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Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X5 - Live life. Make movies.With ultra-fast processing and more easy-to-use tools than ever, Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X5 offers you a world of creative video editing, advanced effects, animation, and complete screen recording production. Create interactive video with built-in support for HTML5, share on your favourite devices and websites, and burn to DVD or Blu-ray™ with ease - all with one complete package.
All-in-one video-editing suite Now with 21 multimedia editing tracks for video, graphics and titles, Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X5 gives you even more ways to create content-rich movies. Creative tools for Stop Motion Animation, Time-Lapse effect and 3D movie-making let you add unique visual effects that will captivate your audience. Advanced compositing and visual effects |
Screen recording The fastest Corel® VideoStudio® Pro yet! |
HTML5 authoring, sharing and output Templates get you started fast Flexible workspace |
| Advanced support for more cameras Enhanced disc authoring
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Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 Ultimate is complete video-editing collection, combining ultra-fast performance, intuitive editing tools, advanced effects and screen recording, with bonus plug-ins from proDAD, Boris FX and NewBlue. Captivate any audience with broadcast-quality effects, multi-layered graphics, and 2D and 3D titling. Fix even the shakiest video with image correction tools and rock-steady video stabilization. Apply animated pen effects to maps, graphics and photos. Plus, get more innovative sharing options with HTML5 support and enhanced disc authoring tools.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
By Mr. Richard Pearn
TOP 500 REVIEWER
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Corel Video Studio ProX5 Ultimate edition
My background
I run a design agency and now have a requirement to use Video in our websites and presentations to clients. We have always done this by linking to Youtube or using Flash. Both these are workable but not very professional if something goes wrong. We write for the PC, Linux and Mac platform with iPhone and iPad support.
My brief
To find software that integrates with other software without using external third party software. Also I want a video editing packages that is easy and fun to use and most of all stable while in use. I am testing this on a core i5, 16Gb DDR 3 RAM, 128GB SSD drive and a 1TB hard drive with onboard graphics. I am reasonably e3xperienced in video editing.
Loading
The Corel software loaded easily with the minimum intervention from me. The whole process took about 5 minutes. I registered and was ready to go.
The interface
The interface is well laid out but all the tools are there as you need them. The system works using a workflow layout. First import clips, edit clips together, add effects and publish and save. It's all very logical and easy to use and get to grips with. After this basic series of operations the user can then add more advanced option like sound edits, background music and fades. The included filter pre-sets work well but can be tweaked by the user if needed. There are lots of effect from useful ones like camera shake correction and exposure to more gimmicky filter effects for those so inclined.
You can layer clips which is great for me to make presentations look less dry and corporate. I managed to quickly do one with a nice woodland background as a trial. Over all the editing process is logical and easy to get to grips with but powerful enough to get much more out of it as experience and confidence grows. The more advanced feature allow multiple layers, Stop motion animation and time lapse which are useful if you need them. I can see film students loving the flexibility here.
The clip input interface takes video information from most common file types and converts them as necessary into your chosen output format. This is useful if you have many file types. There are clean up options which will go some way to re3storing older clips imported from VHS and older cameras. This works well but I found the presets over brightened and made everything a little too contrasted for my liking. A few tweaks of the presets restored everything to my liking. Yes, it that easy to use.
Speed
On my machine with the SSD drive everything was very slick, I could never go back to a hard drive only machine now. I expect a lot of the speed was due to the SSD but it was amazing for the amount of CPU time and load needed. This would appear to be a very fast package if run on a modern machine.
Output
This has a great deal of options. The most interesting on for me was to be able to save the video file for use in HTML 5. You can also go direct to Facebook, Flicker and YouTube. If you choose these options the clip is automatically compress for best quality and speed of access. It works well in practice. The HTML 5 is great as you can add interactive hotspots to jump around clips and I can see myself using this more and more to gain interactivity and input during clips.
You can also output pahone and Pad compatible version of videos.
DVD and Blue-Ray authoring
You can save to both formats and this is an automated process after a few tick boxes are filled in. I have only saved a few DVD's out of curiosity and they worked fine and playe3d on my computer and TV with no problems. I don't have the luxury of a Blue-Ray writer but the menus look pretty straight forward.
Stability
In use this is a fast and stable piece of software. This is great for a video editing package as most other I have tried have frozen of fallen over at some stage. I have clocked up quite a few hours on this package with no glitches what so ever. I see from reviews that some people have had issues but I expect this is down to machine bottlenecks rather than the package. Video editing software uses a lot of CPU, RAM and system bandwidth so it needs a good machine. I think the SSD drive helps here and now the price is coming down it is a wise move if you use memory and CPU intensive software like this that demands high speed from the data disk. Once I have finished a project I save it on a hard drive so that I keep SSD workspace clear. It's a different way of working but it is a better way in my opinion.
Support
This software actually comes with a decent manual that walks you through the basics, a rare thing these days! There is also online support and 'how to videos' so support and training is very well covered by Corel.
In the Ultimate package Corel throws in loads of effects, transitions and templates and some auxiliary software to add effects.
Any weaknesses ?
The title generator is a bit basic but this is really nit picking here. Apart from that I would recommend this as a good beginners to intermediate package and if you need HTML 5 support for websites then this has it out of the box. It is PC only and no Mac version so my employees won't touch it as they love their Mac's.
Overall
Well this package is a keeper for me. It does what I need it to do and is easy to use, I have not written that about software for a long time !
My background
I run a design agency and now have a requirement to use Video in our websites and presentations to clients. We have always done this by linking to Youtube or using Flash. Both these are workable but not very professional if something goes wrong. We write for the PC, Linux and Mac platform with iPhone and iPad support.
My brief
To find software that integrates with other software without using external third party software. Also I want a video editing packages that is easy and fun to use and most of all stable while in use. I am testing this on a core i5, 16Gb DDR 3 RAM, 128GB SSD drive and a 1TB hard drive with onboard graphics. I am reasonably e3xperienced in video editing.
Loading
The Corel software loaded easily with the minimum intervention from me. The whole process took about 5 minutes. I registered and was ready to go.
The interface
The interface is well laid out but all the tools are there as you need them. The system works using a workflow layout. First import clips, edit clips together, add effects and publish and save. It's all very logical and easy to use and get to grips with. After this basic series of operations the user can then add more advanced option like sound edits, background music and fades. The included filter pre-sets work well but can be tweaked by the user if needed. There are lots of effect from useful ones like camera shake correction and exposure to more gimmicky filter effects for those so inclined.
You can layer clips which is great for me to make presentations look less dry and corporate. I managed to quickly do one with a nice woodland background as a trial. Over all the editing process is logical and easy to get to grips with but powerful enough to get much more out of it as experience and confidence grows. The more advanced feature allow multiple layers, Stop motion animation and time lapse which are useful if you need them. I can see film students loving the flexibility here.
The clip input interface takes video information from most common file types and converts them as necessary into your chosen output format. This is useful if you have many file types. There are clean up options which will go some way to re3storing older clips imported from VHS and older cameras. This works well but I found the presets over brightened and made everything a little too contrasted for my liking. A few tweaks of the presets restored everything to my liking. Yes, it that easy to use.
Speed
On my machine with the SSD drive everything was very slick, I could never go back to a hard drive only machine now. I expect a lot of the speed was due to the SSD but it was amazing for the amount of CPU time and load needed. This would appear to be a very fast package if run on a modern machine.
Output
This has a great deal of options. The most interesting on for me was to be able to save the video file for use in HTML 5. You can also go direct to Facebook, Flicker and YouTube. If you choose these options the clip is automatically compress for best quality and speed of access. It works well in practice. The HTML 5 is great as you can add interactive hotspots to jump around clips and I can see myself using this more and more to gain interactivity and input during clips.
You can also output pahone and Pad compatible version of videos.
DVD and Blue-Ray authoring
You can save to both formats and this is an automated process after a few tick boxes are filled in. I have only saved a few DVD's out of curiosity and they worked fine and playe3d on my computer and TV with no problems. I don't have the luxury of a Blue-Ray writer but the menus look pretty straight forward.
Stability
In use this is a fast and stable piece of software. This is great for a video editing package as most other I have tried have frozen of fallen over at some stage. I have clocked up quite a few hours on this package with no glitches what so ever. I see from reviews that some people have had issues but I expect this is down to machine bottlenecks rather than the package. Video editing software uses a lot of CPU, RAM and system bandwidth so it needs a good machine. I think the SSD drive helps here and now the price is coming down it is a wise move if you use memory and CPU intensive software like this that demands high speed from the data disk. Once I have finished a project I save it on a hard drive so that I keep SSD workspace clear. It's a different way of working but it is a better way in my opinion.
Support
This software actually comes with a decent manual that walks you through the basics, a rare thing these days! There is also online support and 'how to videos' so support and training is very well covered by Corel.
In the Ultimate package Corel throws in loads of effects, transitions and templates and some auxiliary software to add effects.
Any weaknesses ?
The title generator is a bit basic but this is really nit picking here. Apart from that I would recommend this as a good beginners to intermediate package and if you need HTML 5 support for websites then this has it out of the box. It is PC only and no Mac version so my employees won't touch it as they love their Mac's.
Overall
Well this package is a keeper for me. It does what I need it to do and is easy to use, I have not written that about software for a long time !
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I purchased this after trying their trial version which I found satisfactory. Before loading the program I uninstalled the trial and it appeared that it was removed OK so installed the Ultimate Version, on trying to use the program nothing would work and Corel support eventually forwarded a special removal program that was supposed to remove all Corel programs, however Windows/Microsoft would not let this removal program to run. Numerous contacts have been made to Corel Support all without any advice and 4 weeks later still no help from them. This product does not even warrant 1 star and this program should not be purchased. Corel do not care about customers and even a letter to their CEO in Canada has not so far generated any help. Do not waste your money on this program.
19 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Bronn
TOP 1000 REVIEWER
I found this program incredibly easy to use - the UI is one of the best i have ever seen in an editing suite and will be
very attractive to beginners. When you first start the app your greeted with the Corel Guide window which has video
tutorials and free downloads of additional templates, titles, fonts and audio files. Although it's an easy to use app it
has all the features of competing products as well as some nice extras like importing and editing 3D files such as MVC/MPO.
As with most editing programs the timeline runs along the bottom half of the screen, top left houses a preview/trim window,
and the top right has your video library as well all the video and audio effects at your disposal. Very simple user interface.
Like the previous version the 3 step workflow of Capture, Edit and Share remains. Once you have finished importing/capturing
your video and have completed editing your ready to share your masterpiece. The program has several built in options allowing
you to upload directly to services such as Flickr, Vimeo and of course YouTube (with a 3D option too).
Performance wise everything is very smooth due to the app's enchanced multithreading capabilities which take full advantage
of the latest multicore processors from AMD and Intel. Different tasks are assigned to the various cores making everything
from previewing HD video to exporting it run much smoother and faster. On my Intel i5 processor everything went nicely.
An excellent new feature included is screen capture, its built into the app and allows you to record what you're doing on your
screen - both audio and video. There is freeware that does the same, but this is built into Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 and is
very quick and easy to use, and there is hardly any lag or slowdown because the app uses the Windows Media API for acceleration.
Another great feature is the ability to create stop motion clips from webcams, digital cameras and SLRs. Like the rest of the
program its very easy to configure. The app takes all of your shots and compiles them into a video clip which makes the job
of adding titles and effects even easier.
VideoStudio Pro X5 is easy to use, packs all the features expected in modern editing suites and then some. It's not cheap, but
the templates and effects included, as well as all the free ones available from Corel Guide definitley add some value to this
package. This is a good editing suite suitable for beginners and intermediates - 8.5 out of 10.
very attractive to beginners. When you first start the app your greeted with the Corel Guide window which has video
tutorials and free downloads of additional templates, titles, fonts and audio files. Although it's an easy to use app it
has all the features of competing products as well as some nice extras like importing and editing 3D files such as MVC/MPO.
As with most editing programs the timeline runs along the bottom half of the screen, top left houses a preview/trim window,
and the top right has your video library as well all the video and audio effects at your disposal. Very simple user interface.
Like the previous version the 3 step workflow of Capture, Edit and Share remains. Once you have finished importing/capturing
your video and have completed editing your ready to share your masterpiece. The program has several built in options allowing
you to upload directly to services such as Flickr, Vimeo and of course YouTube (with a 3D option too).
Performance wise everything is very smooth due to the app's enchanced multithreading capabilities which take full advantage
of the latest multicore processors from AMD and Intel. Different tasks are assigned to the various cores making everything
from previewing HD video to exporting it run much smoother and faster. On my Intel i5 processor everything went nicely.
An excellent new feature included is screen capture, its built into the app and allows you to record what you're doing on your
screen - both audio and video. There is freeware that does the same, but this is built into Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 and is
very quick and easy to use, and there is hardly any lag or slowdown because the app uses the Windows Media API for acceleration.
Another great feature is the ability to create stop motion clips from webcams, digital cameras and SLRs. Like the rest of the
program its very easy to configure. The app takes all of your shots and compiles them into a video clip which makes the job
of adding titles and effects even easier.
VideoStudio Pro X5 is easy to use, packs all the features expected in modern editing suites and then some. It's not cheap, but
the templates and effects included, as well as all the free ones available from Corel Guide definitley add some value to this
package. This is a good editing suite suitable for beginners and intermediates - 8.5 out of 10.
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