Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus [OLD VERSION]
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105 Customer Reviews Posted
- Almost perfect, as good as vegas for less than half the price
- If you have an AVCHD camcoorder (Sony, panasonic, canon) and don't want to pay over $100 for Vegas, this does what vegas does at less than half the cost. Very easy to use, imports AVCHD video files and created Blu-Ray playable video on regular DVDs! Can beat that! Family videos look spectacular in 1080!
- 2008-06-14, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- EVEN I CAN DO IT!
- If you're looking for expert opinion - do not read another word. I'm very far from an expert re computers and software (say as far as from Texas to the moon). A really challenged computer person, I'm usuallyreluctant to try anything new or different. It makes my day when I can log on and travel about, send and receive emails, and search.
Nonetheless, I'm here to say that this worked for me. I have nothing with which to compare it because this was my first time to try any sort of video enhancement or editing. I used to envy all the folks who put up their videos on YouTube and never really dreamed that I'd be able to do it. Granted, I did have a little help but after the initial lesson everything went smoothly.
I like very much the ease with which we can share movies and pictures with relatives and friends on various devices. Why, I can even do voices and add special effects.
Who would have ever believed that I could do this? Certainly not my husband! - 2008-06-14, 8 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- AVCHD (Blu-ray) Authoring Not
- I purchased Visual Studio 11.5 Plus to author AVCHD (Blu-ray) disks using standard DVD-burning hardware, but it wouldn't. The problem is that Visual Studio 11.5 Plus does not recognize HD video when it sees it, but wants to re-encode everything. My GO-HD camera generates 1280x720 h.264 video and AAC-LC audio, so you'd think it would be easy to author HD (AVCHD) disks with this product. Unfortunately, the software wants to reencode the video even though it is perfectly good as is (I know this because I can play the video through the PS3 XMB and the PS3 is very picky.) Reencoding HD video takes a lot of horsepower and time. What should have been a 15 minute process was taking 20 hours. The editing features are great, but the product would not deliver on its claim to author HD video to disk. It will allow you to create menus, titles and transitions but all of that is of little value if you can't get the video onto a disk. In fairness, I was able to render a six second clip, burn it as an AVCHD disk and play it on my PS3. The process took about 10 minutes. I next tried a twenty minute clip; after eight hours the rendering completed but the disk failed to burn. I tried again with a 40 minute clip of my son's basketball game, but after 20 hours I aborted the rendering process. I returned the product for a refund. If you have a camera that generates HD video and you want to get it onto a disk, this isn't the solution. I finally figured out how to create AVCHD disks without transcoding the video using readily available freeware. Finally I can easily create and play Blu-ray disks of my home movies on my PS3. (BTW - my system includes a Pentium-D (dual core) processor running at 3.1 GHz, two GB of RAM, Windows XP-Professional x64.)
- 2008-06-12, 5 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Fine video program
- This is a relatively trim video processing program (ie, it runs on my computer which is several years old while a competing studio from Adobe will not run at all.)
VideoStudio Editor: Corel feels the workflow method (following the normal steps to create a movie) are more user-friendly than learning technical editing. I find this to be true: I never learned technical editing of video before and the system led me through it.
Movie Wizard: A quick-and-dirty way to get a slide show with effects chosen by the system. Great for newbies.
DV-to-DVD Wizard: Choose clips directly from digital video, edit and go.
Auto Color and Tone Filters: Fixes low light conditions--a typical problem for amateur video (no light setups)
DVD Authoring: You can add chapters, interactive features to make your own DVD's, including tutorial-style DVDs (teachers may be interested in this feature.)
Special FX and Soundtrack editing. There are the usual pan, fade, effects and sound is full-featured (I like this better than the Adobe offering: The soundtrack portion features:
Audio View: Mix between clip, overlay, narration and music tracks.
Audio Rubber-banding: Adjust sound levels of your video, overlays, narration and background music directly in Audio view.
SmartSound® Auto Music Maker: Create unique royalty-free tunes to fit the style and duration of your project.
Audio Filters: Audio Normalization, Remove Noise and others help fix audio problems and enhance the sound.
This is a full-featured package, easy to use and a great piece of software to get the most out of your video clips.
- 2008-06-11, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Just what I was looking for...
- I am very happy with this video editor. I've practiced a lot with it and also made a 25 minute video that even impressed my wife and believe me she's never impressed. I find the program very stable and has never crashed so far with Vista. Lots of effects, transitions, and 6 levels of layering. Burning the finished project to a DVD was fast and easy and the program automatically adds a nice opening screen to your video. Adding pictures and music is a snap and varying the audio level is easy. I know there are programs with more features out there but this one does everything I could want. For the price of $60 bucks, its a keeper.
- 2008-06-11, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
