Corel VideoStudio Pro X2
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Software Reviews of Corel VideoStudio Pro X2
Customer Review: PLEASE DON'T BUY THIS!
Summary: 1 Stars
I do not have time to write out an entire list of why I say you shouldn't, but PLEEEEEEAAAASE don't buy this.
It has waisted HOURS AND HOURS of my valuable time trying to get things to save, deleting things, have the program FREEZE my new computer, having it delete files I KNOW I have... I am SO fed up with this product.
In a nutshell, it will only save about half the time. It takes OVER an HOUR to conver the HD files to something that will actually work with this (smart proxy) and it takes FOREVER to save a finished product (5 hours for 11 minute video IN 720p!!!!) if it will save at all (which is hit or miss, MAYBE 20% of the time it will save correctly).
Just... Save yourself time and buy something WAY better, like Sony Vegas Movie Studio. A HELL of a lot better editing program with more tools and that they PUT SOME THOUGHT INTO DESIGINING AND IT ACTUALLY WOKRING!
Customer Review: Great DVD maker
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great product for the price. I only needed something to put my camcorder recording on DVD to send to my Mother-in-law out of town and this software works great. Way more features than I could ever use.Customer Review: Unstable: Crashes Constantly
Summary: 1 Stars
Pros: Works fine for VERY simple projects, ChromaKey capable.
Cons: What good is a program that crashes constantly? It's worse than not having one, IMHO.
I bought this program specifically to edit an HD video file, about 630 MB in size. After cutting the clip into about 10 sections, and adding a few titles and transitions, it now crashes constantly. I simply open the program, move the timeline slider about 10-20 times, and Vista informs me VideoStudio has crashed. It appears to me that VideoStudio is not managing memory properly. I have a new and VERY stable system:
AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core 2.3 GHz
ASUS M4N78 Pro Motherboard
8 GB RAM
Vista Ultimate 64
A quick internet search for reviews reveals this to be a well-known issue with the software. Even so, Corel refused to offer me e-mail support, because I have an academic version, which they say did not include the cost of support. So, I wasted my money and a lot of my time.
Customer Review: Less intuitive than Windows Movie Maker
Summary: 2 Stars
I've been producing home videos for our family web site for years using Windows Movie Maker. As a free tool bundled with XP, I've been reasonably happy with the selection of fades, though the output options were limiting and disappointing. We recently upgraded to an HD video recorder and that put the final nail in the WMM coffin: no HD editing.
After much research, I decided the Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 would be a suitable replacement. And, while it is capable of editing HD video (though I had not considered that my Dell has barely enough processing power to do so), I'm disappointed overall with the user interface. With a job, my wife and four kids demanding my attention, I don't have time to struggle with the basics of a new application. And why should I? The basics should be self-evident for a tech-junkie like myself.
At first glance, the familiar storyboard and timeline interfaces seemed intuitive enough. Dragging and dropping clips and adding transitions is fairly straightforward. And there are a LOT of fairly good-looking transitions to choose from. However, I have yet to figure out how to do basic tasks that had no learning curve in Windows Movie Maker like:
* Create different clips from the same video that I can reuse in a project. VSP X2 allows you to trim a clip before adding it to the project. But I want to split the clip into multiple clips to reorder them.
* Add a "fade from black" to the first clip and "fade to black" to the last clip. VSP X2 won't allow me to add "transitions" to a clip itself for some reason.
Perhaps it's my own limitations, but I'm starting to look forward to my Windows 7 upgrade which will come with the new Windows Live Movie Maker ([...]) which DOES offer HD editing and will provide me (hopefully) with the familiar ease of use I grew to love in its predecessor.
Customer Review: has glitches
Summary: 2 Stars
this really is disappointing software. do they really think customers won't notice all these faults? this is at beta or even pre beta quality.
on the first project it crashed, completely locked up. and did another time or two. this computer is always stable, yet crashing with this software. slider bars don't slide while fast forwarding through the video, you have to pause it first, then you can slide it. come on, even very cheap and some free software can do this. there are also lots of other inconsistencies.
download the demo and try it before purchasing.
i tried both this and sony vegas movie studio 9. the sony is much higher quality and stable.