Why I buy this one ?
- Over 250 ready-made video clips and a thousand sound effects and MP3 music themes -- sure to enhance any video clips
- Simple editing tools make it easy to Trim scenes, drag and drop, or pan and crop
- Work with two video and three audio tracks - offering multiple options for editing & enhancing your movies
- Hundreds of attractive special effects and transitions for Hollywood-style edits and fades
- Import video in MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, and QuickTime formats

What our customer's say!

"Excellent, particulary for the money", This program retails for less than $100. Don't expect it to be used by Steven Spielberg. I bought it several years ago in an Office Max because I was in a hurry to put together a crude edit of a home movie. However, from the day I started using it up until now, I continue to be impressed with its capabilities, ease of use, and reliability. I keep discovering new features, and am yet to outgrow it after creating about half a dozen pretty ambitious home movies.

I am retired now, but when employed as a software engineer, my specialty was user interface. I am very critical of poor interfaces. Video Explosion got it right. The ability to introduce and edit transitions and special effects on the timeline is excellent. Menus are clear, and provide good clues to drilling down to extra features. The help facility is first rate. And, most importantly, the program seems to be bug free.

I have not used any higher end video software, so my perspective is limited. I am not a pro, but I work very hard to make my home movies as professional looking as possible. For the price paid, this package continues to impress me, and certainly to fill my needs. In that sense, it is like my bicycle (a pro level Trek) - the tool is still much better than the user.

"MyDVD 4.5 included is NO LONGER SUPPORTED", I purchased my copy of Video Explosion from Atomic Park in August. The product comes bundled with Sonic MyDVD 4.5. Unfortunately, on September 15, about one month after I purchased Video Explosion, Sonic stopped supporting MyDVD 4.5, and the version I bought does not work with my DVD burner (a Sony).

I believe Sonic HAD a fix for my problem, but since Sonic no longer supports MyDVD 4.5, I can no longer get the update.

Unfortunately, this has rendered Video Explosion 1.5 nearly useless for me.

I understand it's far too late for any sort of adjustment for me. However, I think you should note on the description page for this software some sort of a disclaimer that states this limitation clearly.

Had I known of this limitation, I never would have bought Video Explosion. Other than this issue, I'm happy with the software, but now I'm stuck, needing to by CyberLink MakeDVD for $50, when I could have purchased CyberLink's entire suite for $90.

I also understand this situation is somewhat political in that Sonic bought Roxio, so naturally, Sonic will no longer try hard to work with Nova. So Nova won't be likely to advise me to purchase MyDVD 6.1; nor will they be likely to recommend CyberLink products. So I guess I'm just screwed.

Be strongly aware of this limitation prior to ordering.

"This program has alot.", I typically use Adobe for this type of editing, but this program works well on the fly. You can add effects, graphics, and transistions in a small window then the software rewrites the file to burn onto disc, and it handles that also after you email them for the key. Anyway I really can't express how well the VE renders and outputs. Try it, and save big bucks not to mention excellent results. Totally worth the hundred bucks I spent, you might find it for less.

"Not what I expected. ", I am somewhat of a pro when it comes to digital video productions and have used several different software applications. I thought this one looked interesting due to the music files and included clips.
I wish I would have tried a trial version first, because I wouldn't have wasted my money.
First of all when you build a story line or save a project the imported files (if coming from the included CD's)do not stay with the project. You need to reload them each time. They don't load to the media pool upon import, so if you remove them from the story line, you have to load them over and over again. At least this is the trouble I have been having. The transition time is hard to adjust, and there is no option that I found to repeat the same transition, they have to be added one at a time. When transitions are added a screen pops each time up with some settings that are difficult to understand. All of the adjustments are tricky--and certainly would be even more difficult for the novice user. I have an older version of MGI video wave, which I would rate better than this program. However the one I like the best and seems to have a great interface is Arc-Soft, Show Biz- For the money, I would say that program is a much better value and a lot more fun than Video Explosion. I am giving this 3 stars because it is simple to clip the videos on the storyboard timeline, and you can accomplish a good production with work. I don't see an option to save the final recording in a DVD format however.

"Easy to use without the clutter.", This video editing software is easy to use, feature rich, and doesn't have the annoying "skin" look that so many others have. It is incredibly good at applying filters on the fly and has a wide range of output formats. It is also very economical with your disk space. It uses the clips in-place without copying them into the project. The only blemish I have found so far is that it leaves files on your disk next to the imported media files. I am a programmer and my educated guess is that these are index files used to access the movies and audio files quickly during previews. Given the benefit they provide, I was unwilling to knock off even one star for this small annoyance. The files can safely be deleted and will be recreated the next time you open the project.

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"Excellent and economical", This is a wonderful program. I've been experimenting with home video editing for about four years and have used many programs. Admittedly, I am just a hobbyist and have used mostly the low end software. However, I have used Adobe Premiere, Broderbund MovieShop, MGI Videowave, Ulead Videostudio, Roxio Videowave among others and compare this program with these.

In many ways, this program is one of the best that I've worked with. The software installed easily into Windows XP Pro. I've had difficulties with video capture with other programs, but not with this one. I initially attempted to capture video to the same hard drive that the program was installed to and suffered an unacceptably high frame drop rate. However, when I captured video to a second hard drive, I didn't lose a single frame. If you don't have two hard drives, this program may not work as well for you, but this is generally true of most video editing programs. The quality of the video captured was superior to that of some of the other programs and this program has some video editing features (including sharpening and contrast control) not available in competitive programs.

The software interface is user friendly and the controls intuitive. It only allows for two layers of video and three layers of sound, so it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of some of the competitors. However, this is sufficient for my purposes and I suspect it would be for most home users. It handles video overlay very nicely, has a very handsome and easy to use titling program, and allowed for music and voice-over narration to be inserted into the video. There are plenty of transitions which render correctly and reliably, which unfortunately cannot be said of all the competitors.

Although some other reviewers have observed the program is better for VCD than DVD, this was not my experience. I found mpeg2 output to be very sharp and used this program to produce a very high quality DVD. In fact, this program brought me as close to that elusive "broadcast" quality video for which hobbyists aim as I ever been. The VCD is probably acceptable as VCD goes, but DVD is far superior. I wasn't happy with the VCD output, but that is probably more a limitation of VCD in general than this particular program. If you're interested in making home movies, the investment in a DVD burner is probably worthwhile. The quality is dramatically superior and this program handles it well.

I have very few complaints with the program. I tend to mix still images with video in my work and was a little disappointed that the program does not allow you to import "tiff" files. Adobe Premerie allows "tiff" images, but this program forces you to convert your images to lower resolution "jpeg" files before you import them. However, the images rendered very nicely and I had no complaints with the quality of the still images in the final program. I viewed one of my movies on a 50 inch TV screen and had no resolution problems at that size.

If you're a very serious hobbyist or professional, this program might be too streamlined for your purposes. However, I suspect most home users will be happy with this program and if you're a novice thinking about editing some video at home and don't want to make a huge financial investment; this program is a great place to start.

"flexible and easy to use", I've been using this product for about a month now, and found it to be an amazing piece of software. It is very easy to learn, and has so many options you can do just about anything to your movie that you can think of to do. It makes editing a movie a snap. The only oddity is in DVD rendering, where I had the best results using the 'medium' setting for MPEG2, rather than the 'better' setting. If you want a powerful video editing package that is also easy to learn and use, this is the one.

"This is the one to get", I tried and returned every other video editing program before I found this beauty. Its very easy to use, very powerful, and Nova actually provides customer support....In one day, I made three beautiful VCD's with several audio tracks, titles, effects etc. etc. If I can do that, believe me folks, you can too. Not sure how it works with DVD's as we don't have a burner. But VCDs play in most DVD players (ours at least) and the quality is pretty good. All I know is this: Every other program I tried on Windows XP had some huge frustration, hangup, or unexplained procedure that should have been simple (eg burning to disc) but was instead a nightmare. (Maybe its XP) This package was a breeze.

"No good for DVD", After reading so many great reviews about this product, I bought it. I have used MGI, ArcSoft, Windows MovieMaker 2, and others. I was very happy with the ease of use and powerful editing features. In fact, bang for the buck, this is the best package I've seen. It includes excellent tutorials, and a really slick interface. Once you get a feel for the layout, it is very easy to use and allows you to edit video, video overlay, add music, sound efffects, etc.... That being said, if you are planning to burn DVDs, get something different! The MPEG 2 output format was apparently an after thought, added to the package, and it produces very poor output.
It appears that the software was designed to output video CD quality, and the DVD ((MPEG 2)output was added later. Either the frame speed does not match the industry standard, or the rendering software is very poor. In either case, the software is useless if you plan to burn DVD. Any motion in your DVD has a trailing effect, making it appear out of focus (almost like a stobe effect). I used the same video clips with MGI, ArcSoft and WMM 2 and got beautiful results when I burned a DVD. Its too bad, because as far as editing, this program wins handsdown!

"One of the bettter products in this class", This is based on the Sonic Foundry Video Factory 2 product (which uses the same engine as Vegas Video) with more content and extras. I have tried many products including Ulead and Roxio and this one allows you to make simple videos but has many powerful features that allows you to grow as you get more sophisticated. I'm not sure what the earlier reviewer was doing, but it can edit MPEG2 files just fine. I have prodced DVD compliant videos with my Sony DVD burner and they come out beautiful.

The biggest drawback is that the manual is comprehensive enough to be able to make a basic video, but does not cover any of the powerful features and how to use them like rotating the video, panning etc. You kinda have to experiment.