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This is absolutely great software!
I would highly recommend it for everyone who wants to have pleasure making home movies.
Previously I’ve tried Premiere, Ulead, Vision Express and some other video editing programs, but Studio9 is the only one that I have nothing wrong to say about.
Starting with capture section everything went great throughout entire DVD making process.
It with no problems or delays controlled my Panasonic DV camcorder. I’ve captured about 3 hours DV video at full quality in several sessions without any crashes or dropped frames. Scenes were detected very precisely and nicely “thumbnailed” in a handy album-like file browser.
Another step – editing section is just perfect! The timeline is a very similar timeline like in all other editing programs, but I found myself much more comfortable with accessing my scenes, transitions, special effects and sound files from the album. And the most important thing – you can preview edited material with transitions and effects immediately after dropping on timeline with no significant delay.
Making DVD disk menus was the most complicated issue, but with some practice I’ve managed to make multilevel menus with several pages, moving thumbnails and background music. For this task to complete I’ve also used Adobe Elements to edit background pictures. I would suggest for everyone to burn some short scenes with menus on rewritable dvd just to check the result on dvd player before final burning.
Rendering from edited avi (dv) to mpg2(dvd) took about 3 hours (1h length movie), but no crashes or surprises. Final result on dvd looks just great: the picture quality is excellent (8000 kbits) and I hope now my memories from a trip to Italy will remain safe for a long years:))!
My system is: WinXP SP1; P4(1.8); 512 RAM; ATI Radeon 9600SE 128MB; Panasonic NV-DS30; TEAC DVD; JVC XV-NP1SL DVD player.
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