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I've been using MPEG Video Wizard almost every day since 2003. It's now 2015 and I still use this almost every day. I've tried numerous video editing software over the years, from open source to the very expensive... And it's time I weighed in on this outstanding video editing program.
1. VERY fast to edit, that is, once you understand the commands you can cut commercials, frame accurate edit, anything you want faster than any other video editor I've tried. (...and I've tried quite a few!)
2. VERY fast to render. It is as fast as a file copy!! (smart rendering)
3. Others have addressed this, but trying to compile a comprehensive list -- you do NOT need to have Nero installed!
4. Filters work great. Learning curve is high as is common with using video filters. Some more expensive programs may make it a little easier but MPEG Video Wizard is okay once you get the hang of it. You can save a setting for a filter and propogate for all the clips on the timeline.
5. Great project manager. I use this a lot for both MPEG-2 and MP4. If I'm editing several dozen files I can make all the edits, put each one into the project manager as I complete the edits, and then run all the renders literally in my sleep. One click and time for a nap. When I get up all the files are done. It's great!
6. Also need to address a previous comment -- MPEG Video Wizard handles subtitles just fine. They have another product, EasySub, which is an outstanding subtitle editor. Telling how good EasySub is to use is outside the scope of this post. You will not lose subtitles when editing VOB files into MPEG-2 files.
7. The included DVD Maker is quite nice. I don't use it every day like I do the editor, it allows a lot of control over the DVD creation. The Title Editor is pretty basic but gets the job done. If you want a fancy title editor and fancier DVD maker then there are other good programs out there but this, too, is outside the scope of this post.
8. As to the comments about burning the result from a DVD Maker project, MPEG Video Wizard is, well, an MPEG Video Wizard. Consider the DVD authoring tool a bonus. If you want to burn the result then there are numerous tools to do that probably already built in to your operating system software. Stop whining.
9. One last previous comment to address -- about the DVD authoring tool creating folders instead of directly creating an ISO file. Waaaaah! Stop whining! It's call MPEG Video Wizard!
10. I don't use the effects very much but there are video effects and they are fun to use.
There may be a few things to complain about but most are only nits. The benefits so far outweigh the complaints for this editor.
One thing this does not do is handle multiple timelines but that probably won't matter in most cases. It does provide an overlay video track and audio track, and this is plenty for some nice effects especially if you know how to use them. It takes some experience. You can combine video from multiple sources -- but only using one timeline and one overlay track. I'm not sure how to explain this very well: Only when I'm making something using video from several camera angles would I prefer to use another program. With only a little effort (and experience) I can probably do anything in MPEG Video Wizard that I could in my fancier programs.
I've gotten in the habit of using it as my media player, too, even though it isn't proported to be one. It doesn't automatically hide the mouse pointer so I just throw that to the far right and it disappears.
As a video editor, there's no other video editor that can match it.
1. VERY fast to edit, that is, once you understand the commands you can cut commercials, frame accurate edit, anything you want faster than any other video editor I've tried. (...and I've tried quite a few!)
2. VERY fast to render. It is as fast as a file copy!! (smart rendering)
3. Others have addressed this, but trying to compile a comprehensive list -- you do NOT need to have Nero installed!
4. Filters work great. Learning curve is high as is common with using video filters. Some more expensive programs may make it a little easier but MPEG Video Wizard is okay once you get the hang of it. You can save a setting for a filter and propogate for all the clips on the timeline.
5. Great project manager. I use this a lot for both MPEG-2 and MP4. If I'm editing several dozen files I can make all the edits, put each one into the project manager as I complete the edits, and then run all the renders literally in my sleep. One click and time for a nap. When I get up all the files are done. It's great!
6. Also need to address a previous comment -- MPEG Video Wizard handles subtitles just fine. They have another product, EasySub, which is an outstanding subtitle editor. Telling how good EasySub is to use is outside the scope of this post. You will not lose subtitles when editing VOB files into MPEG-2 files.
7. The included DVD Maker is quite nice. I don't use it every day like I do the editor, it allows a lot of control over the DVD creation. The Title Editor is pretty basic but gets the job done. If you want a fancy title editor and fancier DVD maker then there are other good programs out there but this, too, is outside the scope of this post.
8. As to the comments about burning the result from a DVD Maker project, MPEG Video Wizard is, well, an MPEG Video Wizard. Consider the DVD authoring tool a bonus. If you want to burn the result then there are numerous tools to do that probably already built in to your operating system software. Stop whining.
9. One last previous comment to address -- about the DVD authoring tool creating folders instead of directly creating an ISO file. Waaaaah! Stop whining! It's call MPEG Video Wizard!
10. I don't use the effects very much but there are video effects and they are fun to use.
There may be a few things to complain about but most are only nits. The benefits so far outweigh the complaints for this editor.
One thing this does not do is handle multiple timelines but that probably won't matter in most cases. It does provide an overlay video track and audio track, and this is plenty for some nice effects especially if you know how to use them. It takes some experience. You can combine video from multiple sources -- but only using one timeline and one overlay track. I'm not sure how to explain this very well: Only when I'm making something using video from several camera angles would I prefer to use another program. With only a little effort (and experience) I can probably do anything in MPEG Video Wizard that I could in my fancier programs.
I've gotten in the habit of using it as my media player, too, even though it isn't proported to be one. It doesn't automatically hide the mouse pointer so I just throw that to the far right and it disappears.
As a video editor, there's no other video editor that can match it.
Review by edrom on
Jan 23, 2016 Version: 5.0.1.112
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Excellent tool for mpg smart rendering. Many options, simple and fast.
Review by Manusimon on
May 14, 2011 Version: 5.01.100
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 9/10
This is not your typical video editor for the PC market. The handling of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards is superb. It is the perfect replacement for Windows Joke Maker and those typical video editors that are either too professional, bloated and difficult to use or too less full-featured and don't support all the common video formats. For import, MPEG Video Wizard DVD supports AVI, MPEG-1/DAT, MPEG-2/VOB, MP4 container!, WMV/ASF, RealMedia (RM/RMVB), Flash Video (FLV), QuickTime (MOV) and maybe other formats too (you only need the necessary DirectShow decoders installed-ffdshow is enough). For audio too, it supports MPEG Audio, Dolby AC3, WMA, MP3 etc. Directly trimming VCD and DVD files with frame accurate precision is possible without messing up the file's GOP. Smart encoding is supported for MPEG1/2, you can create your own export templates, it also supports exporting to AVI (Video for Windows), QuickTime (MOV) and MP4 (Normal, iPod/PSP compatible with AAC audio!). The H.264 encoding implementation is fast and decent. All exports I've done are clean, fast and usually don't fail, the video files produced are standard compatible (not like most video editing apps where the output file's header or something is broken, improperly written). The MPEG Multiplexing/Demultiplexing function is very easy to fix any GOP and AV sync errors. Lots of filters/effects are available as well as plenty of 2D and 3D transitions. A cool feature for adding default fade ins/fade outs exists which does smart rendering at only the beginning and end when exporting. The title editor is decent too with nice motion effects.
The input window supports is responsive when browsing through the video file, scrubbing is supported. Batch processing of videos is also supported!
A few features as of version 4.0.4 are lacking such as trimming AVI files (VirtualDub can do this), trimming WMV (Windows Media File Editor can do this) and trimming/smart rendering MP4/MPEG-4/H.264. WMV export is also sorely missed. The DVD authoring feature is quite basic, you can do basic templates but not polished fancy video menus, however creating chapters and titles separately is very well implemented. Quite a lot of attention is given to minor details in this app, is stable if you only install ffdshow and don't overload your system with codec packs resulting in codec hell. Overall, the current best *consumer-level* video editor IMHO for Windows, easy to use, quite full-featured, performance and format support is simply great! Also, it doesn't support AVCHD yet, let alone AVCHD smart rendering.
The best is the customizable and flexible rightly done export options with usually crash-proof clean and fast media file exports. Unlike most video editors on the market which require special addins for Dolby AC3, MPEG-4, H.264 and sometimes even MPEG-2, this app has it all out of the box.
The input window supports is responsive when browsing through the video file, scrubbing is supported. Batch processing of videos is also supported!
A few features as of version 4.0.4 are lacking such as trimming AVI files (VirtualDub can do this), trimming WMV (Windows Media File Editor can do this) and trimming/smart rendering MP4/MPEG-4/H.264. WMV export is also sorely missed. The DVD authoring feature is quite basic, you can do basic templates but not polished fancy video menus, however creating chapters and titles separately is very well implemented. Quite a lot of attention is given to minor details in this app, is stable if you only install ffdshow and don't overload your system with codec packs resulting in codec hell. Overall, the current best *consumer-level* video editor IMHO for Windows, easy to use, quite full-featured, performance and format support is simply great! Also, it doesn't support AVCHD yet, let alone AVCHD smart rendering.
The best is the customizable and flexible rightly done export options with usually crash-proof clean and fast media file exports. Unlike most video editors on the market which require special addins for Dolby AC3, MPEG-4, H.264 and sometimes even MPEG-2, this app has it all out of the box.
Review by tuxplorer on
Feb 14, 2009 Version: 4.0.4
OS: Windows 7 Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
I'm a little bummed, because I bought my copy for $99 almost a year ago, but for those that thought the price was too high, first they lowered it to $69, and then for the holidays (until Jan 31, 2009), it's 50% off, or only $34.50. I don't regret my earlier purchase, becasue it's a great program.
Details from http://www.womble.com/christmas/index.html
This coupon is for your online purchase of MPEG Video Wizard DVD
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coupon price $34.5 (50% off $69)
coupon expires 31 January 2009
1. press the "Buy Now" button below to start your online order.
2. fill in "Your coupon code" field near the end of the 1st order page.
3. complete the order, and your total price will be the discount price.
Details from http://www.womble.com/christmas/index.html
This coupon is for your online purchase of MPEG Video Wizard DVD
coupon code HappyHolidays
coupon price $34.5 (50% off $69)
coupon expires 31 January 2009
1. press the "Buy Now" button below to start your online order.
2. fill in "Your coupon code" field near the end of the 1st order page.
3. complete the order, and your total price will be the discount price.
Review by tmw on
Jan 24, 2009 Version: 4.0.4.112
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
This program takes a great program (MPEG Video Wizard) and provides the ability to create simple DVD's from that. It doesn't create the ISO and burn; it does take on authoring the full DVD structure (video_ts folder and vob, ifo, etc files.
I really enjoy how simple and intuitive this program is for me. I wish it costs a little less, but I can use this alone instead of DVDlab (which was more powerful, but had tools I honestly didn't need). I really like the simplicity of being able to not have to demux and move audio as well as video along the process. It's not going to replace more expensive software, but for editing mpeg and putting together DVD's, it would be very hard to beat this program and price point.
I really enjoy how simple and intuitive this program is for me. I wish it costs a little less, but I can use this alone instead of DVDlab (which was more powerful, but had tools I honestly didn't need). I really like the simplicity of being able to not have to demux and move audio as well as video along the process. It's not going to replace more expensive software, but for editing mpeg and putting together DVD's, it would be very hard to beat this program and price point.
Review by tmw on
Sep 2, 2008 Version: Mar 2008
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
I tested this with a clip taken from a DVD, including Video+Audio+Subtitles - one chapter. I just tried to add fade in/out to the clip, but this application completely ignores existing subtitles in any vob file and the final dvd was without the original subtitles.
Review by politiken on
Jan 15, 2008 Version: 12-07-2007
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 2/10
Value for money: 5/10
Overall: 5/10
Amazing software now that the price has dropped to $100 this software is worth it compared to video redo tv suite much better authoring much better with features
Review by loster on
Jan 13, 2008 Version: December 2007
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Just a brief follow-up on a previous post:
MPEG Video Wizard DOES NOT require you to have Nero installed, or anything else for that matter. (Except Windows.)
A beautiful little program that makes editing pre-rendered video very easy and a lot of fun.
MPEG Video Wizard DOES NOT require you to have Nero installed, or anything else for that matter. (Except Windows.)
A beautiful little program that makes editing pre-rendered video very easy and a lot of fun.
Review by mitchum22 on
Aug 10, 2006 Version: June 2006
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
I love this program, it allows me to make music videos or fan-made trailers of movies.
But I wish that the audio track would be seperate on the timeline.
But I wish that the audio track would be seperate on the timeline.
Review by SilverBlade on
Mar 6, 2006 Version: 1.0
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 7/10
Functionality: 7/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
I like this program but the price is too high and it requires you to have Nero installed (which I don't use). It's not a perfect program as but it does a good job at some things.
Review by captain315 on
Feb 24, 2006 Version: 1.0
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 7/10
Value for money: 2/10
Overall: 7/10
Womble MPEG Video Wizard is a "must have" if you intend to edit MPEG Video. The newly added DVD authoring feature, however, is a real disappointment because it has extremely limited capabilities. Hopefully the next version will be better; more like TDA.
NOTE: MVW DVD uses Nero to burn projects. If you don't have Nero installed, I suspect you have to close MVW DVD and open some other application to burn the folders created by MVW DVD.
NOTE: MVW DVD uses Nero to burn projects. If you don't have Nero installed, I suspect you have to close MVW DVD and open some other application to burn the folders created by MVW DVD.
Review by Epicurus8a on
Feb 23, 2006 Version: DVD version
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 8/10
Excellent excellent tool. I do a lot of video editing on Mac and I must say this gem of a tool really impressed me.
MVW DVD is the best tool for removing commercials from TV captures ( eg. from Comcast DVR ) and quick authoring a DVD. Its lightning fast in editing mpeg2 directly. No reencodes means 2-3mins for removing commercials.
Authoring DVD is very trivial and works very well.
Cons -
* expensive. Price should be made around $50-$75
* DVD authoring is limited. Cannot add video menus, only static background.
* burn speed got limited to 1x. This is fixed by burning externally with Nero at 8x.
Overall, a must buy if you need to remove commercials quickly and easily and make the dvd in the fastest possible time.
MVW DVD is the best tool for removing commercials from TV captures ( eg. from Comcast DVR ) and quick authoring a DVD. Its lightning fast in editing mpeg2 directly. No reencodes means 2-3mins for removing commercials.
Authoring DVD is very trivial and works very well.
Cons -
* expensive. Price should be made around $50-$75
* DVD authoring is limited. Cannot add video menus, only static background.
* burn speed got limited to 1x. This is fixed by burning externally with Nero at 8x.
Overall, a must buy if you need to remove commercials quickly and easily and make the dvd in the fastest possible time.
Review by fani on
Feb 19, 2006 Version: 1
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 9/10
Overall: 10/10
A step in the right direction, but would be more useful if users could output to an ISO image directly from the DVD export area. Instead, it is a 2 step process: create a DVD folder, then create an image from that. Without a way to go straight to an ISO, its pretty much worthless as an upgrade to the regular MPEG Video Wizard. For people that burn from a DVD folder, this may not be a problem.
As with the original MPEG Video Wizard, some features are not explained in the help section.
As with the original MPEG Video Wizard, some features are not explained in the help section.
Review by jlietz on
Feb 15, 2006 Version: 2/3/06 build
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 6/10
Functionality: 5/10
Value for money: 6/10
Overall: 6/10
As good as it is, and it does what it does exceptionally well, it is still way too expensive for what LITTLE it does. You can buy full blown video capture, edit and authoring studios from Adobe and Sony for the same price. Feature-wise, MVW or MVW DVD are no bargains. Cut the price to $45-$75 and maybe we'd have something to shout about.
Review by slacker on
Feb 4, 2006 Version: 2005
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 4/10
Value for money: 4/10
Overall: 5/10
Great software for that quick-and-dirty editing and/or dvd authoring job.
Stable and works - only problem for me was that the burned DVD showed up as blank when I tried to play it using windows dvd software. No real biggie, I just used Nero to burn folders to DVD.
Brainiac
Stable and works - only problem for me was that the burned DVD showed up as blank when I tried to play it using windows dvd software. No real biggie, I just used Nero to burn folders to DVD.
Brainiac
Review by Brainiac on
Feb 2, 2006 Version: 1.0
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Rocks!!! Worth the upgrade or switch over.
Review by dvwannab on
Feb 1, 2006 Version: 1.0
OS: Win2K Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Well worth the small upgrade fee if you already own MPEG Video Wizard or any other Womble product,as you can now use it to encode audio to AC3 5.1 and author DVD's.
Very fast as you dont need to re-encode video.
Best all round MPEG editor available.
Thanks Womble!!!
Very fast as you dont need to re-encode video.
Best all round MPEG editor available.
Thanks Womble!!!
Review by laspis59 on
Jan 31, 2006 Version: 20.01.06
OS: WinXP Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 8/10
Overall: 9/10
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