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91 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent value, superior product, RELIABLE!, 2 Sep 2004
I use Adobe Premiere 6 as my primary video editor but it has no DVD facilities so I need a secondary application. Until now I've been using Pinnacle Express which was bundled with my DVD burner. Express crashed during installation and hardly ceased crashing thereafter. Everytime I tried to create a DVD it had a 1 in 5 chance of succeeding without a system failure due to the horrendously buggy Pinnacle coding (TRY HARDER!). You can imagine how refreshing Ulead's product is then: it doesn't crash and it is very powerful. It's more amateur oriented than Premiere but it has many features that the Adobe application doesn't (such as good DVD menu creation and useful 3D effects suites). Also, a minor point here but important to me, it can import the AVI files generated by my Fuji 40i camera which no other video editing suite wants to go near! Somewhat usefully it can also import video files direct from a DVD and then you can use them as standard clips - that's powerful.
In summary: for £35 this is without doubt a major bargain. It can almost keep up with Premiere which costs upwards of £650. Finally: Ulead have included a marvellous book on Video production tips (lighting, colour balance, audio, terminology etc) in the package and it's almost worth the asking price on its own. Any book written by a renowned jazz musician named Douglas Spotted Eagle (a native American) is fine by me and it really is useful.
Buy this.
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219 of 221 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Video Production Software To Date!, 16 Jul 2004
It would seem that many users experience a host of problems with Pinnacle Studio 9 at all stages of the production process. I changed to this new software and found it to be robust, quicker and a dream to use. I've tested it with all sorts of digital (Camcorder) and analog (TV/Composite/S-Video) capture, creating MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and AVI, and finally DVD's. The software is really magic and for what you get it's the best software bargain on the planet. I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone.The software will capture from ANYWHERE because it knows about all capture devices, and really does produce a DVD with efficient rendering! Not only can you produce a Movie File, CD, VCD, SVCD, DVD, but you can even create a small streaming Web-Video direct to Ulead's web server! Yes, they give you online space to store it ! - and that's all so you can share small movies with friends and family online. But the great thing is the front-end - it has a great interface and it's a doddle to use. In 10 minutes I captured footage from live TV, my Web Cam, mixed it, added a DVD menu and burnt a DVD/RW. Great product, and unlike Studio 9, it hasn't already had a host of patches released already!
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103 of 104 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Product, 31 Aug 2004
I bought Video Studio 8.0 through Amazon, having read the horror stories about Pinnacle 9.0 and it's tendency to crash / hang.After a month of using VS 8.0, I've become really impressed with its simplicity of use, coupled with its vast array of features and effects. Your home movies quite literally will never look the same again. So far I've captured and edited several hours of mini-DV footage, and burned a number of DVDs for posting to the family. As the burning software is integrated into VS 8.0, there's no need for any other burning software such as Nero 6.0. Also, it's reliable enough not to create any coasters either ! VS 8.0's features allow you to capture, edit, and add transitions / titles to your footage, with a lot of effects built-in for you to experiment with. During burning, you can also create DVD menu screens and chapters to give that more professional finish. So far, the output burned onto DVD from a Sony DCR-HC40 camcorder source looks very impressive, even on a 32" widescreen TV. Well worth the money for a stable and feature-rich product. Proceed without caution.
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