Though for some it may look like a mission impossible, turning your beloved home videos into high-quality movies, complete with transitions, video effects, and your preferred soundtrack is not that complicated with Bolide Movie Creator.
Though the program includes enough features to help you post-produce your personal videos and turn them into a completely different product, they’re structured in a way that makes the program suitable for all types of users. Its tabbed interface will let you move from one to the next smoothly as if you were moving along the options of a wizard. Most of the workspace is taken by the video player and a useful timeline. Here is where you can add all your video and audio clips, as many as you wish and in as many different tracks as required. You can mix them in any way until you’re happy with the final video, and even tell the program to overlap all videos automatically for a time lapse of your choice.
To make it look more appealing and to make the mix smoother, you can add as many animated transitions as you wish or let the program do it for you automatically. All you have to do is place the desired transition effect (you can preview it in the video player provided) in between two videos and let Bolide Movie Creator to do its magic. Apart from these transitions, you are offered a long list of artistic effects that will surely enhance your videos. Thus, you can apply to your videos a sepia, grayscale, negative, blur, fisheye, duotone, or a bokeh blur effect, among many others. All of these effects can be applied to the entire frame or to a specific section easily. Once you're happy with the results, you can then launch your preferred third-party tool and author and burn DVDs or Blu-ray discs of your best movies.
Bolide Movie Creator is an excellent solution to transform your home videos and other recordings into pro-looking movies in just a few steps. You don’t need to have specific skills to reach excellent results – this is a truly rewarding utility suitable for all video lovers.
Pros
- Requires a short learning curve
- Offers transitions and effects to enhance your videos
- Supports HD video formats
- Offers a timeline-based workspace
Cons
- Does not include any DVD or BD authoring tool