![]() Corel Video. Studio Ultimate X1. Review & Rating. There's no end of innovation when it comes to home video technology, whether that means 3. D, 4. K, or 3. 60- degree VR video, and the software you use to edit it all has to keep up. The latest version of Corel's Video. Studio does so admirably, and it's one of the few consumer video editing programs that can already handle 3. VR footage. It's also well equipped with multi- cam editing, multi- point motion tracking, time- remapping, video masking, audio ducking, and 4. K support. Corel Video. Studio Ultimate X1. PCMag Editors' Choice for enthusiast video editing. Pricing and Starting Up. Android Software Links: For the Android Mobile Telephone/Tablet Operating System by Google. Content by Respective Authors. Video. Studio runs on Windows 1. Windows 8, and Windows 7, and the 6. OS versions are highly recommended. The product is available at two levels: Pro ($7. Top VIdeos. Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /srv/users/serverpilot/apps/jujaitaly/public/index.php on line 447. Tell me about the issue and I’ll help you find the solution you need. Ultimate ($9. 9. 9. The latter is reviewed here. The higher- end option adds effects from Pro. DAD, New. Blue, and Boris, lets you use six multi- cam tracks (as opposed to four for Pro), and you can import XAVC (Sony 4. K) content. By comparison, Cyber. Link Power. Director Ultimate doesn't limit the number of multi- cam tracks even in its lower- cost version, but only lets you edit four at a time. The more consumer- oriented Adobe Premiere Elements costs $9. To get the Video. Studio software online, you first download a downloader app, which installs the not- small 1. GB application. For comparison, Power. Director weighs in at just under 1. GB, while Premiere Elements takes up a considerable 3. GB of disk space. Maybe that's not such a big deal these days, you'll need a pretty big hard disk if you want to do hi- res video editing, especially for work in 4. K (which even the current i. Phone models can shoot). Interface. The latest release of Video. Studio gets a new mode or tab on its main interface: Welcome. This is equivalent to the e. Live tab in Premiere Elements. It's here that you find inspiration and instruction in the form of tutorials, videos, and templates. Its Get More section offers extra- cost templates, filters, transitions, and overlays. I like the way icons in the source panel make it easy to show and hide video, photo, and audio content types. The other three modes—Capture, Edit, and Share—are where you do the real video work. This handy interface guides you through the workflow process of adding, editing, and outputting your digital movie. The Editing mode's pleasing dark- gray interface uses the familiar three- pane view with source and effects and video preview each occupying half the top portion of the window and the timeline taking the whole bottom portion. Clear buttons on the right side of the content window give access to often- needed tools, such as transitions, titles, and effects. Video. Studio lets you resize and move the panels, and you can even pull them out into separate windows. You can also set three custom interface layouts and easily switch among them. That rates as one of the most flexible UIs in the space. Importing, Organizing, and Basic Editing. The Capture mode, which you enter by clicking the large Capture button at the top, lets you record from a connected camera, scan a DV source, and import from Digital Media or a mobile device. Getting media into Video. Studio is simple, but, once it's there, the app offers no tagging or search capability like you get with Adobe Premiere Elements. This can make finding a clip troublesome at times, as can the interface's lack of a search box for clips or effects. You can, however, sort source content by name, type, or date. I like how the buttons make it easy to view just video clips, just photos, just music, or any combination of those categories you like. Back in the main editor, you simply drag and drop a clip from your source tray to add it to your timeline. If you double click on a clip in the source tray, it opens in the Single Clip Trim window. This provides a handy way to set the start and finish markers of the section of the clip that you want to add, including precision to the individual frame level. You only get a maximum of 2. Power. Director offer 1. The Multi- trim Video tool lets you set multiple in and out points, so you don't have to create a lot of separate clips if you just want to remove some dead space in the middle of a clip. It also lets you detect Ads in TV content. Power. Director matches this multi- trim capability, but most other editors lack it. The Corel trim tools offer easy, clear navigation, including a jog wheel and zoomable selection scrubber. That's far more than you get with Sony Movie Studio Platinum. A new capability on the timeline is the ability to group and ungroup clips. This reminds me of Apple Final Cut Pro X's Clip Connections, and it can make editing complex projects much easier. Moving or trimming a grouped set of clips keeps them together, so you don't have to realign everything after making an adjustment. Video Corrections, Transitions, and Effects. Corel Video. Studio offers over 1. D, peels, pushes, and stretches. Adding them to the timeline is a very simple drag- and- drop operation. If you drag a clip to overlap its neighbor, the default transition is inserted. In my test movies, the transitions were smooth and well rendered. Video. Studio's text tool is very capable, letting you choose among 3. You can customize these by font, size, duration, rotation, and more. You can then save your new style as a preset. Seventy- eight special effects can jazz up your clips with things like diffuse glow, mosaic, and water flow. Among these effects, too, are image- correction tools such as anti- shake, color balance, noise reduction, and light enhancement. The anti- shake worked well in testing, even on 4. K footage, though it doesn't show you progress the way Premiere Elements does. As in any high- end video editor, you can set any effects on and off with key frames, and Corel provides a nice separate window with side- by- side original and preview views for working with these. Adding montage layer tracks is extremely intuitive: You just add an overlay track with the track manager and drag the new content into it. A picture- in- picture appears in the middle of the preview window, and you can resize and drag this around. The app's chroma- keying tool did a decent job of cutting out a green- screen background in my test clip, especially when using its color dropper tool. Finally, the Graphic tool lets you add solid colors, objects, frames, and even Flash animations like a spinning globe to your movies, for extra bling. Springing for the Ultimate Edition of Video. Studio X1. 0 ($9. New. Blue, Boris FX and pro. DAD. These let you do things like really refine the colors, giving your movie the look of a Hollywood production; add handwritten- looking text; and perform advanced image correction and stabilization. New Video Editing Features. Degree Video Editing. You can add 3. 60- degree video content from your Samsung Gear 3. Video. You see two choices here, one of which will always be grayed out. Standard is the most useful choice. This opens a full- screen side- by- side view of your video in a new editing window. Here, you can position the angle of the video that results in a standard 2. D view. Move the crosshairs around in the left side's original view or pan around in the right side's flattened view to choose the resulting angle. After you hit OK at the bottom of the window, your clip appears on the editing timeline using the angles you chose. Video Masking. Video. Studio's new Mask Creator tool lets you cover an area of your video with an effect based on an area selected in an overlaid video or photo. If you create the mask from video content, it follows the masked object using motion tracking—without any of the complexity of the full motion- tracking feature I cover below. You create a mask using either a brush (with edge detection) or a shape (rectangular or elliptical). The motion tracking works for one frame, to the end of the clip, or to a specified time code. It took over a minute to track a short clip in my testing, so it's not an instant effect. Masking is similar to using the Chroma key effect, and indeed, after creating a mask, you can use it as a Chroma key without the green screen to overlay an object on your movie. Using this option also lets you invert the mask, so, for example, instead of having a head covering the background, you'd have the background only show through where the head was. Both this tool and Power. Director's mask editor let you fade transparency in and out for a ghostly effect, but Power.
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