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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 encoding 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
69 out of 70 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
45 out of 46 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
35 out of 37 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.
Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus September 24, 2007
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus
by John C. Lee, Thousand Oaks PC Club
After Corel Corporation acquired Ulead Systems earlier this year, it released the latest version of Ulead's video editing and DVD authoring program, VideoStudio 11 Plus. Ulead has incorporated a few new features and enhancements, but retained most of the program contents of its preceding version including the same three program options. The DV-to-DVD Wizard provides a 2-step procedure to burn a DVD disc directly from DV tape. You scan the DV tape at a speed from 1X up to 10X and select the scenes you want to add to your movie. Then you apply a theme template and burn to DVD. The Movie Wizard option is designed to guide novices through a simple three-step procedure to a finished movie. The VideoStudio Editor lets advanced users perform more sophisticated video productions. Its comprehensive interface contains a preview window for full editing with a step-by-step workflow to capture or import clips, organize or edit the clips on the storyboard or timeline, and then enhance your production with overlays, animated text, video filters, transitions, effects and audio. In the VideoStudio Editor you can also use the DV Quick Scan option to select the scenes you like to include in the movie, before batch capturing the video clips to the Timeline.
Scanning a DV tape using the Scene Detection option in the DV-to-DVD Wizard usually results in a large number of scenes. A 24-minute DV tape that I scanned showed more than 30 scenes with some scene durations as short as a few seconds. This significantly slows down the capture time, because the DV tape has to go back and forth to seek the beginning frame of each scene before it starts the capture. I have found it is more convenient and faster to work with a smaller number of scanned scenes or video clips. I hope that Ulead will provide an option to merge scenes or video clips in future releases, to enable reducing the number of Timeline video clips or the number of scenes with the DV-to-DVD Wizard.
VideoStudio 11 Plus comes with the convenient feature of an expandable timeline scale which can zoom up to individual picture frames for precise trimming, and 6 overlay tracks for picture-in-picture and montage effects. You can also resize or reposition the overlay pictures and add fade in/fade out, transparent masks, frames, and flash animations or chroma key effects in each of the six overlay tracks.
Two new video filters (DeBlock and DeSnow) were introduced in VideoStudio 11 Plus. DeBlock is used for filtering out blocky artifacts or mosquito effects found in highly compressed videos. DeSnow does a very effective job of removing analog video noise or noise from digital videos shot in low light.
Another new useful feature is the White Balance and Auto Tone Adjustment in the Color Correction Option Panel. The White Balance gives the option of manual or auto adjustment of ambient lighting and color temperature, while the Auto Tone Adjustment automatically corrects the color and tonal qualities of the video clip or still image. This is a very convenient tool. I use it almost exclusively for my video editing.
VideoStudio 11 Plus supports multiple format inputs. You can mix these inputs on the Timeline. The new MPEG Optimizer will analyze the bit rates of all the input clips to arrive at encoding settings for the best quality and least rendering time.
In addition to DV and HDV camcorders, VideoStudio 11 Plus now supports AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition), which is a new hard drive or disc-based camcorder format developed jointly by Panasonic and Sony.
The most notable weakness of the application that I found is the slow rendering time. A 45-minute video project with only a few overlay and audio additions took about 2-hour rendering time, even after I set a high priority to the VideoStudio task and disabled all the other msconfig tasks and services. Another nuisance I detected is that the program tends to slow down as I added more overlays, audio tracks, and effects to the project.
VideoStudio 11 Plus comes with a printed User's Guide and online help. However, I find the organization of the online help to be less than desirable and uncoordinated. You practically have to search through the whole online help to find the topic you want. In some cases it either does not exist or is very confusing. The following shows some examples:
(1)The Multi-trim Video is a very convenient tool for trimming unwanted segments from a Timeline video clip, and its online help is well documented except the X-Delete Icon. The popup shows a confusing tip, "Remove selected clips (Delete)", and the online help does not explain whether it means "Remove selected clips from the Multi-trim tool" or "Delete selected clips from the Timelime". I had to run through several trials and errors to find out what the Delete icon really does. It means to Remove the selected clips from the Multi-trim tool and not Delete the clips from the Timeline
(2)Ulead likes to use uncommon terms such as Lower Field First or Upper field First that not many users are familiar with. Yet the field order option between Frame-based, Lower and Upper Field is shown in 5 dialog boxes for the user to decide on. Nowhere in the online help and search, can I find the explanation of the field order. I finally obtained the answer from Ulead's Tech Support, and it is more involved than I expected, as indicated in the following:
Your project's field order should match your clip's field order. Digital video is primarily Lower Field (Field A), and analog video is Upper Field (Field B). Frame-based is for computer monitors or progressive scan TVs (or slide show only projects). Digital video from a mini DV digital camcorder is normally Lower Field First, although with a mini-DVD or hard-disk based digital camcorder it is normally Upper Field First.
(3)I found that several dialog boxes ask for the same kind of settings such as file format, frame rate, compression, etc. This leads to confusion and uncertainty as to which dialog box settings determine the final output. For instance, there is no need to have a default field order setting in File>Preference dialog box when you already have it in the File>Project Properties dialog box. Also, there is no need to have a dialog box of Make Movie Templates Manager inside the Tool menu when all the settings are fully covered in the Video Save Options of the Share>Create Video File. The same is true with the superfluous Information dialog box in the Share>Create Disc step.
My suggestion to improve the accessibility of the help is to use a cross-reference system. Each topic on the online help would be assigned a reference number like 1-A, 2-B, etc., and all the dialog boxes and if necessary tool tabs be given pop-up tips with reference numbers corresponding to those in the online help.
VideoStudio 11 Plus is a well-conceived program and easy to work with, once you have spent enough time to familiarize yourself with each of the multitudinous options and dialog boxes. But most of the important features with the exception of a few new ones were already contained in its preceding version 10 Plus. If you already have the version 10, I see no reason to upgrade to the new version, unless you really need those new features as discussed in the above. But if you have an older version than version 10, I think it is worthwhile to upgrade to this new version, because there were many changes introduced into version 10 from version 9.
System Requirements (for general and Proxy HDV Editing)
The System Requirements for the Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus can be found in the webpage
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1175714229358
Ulead Systems' website is http://www.ulead.com. Ulead provides e-mail technical support and the self-support from its online learning center. The e-mail support service has been significantly improved since the take-over by Corel Corporation. You can get a response in no more than two days, as compared to "No Answer" before the take-over.
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