Supplier MGI

Price: £79.99p

Internet www.videowave.com

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Test PC Windows Me, Celeron 533Mhz, 128Mb Ram & 16Mb Video Card

= Recommended

VideoWave 4 arrived here a few weeks ago, we were very interested in this package basically because we reviewed its number 3 version some time ago and wished to see what was new. VideoWave 4 offers in an easy as way as possible the amateur video market a way to record video and then edit it with the final output to any number of multimedia formats, mpeg 1 and 2 being amongst them. 

What's New

Scene detection, for automatic splitting of video clips. Time warp your videos by speeding up or slowing down the action. New video templates, including those for producing Real Video and MVW. Publish video to online services on the web. Brand new content, intro clips and matching, key able overlays on dozens of subjects: home, business, kids, vacation, occasions, events. Plus many many more.

Highs

First of all the all important installation went  without a hitch, if only all software was this easy to set up! We began testing this latest version by recording from our TV card, firstly just 30 second clips, we then moved on to 10 minute lengths and finally a whole 30 minute program. again this was achieved without any problems at all. If anything it all seemed just a bit to easy. We were then able to edit, cut and move around the video sections with ease. These were then put together in the form of a finished video. Output was to mpeg 1. We were to say the least very impressed.

Lows

None.

Conclusion

If anything this program left me with the view that both the amateur and with this release the semi professional market has a product fully capable of producing short videos, on what is effectively modest hardware. The only limits for this product are set by your own imagination.