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Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 is a user friendly program with a user friendly interface which lets you produce an animated title screen then put a video together by dragging and dropping various audio and video parts onto your montage line. You can even watch them on your iPod.To sum it up you can grab your video from your camcorder or TV, edit with the help of the Movie Wizard, or not, and then turn it into a movie by adding titles and special effects, even music if you want. You can edit your videos without any trouble at all.
I was using Ulead (this is the successor to that) and I liked it just fine. But if you get in any trouble, there is the handy, dandy Movie Wizard to help you right along. The program comes with a wide range of editing and output choices.
I know, because if I can do it, anybody can. I didn't expect this to be much better, but I always like to upgrade and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised on how easy this program is to use and navigate though. It was easy before, it's easier now.This really is an all in one video editing program which lets you work in both HD and standard definition movies, DVDs and slide-shows.
You can paint or draw on your videos if you want, you can burn them onto DVDs and even onto Blu-ray discs, but of course, you'll need a Blu-ray player to do that. And it's not hard to do, it really isn't.
program will not link up to video card. Program sometimes freezes up. Don't waste your money.
i couldn't make it work with my happauge video capture device. I PURCHASED A PINNACLE STUDIO PROGRAM AND THE 1ST TIME IT WORKED WONDERFULLY.I WISH I COULD GET A REFUND NOT FROM THE DEALER BUT FROM CORAL. i did the chat with their tech support and he wasn't willing to help me change drivers. he told me to call happauge support to make my coral program work.DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. THE DEALER WHO SOLD ME THE PRODUCT DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF SHIPPING ETC. IT'S NO REFLECTION ON THEM.
I was also please with the way the software helped me enhanced some fairly dark video shot on a regular digital camera; the cleaned up result was good enough to share with friends on YouTube (sadly, the software couldn't anything about the quality of the karaoke involved).I haven't used a lot of the more advanced features because I frankly don't understand enough about them to know if they would be useful to me. This is my first experience with any type of video editing software, and I was surprised by how easy it was to use out of the box. Now granted, I wasn't creating the next Avatar or anything, but was please by the results of my photo montage set to music. The one real weakness of the software I think is that it assumes a level of knowledge (if not experience) that not everyone has- a better info manual might help neophytes like me advance to the next level. All in all though, a great addition to my software library.
I have this one video of our son at birth and if the software won't import it, I don't want to erase it and find another video to import. Maybe I'm missing something but I have a relatively new Sony HD video camera. It apparently won't recognize any of the formats. The manual somehow assumes that you'll have no problem importing your video and doesn't discuss this in much detail.Note that I'm not interested in becoming a video editor professional. After playing w/ it for about 5", it crashed. The manual keeps discussing importing tapes but many of the new camcorders no longer use tapes but digital media.The manual shows a typical computer graphics card: however this must be from many years ago as it's S-video or composite at best.
Was able, using the Sony utility to finally import and view necessary video, and saved yet another copy to hard drive. I saved all video files to a Hard drive and now am trying to read them into the video editor. I need software to import this video.Recent update*******Have installed both the Sony camera utility and Corel VS Pro X2 on a 2nd slower computer. Really I need to import the video from my harddrive but the software doesn't recognize the Sony formats. Thus I've no choice but to return it.The movie wizard is hopeless, but even the more powerful editor mode won't import any digital clips. Corel still will not be able to import nor view the video, which is AVCHD.
Thus it consistently crashes on both of my 2 machines, one a Windows XP 64 bit, Quad Core 3 Ghz, 8GB ram, the other a Windows XP standard, AMD 1 or 2 GHz, probably 1GB ram.
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