Read the Indezine review of Cinematize.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint
Introduction
About Cinematize
Download and Installation
Using Cinematize
Pricing and Support
Conclusion
Placing a movie clip within a PowerPoint slide is a piece of cake as long as your stars and horoscope favor you. A slight change in the position of those stars will get you into something that takes more than a couple of clicks -- and unexplained time spent in frustration. This is especially true if you want to use a small movie clip extract from a DVD disk.
Cinematize is a product that walks you through extracting movie clips from a DVD -- it then saves those extracts into different movie file formats that are PowerPoint friendly.
Cinematize is from Miraizon, a company based in California, USA. You can learn more about their products from their site.
Cinematize is a DVD extractor software which allows you extract your favorite clip from a DVD, such extracted movie clips can be used within PowerPoint, QuickTime, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, Keynote, iTunes, and iPods. The product itself is available in both Windows and Macintosh versions. It also extracts all audio channels from multi-channel tracks, and decodes subtitles from images or movies.
My contact at Cinematize for this review was Naoko Miyazaki - thank you, Naoko.
The rest of this review looks at the Windows version of Cinematize but the Macintosh version works almost identically.
Download the installer, run the setup routine and follow the instructions.
You'll end up with an Miraizon program group in your Windows Start menu
(see Figure 1 below).
Figure 1: Miraizon Start menu Group
Before using the application, be sure that you have a movie DVD in your drive. This DVD must allow decryption -- and most commercial movie DVDs don't do that! Miraizon does mention that Cinematize can work with DVD discs that are decrypted using decryption programs -- but Cinematize itself won't do that for you.
Follow these steps to extract a movie clip from a DVD using Cinematize:
Select the location where you want to save the extracted file -- and Cinematize will start processing the extraction. Depending upon the length of the segment you choose, this process can take a while.
The boxed version of Cinematize costs $69.95, the download-only version is for $59.95. The Pro version of Cinematize is currently Mac only and costs between $129.95 and $149.95 -- a Windows Pro version is to be released soon.
Support options include e-mail, phone support, and an online FAQ.
For what it does, Cinematize is simplicity itself in an area that's far too complicated than what it should have been. However, do remember that Cinematize works best only with decrypted discs -- most of the time, that would be something you yourself burned to a DVD from your camcorder footage.
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