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Preview Window for overlays show original overlay image. | Imagine the Movies You'll Make
The VideoStudio Plus editor gives you all the tools you need to produce professional quality movies. An easy, step-by-step workflow lets you spend your time being creative rather than learning technical editing. The Movie Wizard is ideal for users new to video editing. You can select from several attractive themes and let auto-editing create a professional opening sequence for you, and in three easy steps, you'll have a complete movie ready to share with the world. You'll be amazed with the range of high-quality features you can choose from to enhance your movie. Just hook up your camcorder and choose the clips you want. Thanks to the DV-to-DVD Wizard, in just two steps you'll have a finished DVD complete with menus, titles, transitions and music. Then, with a single click, you can turn your two-channel stereo sound track creation into an immersive Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound experience that's ready for the multiplexes. The program's high-definition authoring technology lets you author HD DVD discs with crisp, professional 16:9 high-definition menus. You can switch between 4:3 and 16:9 authoring modes and between standard and high-definition output at any time. Easy-to-use menu templates give a professional polish to your production, and a timeline chapter point bar enables you to add title chapter points directly to the timeline for a more intuitive way to set the DVD organization. Even if you're working on a mid-range machine, VideoStudio Plus's PureHD Editing with Smart Proxy and PureHD Authoring and Output features make it easy to work in HD, from capturing and editing HD video and authoring HD menus, to burning HD DVD discs. VideoStudio lets you burn DVD projects to HD DVD-R and -RW discs, record your finished video back to tape for viewing directly from the camcorder, create WMV-HD and MPEG-2 HD to play on Media Center PCs or new high-definition playback devices, and much more. Enhanced Movie Wizard for Superior Creations
With VideoStudio Plus's advanced Movie Wizard Templates, the movies you can create will be limited only by your imagination. You can create exciting movie-style openings using your video clips in multiple animated frames, and it's easy to personalize your videos with your own background music and titles. The program's Split by Scene feature automatically detects scene changes in your video while you are capturing, or in clips already captured and in the library. Smart Pan and Zoom automatically recognizes faces in photos and creates dynamic slide shows. You can also scan your DV tape to generate a thumbnail list of all your clips, and then select and batch capture only the clips you want. VideoStudio Plus can also help you to create professional quality titles, subtitles and menus. The program supports the unicode character set to simplify multi-language titles. You can create multiple titles that appear at the same time, position, format and animate each title independently, and even edit titles on-screen, mixing fonts, character sizes and colors. For special title effects, you can apply text backdrops with solid or color gradients and transparency, animate titles in any of 8 motion styles, and even rotate titles directly in the preview window to any angle you like. When it's time to put the finishing touches on your menus, you'll have access to tools that will create menu transitions just like blockbuster Hollywood DVDs. You can set menu-in and menu-out transitions to smoothly go into the next title or menus. You'll have your choice from a wide range of menu options, from traditional-style menus with motion buttons to slick-looking menus with text-only buttons. Motion filters can create movement even on static menus, giving you the ability to select an image for a background and bring it to life with ripples, spotlight effects or pan and zooms. Best of all, you can preview menu behavior at any time in the authoring process. The Most Complete Video Solution
By supporting all popular formats, VideoStudio Plus lets you work with standard and high-definition video, images and audio from virtually any video source, including DV, DVD, HDV, and AVCHD camcorders, mobile phones, Web cams and more. The software's comprehensive output options let you save your final video in most popular video formats, and the batch convert process saves time when you need to change multiple video files from one format to another. Among the devices you can create for are virtually any handheld device, including Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Zune, Nokia mobile phones, PDAs and other portable devices. You can even compress short movies into email-friendly versions and send them directly from the program. VideoStudio also comes several bonus features, including InterVideo WinDVD8 (Silver), a great software DVD player that plays back any video and audio files including AVCHDl; Neptune MediaShare, which provides you with space on the Web where you can share movies with your family and friends; and Movie Screensaver, which creates Windows screen savers based on your favorite slide show or video clips, complete with music.
Product Description
You're the video producer and director. You're ready for HD and HDTV. You can create videos for use with MP4 players, Cell Phones, iPods, PSP and Nokia Videophones. Corel's Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus helps you do it all with stereo and surround sound. Now all you need do is conjure up some creativity, get ready, set, and prepare for action. Multi-track Movie Wizard Templates - Automatically create great movie-style opening sequences and movies with picture-in-picture overlays, music and titles. Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - With Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, your home movies will sound like you're in a movie theater. Auto Color and Tone Filters - Auto-correct videos that were recorded in poor light conditions. DeBlock and DeSnow Filters - Clean up video with digital noise or blocky compression artifacts. MPEG Optimizer - Suggests settings for the best quality and speed. DVD Authoring - Create fully-interactive DVD or HD DVD motion menus and submenus, including 16 - 9 widescreen. Expandable Timeline - Expand the timeline to see all your overlay tracks. Storyboard and Timeline views - Switch between the two to easily rearrange clips and manage transitions and titles. My Favorites transitions folder - Find the most-used transitions quickly. DVD Sub-Title capture
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 Best I have found November 27, 2007
71 out of 72 found this review helpful
Video editing is not simple and projects place the most severe demands on your PC. When you move to HD, the demands increase exponentially. Ulead VideoStudio 11, like any editor, does have a learning curve, so be patient. Be certain to read the manual that comes with the box or download it from their site in pdf and take it with you on your laptop or pda.
If you are just starting out as a video editor, you have some surprises ahead because it is a tedious job; not only to learn, but to produce. It is far more difficult than working with photos. If you are just looking to produce a short DVD movie from your camera, it is easy. But, adding titles, overlays, and audio tracks does take time.
I have had several months experience comparing the Ulead VideoStudio to Pinnacle Studio Plus 11. I find the features and reliablity of the Ulead suite to be superior to any of the consumer level Pinnacle softwares. In fact, my experiences with Pinnacle have been less than satisfactory and their support is non-existent. I would stay far away.
What is particularly nice about this product is that when you install and register, it is fully functional. There are no gimmicks requiring you to activate other features. Also, it doesn't seem to overtax your processor. With Pinnacle, my processor fan was on high the entire time and I experienced numerous hangups and crashes with the CPU @ 100%. Ulead doesn't do that. It does, however, pause in an inactive mode for a while when performing certain tasks like splitting scenes from your movie. These pauses appear to be hangups and provide no "...please wait", but eventually it comes back. Get another cup of coffee. Will you experience crashes? Probably, but fewer.
While I do like Pinnacle's editor a lot, I spent three weeks editing a series of digitized 8mm family movies into a one hour project. Pinnacle would only produce 41 minutes of the project either to disk or DVD. That was a lot of wasted time and their "support" could not solve the problem. If only Ulead would import Pinnacle projects; that would be a coup.
So, this review seems to be mostly what I don't like about Pinnacle Studio Plus 11, but for the reader's satisfaction I moved from that product to Ulead VideoStudio 11 and found some welcome relief as well as full features. I did spend three wasted weeks with Pinnacle and that is a sore point with me. The moral to my story is start with Ulead VideoStudio and when you get good at it, perhaps move along to high-end products like Adobe. My jury is still out for a while on this product, but so far it looks good.
I hope this was helpful.
Amended...just finished my one hour movie using Ulead VideoStudio 11. Completed the project over three days without one computer hang up or crash. The program is great and deserves five stars.
The best HDV editor for not-so-powerful hardware June 19, 2007
46 out of 47 found this review helpful
VideoStudio 11 is impressive. I also suffered through crummy, buggy previous Pinnacle Studio versions. I tried to install Pinnacle 11 on a 4 year old laptop but it complained that my driver was out of date (though it's not) and runs very slowly. Plus Pinnacle still nickel and dimes you for every little function and template that should be included ("you can download mpeg2 functionality now for only $10!") Adobe Premier Elements 3 would not install period due to having an older AMD processor. Plus Adobe can edit HD - but it can't output to HD formats? Okay . . . To heck with them.
Video Studio runs solid and fast, and my old laptop can even edit 1080i HDV just fine with the proxy editing function. The other programs don't have it. Capture is smooth and fast and scenes are detected quickly. Rendering is fast as well. And it has 7 video tracks where Pinnacle has only 2.
The other companies are not very up front about their steep hardware requirements. Do your research and make sure you have newish hardware and a good video card and lots of RAM if you go with something else. Especially if you have any hope of editing HD. Ulead just works. Don't bother with the base version though, it's kind of crippled compared to the Plus version.
Pinnacle 11 specifically the Ultimate version is still kind of tempting to me but only because it's got a very superior "Ken Burns" style pan-and-zoom program for still photos included as an integrated add-on. If that doesn't interest you then forget it.
 Better than Movie Maker October 14, 2007
36 out of 36 found this review helpful
I have used this on a new laptop running Vista. Thankfully, I have never had any speed issues with VideoStudio although it does crash on rare occasion. VideoStudio is quick to import videos, images, and audio from almost any source and equally speedy at creating AVIs, WMVs, DVD menus, etc. Although I do think that a power-user will quickly outgrow the simple interface, I found the UI so easy to navigate that it only took a weekend of use to feel like a pro. I did find, though, that some tasks that are probably easier to accomplish in prosumer video editing packages can be a bit laborious in VideoStudio. Specifically, rearranging titles and sound (which cannot be copied and pasted and can only be lengthened if there is enough room on the timeline (that is, you must first shorten one title in order to lengthen one adjacent to it; VideoStudio will not automatically make room for the lengthened title). Also, there are some limitations that can be become frustrating once you outgrow the program (e.g. there isn't a way to have title items fade in or out at different times; all items on a title slide will fade in or out at the exact same time). But once you get to the point that you've outgrown the program, it's probably best to step up to Ulead MediaStudio and learn the ropes there.
All in all, this a great little video editing program packed with a wide-range of useful features that'll keep you busy cranking out quality video projects.
Good luck with your editing projects.
Great for beginners to advanced October 8, 2007
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
I have been authoring and editing video for several years and I was looking for a new program that did the editing. I have used corel programs before and was always pleased with their performance so I did my research and settled for this program.
FYI: when you are looking for a new program and want to test it out, you can usually get free trials from the manufacture. Just go to their website and download the free trial. I usually buy else were though because I can get a better deal.
It has the option of a straight dv transfer and within a few clicks you have a finished product with menus. It also has a more advanced option were you can add transitions (162 options), video filters (50 options) and they include "oil painting", "old film" and "Kaleidoscope", you can even add flash animation to your film. You can capture with this program using your dv or av input on your video card or even from a dvd you put in your dvd drive on your computer. It also has the capabilities of producing a HDDV!
All in all I love the editing part but I use DVD workshop 2 for the menus because I have more options. This program does ok with the menus but they are basic that is why I gave it a 4 star instead of a 5.
 I'd wait for updates and patches October 25, 2007
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
I've been working with VS9 for awhile without any major problems but thought I could upgrade to 11 and get some new features. All I can say is that it has some bugs. For example, after creating a project with images and video mixed, I had trouble creating the final video because of the 3D Transitions that I used in between images (It kept coming up with "Unable to load library"). Apparently, for alot of people, VS11 has trouble rendering the 3D Transitions. When I switched everything to fade, it rendered ok. Then I had problems actually burning the video (It kept coming up with "Unspecified Error"). There are also some issues with MP3s encoded with LAME. So I went back to VS9 to burn it. I suggest reading the Video Studio Forum on the Corel Website and seeing what problems people are running into, before buying.
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