While Movie Edit Pro 15 isn’t the best video editor around, it brings one feature to the table that nothing else in the market can match – two-camera multicam editing. There are two versions of the software, Basic and Plus. We highly recommend going for the latter, which, despite its higher, features a number of advanced functionality (including the multicam editing) and bundled apps.
Interface
The new UI is considerably more usable than any previous iterations, rivaling the most sleek and intuitive video editing interfaces around. It follow the three-window style, which consist of the storyboard, preview and content. A number of new, subtle controls (e.g. jog wheel, shutter) makes it a very good canvas on which to perform your clip manipulations on.
Editing
It offers numerous editing techniques for cutting up your movies, all of them very easily managed through the interface. There’s one in particular, the Object Trimmer, that felt a bit odd and badly-designed, though the rest works as niftily as other similar applications.
The color and background correction options are extensive and very effective, even when used in the hands of moderately average skill level users. Image stabilization, however, can be very intimidating and will probably take the average user a number of tries to get a feel for.
Controls for still-images (panning, zooming, etc) are well-made, allowing users to animate most images with ease. It affords a good deal of flexibility, along with being very precise. Audio editing is similarly on par with other products in the market.
Multicam And Others
The main reason to get the Plus is undoubtedly the multicam editing tool, which synchronizes videos of the same event from two cameras, allowing the user to shift from shot to shot during editing. It’s a very useful tool – one that can make your finished movies truly stand out, without requiring much more work than usual. Other features include a title-creation tool (2D only), decent rendering speeds (about 25% slower than Premiere Elements) and DVD authoring.
Overall, Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 is a decent editor for the $90 asking price (Plus Version), especially with the unique multicam editing function. The rest of its feature set is on par with the average title you can find in the market, but it really pales in comparison with the best one around, Adobe Premiere Elements 7.
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