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Review - Boinx Software’s FotoMagico

For me, besides Chroma keying, the most painstaking task as an editor is creating photo montages.  It is a long and cumbersome process that no matter what plug-in you use inside your NLE, they always seem like way more work than the end result shows, and God forbid the client want to make it 10 seconds longer, because you may as well start again from scratch.  Well, that’s where Boinx Software claims FotoMagico will swing in and save the day.  Let’s see if it’s worth your time and money.

WHAT YOU GET AND HOW IT WORKS

Now, I have to admit that I was first introduced to Fotomagico when I got it included with Toast 10 Titanium, and I used it to create photo videos for my daughter of her favorite Disney attraction “It’s a Small World” (Dad and Mom love it too!).  I really liked it, because I could literally throw pictures into the timeline, add music, start it playing, and watch the joy on my daughter’s face, as she bounced around with the singing dollies.  I really didn’t think much what else it could do, or more so, what it could do for my editing jobs, as I always summed it up as being a consumer program, but boy was I wrong.  I sat down a little while later to put together a photo montage that I had been hired to create, and as I went through the painful keyframing process in FCP, I thought that there must be an easier way to do this.  Then I remembered FotoMagico.  Let me run down for you how simple it was to create a montage.

First, when you launch the application, FotoMagico wants to know what you will be making the montage for.  Since I was creating for television, I simply selected “Television”, and then I selected 720p as the format I was going to be working in.

Next, I was greeted by the main FotoMagico window, and I simply took my audio track, and dragged it into my timeline, and then took my images (slides), and dragged them into my timeline.

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