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Ada Software bagus buat bikin klip atau opening tune. Ngirit waktu (bisa ditinggal tidur..). Biasanya include waktu beli handycam Sony.Muvee Technologies Inc.’s AutoProducer 6 software is a remarkably user-friendly way to add a semi-professional sheen to holiday, vacation, wedding and other family-oriented videos, through the use of its unique style overlays. These templates superimpose a variety of textures and effects to what would otherwise likely be fairly pedestrian footage. But in Muvee’s rush towards simplicity, its engineers may have created a product that risks alienating professionals and more serious amateurs.

On the plus side, AutoProducer 6 is about as simple as video editing gets. The program’s slick, handsome GUI and its easy-to-follow workflow intuitively walk the user through the steps. First you import raw camcorder footage into the PC, either straight from the camcorder or from your hard drive, in most popular formats, including .asf, .avi (including DV), .mov, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, .mp4, .wmv and .3gp. Then you add any desired still images (such as a slideshow) to the timeline. Finally, you complete the project by adding music (and/or a voiceover track), selecting a template design and then rendering it.

AutoProducer’s Special Sauce

It’s the templates that make AutoProducer 6 worth investigating, and an overview of them helps to explain the core of AutoProducer’s concept.

Though Muvee sells many additional templates separately, the program comes packaged with a representative sample. Let’s explore what effects and textures these templates generate, such as the Extreme Music Video template.

Seemingly, all products manufactured today must include something labeled Extreme (or as it’s commonly misspelled these days, X-Treme!). But don’t worry; this rock video template won’t insert some of Snoop Doggy Dogg’s more rococo lyrics into your videos. What it will do is overlay a variety of MTV-style splatters and scratches onto the video, which helps to simulate the typical rock video shot assembled with a variety of footage and textures. Suffice it to say, a number of budding teenage video producers will take full advantage of this particular template.

On the other side of the spectrum, perhaps one of the most useful templates for the more sedate portion of AutoProducer’s intended audience is Journal, an especially attractive style, which places the user-supplied footage into a scrolling template of postcards, letters, stamps and “notes from the road.” Another fun template is Back In Time, which, as the name implies, adds sepia tone and a few scratches to the footage, for that old-time first-15-minutes-of-The-Wizard-of-Oz movie-reel look.

Not all of the templates change the look of the footage as dramatically. Classic and Modern are minimalist styles, adding straight dissolves in the Classic and cross-fading to white in Modern. And as its Multiframe name implies, that template adds prismatic split-screen effects to images on the timeline.

In general, the templates do a pretty good job of sensing where there are cuts in existing video footage and adding fades and dissolves matched to the style of the template. Some of the templates also add a slow-motion effect for a dreamy quality or speed up the footage for comedic effect.