.
Vast Sharing Options
Magix Photostory is praised for its VR video mode, which allows watching your photostory in 360 degrees. The software enables you to export slideshows in 4K as AVI, MPEG video, MotionJPEG AVI, MAGIX video, Windows Media, MPEG-4, and HEVC files. You can also share your video on YouTube, Flickr, and Shutterfly right from the program, burn your project to a CD or DVD, or export it to your smartphone with special settings.
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