Re: Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus

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Is anyone using Video Studio 11 Plus with Vista Home Premium? If you are, have you run into any problems with this version that you would like to pass on?

I am considering the purchase and would like feedback from users if possible. My current version is 7 but version 11 looks very tempting to me.

I have a "run down" on some popular video editing programs at
http://www.donferrario.com/ruether/hdv-editing.htm, including
Ulead VideoStudio (now 11.5+). For some purposes it can be
a fine inexpensive program for SD or HD editing (I did not try
Magix or any other inexpensive program except Premiere
Elements 4, an especially good program for SD work, but not
HD...), but I did have some reservations about VideoStudio...
--David Ruether
www.donferrario.com/ruether
d_ruether@xxxxxxxxxxx

Thank you for your comments and the reference to your web site. I will not be doing any HD work for the time being as my Mini DV camera is working just fine and I have no plans on replacing it especially seeing that I have not yet seen a camera that would be easy for a left-hander like myself to use.

??? I would think it wouldn't make much difference - and some of the
few controls on the excellent and cheap Canon HV30 are on the left
side anyway. I'm left eyed, and I have gotten used to it. The picture
is "night and day" better than anything SD, not bad for a $750 camera!
(I review it at - www.donferrario.com/ruether/Canon_HV20-HV30.htm,
and one look at that picture on a good HD screen and you would never
go back! ;-)

My computer is a quad core, with 8 gigs of ram and a 750GB sata hd. Video card is ATI 2600 Pro with 512MB which I think should be sufficient for my purposes for the foreseeable future. Thanks. Ron

More than enough "power" to do HD easily. BTW, if you do stick with
SD, consider Adobe Premiere Elements 4 (7 appears to just have a bunch
of garbage added) - it is wonderful to use, unlike Ulead...
--David Ruether
www.donferrario.com/ruether
d_ruether@xxxxxxxxxxx



In the spirit of "fair and balanced", and in response to the original poster and my shared interest in Ulead, I must once again assert that I not only do not consider Premiere "wonderful", but find it instead to be slow and no easier to use or more difficult to use than Premiere Elements. Both my Premiere and Premiere Elements (purchased with David's urging) sit unused on my quadcore but Ulead gets used often........

Clearly there is a lot of individual preference being asserted here, and the bottom line is that the original poster should download one or more trials of the various editing suites and then make the decision based on what works best for him / her.

Smarty

Have you used Video Studio 7? I have used that and found it quite easy to use and to understand. If you have used version 7 is version 11 similar in its usage or is it completely different?

I guess that I will just have to download some trial versions and see what I like and dislike relative to the costs involved. Every program that I have tried in the past (too long ago to make a list) had strong points and weak points.

Thank you both for your comments.

Ron



Ron,

I've purchased and used most of the Ulead products since their inception, including Video Studio, Movie Factory, DVD Workshop, slide making program DVD Pictureshow, Photo Impact, Cool 3D, as well as many if not most of the competing programs. (I'm a retired electrical engineer with time and money and a lot of curiosity, and also have been teaching courses to others on these subjects.). Video Studio 7 is nowhere near as sophisticated, has a lot more bugs, and is a bit easier to use / learn when compared to the latest version. Ulead software has, in general, improved markedly in the later versions, especially with regard to stability, and the change of ownership to Corel has improved their support as well. I find it intuitive and straight-forward to use, very possibly since I have been using it for so many years.

I put a huge premium on speed and reject programs which take long periods of time to do the same thing others programs do quickly. I also reject programs which create inferior output, particularly if they also take longer to do so. I especially appreciate programs which are both fast and create great looking output, and this is my primary reason for liking Ulead and a few others.

Smarty

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