MAGIX Video deluxe 2017 Plus Steam Edition

Unable to recommend this software.

I've owned this software for at least two years and use it very little. For the price it should at least compete with the free apps that are available. I use a particular app that I use the most isn't even for video editing and it's free. No matter what my reason for starting this application up for is, I have never been able to completely realize the vision without first finishing the project with a completely different application.

Pésimo, se crachea a cada rato, leento.... no gaste su dinero en esto... hay otros softwares de este tipo mucho mejor y más barato.

I've had nothing but problems using this software - right now I cannot even load a movie file. I give up. I regret purchasing it. I hope you will be luckier than me.

If you pay 15-20€, then yeah. I could recommend this. It is a good amateur video editing software. It lacks plenty of modern editing tools, but it works with most filetypes and you have a wide variety of settings to fiddle with.

What's not good about this, is the stability, and it even messes up steam for me a lot. For example while I'm writing this, I don't have the software running, yet steam asks me to shut it down if I'm using my laptops client to start other programs elsewhere. I haven't used this program for 705 hours, I've used it propably some 70-80 hours, max. But this software just doesn't always shut down completely, and I need to mess about in task manager, and steam. Because sometimes it has been shut down from the computer, but not from steam so I also need to restart steam a lot.

I chose to vote for no to recommendation, because I currently have a need for a more professional program. If this program would work better I might be able to use this for my needs still, but alas the constant crappynes is swaying my decision elsewhere...

Ive used this program for a stupid amount of time. More than most of my games...combined. As a content creator, this is a simple, yet effective editing software for creating quality content. There are a lot of pre-made effects in here to help spice up your videos, regardless of your experience with past video editing (if any at all). I also have to mention that I came across this in a bundle with a photo editor as well, so if you are looking for a way to make thumbnails or anything else on Youtube, its not a bad deal for you to consider.

MAGIX has some start up issues as well as running in background after quitting the program.
After Uninstalling program tries to Re-Install on its own again after reboot of windows.

Look at how many hours I have in this software! It's one of my most "played" games on Steam... because you can't actually turn it off. Even if you close out of the program it says it's still running.

To ACTUALLY close the program, you have to:
1) Close Steam
2) THEN go to your Task Manager
3) End the process from there

It doesn't show up in the Task Manager until you close Steam. It's such a hassle.
Hopefully someone sees this review just so they don't log another 100 hours into this.
Magix, please fix your software.

I have a problem , i try to activate mp4 plugin but magix always says the there is connection or there is a firewall, i'm connected using fiber and firewall is disable how i can activate mp4 plugin offline?
Thanks

Absolutely love it, It does have a bit of a learning curve.
The only con I have found so far is that when you exit steam still shows it running because it does not stop running in the background and you must manually kill the process from the task manager.

steam says it's still running even though i quit the app
can run with its sibling (audio deluxe) --- annoying

Have you really want to put your three programs out there you should have added a music program to make beats because everything needs other two things do is to do videos and audio and stuff like that would have been great if you could have had it one of your music awards you have available as a package deal and you have three of them on sale this month alone. Maybe next time you'll do it everyone's good. Virus software that they pay for monthly or yearly. So I would have rather seen the next music. Nice music program to this mix. And I bought it cuz of the two programs I got but as far as the PC check clean up I would in a can if I never got that. I would have rather got a nice music program with it

I was able to buy this on a sale so I did not pay the full price. There are some issues with this software but most, if not all, can be worked with or adjusted. The issue of it still running when it is saying it is running is a small issue that can be fixed with little trouble. (Please check the community hub, you will find that the developer has posted a fix for it there.)

I personally use it to create videos where I alter the speed of the original recording, remove the original sound and replace it with music and sounds in 'Speed Art' videos that I post online.

I am not sure it is worth the full price, so finding it during a sale is something I would say is best if you are able to wait for video editing software that is able to do many of the things much more expensive software can do.

Simple, basic and to the point for quick editing.

I dont think its worth the full price, maybe more around $40 is a more fit price wise.

However, for the past few days its been bugged and says the app is active/open on my Laptop but its not. I cant find anything in the task manager for this app and even when I reboot the laptop it instantly opens as if its listed in the start manager ..... makes no sense.

It will be uninstalled.

Been using Magix 2016, while I did not Legitimately own the software it was a good consumer video converter.

Now having purchased MAGIX Video deluxe 2017 Plus Steam Edition. It has limited capabilities in short you can't get
newer plugins for effects from their store, as the only content is what you get with the purchase.

I've seen many negative reviews about the program itself freezing. The program is choosy with the container it wants to read I tested two HEVC encoded videos , one contained in .mkv and one contained in .mp4, it didn't want to export the mkv file resulting in a 2 minute freezing of the program.

Do I Recommend MAGIX Video deluxe 2017 Plus Steam Edition?

Yes, It's a cheap got it during Autumn Sale 2017 for $7.94 priced accordingly to my region.( Which made it more attractive as buying from the retail site would cost me more).

Now for the Bad Reviews I've been reading , Magix does it work and works as advertised.
Now A few problems arise that make the program confusing:

1) Why is this one cheaper than the other 2017 deluxe advertised on steam?

-I really don't know but according to the reply I got this one is the better version.

2) The program does not exit properly on steam, and the process remains in the task manager.

- Easily solvable by doing the following.

A.) Open the videodeluxe.ini, which you find under the following path:

C:\Users\*Username"\AppData\Roaming\MAGIX\Videodeluxe23_steam\

B.) Search for the section [MobileSync].
C.) Set [MobileSync] Flags=0 and save the videodeluxe.ini.

I don't know why they never bothered to patch a single digit change though in the program defaults.

In Summary:

Cheap and affordable.
Don't trust the bad reviews they are mostly early adopters who had have problems which were fixed in the latest patches.
You probably need to change some file formats for it to be read by the Movie Maker(Maybe use Handbrake).

There is also a steep learning curve take note of that.

Appaling Software that continues to run even when closed, and infact is running now - when I have just turned on my PC even though no tasks are displayed and i can't find a single program or task to execute, rendering it impossible to acquire a refund.

Apart from the borderline malware behavior of the software constantly running, it's editing and rendering capabilities are subpar and take far too long for it to be a worthwhile investment for anyone needing to do some serious editing.

Stay well away.

I purchased this to try out. Wanted something better than a free editor but not as expensive as a more professional software.

I didn't even get a chance to test the software out with the 2 hours you get before no longer being elidgable for a refund because even though I closed the software after playing around for a few minutes, steam said it was still running. There was no icon in the system tray to indicate it was still running.

I now only have 1 minute left before I won't be able to refund it so I'm just going to do that because I'm not risking the software not working for my needs.

The screen capture on the software works very nicely. The video editing and rendering is quick and painless. Overall, this software is great and easy to use.

Don't trust the bad reviews, this product works as advertised. So support the developer, you'll be glad to you did.

Dont buy this.
will crash and freeze often
will not work with some devices
will not auto save
it will waste your money though

I recently bought this software since I'm in the need of a "self-sufficient" movie editor for my own projects (either tutorial, training and slideshows) and up to now, I found it's stable to me since the recent updates. I'm on Win 10 64 bits with 8 gb ram with Intel HD Graphics (that's what my laptop has) and works fine to me. I made a quick export with default settings for a short slider and the rendering process worked good to me. I'm not very professional at video/audio stuff and it's good to have a replacement for Windows Movie Maker (since the Win store apps there's not a good editor for me). Once i've said it, I would primary use it for joining my screencast from action mirillis and my audio (mostly voiceovers, previously edited with audacity) and then movie edit pro would do the rest.
I like the fact that includes several effects,transitions and audios (.ogg format) and video correction (white balance,coloring and so on...), the only down-side I found it's that when I tested the trial from official website, it has an access to a downloads manager where you open it and the internal browsers points to nowhere,so you can't get extra files as expected. My question would be... are they included natively with this "Steam version"? or is it a shorten version in a rude manner to make you buy (again) the software from the official site?.
This version includes a bit more "options/content" than the standard and pro editions, so it's worth to give a try and if is not for you, you can return it back to steam through their internal process.
I will be testing around the software and let's see what I can get from this =)!

If you want this product to actually work, then do not buy it! The UI is horrible, it resizes everything you don't want it to and the ability to scroll and zoom in and out the time line simply stopped working. I even recorded a video to send to the support for this product, but appearently to get support you have to play for a premium support package costing £9.99. Even though you already bought the software for slightly more then similar products on steam.

I found the who process time consuming to do simple tasks such as resizing images, if you hide a bit of UI such as effects view, you can't get it back as the logical place to have it would be in the Window dropdown but it is not, still not found it! Editing text is buggy as hell, it always changes the text of the previous text you created and if you hit backspace to much in the text editor it goes mental and the text box goes in to the menu bar at the top of the software and adds the timeline object in a random location.

I am really trying to enjoy this product but it has a lot of issues, I know I am not a pro editor of videos but it has been a struggle, I will be asking for a refund and buying a competitor brand instead, simply to get a UI that actually works! My timeline is stuck at 100% I cannot make minor changes of sizing due to the interface not working.

As a new release I was expecting something much more polished.