The strangest thing happened. I downloaded the free version and installed it in a folder I named "AV Video Morpherfree" below the "AV Video Morpher" folder. I clicked on the "exe" file for the free version and dubbing started working. I closed the program and clicked the "exe" for the GiveAway full version and dubbing worked there as well. What a strange program!

Still cannot dub sound onto the "dubbed" file that it creates. Funny-voice sound comes through my computer until I click the record button then no sound is caught in the dubbed file. A bloody stupid bit of software. It gives a strange echo to all of the voices. Not much good really.

I just cannot get dubbing to work with this damn software even though I follow the instructions in the tutorial. When I dub over a voice the "Duplex" button crosses out and the dubbed file when played back has no sound! Any advice?

I cannot get the dealio toolbar off my system. I haven't tried uninstalling the software, wanted to use the software, but the dealio toolbar bugs the crap out of me. There was no option not to install it; I am very familiar with unchecking boxes to not install unwanted toolbars, but there was NO option with this. Please advise if I can get rid of and still use software. If not I guess I will uninstall program.

For those just looking for a program to keep their desktop icons in a specific arrangement, DesktopOK will accomplish that. No installation and tiny - only 78k. Get it at CNet and other file sites for free.

A fun device - I like being able to move the icons around the desktop with a mouse gesture!

However, in Registration Info it shows as a 14 day evaluation version. How does one proceed to make the version a full one?

Pros and cons .... Nice effects and handy for home user without much experience including all basic software needed to produce a DVD with great effects.
But the licensing is a nightmare , the help/example video ... (Shoot that Cat)is Rubbish ..... Certainly need more decent help videos as the whole thing is a bit messy ....... The software is priced at a PRO price of $49.95... not home user price between $10-$20 ..... any Pro would not need the Burner or file converter .... Put a decent time line in with transition effects too ...Tidy it up ... get rid of those tabs and then charge $49.95

This program is soooo cool, easy to install and easy to use. I Love It !

SO much crap comes with this software. If you choose Advanced when installing, you can choose not to install the extra toolbar, the Bing as your search engine, and something else I can't remember. Then on the next page, it will inform you that you have to install something called "Yontoo", but that it is easily uninstalled after you install the software. Can anyone see the problem with this statement? Why not give the choice not to install it in the first place? Obviously because it is installing something else as well. I closed it down at that point, I'll bet everyone who has installed this software has some extras they don't know about on their computers. Good luck with that!

How does today's offering differ from the "AV Video Morpher 3.0" offered here in May 2010?

#39 above solved the installation issues. I reinstalled the program, this time following his directions, and all went smoothly. I now have the "full registered" version. Thank you, Ray!

I've decided to download it, if for no other reason than to let me remove an awful and inappropriate "Here Comes The Bride" soundtrack that SONY added to old 8mm movies I sent them to convert to a DVD quite a few years ago. Thank you, GAOTD and AVSoft.

"The only feature of interest to me is the ability to dub another sound track..." Just about any video editor will do that. I use OpenShot and PiTiVi, plenty of free others. You can massage the audio with Audacity and plunk it back into the movie, although this giveaway will probably do it easier. (I wonder what the "priest" effect does? I know lots of priests and they all sound like regular dudes. Except the deaf ones.) Anyway, have a look at their website for their real expertise, audio effects. And the talking parrot screensaver sounds interesting!

The only feature of interest to me is the ability to dub another sound track in place of the original. In light of the many quirks of this software, I wonder if anyone knows of a better alternative, free or inexpensive?

Thanks,
Phil

#14, #20, #28
For anyone that has Mamutu you will need to turn it off before
running the setup program or you'll get the
"Error Launching Installer" message, same thing happened to me

I went to the page in the readme.txt for the registration key
it didn't work as it says it's invalid.
I clicked on the box in installer that said get registration key
and it took me to different page than the one in the readme,
I got this message "Your license is invalid, please register your license key to continue using"
so I tried the page from the readme.txt file again, re-entered my info and got the key (which I think was the same as the first one I received), pasted it in and it finally worked
(there was a space at the end of the key so you MUST copy and paste it in even though there was NOT a space when I copied it).

#18
I didn't have those boxes for the search engine, toolbar, etc. but I downloaded the program as soon as it was offered so maybe it was changed after my version.

Trying to play AVI File: Video codec for format XVID is not installed
kinda strange since I CAN play AVI files with IrFanview and windows Media Player
suggested to download the codecs from http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
(the other 2 don't work), hadn't tried the other functions yet, still downloading codecs, posting this info for those who couldn't get it registered

Thanks GAOTD and AVSoft Corp.

~TJ

install after install..6 in total, still comes up "Error starting launcher" or some thing like that. OS:XP Pro SP3(and yes,everything is up to date) oh well
thanks anyway GOTD

Registration is a little test for us... ;-) I´ve got it! :) Program is working. For what it is? For fun! And it does...
*** I know GAOTD from august 2007 (i checked my favorites in Firefox ;-) ) and this is my first comment... :) Thanks for your job GAOTD!!!

I see what people are doing wrong...

Do NOT enter a activation code.
Click on "activate full version"
Then enter the info you got when you went to the link in the readme.txt file.
That activated the FULL version!

Very classy... on their "Funny Space Panel" section on their screenshots area, check who submitted the "Bush Face Distortion" (the one with Bush looking like Alfred E. Newman) article...

That must be their CEO.

Does not do what is advertised: "create your own movies, dub your own voices and burn your own DVDs."

I wanted to burn a DVD with the video that I edited (WMV, tried AVI also). I selected Burn. The only burn options are for audio CD or a DATA disk. I checked the audio4fun.com site and found the tutorial and followed the steps. I clicked "Create new data CD/DVD" and received an error: "there are no any writers in the system!" I spent more time on the website, checked support... I am convinced there is no way to create a DVD with a video you have edited.

Not into this.
It is not a real video editor.
As compared to - say, for example Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro. Or even compared to lower end Magix Movie Edit or Power Director.

It is a fun thing.
But how often do you want to change the voices in your video, before the novelty fades.

The software seems to lack focus.
It tries to be too many different things at the same time - voice changer, voice remover, video player, video burner, video clip extractor.

#3: "This program ... hijacked the default DVD play association so by default vista tried to play the DVD with this… For some odd reason vista was unable to remove the default DVD actions set by this using the default programs Change Autoplay Settings..."

My wife's playing a game on the only Vista system we have so I can't check, but in win7, Control Panel -> Default Programs should be where you set things right. [Note, she's got a dual-boot PC with win7 installed -- my wife just prefers Vista -- it's Not My Fault! :-) ].

@ #22 M Moran
The Alien effect is right there...

I instaalled the full version just like it says in the readme.txt
Therer is a Sound Morph called Alien - very cool. It actually uses the video sound and applies alien sound effects as a morph of the original sound. The sound morphing is very entertaining.

AV Video Morpher is in a word complicated... It's made up of several modules that don't feel connected, with buttons, controls, &/or functions often not where you'd expect, and there are features you'd never know existed unless you read through the help file -- it's not terribly intuitive. And there are a lot of features, from being a DVD player to adding special FX [both video & audio], though the focus of AV Video Morpher seems to be on having fun rather than doing any real editing, for example taking a video clip from a DVD & dubbing in your own dialog in an altered, funny voice. The FX themselves aren't bad, but today's GOTD suffers from having limited output options -- it won't use codecs you have installed & has limited capabilities itself, so you might have to transcode the results, making do with a bit of quality loss.

Programming-wize AV Video Morpher seems a bit unusual -- it uses D3D & Direct Show, but won't interface with Direct Show filters or VFW codecs etc. you already have installed. Combined with the built-in FX, using DS [Direct Show] means a LOT of registry entries -- 4691 in XP Pro, 4670 in win7 64. On a positive note it seems to stick to itself, not bothering anything else I had installed for audio/video. The "AV Video Morpher" program folder holds 437 files, 18 folders, ~32 MB., a "AV Video Morpher" folder's added to (My) Documents, 5 .ini files were added to C:\Windows, & 2 Microsoft files were added to the system folder, msvcp71.dll & msvcr71.dll [out of 5 total that are included in setup.exe]. While Universal Extractor won't work with the setup file, 7-Zip does, though 7-Zip doesn't give a setup script file -- the program folder holds the DealioToolbar installer, there was no option to install [or not] during setup, & the toolbar didn't get installed, but I can't say whether the toolbar installation is automatically triggered during setup [& in my case didn't work], if it's triggered in some circumstances etc... it could be that the toolbar option was removed from the GOTD setup & the toolbar installer was just overlooked in the program's folder? Setup also put a couple of what appear to be driver files in the system Temp folder [dvdmmg.sys & dvdmmg.vxd] -- older versions of Windows [9x] might get drivers installed. Whether running AV Video Morpher in a VM or a regular win7 install I didn't encounter any real problems, though opening a DVD caused a message to download & install AC3 filter -- all of my other installed software recognizes & uses the AC3 handling that's already installed & working.

All in all, other than adding to registry bloat, installing & running AV Video Morpher I didn't see anything that would cause anyone problems. OTOH if you were after a video player, editing app, &/or something to add video FX, IMHO you'd be better off buying a regular video editing app -- watching the sales I've seen versions intended more for home use in the last couple, few weeks for $0-$30 after MIR... there are several free players. But if you like AV Video Morpher's voice changing, that's not something those more traditional editors are likely to include, so IMHO feel free to go for it if the registry bloat doesn't bother you.

#17, "Help/About" shows the registration info, like many programs.
Installed fine on my Win7 x64 quad-core, look like it could be a bit of fun, but not the proper video editor I was hoping for.

Hi, Mine works ok I have the full program with out a hickup. Perhaps you are not reading the instructions correctly Thanks Giveawayoftheday and AV Video Morpher . Barry.

Installed and activated OK on XP Pro SP3 but crashed on exit...
'DDE Server Window: AV Video Morpher.exe - Application Error'
'The instruction at "0x03489ba4" referenced memory at "0x042657a4". The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate the program'
Have to click on OK twice to close the error message window.

I loaded the program as described on my laptop,on which I'm running Windows 7 64 bit and had no problems.Got the serial code and pasted it in and then clicked on "full version" button.Re-entered the information again as requested and DONE.Loaded and running with no problems...now on to test this bad boy out

Error Launching Installer??
My OPS is XP
I have succesfully installed Adobe Air.
I would love to use this program.

Any Advice?

Installed and registered flawlessly on Windows 7 64-bit. Rather unique software, 6 programs in all. 1,979 registry values added. 413 files, 18 folders added.

You can safely delete the following files:

DealioToolbar-stub-1.exe
dealio_install02.bmp
License.txt
Readme.txt

and the readme folder

Well, i have installed it on my Windows7, works pretty well though it's just a basic version to edit movie. Btw, i also have a Mac OS and usually i use iMovie to edit my movie, as to deal with verious video formats for the editor, i'd like ti try total video converter from www.mac-videoconverter.com including windows and mac version. Anyway, today's giveaway is rather convenient for users no matter windows or mac users.

Yes, this Video Editor is not easy at all to understand, maybe because it does lots of things thanks to its powerful Audio Capturing capability (MP3, WMA, WAV, APE, AIF, NIST, or OGG formats) and its huge library of real-time video audio "effects" (music, video clips etc...).

And it can also switch among different effects so as to compare final results, after morphing one section of the movie or clip you want to edit, as well as remove voices off any movie by replacing them with your recorded (altered) voice.

All in all a great tool which can be used, for instance, to greet new visitors entering your website or to publish an online presentation in whatever voice you like.

So definitely not for noobs but a KEEPER for me, although today's giveaway looks like a limited version of the one sold on Softpedia (not 100% sure about it though).

As freeware MOVIE CREATOR alternative I recommend this awesome Open Source app:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Video-Editors/ffDiaporama.shtml


Cheers from Italy!!

I tried to install this product even after reading all the negative comments because i don't like to believe everything I see or read from other people. I'd rather make up my own mind. The application wouldn't run! Got the send to Microsoft error message. I'm running XP Pro SP3 and have all the minimum requirements. Uninstalled and installed the trial version from the Manufacturer's website and I still get the same error message. I have to give this one a thumbs down. Thanks anyway GAOTD.

The registration is a little tricky. After going to the website, you have to select "activate full version" instead of just entering an activation code, then enter the three fields given by the website activation.

Most of the effects are distortion effects such as blurring, greyscaling or solarizing. If you want to add a few cheap effects to your home movies this appears to be a decent program for it. But It's not really practical as a proper movie editor.

Although I haven't tried it, it appears that the dubbing effect could be used for creating fan commentaries.

I know many comment on price, but this is the sort of software that most wouldn't want to spend more than $20 on. It is promoted as being for fun, not as professional software, and $50 is too much for a toy.

@Andrew ... What Aliens? There is no "Alien" option in any of the effects. Can you give me some of what you've been smoking?

The software is bundled with the Dealio toolbar. There's no end user prompt letting you know it's going to be installed. The AV hits you are getting are valid, because the toolbar is a known spyware/browser hijacker. Not cool. I will never buy anything from this company.

The app give me an "Error Launching Installer" error. To can install it in my XP SP3, I downloaded the trial version from the developer homepage , activated with the trial code, and later upgraded to the full version with the GAOTD code.

Tried it now #3 Same for me! Cant play MPG "no Codec", Cant play AVI “the stream can’t be splitted to streams" I give up don't have time to fight with it, nothing working on the movie types I use.

Installed but have to go to work so I haven't tried it yet. BEWARE when installing it has check boxes for installing a search engine, toolbar, and driver scanner at three different places on the installation windows. Easy to uncheck though so it wasn't a problem. Installation and registering was successful on Windows 7 (64 bit).

How do I know if I have the registered version or a trial copy? I got the "you must copy and paste exactly the information below into the AV Video Morpher Setup box.....etc" But when the program runs there is no set up box (that I can find) so I can't paste anything into it? If I go Help - About It says full version licenced to me so did it register without me having to put the code in? I will give it a try and see if there are any restrictions.

Fill in the Registration Dialog as per the details given from the product website. Click the activate button and the following error is reported by a Retry | Cancel messagebox:

Unexpected error: return code

There is no way of running in trial/evaluation mode, so I cannot even evaluate this product.

:-(

Please clear your license on your website, because I don't understand!

What's your product have free?

Here I see AV Video Morpher: http://www.audio4fun.com/compare-movie-player-morpher.htm

Here I see DVD Player Morpher: http://dvd-player.audio4fun.com/movie-editor.htm

Please check your homepage for clear licensing!

Windows XP SP 3: Error Launching Installer....

Every time I try to run the program, it crashes. I installed it on a Compac PC with Vista. Tried three times. Still no-go.

#1,-aPauling manually delete active-x controls (?) That's the dark ages man-u-ally? no friggin way bub, Revo-Uninstaller in advanced mode for removal of any and all traces...

A note of caution on these mass produced softwares. One key feature I have noticed with second rate low quality software(s) it's a cosmetic anomaly and I shake my head and sigh because for the umpteenth time I see the generic mass-produced box cosmetics such as today's offering, that and that alone without a doubt shows me the quality that went into the coding of the software. I say this because if any company was so set on producing the best quality software possible (or) even a semi-good product THEY WOULD MAKE NICE ORiGINAL EYE CANDY Boxes that touted the product and not the generic one seen here AND these are used so widely all over the net. I for one end up installing these second rate softwares, so new, original cutting edge one's are more than welcome in my library, mascots are not needed in serious leading edge softwares ( maybe college level stuff but not pro level ) software's like revo-uninstaller pro(R) (for an example) and other greats should be boxed with every pc and they stand on their own, Today's give-a-way is glitchy, has bugs that even terminex(R) won't wanna deal with and a third rate GUI overcooked theme and lack of encoding prowess make it a dung heap Uninstalled.

The activation code doesn't work.

Clicked on the link to get a new one but it gives a trial code, which is not the same length as the one initially provided.

I've been waiting a long time for video editing software as good as this one.

ok.. first time have ever had to post.. downloaded.. will not launch the installer.. yet got my code to enter and says activated.. but not on MY computer..??? based on the other few posts.. maybe be some problems??

A visit to the website reveals that the program is free anyway, so it's a free giveaway. It will only export to avi and bmp. The paid version has far more options. I'm not being ungrateful, but a little confused by something being given away which is already free.

Small download/Big program. I couldn't begin to test all the features here today - I just don't have all day. Program installed as Full Version on Win7 x64 no problems. Tested a couple edits and it seemed a couple effects were a little laggy on my nice Quad Core computer, but it displays the effects in real time, which is a feat in itself... and after closing a few other things I was moving normal.

Make sure you register with the readme.txt file link and use the instructions specifically for GAOTD - and use the button for full version. There is a way you may accidently get a demo key - and you don't want that.

Edits and converts videos with lots of fun features. Will even burn disks. Does a lot more than I expected, and may have a little bit of a learning curve because of all the things it does.

Thanks GAOTD and AVSoft