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VideoStudio Pro X2 is an all-in-one video-editing software for creating high-quality HD and standard-definition movies, slide shows and DVDs. Edit video or photos quickly and easily using the Movie Wizard, or take full control with hands-on creative tools. Even paint, write or draw on your video. Burn your movies on DVDs, or high-definition AVCHD and Blu-ray discs. Share on PSP®, iPod® or iPhone, upload directly to YouTube. Watch your movies on set-top players or with the included Corel WinDVD.
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Latest version: X2 (July 23, 2008) Download sites: Download from author site Windows
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VideoStudio Pro X2 View entire changelog What's New Easier & more intuitive editing * Create video/audio cross-fades by simply dragging clips over each other * Resize interface windows to suit your needs * Apply effects more easily and accurately with larger dialog boxes and controls. * Trim clips quickly directly in the library Top video-editing software – VideoStudio Pro X2 More creative options * Draw, paint or write freehand on video with the unique new Painting Creator. For example, trace a family vacation on the map * Add transitions to overlay tracks for sophisticated picture-in-picture effects * Apply auto pan & zoom to photos individually or in groups * Add background shapes to titles to make them stand out more * Recreate the appealing look of true cinema and old film with NewBlue Film Effects More content * Jumpstart your creativity with new templates for movies and DVD menus * Movie Wizard and disc menu templates have been added in standard and high-definition formats * Make your movies pop with new overlay objects, frames and Flash animations Top video-editing software – VideoStudio Pro X2 More sharing * Uploading to YouTube ™ is easier, faster and more powerful. Sign in to your YouTube account directly and encode your movies in FLV for the best quality * Create high-definition AVCHD ™ discs using standard DVDs and burners * Take your videos to new places with support for Apple ® iPhone® Top video-editing software – VideoStudio Pro X2 Next-generation HD * Capture and import from AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc® and JVC® HD camcorders * Edit HD video quickly and smoothly with enhanced Smart Proxy editing * Render faster with improved MPEG encoding performance * Enjoy enhanced performance with support for Intel® quad-core technology Similar tools/Alternative to Ulead Videostudio: Adobe Premiere Elements, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Pinnacle Studio, Ulead MediaStudio Pro, Vegas Movie Studio, Windows Movie Maker Sponsored tools: Guides and How to's:
DV Video How To: Making DVD Home Videos - Read View all guides with guide description here Joining MPEGs to AVIs, AVIs to AVIs, etc. Using Frameserving - Read The Ken Burns Effect with VS 7 - Read Acronyms / Also Known As: Videostudio, VideoStudio Pro, Ulead VideoStudio
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Good easy to use software that has a continual improvement record.
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Works great, easy to use.
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Using the Pro 11 trial version on an Intel Core2Duo w/2GB RAM, I couldn't get the darn thing to render a file without crashing. The search for a feature rich, powerful yet easy to understand, affordable and STABLE editor continues.
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I just upgraded to V10+ from V8. Actually I bought the full version since I found the hard way that Ulead upgrades don't work very well. I have a couple of comments. I mix still shots with video much of the time. First, the still pics I inserted were crystal clear - no flicker!!! I compared the encoding to V-8 with the built-in encoder and also encoding with TMPGENC. There is no comparison. I have no idea what they did to make this quantum improvement but would like to know. Second, the program would not load video from my new Cannon Elura-100. I used SceneAnalyser with no problem. The program is not perfect but getting better. I plan to use this program instead of Ulead Pictureshow which still has the flicker problem.
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I've upgraded to version 9. There are two great improvements to VideoStudio. When inserting video in an existing track you can now select tracks (video, video overlay, title and two audio) to be "bumped up" to keep elements aligned. This was the major problem with this program. Second, there is an "audio control view" that allows you to adjust levels on the video and audio tracks. There is one major caveat. You MUST go to the Ulead user forums on their web site and read the procedure for editing. Basically, when building a DVD, you must edit, convert and save each file to DVD-complient MPEG2, using special MPEG settings on the custom template. Then you assemble your video components in the DVD menu program WITHOUT anything in the edit timeline. Use the procedure and your creation process works well. Try to use the program intuitively and you may have horribly re-rendered video, take forever to author the disk or the whole thing may crash. It was NOT Ulead that came up with this procedure. It was users who worked with the program who figured it out. Ulead hasn't publicized this or put it in their manuals. This is, IMHO, lousy customer relations, forgiven only because they are hosting this info on their company-owned web biard. But you have to dig to find it. Although VideoStudio 10 has neat features (like, supposedly 10 video overlay tracks for super-duper composite shots) I'm not planning to upgrade anytime soon; this program does all I need it to do. Its heavily kinky DVD creation process may turn off the "easy to use" crowd, but if you're unwilling to learn your tools, you don't deserve to have any tools. The guide link below is the direct link to the appropriate article on Ulead's user web board.
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There are other programs that are better, if you have a grand that is. Otherwise this is about the best out there right now. But of course you do need to be familiar with video editing in the first place. IE: Only use uncompressed AVI's as source to edit with. Have enough of a machine to edit video on. Spend the few hours necessary to actually learn the software. Check out the Ulead Support board, much information on how to actually use it. My 2cents
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I recently bought a Vivitar DVR-310 digital camera and this software was included with my purchase. As I have windows XP I didn't need to install any additional drivers or anything. I just stuck in the cd and installed the videostudio. Very simple and straight forward. I then beagn to download my first movie and set of photo's I had taken with the camera. They downloaded as .ASF files and were converted to mpeg files whilst creating a cd that would be playable in all cd and dvd drives (known as a vcd). I then created my first VCD and hey presto! I had my very first VCD which was playable in all DVD players. The speed of the playback was rather slow and distorted so I re-created the VCD and increased the playback speed (this increased the speed of the sound as well making us sound like we were on helium!) I then went on to create my third VCD but this where the problems started. The software just wouldn't create a disc. it stopped converting my .asf files from my digi cam. I uninstalled and reinstalled many times but to no avail. I tried saving the movie file as a WMA, mpeg and pal vcd file but i kept getting failure messages half way through burning my movie on to a cd. In the end i just got fed up. I tried looking for file converting software and managed to find a free trial for a software that converted my .asf file to an mpeg. I converted my video file to mpeg using this software and then tried creating a vcd again on ulead videostudio v.8. it worked!!!!! It is still working I have created many VCD without a problem. I ended up buying the software that helped me create my mpeg files from shareware: SUPER DVD CREATER V8.5 MPEG FILE CONVERTOR. Ulead Videostudio v.8 is great ,you can create excellent special effects on both video's and photo's and you can add mp3 and wav music as well as sectioning your movie into parts so that you can select which clips you want to keep and which clips you want to discard. You can add titles, overlays, control the speed of playback and add voice overs. A very good and straight forward editing suite . It's very user friendly and perfect for basic users. Just make sure your video and image files are converted to mpeg format before creating a movie. I still don't know why my movies don't playback at normal speed once they have been transferred to cd. I have constantly had to increase the playback speed during the editing process. This a problem that needs to be addressed as it affects the speed of the sound on the video. Normal playback speed is set at 100% but i have had to increase it to 110% each time.
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I have used numerous tools for editing and authoring, and I keep coming back to video studio. Excellent product. Needs more filters and the rendering engine could be improved (both in high end quality and file size) but overall it produces good to great quality. Editing is top notch. Nothing else I have edits as well. Its ability to edit without reencoding is excellent. And its cuts are frame exact. Authoring is a bit simple, not nearly as customizable as others, but it does what I want it to do and I have not yet tried vs8. Great product. You can easily pick up a special edition version on ebay for less than 2 bills ($20). Everyone should own this and they will use it.
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I have been using Ulead Video Studio now for the past 4 years. Now that VS8 is out it is a great capture - edit- burn program. As with any program, when you spend time on it, it becomes rather easy to work with.
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I agree. This is where improvement is urgently needed. You cannot edit exactly. What you select and what you get are not the same. If they could make this work well, it would make it an excellent program-especially if re-encodeing does not take place. I use Cuttermaran which is an excellent editor-save only the need to demux.
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It's pretty lame and often truncates the end of clips. The only Ulead Video program that I find at all useful is DVD Factory, and then only if you do not need to compress the audio. Otherwise, I still stick with Vegas and DVD Architect.
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Ulead Videostudio 8, is the budget version of the Ulead Media Studio Pro 7. Both do DVD burning video capture like with all Ulead video, but these two are the worst I've seen in doing it easy. Ulead Media Studio Pro 7 is so expensive, and complex to use, and I still can't get it to work right with MPEG 1/2 files it's more for DV and high end stuff. Has a lot of features, almost like Virtualdub, just not easy to use as Ulead DVD Author Workshop 2.21 is. Ulead Videostudio 8 is a memory hog, it's very, very slow to load and do anything in it even on a P4 2.4GHz with 1MB L2 and 1GB DDR RAM. I ended up pulling it off and switched to Ulead DVD Workshop 2.21 and TMPGenc DVD Author 1.5 instead for editing Mpeg. One thing I forgot to mention in my previous postings is that TMPGenc DVD Author has full frame-by-frame editing and it's very quick FF/RW. None of the Ulead programs have that well the Videostudio has something like it but it's harder to use (you got to dig around it) and not easy either. Good luck all!
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I've had VideoStudio 7 for close to a year now since it came bundled with my DVDRW drive. However, I found the software EXTREMELY buggy and unstable and not very intuitive; I found the workflow and commands very odd...not similar to any other video software. I've tried many, many times to edit video, author a DVD, repair files, and was never able to complete any task. Well, after recently reading several glowing reviews of VideoStudio 8 I downloaded and installed the trial (30 days, no limitations). Well, I'm quite pleasantly surprised! It's like totally different software... not only does it seem very stable (no crashes yet), the feature set seems way more extensive than that in version 7. I've only been using it for a few days but I may just have to pay for the upgrade.
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I loved and enjoyed the limited edition (VideoStudio 7 SE DVD) that came with my Pioneer A06 burner. I was delighted to find that the program would import files from non-commercial DVD's. Well, I started to work on a project. I had to reload Windows XP Pro for another reason. And when I did...boom, the AC3 audio from the DVD's didn't play in the editor! Note, the captured files DID play in Windows Media Player with audio. But the AC3 audio didn't play in the editor (and it did before). So, I upgraded to the Ulead VideoStudio 8 via ESD. I also bought their AC3 plugin. It works okay, but...STILL no AC3 audio from anything imported! I'm hoping to get this resolved, but so far no luck. As it turns out, the "transcode problem" actually helped. I ended up playing my DVD's in a home type player, dubbing the audio and video into my Digital8 camcorder, then dubbing the tape into VideoStudo via Firewire. It worked, and I had my audio back. However, doing it live with passthrough proved impossible. The "buffer flush" killed things. However, by dubbing from the tape, VideoStudio stops the tape, waits for the buffer to flush, then resumes again. This seems to occur with anything longer than 5 minutes or so on my 1 GhZ Athlon system. But it's something I can live with. Aside from that, and the inability to insert video in the timeline without having to manually move other elements like audio and video supers, this is a neat little editor. If you plan, and assemble your elements from front to back, it actually works pretty fast. And yes, Ulead's customer service is slow, but their forum provides a lot of help and discussion.
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Ulead VideoStudio 8 is stable, easy to use and produces great results. I used the fully functional trial version for 30 days and then purchased the full version for $50 with a competitive upgrade rebate. I have mainly used Pinnacle's Studio 8 but I have tried many other video editing softwares and in my humble opinion VS8 is the best. What I really like about this software is the large preview window, faster rendering, the user interface and the fact that it will let you create video_ts folders of any size. wwjd
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I have had VS 6.0SE, 7.0SE, 7.0, and now 8.0. Had some configuration problems, finally worked them out on my own. Ulead technical help is awful. Non-responsive, issues canned answers, etc. Ulead support forum on their website is the REAL support for this product. Once I got the issues resolved, I am extremely impressed with VS8.0. New auto music is awesome for providing music tracks for home videos, easy to use and works great. Tons of new transitions, images, filters, video clips. Editor very easy to use, you can rapidly go between sound, effects, clip, and all other editing modes. Project save / rendering methods work great. Output quality is excellent. Did a 15 minute video of my kid's 5 year B-day party with custom titiling, photo slideshows, music, etc., from DV source and digital camera. Perfect DVD output. Great program
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One of the easiest to use video editors around. If you are familiar with any other editor in the $99 range, you would already be familiar with this app. I especially like how easy it was to creat picture in picture and even added multiple animated Titles. You can be creative without worrying about 'work-arounds' or crashes. This probram was verystable on my machine and I created a great music video for my nephew's garage band.
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The AC3 plugin is out. Does a nice job too. Just used VS8 to do the editing for my bother's wedding. The new quicktracks audio is great for filler music. Only complaint I have is with the fact that they changed the project file so it cannot be read by the current version of Media Studio Pro. Oh well....
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Exact same problem as previous poster. Constant transcode buffer flushing with VS8, never with VS7. These occur when the system cannot transcode the DV stream on the fly. My system is a P4 2.5GHz w/ a dedicated 200GB drive for capture. Same useless advice from Ulead tech help, which, by the way, is the worst tech help I've ever had. No callbacks, no response to emails, poor advice, lack of concern on their part, etc. Solution is to reload VS7 on your system. You can have multiple versions of VS on your system with no problems, I have 6, 7, and 8 loaded. Workaround is to record in DV and transcode later.
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Thought this was a significant upgrade from ver 7.0 - but not so - "keep getting flushing dv transcode buffer" error message when attempting to capture after about 6 mins - Ulead said to defrag and check the dma and write behind cashe. Did that - no help - No info in book on transcode buffers and their email tech support bites! Glad I didn't uninstall 7 as I am using it - Feel like I wasted $50. Never got the dv buffer flush message with 7 no matter how much i tried to record. Kinda frustrating. Would be nice if there was a "reset to default" bar/button to restore original defaults concerning recording data. The videos I made with 7 are fine - nice to be able to drag mp3's to spice up home movie videos. Easy to title sections - I like the auto transitions when adding a couple of hundred still photos at the end of the video. A little learning curve, to be sure - but worth the $ - Video 7, that is.
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Always loved Video Studio, and this new version is fabulous, love the new ability to tweak the audio, smart sounds are a god send for thoser of use editing wedding videos and runnign out of background music, overall very impressed! Only one, rather annoying, problem. as with the first version of Video Studio 7, the audio goes mad on cross fades (it fades dow, then suddenly increases to maximum volume), so after editing a whole 3 hour video you have these rather anoying audio problem runnign all the way through, and adding a manual audio fade in and out to each clip with a cross fade on does not work. Hope they bring out a patch for this soon, as it's got to eb one of the most used transistions during video editing!
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After Pinnacle Studio 9 failed I went to the trial version of ulead's video studio and it performed as expected. Works great with my old cheap analog capture card and created nice DVD files for burning. There is no doubt that I'll buy the product after using this trial version. Users are well advised that before you work with this or any video studio product 1. Turn off your Internet access card (modem or network) 2. Use a seperate hard drive w/DMA access for your video data and defrag it 3. a computer running less than 1.0 and less then 512 mb of ram will have a hard time catching its breath.
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VS 8.0 makes slideshows that are so much better than VS 7, which I did not use for that purpose. Interface is cleaner than VS 7 and function smoothly. Ability to control sound track volume makes for good slideshows and video too.
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I have been using VideoStudio since version 6. Version 8 adds some features that we have wanted to make easier (pan and scan) and at least one new feature (moving text along a line defined by the user). I have used Sonic product as well, and am not impressed. If this program were bundled with DVD MovieFactory 3 it would be perfect. But then you wouldn't have to buy that program, would you. DVD MovieFactory 3 adds the ability to use AC-3 audio and building slide shows without making them as a movie, something that they have left out of VS8. If you set the program not to re-encode mpgs that are already compliant, you can use it instead of the VS8 Create disk option without encoding twice. I still like the program and keep coming back to it even though it doesn't have every in one box. It is a good program for those who are novices or prosumers on a budget.
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Positives - seems to be quicker than previous versions and for me the big plus is a consumer priced prog that handles my 16:9 clips correctly (even with 4:3 overlays) and the output in AVI or MPEG looks good (unlike Nero Vision Express). Negatives - the DVD Authoring side is pretty weak compated to other similar priced prog (eg Nero Vision Express). Well I'm now the prowd ownder of both VS8 (for editing 16:9 avi) and NVE for burning the DVD.
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