Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Great Value - Works well with AVCHD
Summary: 4 Stars
Purchased to edit AVCHD recordings from Canon HF100. Easily pulls in the m2ts files generated from the camera and Canon software.
The Smart Proxy idea seems to really work. You load your high def footage in, open up the Smart Proxy Manager, wait to edit until it is done converting all of your footage.
The overall editing experience is very enjoyable, almost FUN! This is my first attempt serious camera/editing, so I'm no professional. Very easy to record your voice, add music, cut clips, alter playback speed, add Video filters, etc.
I have had the program "crash" a few times now...once when it was left open for an hour, twice when closing (doesn't ask if I want to save, crashes, but recovers the file when reopened)
All of the export options are great, able to upload good looking video to youtube and Vimeo. [...] (make sure to watch in High Quality by clicking link in lower right corner of video screen)
Customer Review: Excellent Video Editor for the Buck
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent video editor for the money you pay. If you are planning to just gather together your home videos into nice-to-watch stories, this is a great piece of software to do so. Very nice effects and transitions are also available, albeit not as good as you'll find in other video editors available on this price range.Customer Review: Good Software, Lousy User's Guide
Summary: 3 Stars
Corel's Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus offers an abundance of features. Learning to use them is a real trial.
I moved from Adobe's Captivate, a program I truly enjoyed using, to VideoStudio 11.5 Plus, because of Adobe's insistence on flash video. I'm finding that it may be easier and quicker to find a good converter program and convert my videos to flash rather than continue to struggle with VideoStudio.
While feature-rich and compatible with many video formats, the documentation for VideoStudio is poor. The User's Guide is small and packed with tiny print and graphics. While I feel sure that everything possible has been included in the Guide, reading such tiny print while trying to follow along online is extremely difficult. Searching the Corel website for video tutorials produced a few but not enough basic tutorials for the program.
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is a good program (from what I can tell so far) at a reasonable price, especially when compared to alternatives offered by Adobe and Sony. It is my hope that Corel will add many online tutorials so that customers will be able to develop their skills to take full advantage of all the features the program offers.
Four stars for the software, one star for documentation, three stars overall.
Customer Review: Perfect for the first timer!
Summary: 5 Stars
You have a dozen reviewers who will tell you all about the technical capabilities of this software. For me, I needed to make the occasional slide show that incorporates still images and some video, and I needed it to look better than the usual PowerPoint show. I also needed something more dependable and capable than Windows Video Maker. So far, this software has been fantastic. It's amazing how much control I have over transitions, fades, etc! I can do what I want to do, without going to a manual every 5 minutes, and the deal from Amazon can't be beat!Customer Review: Be careful - no video capture hardware included
Summary: 2 Stars
It seems like a good video editing product - unfortunately I can't use it yet. Nowhere in the Amazon listing and only in VERY tiny print on the box does it say that you have to already have a video capture card on your PC. Well, I guess you can use the USB or firewire input but that doesn't help me import videos from older cameras or VCRs, which is why I bought it in the first place. Not such a good bargain like I thought it was.