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| Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus [OLD VERSION] | ![Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511Lco6ViyL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 1129
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 1.9
MPN: VS115PLENPC
Model: VS115PLENPC
UPC: 735163120202
EAN: 0735163120202
ASIN: B0013OAHTG
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 AVCHD Support at last May 24, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was skeptical as to whether or not this software worked. I read many bad reviews about it. FUD maby? I don't know. In any case this software works. I'm running a T61p with Intel T9300(ThinkPad notebook) with XP Pro SP3.
For real time editing it struggles but works. I could only get a few clips in the flow editing tool at a time. If I got too many the application would close down. Good thing though I could start it back up and start where I left off.
IMO this application needs better coding to work better. I don't think it's a hardware issue.
Now if one doesn't do the real time editing process and just goes MTS to AVCHD/MPEG ect then it works very well.
Here is my first movie sample I made using a Panasonic HDS SD9:
http://vimeo.com/1054377
I made it with the quick movie editing tool. Very easy to do.
Pretty Easy, Fun too May 22, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
No problems installing the program and that was a good thing, because I was pretty excited, never having done any video editing before, this was all new to me. After installation, I read though the included manual, then checked out the PDF that came with the program, spent about an hour or so, what the heck, I had a nice Cab, full and rich, to sip as I studied away, so I was enjoying myself.
Okay, studying done, time to get my feet wet. I used the wizard and made a short video of my cat Wandapuss pushing around her little ball (the ball's got a bell inside and she just loves it). Then I used the editor to play around a bit and it was pretty intuitive, but reading the manual helped me. Then I burned the video to a DVD and sent it off to my mom, who gave me Wandapuss when she was only an itty bitty thing. The ability for someone like me, a novice newbee to be able to do something like that makes this program a five star deal.
Seems to work fine May 22, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
I'm not really an expert on internet video. When Bit Torrent was all the rage I kept downloading the thing and then gave up and asked my friends to copy the shows that I wanted to see. Thank G-d for Hulu and Youtube so I can see the cable shows before DVD now.
However, I am intrigued by the concept of making movies online and from what I can see, this program works pretty well. It's user friendly and there are plenty of helpful pages for Amateurs. One gets the feeling of going from Microsoft DOS to an Apple system in the space of a day.
The only problem is that it slows down my computer. I have to turn off all my other programs to run it, but it's incredibly fun.
A solid product with great features for the price May 21, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
It's been awhile since I got upgraded video/movie making software, generally just using free products like Microsoft Movie Maker. I really wanted something though that could do a good job capturing video off my old Sony DV Handycam and easily make simple movies suitable for YouTube and/or burning to DVD, but that also gave me room to grow. I've used Ulead products in the past so decided this would be ideal to try.
The product comes with a few different modules, from doing a quick capture and creating a simple movie to the full-fledged product with all the usual advanced tools for video editing...transitions, overlays, sound editing, etc. Video editing by nature is not the most intuitive of things for most users that are new to it, but VideoStudio 11.5 does a fairly good job of keeping the basics fairly straightforward. If you are used to using a timeline for creating videos, you've got the same basic thing here. A decent printed manual is included (with rather small text) as well as a PDF user's manual in color. It's well worth going over the user's manual if you are new to editing, as there's not a lot of help within the program itself, and there definitely were times I found myself banging my head on the desk trying to figure something out.
I was very impressed with the quality of capture from my older digicam. If you think this is a product only for HD or DV camcorders, think again. This does just fine for older systems that you need to capture the video off of. In the past I've had a lot of issues with poor quality capture that is not clear and smooth and this software didn't have any problem with it. Of course, a lot of that has to do with the system I am using as well, but I've had some pretty good systems in the past and still had trouble getting clean captures. Straight digital video from my digital camera works just fine with it as well of course. And the good thing is once I upgrade, I'll be able to make full use of the more advanced HD features it includes. It definitely can handle a bevy of HD formats, and burn to them as well. The ability though to burn an HD video to a standard DVD is really a nice money and space saver, particularly for fairly short homemade movies.
I did find that doing an analog-passthrough process did not work quite flawlessly. This is where you hook a VCR up to the digital camcorder, and it converts the video to digital format which you can then capture on the computer. Great for converting old videotapes and such. Ulead VideoStudio did allow me to do this once I found the setting to turn off the video controller (otherwise it keeps trying to make the camcorder "play" when capturing video, which is not what you want) but it does not display the video during capture and if you go to edit and then return to capture, it resets the control function and you have to remember to turn it off each time. Not ideal...but at least it is possible to do this.
I always was not impressed with its ability to tag and organized captured video. This is a big negative for me. After capturing video, I need to be able to make notes about what it is, date it was taken, etc. and there's nothing that I could find to do this. I have to go into another digital file management program to add tags. Likewise, reorganizing videos in VideoStudio is a real pain. After capturing several dozen video clips, I wanted to organize them into some sub-folders. You can create such folders...but there's no way to move folders already in the library to the new ones, you have to delete them, move them manually in File Explorer (if needed) and then reimport them into the new folder in VideoStudio. Really would be nice if it had better file management built in.
There's very little I've wanted to do so far when creating movies that I haven't been able to achieve, but sometimes I've had to hunt a bit for it, or utilize a couple techniques together to get what I want. The video filters for instance would not have been the first place I would have thought to look just to crop and stretch a video, but that's where I finally tracked down how to do this. Or setting the background color on a movie, not an intuitive thing to do. While the user guide is helpful, I would have loved some video tutorials to get started with the software.
Creating DVDs is pretty straightforward as well and has some nice templates with plenty of editing features. It allows you to make chapter marks inside individual movie clips, and creates submenus for them, which greatly helps when you want to make DVDs with a fair number of small clips in them. Just combine each into a main movie, add your chapter marks while creating the DVD and you are set. As with many products in this price range though, additional levels of submenus and advanced DVD creation isn't really possible.
The upload to YouTube feature worked fairly well. You have various video qualities to select from, I have a broadband connection so just went with the highest. It connects to YouTube, pops up your browser and asks for your authorization to continue. You enter in the details for the video and that's it! The quality seemed about on par for YouTube in the past, but they are always improving the quality and sizes of videos they can accept and it didn't look quite as good to me as some videos I've created and uploaded on my own at high qualities. This is one issue with a product like this, that it may not always be quite up-to-par with the current standard, but it definitely wins on convenience. I'm not sure how much I will use it though if they aren't able to improve the quality on future updates.
Overall, this is a nice package that will serve the majority of home users very well for their video editing needs. The HD options are definitely worth a look if you have moved into those technologies, but even if you haven't there is a great deal to keep you busy here until such time that you do.
Very nice consumer level package May 20, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I've had a love/hate relationship with Ulead products in the past when they were an independent company. The products were generally good, but usually had quirky interfaces and relatively poor documentation. I used to use their photo editing program, but finally gave up on it. It had lots of nice features - but, overall, the programs had a steeper learning curve than I felt was necessary.
Corel purchased or merged with Ulead. I know that Corel had seen some hard times, but having recently tested their CorelDraw package, I knew their products were still pretty good. So I elected to test the Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus.
What a pleasant surprise. Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus installed on an XP machine without a single hiccup. The user interface is aggressively simple and they even include a pretty decent printed user manual, though the type is small.
The interface can be fairly described as intuitive and even the newest user will soon figure it out, particularly if they consult the online help or manual.
There are storyboard, timeline and audio views. This is not intended to be a heavy duty video editing program. Everything is designed to be as easy as possible and the designers have succeeded in reaching that goal. Chromakey, automatic editing and some other reasonably sophisticated features are available and don't require a knowledge of rocket science.
VideoStudio accepts all the ordinary inputs and AVCHD, one of the first programs to do so. Multiple output formats are available, including to iPod (H.264) and YouTube.
Overall, VideoStudio 11.5 Plus seems to be aimed at the video editor who needs enough power, but not so much that they have to surmount a steep learning curve. I found the program to be very stable under Windows XP. I performance and response were crisp.
On the whole, this program is on a par with Adobe Premiere Elements for a lower price. Not a bad deal at all.
Jerry
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