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 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $60.00
You Save: $69.99 (54%)
New (7) from $60.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 2216
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows Vista
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0.1 x 0.1
MPN: VS11PLENGPC
Model: VS11PLENGPC
UPC: 735163113624
EAN: 0735163113686
ASIN: B000PDNHNO
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Best I have found November 27, 2007
71 out of 72 found this review helpful
Video editing is not simple and projects place the most severe demands on your PC. When you move to HD, the demands increase exponentially. Ulead VideoStudio 11, like any editor, does have a learning curve, so be patient. Be certain to read the manual that comes with the box or download it from their site in pdf and take it with you on your laptop or pda.
If you are just starting out as a video editor, you have some surprises ahead because it is a tedious job; not only to learn, but to produce. It is far more difficult than working with photos. If you are just looking to produce a short DVD movie from your camera, it is easy. But, adding titles, overlays, and audio tracks does take time.
I have had several months experience comparing the Ulead VideoStudio to Pinnacle Studio Plus 11. I find the features and reliablity of the Ulead suite to be superior to any of the consumer level Pinnacle softwares. In fact, my experiences with Pinnacle have been less than satisfactory and their support is non-existent. I would stay far away.
What is particularly nice about this product is that when you install and register, it is fully functional. There are no gimmicks requiring you to activate other features. Also, it doesn't seem to overtax your processor. With Pinnacle, my processor fan was on high the entire time and I experienced numerous hangups and crashes with the CPU @ 100%. Ulead doesn't do that. It does, however, pause in an inactive mode for a while when performing certain tasks like splitting scenes from your movie. These pauses appear to be hangups and provide no "...please wait", but eventually it comes back. Get another cup of coffee. Will you experience crashes? Probably, but fewer.
While I do like Pinnacle's editor a lot, I spent three weeks editing a series of digitized 8mm family movies into a one hour project. Pinnacle would only produce 41 minutes of the project either to disk or DVD. That was a lot of wasted time and their "support" could not solve the problem. If only Ulead would import Pinnacle projects; that would be a coup.
So, this review seems to be mostly what I don't like about Pinnacle Studio Plus 11, but for the reader's satisfaction I moved from that product to Ulead VideoStudio 11 and found some welcome relief as well as full features. I did spend three wasted weeks with Pinnacle and that is a sore point with me. The moral to my story is start with Ulead VideoStudio and when you get good at it, perhaps move along to high-end products like Adobe. My jury is still out for a while on this product, but so far it looks good.
I hope this was helpful.
Amended...just finished my one hour movie using Ulead VideoStudio 11. Completed the project over three days without one computer hang up or crash. The program is great and deserves five stars.
 If you Do HD(AVCHD) Prepare for the worst - UPDATED! November 25, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased this product to import and edit videos from my Panasonic SD1 which uses the AVCHD format. If you can get past the bugs and crashes (has crashed on different machines for me, and different OS's) then this is the SW for you. It's super slow even on my dual core 2.8ghz 3Gig of ram machine with an 8600 series GeForce.. i wasted $129 on this months ago.. now i find myself looking for another sw package to do my editing..
as a side note, if you are looking to create the best looking videos at the best compression rates (h.264 format) you can forget using this package. It won't encode in HD size, the options are weak (no deinterlace), and i even found one of the tempates in export doesnt even produce the type of video it says (WMV 720P actually comes out as a WMV 480i).
UPDATE! - I actually have to say, Corel has fixed the issues i have raised in the above review so now i upgrade my my review to 4 stars..
 U-Lead 11 November 24, 2007
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have an earlier version of U-Lead and somewhat disappointed that 11 wasn't much better. Especially for the price I paid.
 This will make you a movie maker and AVCHD tamer November 21, 2007
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I own several videoediting programs, but nothing quite like this great piece of software.
If you are creative and like to play with effects and things you can do so much with this program. If you are not, the considerable number of templates will simplify your learning curve. Since I started making home movies and slide shows with Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus, my moviemaking skills have reached a new level. Every movie has become very professional looking. The program is very intuitive and so easy to use. This program gives you a large variety of tools, templates, effects, picture in picture overlays, etc. Sharing your work with your loved ones will create anticipation for new productions. This program will help you capture, edit and share in just about any format. Although I have not tested yet, it should even allow you to import videos in the new AVCHD format! That is exactly what I will be using to edit my High Definition Canon HG10 files. I have not seen any cons at all as of yet.
Finally, I wanted to give a 6 star rating to this program; unfortunately, you can only go as high as five. It is amazing how much I can do with this program. I am really pleased.
Update #1:
How sweet it is! Now that I have High Definition video files captured with my Canon HG10, I use this program to edit the dreaded AVCHD files with ease. If you experience any trouble at all, more than likely it falls on your computer processing, memory, or both. This program will perform as specified if your computer meets the recommended requirements; specifically if you want to edit AVCHD files. It seems faultless so far. One last thing, do not forget to apply a couple of patches from Ulead website for free.
Awesome Easy software to use for just about anyone November 8, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This package is perfect for anyone who is ready to dive right into editing their home movies. There are plenty of options and its real straight forward and easy to use.
I was editing and burning dvd's of my movie within an hour of starting to edit.
Take a SERIOUS look into this.
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