Hi Jim and welcome to the Magix site,

I see my reply to you on Xaratalk convinced you to take a closer look. I agree with Terry about trying out Movie Edit Pro (MEP). If you have a lot of video, photos, even digitized 8mm film, and time, MEP is the way to go. And yes, you can import video from your iPhone.

There are other Magix programs, like Video Easy and PhotoStory, but they are dumbed-down versions of MEP and you would quickly become frustrated with the limitations.

MEP comes with SoundMaker that will help create user-selected themed songs to go with video and slides, and a slideshow maker that will automate some of the process and and in music using SoundMaker. The results are fully editable in MEP. There is also a sound editor in MEP to help clean up recorded sound.

I suggest that you also go through all of the information and videos about on the Magix site to get a better understanding of the features.

Videos can be exported to many formats. You can directly drag and drop an mp4 file onto a web page in Xara Web Designer and the program will use the viewer widget and place it on your page. Quite simple really.

Since you have Xara, it links directly with MEP and you can open Xara from MEP, modify a photo or image and it comes back into MEP automatically when you exit Xara. See under Share for both programs. 

You will find a lot of assistance on this user forum. Note that there are 3 parts to forums - Discussions (where you asked your question), Q&A's, and Tutorials.

Lastly, I looked at your pottery website and there is a problem with the page for your profile - I get a screen full of your html code on my PlayBook. The other screens work fine.

Regards and enjoy,

John 

Hi

re: browj2s comment:

  . . . MEP comes with SoundMaker that will help create user-selected themed songs to go with video and slides, and a slideshow maker that will automate some of the process and and in music using SoundMaker. The results are fully editable in MEP. There is also a sound editor in MEP to help clean up recorded sound. . . .

A quick heads up on this one - the sound loops used to create the soundtracks are copyright protected and unless you have the Audio Pro licence for the soundpools used, you cannot use them where they are 'publicly broadcasted' eg on a website as background music to a video on the site or the site itself etc.

There have been many discussions on this topic and the bottom line is you need the correct licence for the soundpools/loops etc for anything where the sounds are used 'publicly'.

There are literally hundreds of website which offer copyright and royalty free sound loops, music tracks, video loops etc on the Internet.

HTH

John