Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1436 in Software
• Brand: Ulead
• Released on: 2006-05-03
• Platforms: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Manufacturer's Description
Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus is consumer video editing and DVD authoring software that lets you do more with video. The main VideoStudio Editor gives you a complete set of powerful yet easy-to-use tools to edit video and author DVDs. Create superb-quality videos with hundreds of customizable special effects, filters, transitions and titles. For quick results, the Movie Wizard produces finished movies and slideshows in three easy steps. Or go straight from camera to disc with the DV-to-DVD Wizard, the fastest way from DV to DVD. Share your movies anywhere, fro iPods to high-definition home theater systems. When you want to do more with video, VideoStudio 10 Plus is powerful video editing made easy.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic
After I found Windows Movie Maker no longer satisfied my video-making-needs, I downloaded a number of trial softwares to try and find the best possible program for me. I tried Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Nero 6.0 and a few other programs, but I found they were all a disappointment. They were all so complicated and difficult to use. But then I tried Ulead!
Ulead is simple. It's easy to get the hang of. Saying that, it is jam-packed with a lot of brilliant features. You can use it to make videos, DVDS, cut clips. You can use video transitions and features which are far superior to those of Windows Movie Maker. There's no messy file converting involved - just drag & drop and you're off! Contrary to what a reviewer said, you CAN use Ulead on a laptop, I assure you. It works fine.
For this price, Ulead is a fantastic video editing program. In fact I think that it's superior to those even double in price.
If you're looking for a simple program, but not a boring program, Ulead is for you. Hey - download the trial before you buy and then you can see what I mean!

Good Software
I needed video editing functionality, and I bought Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus after extensive research and examination of comparisons, etc. It's very good. Its editing capabilities are extremely powerful, and extremely easy to learn. It occasionally hangs, but not often, and, when it does, it normally recovers the project you were working on OK. It doesn't seem quite as clever at DVD burning, but I tend to use something else for that anyway. For video editing, and handling different formats, etc, it's very good, and very cheap (I paid £45 from Amazon). I have previously used an ealier version of Pinnacle Studio, and Ulead VideoStudio 10 Plus is greatly superior, both in functionality, ease of use, and reliability.

Better than my old program
After a couple of years with Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD, I got this, and overall it's an improvement.
You need a powerful PC with an up-to-date graphics card, a fast processor, and loads of RAM (512 will cope, but more=better). Mine is a 1.9 ghz AMD, 1024 RAM and a nvidia 6600 card, just for the record.

For camcorder stuff it's slick. You need a firewire card and cable, but the editing is fairly straightforward, menu options are nice to look at (if you care), and you can get more onto the DVD than I used to be able to with my old software.
You can drag & drop bits of edited video around if you want to mess with the running order as well, jazz around with the sound (which is on a separate editing track, so it's quite easy to see what you're doing). And there are loads of effects in the retail version that are missing from the trial version (obviously) to fiddle with.

However, although it can handle multiple formats (mpg, wmf, divx, dx50, xvid, etc...), it gets very slow at the burn stage (7 hours later still making menus in one case!). Pretty slow loading up a half-done project too.

It appears you have to use the "share" option, turn the project into a mpeg file, then re-start the program, insert the new file into the "create disc" option, and go from there. Which is a bit fiddly. Having anything in the "edit" section slows things up a lot too.

Ulead have a fairly decent user forum system, and there are a few tutorials there which are helpful. It's a shame the creators themselves didn't anticipate this sort of problem and deal with it prior to launch.

I'd advise downloading the trial version from the Ulead website and testing it before buying the full thing, in case your PC can't handle it.