| | |  | Home Publishing | Home » » » » Corel Video Studio Pro X2 | | | | | | | Description: | | Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 is an all-in-one video-editing software for creating high-quality HD and standard-definition movies, slide shows and DVDs. Edit video or photos quickly and easily using the Movie Wizard, or take full control with hands-on creative tools. Even paint, write or draw on your video. Burn your movies on DVDs, or high-definition AVCHD and Blu-ray discs. Share on PSP, iPod or iPhone, upload directly to YouTube. Watch your movies on set-top players or with the included Corel WinDVD. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 9.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.44 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 223 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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329 of 347 found the following review helpful:
 While not Final Cut it IS a powerful video editing suite.Oct 25, 2008
By J. J. Marino
"Geekasaurus Rex"
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1SYV9LMI4Q520 This entire video was made in Video Studio Pro X2. I purposely did it as fast as I could to show the power of the product (matter of fact this writeup took longer). Besides the obvious time line oriented video editing, there are a ton of video outputs that can be utilized whatever your ability. You can export directly to You Tube, or record it in HD for watching in 1080. Direct to DVD authoring is another really nice addition.
I have used Final Cut Pro Studio costing $1300. While this is NOT as powerful at all, it does allow for a good deal of professional editing. It has a very low learning curve and if you just need to make excellent quality videos and not spend a very long time learning then this is the product for you.
You can import your own clips very easily, just drag and drop. It will even import your entire audio library. I tried to do a voice over for this video but my mic is really poor quality so it sounded very digitized. It allows you to add a voice over with 1 click though and I may redo this review if I can get a better mic. It is very refreshing the amount of video outputs this program has. If your a novice and want to make a video that is high quality for You Tube it is just a few clicks and you are done. The menus are easy to navigate and very intuitive.
About this video: Because I did not want to wait 3 hours to upload it. I rendered it at 30fps mpg. I am not sure how Amazon codec will re-render so I hope it looks nice when it is finally converted.
Thank you for watching!
119 of 123 found the following review helpful:
 Productive Program with a few bugsNov 03, 2008
By Chawks
VideoStudio Pro X2 is enigmatic program. It is an easy to use video editor, with powerful editing tools often found in much more expensive programs. Tools such as:
- Editing Masks
- Graphic overlays
- Color correction & brightness
- White balance & tone adjustments (very useful for indoor photography)
- Video rotation
- Ability to add flash animations to your video
- Chroma key functions
- Surround sound mixing
- Stretching audio duration
From my tests and reading of the manual these functions seem to be relatively easy to use. However, the quality of the program is always found in the production process and the final output.
To test VideoStudio Pro X2 I imported a 30 minute avi file and had VideoStudio segment this clip into segments. Next, I placed these segments onto the storyboard and cut out a few unwanted clips at the start and end of video. Next, I trimmed the opening and ending clips using the clip trim handles. Finally, I applied an audio fade at the end of the video and burned the production to a dvd. All of these functions worked perfectly and quickly on a Pentium 4, 3ghz machine with 3 gigabytes of ram. Impressive!
However, VideoStudio does exhibit some unstable behavior upon exiting the program. VideoStudio has given me a couple error messages upon shutdown. Strangely, neither of these error messages affected the editing and production process. My guess is that VideoStudio is not fully releasing the memory it was occupying.
Corel is close to having a class defining video editor. Hopefully, Corel will issue an update to fix some of the small but irritating bugs.
P.S. If you are looking for a slightly less powerful video editor that is even easier to use you might want to check out Serif's MoviePlus X3. Both of these programs appear to be far more stable than my old Pinnacle Studio versions 8, 9 or 11.
71 of 75 found the following review helpful:
Finally, Ease of Use, Advanced Editing, and Stability CombinedOct 28, 2008
By J.H.S.
I like making home videos, however, like most users, I want to dive right in without first being required to read a 2-inch thick manual to simply get started. On the other hand, I don't want a wimpy underpowered editing app that focuses so hard on being easy that it leaves out essential creative features. I tried several different applications on both PC and Mac platforms. I kept finding that the apps were either feature-rich yet complicated to use or easy to use but lacking in features. I was just about to give up hope when I got the chance to try Corel VideoStudio Pro x2. I think I finally found the perfect balance. This is a great program for the typical home user. From capture to burned DVD disc, it was really easy, straightforward, and offered plenty of options to really enhance the movie. Installation was simple with no complications. After install, it fired right up with no significant impact on system performance. I installed it on a dual-core Centrino laptop with 2GB of RAM and running Windows XP. I never experienced any lockups or crashes. The interface is clean, free from unnecessary clutter, and the controls are logically placed and easy to locate. I connected my camera to my laptop via 4 pin firewire. It immediately detected my Panasonic mini-DV camera and offered several capture options. I opted to capture in MPG2 format. You can capture in uncompressed formats as well, such as AVI. The program menu controls were logically placed and easy to access. There are tabs along the top labeled Capture, Edit, Effect, Overlay, Title, Audio, and Share. Clicking these tabs brings up the applicable options panel. I was trimming video, stretching audio, and combining clips with ease. I also tinkered with the many transitions, titles, and special effects. I never had to refer to the owners manual while creating my first DVD. Even using the chroma key to replace a transparent background, (blue screen and green screen effects), is relatively simple for a newcomer. I experienced no dropped frames and the resulting DVD was pretty nice with animated menus featuring clips of the video. The video quality was very good and played with no problems in a set-top DVD player. There are plenty of nice DVD menus available and everything, from capture to burn, is completed within the one application. The entire rendering and burn time for a 15-minute DVD was under 20 minutes. However, that was for a MPG2 capture, so rendering an AVI file or a file or a clip with heavy effects will obviously take a bit longer. If you are really in a rush and just want to quickly capture from camera to disk, there is a feature to do this. There is also a quick DVD feature that will quickly capture, create, and burn a themed DVD disk of your footage if you're not interested in editing. Other output options include HD and Blu-ray, however I don't have a Blu-ray player or HD camera yet, so I couldn't test those features. It also has a direct upload to Youtube and an option to export as an flv file.
Overall, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better combination of professional features while retaining ease of use. This program is so much fun to use because you can jump right in and do some really creative and advanced editing right away. It shouldn't be a chore to put together a nice home movie. If you need professional editing power with numerous audio and video tracks, and dozens of ways to tweak the raw footage, look elsewhere. However, If you're a home user and wish to dive right into the process and have a ton of fun while making a pretty good looking home movie in the process, you can't go wrong here.
60 of 65 found the following review helpful:
 A once-good product stumbles badly with this versionJan 30, 2009
By a reader
I've alternated between using Adobe Premier Elements 1 and Ulead Video Studio Version 7 and Version 9 over the last few years. If I occasionally needed to do something fancy, with a lot of picture-in-picture compositing and /or key-frame-based effects, I used Premiere -- although its interface was so annoying that for more normal projects I used Ulead, which I found to be a bit lacking in effects quality but overall extremely solid and easy to use.
I downloaded a trial version of Pro X2 and gave it a cursory test. The new effects looked great and overall I was pleased, so I bought it. I am now VERY sorry I didn't give it a more thorough test.
Post-purchase, I used Pro X2 to open one of my older Ulead 9 projects -- a pretty simple one, about 4 minutes long, consisting of about 12 short pre-rendered AVI files, 2-3 transition effects, and one audio track. In Pro X2 I made a very minor change, only adding a credits slide at the end. Nothing cutting edge.
When previewing the project, everything looked great. Then I rendered it as an AVI file.
I first became suspicious, however, that it took around 30 minutes to render (on a new, dual Pentium laptop with 2 gb of RAM, running XP3), whereas the original project had taken only around 15 minutes on an older machine running Ulead 9.
Then I saw that the resultant AVI file from Pro 2X was around 300 mb, vs 100 mb for the Ulead 9 project -- very strange since the two clips, burned to identical formats, differed from each other in length by only about 5 seconds.
But the really bad news came when I watched the resultant AVI file. The timing was WAY out of sync -- up to 7-8 seconds in some places. This completely ruined the project, which had been a tightly-timed music video. I tried re-rendering 4 times -- twice more to AVI, and twice to MPEG3 -- with same result.
All the great features in the world are irrelevant of you have no control over your final video.
I consulted the help file, which said nothing about this problem. I did notice that under the Troubleshooting section they did offer the generic advice that if Pro X2 isn't working properly, it might need repair, available by clicking Add/ Remove programs in Windows Control Panel, and then selecting the option to repair. Problem was, there was no option to repair -- only the option to remove the program or not. Why on earth give such fictitious advice? What were they thinking?
I refuse to pay Corel the required fee for tech support -- charging for help with something so flawed is a scam in my opinion. I will be seeking a refund.
By the way, just to be sure the problem wasn't with my new machine, I arranged the clips, music and title slide in the 5 year old Adobe Premier 1 which I installed on the new machine. It rendered perfectly.
48 of 52 found the following review helpful:
Errors abound and support is terrible!Dec 16, 2008
By G. Fox-Smith
We bought this upgrade from Video Studio 11 after my wife spent over 80 hours creating a video that would not render. Even with the upgrade, it appears the software will not use all of my 4Gb of memory nor does it use all of my 4 processors. Still would not render the video. By the way, it is only a 30 minute video put together from pictures and digital video clips of our family, not a big deal, right?
After 4 days of talking with Corel support(and paying them for it), we were told that we had to remove all of the transitions (which were all supplied with the software) and render the video again and then drop them in (50+ of them) one at a time to find out which one wasn't working and then "just don't use that one". This is unacceptable. Their product crashes every 5-10 minutes during use and after that many hours of work we still cannot burn a DVD even with hours of time spent with their support line trying to fix the problem.
My opinion is that if a company cannot get their product to work that they owe a refund or should definitely not charge you for the support call.
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