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Quotes from SpiceMASTER Users

"Hats off to all of you at Pixelan. The SpiceMASTER product is excellent for creating subtle and gentle organic transitions in my NLE. The amount of customizing that you can do is incredible. Contacting Pixelan for anything has always resulted in quality and fast service. Anyone that asks "How do you do that soft transitions?" I always say Pixelan's SpiceMASTER!"
Francois Blawat, Madison, Wisconsin

"SpiceMASTER is the single best investment I have made for Vegas. It has really elevated the quality of my work and makes it stand apart from typical wedding videos."
Tony Harris, SilverPlanet Media, Minneapolis, Minnesota

"Your SpiceMASTER is the greatest plugin for Premiere Pro. I edit alot of video and my clients are throughly impressed. Using your product over the last year has caught the eye of several companies here in Tallahassee. Your product has increased my revenue about 18% -- in dollars that is about $15,000."
Jefferson Walker, jquad media, Tallahassee, Florida

"When you say it is intuitive, you aren't kidding!!!!!"
Jan Janowski, Skokie, IL

"I absolutely love every darn thing about SpiceMASTER… You guys are doing a great job. The SpiceMASTER interface is dead on. There are so many different options, it has just revolutionized my editing."
Craig Lillard, Matthews, NC

"I just wanted to say that your product (SpiceMASTER 2.5 PRO) works great with Sony Vegas. Thanks for a great product....and make more."
Michael Rivers, Music Sound & Recording Productions, Pittsburgh, PA

"Your software is absolutely astonishing, and I can't understand why I wasn't aware of it before now. The looks I can get with your software are breathtaking."
Steve Blalock, Albemarle, NC

"You have a very beautiful product in the SpiceMASTER. It is user friendly and very intuitive. I think the marriage of Vegas and SpiceMASTER is a good one. Good job!"
Daniel Pruett, Evans, GA

"I have just bought the program-it's superb!! May I say, your effiency in quick responses to queries, and processing of orders, is second to none!! It is my pleasure to be dealing with you and your company. And your products are simply fantastic. What a joy it is, to communicate with such a terrific company such as Pixelan."
George Maciuszak, Bribie Island, Australia

"You are the best costumer service I've ever had regarding software in three decades."
Carlos Ferraro, Ferraro Films, Caracas, Venezuela

"SpiceMASTER is a no-brainer for fast and easy awesome effects. I can't think of an editing session where I wouldn't use SpiceMASTER. It's a tool every editor should have in their bag of tricks."
Mark Susman, FASTCUT Video & Post, Houston, Texas

"SpiceMASTER has completely changed my view and use of spices. I feel it has opened a whole new world of creative possibilities with an ease and flexibility I have never seen in any other FX package."
Greg Smith, The Perfect Image, Cleveland, Ohio and host of the DV500-DC1000 and DC30-DC50 lists

"Effects that are difficult, if not impossible, to create with the host editing product alone can be achieved with ease using SpiceMASTER. It's a powerful tool for every editor's workbench."
Charlie Hills, author of "Getting Results with MediaStudio Pro" and host of the MediaStudio Pro Users Group (www.mugcentral.com)

"I'm from the old cuts and dissolves school. I usually teach my students to make a short video using every transition that Premiere offers. Once they are done, I tell them now that you've got that out of your system, stick primarily with the dissolve and straight cut! However, I've found so many uses for SpiceMASTER beyond transitions, that I'm going to have to change my approach!! I love to use this program for inserts and for subtle dissolves. You've given the old dissolve new life! SpiceMASTER is extremely easy to use."
Jim Caldwell, Specialty Media, Palm Harbor, Florida

"SpiceMASTER is absolutely the quickest and easiest way to apply and adjust custom 2D transitions and dynamic mattes. Very intuitive to use. The Spice Library allows you to visualize all your effects, organized in a manner that's easy to work with. The ability to keyframe the effects allows unlimited adjustability ... I have to say that I love it! I found it very intuitive to use. I still use Boris for more complicated 3Dish effects, but SM for for the other 90% of "worked" transitions I create."
John Chluski, Swift Current Productions, Boca Raton, Florida

"Wow! Simplicity, clarity, performance with outstanding results. SpiceMASTER is a top notch program, featuring an exceptional guide. It's simple, visual and accurate for creating outstanding effects --- from bold to stealth."
Wally Benson, WallyWorks Studio, Escondido, California

"With the ability to see all the spices in the SpiceMASTER library and the ability to change them in the preview box, I have fallen in love with the ease and fun of creating my own spice's. And fast ... you can do a lot in a very short time. I have a lot of presets [now] that I will use for years to come."
Gary Butler, Speed Razor editor, Redwood City, CA

"A creative tool no editor should be without. As a producer of ecological documentaries, I truly appreciate SpiceMASTER's creative flexibility especially when applying fluid, smooth and organic transitions. I love the way I am able to manipulate and apply creative effects that 'fit' the mood and picture compositions. Extraordinary 2D transitions have never been so easy and fun to generate... SpiceMASTER is a great plug-in to have. It is highly cost effective in the sense that you would expect this plug-in to cost much more. Bottom line is -- not only have I enjoyed working with it, but my clients loved the impact and results."
Richard Dolny, Creatvision Video Productions, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

"Spices have always made for beautiful transitions. I use them frequently in my work, often in ways that are invisible to others. My clients only know that they are looking at an exquisite dissolve. They don't know what kind of tweaking it took to get there. Now, with SpiceMASTER, the tweaking has become effortless, and the amount of control one has over the spices is a bit shocking. The ability to add borders to the transitions and textures to the borders makes for a whole new range of transition effects. Being able to position the spices makes for even more. The addition of drop shadows, borders and glows allows for layered transitions that used to take render upon render to make. The Library previewing makes choosing the spice simple, and the plug-in preview makes tweaking a delight. It's the kind of plug-in that you find yourself playing with even though you know you should be working. I can't imagine now using spices without it."
Chris Harlan, Streams of Light, Santa Clarita, CA

"It is amazing the almost limitless variations possible with just one spice. Dare you imagine the variations on hundreds of spices?"
Barry Silverstein, BJ TAP Video, Lake Worth, Florida

"If there is one plug in that you really should have, it's SpiceMASTER. It's quick and easy to use and the results are quite stunning. I use it on every production I make, for transitions, picture within picture, or as a method of combining different images on one screen. After making a recent TV commercial with SpiceMASTER, I was asked by people in the industry 'How did you put that together?'"
Michael Barker, OzAsia Advertising, Darwin, Australia

"I can truly give it my highest recommendation. Very nice professional effects and results without being gaudy. Key frameable and totally controllable from their interface with preview windows that give you a quick feedback on your changes. It's a program that functions as advertised and does exactly what it's supposed to do with a minimum of strain, pain and user input."
Andy Stevens, Ulti-Media Productions, Anacortes, WA

"I am very impressed with the smoothness of the transitions; no jagged edges or jitters. All I can say is that they look great. The results were extremely fluid in their movements. Created exquisite transitions; showed it to a colleague yesterday and he loves it."
Dale A. Tripp, editor, Las Vegas, Nevada

"A great product -- we will use it a lot ... It works great and is well worth the investment ... we did a commercial and the client (ad agency guy) said, I want this but since you don't have an avid get as close as you can… well, we gave him the transitions in SpiceMASTER -- it blew him away. He said, I guess you don't need avids... I thought to myself du-huh...."
Jeff Milligan, Martin-Tanner Digital Studios, Burlington, NC

"SpiceMASTER is one of the best plug-ins available for NLE work. It's the ONLY plug-in I've ever used that's easy to learn, powerful, does all it's supposed to, fast to render and rock-solid stable."
Mark Timney, COMMUNICATIONbyDESIGN-Video

"I've done business with a lot of companies, on-line and otherwise. Never have I had such good service. Thank you so much for all of your assistance. If I didn't know before, I do now, that this is an excellent company with a quality product and service. Thank you."
Emily Comstock, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin

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