I had previously selected and imported to the laptop some music to use as background, and we did get the show running… although we never had dinner that night.įrom that day on I accepted that, for certain things, these automatic features of a program can work rather well. We had to go through hundreds of photos, select enough for a 3 to 5-minute fast paced slideshow – everybody expected to see at least one photo of them in action -, edit images minimally and create the slideshow with special effects and all… in time to present it during the dinner.
I had spent the whole day photographing, with my older son, a team building activity outdoors, with well over 150 participants, and we were asked to create a slideshow for the dinner and prize delivery ceremony… at the restaurant, using a laptop computer, a projector and a screen.
I remember well the first time I used it for a client. Back in 2008 PowerDirector served me well… as a Slideshow Creator, an automated way to create slideshows. So, although I have tried and tested others, I tend to go back to PowerDirector, as I know the interface well and it more than suffices for the things I need. I’ll get back to the other modules in the future, as they offer some interesting features, to both photographers and video enthusiasts.īefore we continue, let me state that PowerDirector has been my video editor of choice since version 7, launched in 2008. For this article I selected the Easy Editor, which opens the Magic Movie Wizard interface. When you first open PowerDirector 14, the most recent version of the program, you have multiple choices: the Full Feature Editor, Easy Editor, Express Project, Theme Designer and Slideshow Creator. But for those not knowing or wanting to go through that part of the process, Magic Movie Wizard does… some kind of magic. It’s a simpler interface that, in the end, will take you, if desired, to the full editor, where you can adjust your final movie any way you want. In fact, Magic Movie Wizard is a feature from Power Director, the Non Linear Editor from Cyberlink. Magic Movie Wizard is very different from Fastcut when it comes to the creation of video. Now it is time to share that knowledge with readers here at Pro Video Coalition who might be interested into exploring the subject further. In my article about Canon’s Video Snapshot – Video Snapshot for lazy editors – I mentionned the existence of video editing software which offers some kind of automated editing, a feature I’ve seen in both video and photo editors for the general public. Now it is time to test Magic Movie Wizard, which promises easy ways to edit video. To continue the conversation, I wrote about the Video Snapshot feature present in some Canon cameras. Last January Scott Simmons tested an automatic video editing tool, Fastcut, which I had mentionned here at ProVideo Coalition in December 2015.
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