Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44 in Software
• Brand: Corel
• Released on: 2007-11-29
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Dimensions: 19.68" h x 19.68" w x 19.68" l, .0 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is Corel's video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows, and DVDs. Work quickly with intuitive wizards, or express your creativity with hands-on editing tools. Share your movies everywhere, on your iPod , YouTube , or the latest HD home theatre systems, with full support for AVCHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

Edit HD video formats like AVCHD and HDV

Use video templates with sophisticated opening and ending sequences

Create multiple animated overlay effects

Create more sophisticated slideshows

Apply Bluescreen effects to replace backgrounds

Remove TV commercials from captured TV programs

Create Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtracks

Author discs in formats like HD DVD, Blu-ray and AVCHD

VideoStudio LauncherThree Ways to Make Movies

VideoStudio Editor gives users all the tools they need to produce great-looking home movies. An easy, step-by-step workflow helps people spend their time being creative rather than learning technical editing.

Movie Wizard is ideal for users new to video editing. Attractive theme templates create professional opening sequences. Users can quickly create entertaining photo slideshows with Smart Pan & Zoom. The Movie Wizard creates a complete movie on only three steps.

DV-to-DVD Wizard The fastest way from DV camcorder to DVD. As simple as connecting up a camcorder and choosing the clips you want, in just two steps the Wizard delivers a finished DVD complete with menus, titles, transitions and music.

NEW! Direct YouTube upload.

Sharing videos online has become one of the most popular activities in the wired world. The leader of this revolution is YouTube, and now VideoStudio makes it easier than ever to create and upload cool videos. After completing editing, users can encode and upload videos directly to YouTube from within the VideoStudio 11.5 programme.

Enhanced! Create AVCHD discs.

Author HD content on standard DVD discs in the AVCHD format. Play your discs on Blue-ray set top players and Sony PlayStation 3. Audio formats include LPCM and Dolby 2.0 or 5.1.

NEW! M2TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream)

Import.Import video files directly from AVCHD hard drive or memory card camcorders.

NEW! Blu-ray Disc (BDMV) authoring

Edit your HD videos and author Blu-ray discs complete with motion menus.

NEW! H.264 High Profile (HD) encoding

Create HD videos usining the H,264 video format. Enjoy optimised encoding for multi-core processors, such as the Intel Core 2 Duo Quad.

Enhanced! HD DVD on standard DVD Production

Create HD DVD productions with motion menus, and burn to standard DVDs using an improved workflow. HD DVDs play on set-top or PC HD DVD players, Xbox 360 HD DVD players, or standard PC DVD drives with appropriate software.

NEW! Native .TOD format (JVC HD Camcorder) import and editing

Import and edit TOD video files in its native form

BONUS!Manage and Edit Your Media with Corel MediaOne Plus

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Customer Reviews

The best reasonably priced video editing software on the market today
I've long looked to Ulead VideoStudio as the best amateur video editing software out there, so I'm happy to finally get the chance to compare this package to those I've used in the past, namely the ubiquitous Windows Movie Maker and Roxio Easy Media Creator. I have to make clear here that I'm wholly an amateur when it comes to video editing (as anyone who has seen one of my YouTube videos could tell you), so all of the technical specs of software such as this are quite over my head. The beauty of this product, though, is that it meets the needs of the newbie just wanting to edit his home movies as and offers up a huge buffet of options for advanced amateurs who know all of the acronyms, like to argue with other gurus about formats and resolutions, and produce darn-near professional quality videos for any and all occasions. The software may initially look difficult to learn and use, but it doesn't take long to learn the basics - and then you can learn more advanced features at your own pace.

It goes without saying that you're going to need a pretty powerful computer if you want to use this software without tearing your hair out. The system requirements are, in my opinion, something of a joke. There's no way I would try running this with a mere 512 MB of RAM (or, in the case of Vista, even 1 GB); I would recommend at least 1 GB of RAM on Windows XP and 2 GB on Vista - anything less, and you're just asking for problems. Memory becomes even more of an issue if you're going to be taking advantage of the wealth of HD capabilities this package boasts. Those HD capabilities really are a big selling point, by the way (as you can tell just by a quick perusal of the box cover or product summary). You certainly aren't going to be saving any HD videos to Blu-Ray using Windows Movie Maker.

The package comes with an impressive number of templates, filters, effects, etc., and the complete novice can rely on wizards to help him/her put together an impressive project. Once you've mastered the basics, you have all kinds of enhancement options to choose from. If you've thought about paying someone to put together a slideshow using old family pictures, forget about it. It's easy to create a slideshow of images in VideoStudio, and you can basically control every aspect of the production, from inserting music to specifying the transformation settings from any one image to another. It's almost as easy to create a video and truly customize it to your desires. One particularly nice feature is the ability to add a voice track as well as a music track rather than limiting the user to one "audio" track. You can also insert multiple overlays, which is another powerful feature. And you can export your finished projects all sorts of ways: to your PC, to DVD, to online sites such as YouTube, and to iPods and a number of other portable devices.

VideoStudio isn't perfectly intuitive. For example, you have a plethora of formats in which you can render a given file, but the rendering option is by no means prominent on the display. I would also like to have seen some kind of cheat sheet for basic operations included alongside the manual, but I have to say this product manual itself isn't all that bad (although, as with most such software, your best source for information and guidance can probably be found in online forums and the like). The manual is especially instructive in terms of setting things up and connecting to different digital and even analog video sources.

As far as the installation goes, I had no problems whatsoever (for the record, I'm running Vista with 4 GB of RAM). Right off the bat, it came up saying I needed Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable SP1 Package and Microsoft DirectX Feb2006 Runtime, but the setup program installed those for me. From then on, it was smooth sailing, including the extras that come on the bonus CD: WinDVD 8, MediaOne Plus Photo & Video Manager, and ULead Disc Image Recorder.

The bottom line in this: Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is, in my opinion, the best and most economical video editing program for amateurs on the market. Even if you're only interested in making the most basic of videos for any purpose, I would definitely recommend that you take a look at this package.

Software fairly easy to use, but can take hours of processing.
This is my first time with any camcorder software. This software is fairly easy to use.

I have a HG10 Camcorder which uses AVCHD format, this can take hours to process onto a DVD. The DVD version is not as good as the original version.

There is a Corel Technical Web site for problems and also a forum which deals with problems & other queries etc.

It is easy to insert the video clips onto the programme, then they may require editing, labeling the clips as well as adding music and or voice for the final version. There are other features such as gamma, brightness etc. together with filters for sound/music

I edited about 60 clips, which lasted about 80 minutes, added titles and some music, these were then rendered and sound was also saved etc. The process had to be completed by a further processing, before being saved onto a DVD.

The whole process from start to end took me at least 8-10 hours, using a dual core processor E8400, and 2Gig Ram, XP Home Edition. If you have a quad core then it may be a little quicker. If you are prepared to be patient then you can get good results.

There are also other features, which allows copying of video onto a DVD in less time.

Make sure your computer specification is adequate if possessing AVCHD format.

Minor Problems but Great Package
Having read the reviews regarding crashing I was a little worried about this software, but, it works like a dream. I've always used Pinnacle Studio in the past but have been dissapointed by the speeds at which it could handle AVCHD. Ulead is miles better and the end rendering is a good deal quicker too. Ive output to file, DVD and BD so far without any issues on my main PC. I did have a crash on my other PC which is identical except its graphics card. Main PC runs a pair of Nvidia 8600GTS' wheras the other PC has an older ATI card in it. Seems to be a video memory related issue and ive ordered a replacement for that card already. Great Software!