Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle [Old Version]

by Corel

Product Features

• The Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle brings photo, video, DVD and Blu-ray authoring software together in one place
• VideoStudio Pro X3 is a complete HD video-editing program for importing, editing, burning and sharing standard or HD video
• PaintShop Photo Pro X3 lets you manage, adjust, edit and share your digital photos?all in one place
• Create HD slideshows, photo books, cards and more; produce polished movies with studio-quality effects
• Share everywhere--print, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, mobile device and more

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003170HQG
• Item model number: PVBPRX3ENMB
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 22, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,654 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Get the total photo- and video-editing solution with Corel's Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle. With incredible power and ease of use, it includes everything you need to create professional-quality photos and videos, including PaintShop Photo Pro X3 and VideoStudio Pro X3, plus valuable extras like Painter Photo Essentials 4, DVD Movie Factory Pro 2010 and Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4--all for a great value.

Get the total photo- and video-editing solution with Corel's Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle.

Overview

The new Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle brings photo, video, DVD and Blu-ray authoring software together so you can create your best-ever photos and videos--all in one place. Easily organize and manage your photo and video collections. Make your photos look extraordinary, then show them off in photo books, HD slideshows, cards and more. Create polished movies with studio-quality effects, titles, transitions and sound, then share them everywhere, from YouTube to Blu-ray Disc and everything in between. The bundle also includes a variety of powerful and creative plug-ins, templates and extras, giving you the complete photo and video package.

• Organize your entire photo and video collection
• Fix photos and videos fast or go deep with advanced editing
• Create HD slideshows, photo books, cards and more
• Produce polished movies with studio-quality effects
• Share everywhere--print, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, mobile device and more

What's Included

PaintShop Photo Pro X3: Advanced Photo-Editing

• Enhanced--Photo Organizer
• New--Camera RAW Lab
• New--Easy batch processing
• Enhanced--Express and Advanced editing modes
• New--Integrated photo projects
• Enhanced--Online sharing and easy backup
• VideoStudio Pro X3

VideoStudio Pro X3: Powerful Video-Editing Software

• New--Faster HD editing and rendering
• New--Professional HD-quality templates
• New--Studio-quality effects and filters
• New--Express and Advanced editing modes
• New--Blu-ray authoring and burning
• Enhanced--Online and mobile sharing

Valuable Extras

• Corel Painter Photo Essentials 4
• DVD Movie Factory 2010
• Over $500 worth of RevoStock templates
• NewBlueFX filters
• KPT plug-in filters
• Royalty-free music from SmartSound

The Organizer simplifies photo management. Click to enlarge.

The Express Lab has tools for the most common digital photography problems. Click to enlarge.

PaintShop Photo Pro X3 simplifies creating great-looking photo books. Click to enlarge.

The Project Creator has a variety of slide show options. Click to enlarge.

PaintShop Photo Pro X3

Simplify your digital workflow

Enhanced--Photo Organizer
Load, find, view and edit photos faster with the integrated Organizer. New photo management capabilities let you customize your workflow with tools for rating, tagging, locating and quickly touching up image files. Select photos fast using both thumbnails and previews.

New--Easy Batch Processing
Capture changes made to one image and easily apply those edits to multiple photos, removing the tedium of making the same changes over and over again.

Enhanced--Express Lab
Quickly access the most-used photo-editing tools all in one place and make quick fixes to common flaws. The Express Lab now includes Color Balance, Local Tone Mapping, Contrast/Brightness, Sharpen and One Step Noise Removal.

Camera RAW Support
Make RAW adjustments during the loading process and work with the latest RAW camera formats.

Do more with advanced photo-editing tools

New--Smart Carver
Achieve impressive results quickly by seamlessly and realistically removing objects and scaling without distorting the image.

New--Vibrancy
Boost color in the least saturated areas of a photo without affecting the rest of the image.

New--Object Extractor
The integrated Object Extractor isolates an object--even challenging cases such as flyaway hair and fuzzy pet fur--so it can be copied to a new background or a new background can be pasted behind it.

Depth of Field Effect
Create effects that you can't do with a camera lense alone. Draw attention to a specific area of an image by focusing on one region and applying an out-of-focus blur to the rest of the image.

New--On-Image Text Editing
Adjust font, color, placement, position, size and wrapping of the text on an image. Reselect the text on the image and continue typing, or apply text on a path.

HDR Photo Merge
Quickly merge photos of the same scene taken at different exposures, or with different brightness and contrast settings, to create a final image that features the full range of detail in the highlights and the shadows.

Layers and Adjustment Layers
Adjust the color or tone of your images without actually modifying the pixels on each layer.

Adjust Levels & Curves
Precisely adjust tone, color balance and exposure with exceptional control.

Fix it fast in Express Lab

Learning Center
The award-winning Learning Center empowers anyone to harness the power of advanced photo editing, helping you complete tasks within seconds of launching PaintShop Pro Photo.

Makeover Tools
Make sure the people in your photos look their best with tools that are fun and easy to use. Help your subjects look thinner in seconds, whiten bloodshot eyes, smooth wrinkles and more.

Enhanced--Remove Digital Camera Noise
Remove noise artifacts that interfere with the clarity of your digital image--faster than ever!

Get creative with projects and photo sharing

Enhanced--Built-in Creative Projects
The new Project Creator is a fast and simple way to make a great-looking photo book, collages, cards and more--all in addition to PaintShop's easy online sharing options.

New--Easy Photo Sharing
Share photos and videos where and how you want, using email, Flickr, Facebook and YouTube. Print at home, order prints online*, email or quickly burn a DVD to enjoy on your TV.

Layer Styles
Easily apply artistic effects to individual layers, such as drop shadows, embossing and reflections.

The Media Organizer in VideoStudio Express puts movie production on the fast track. Click to enlarge.

Express Edit is great for quick video modifications. Click to enlarge.

You can share directly to Vimeo from VideoStudio Pro X3. Click to enlarge.

VideoStudio Pro X3

More speed across the board

New--Launcher
From one convenient location, start express editing, more advanced video editing, DV-to-DVD conversion, or launch DVD Movie Factory 2010.

New--GPU and CPU Acceleration
Dramatically speed up your entire movie making process with NVIDIA CUDA and Intel Core i7 optimization.

New--VideoStudio Express
Make quick edits, and combine video clips, photos, music and voiceover to create a professional-looking movie in just minutes.

Enhanced--User Interface
The redesigned interface keeps all your tools within easy reach so you never have to interrupt your creative flow.

New--High-Speed Filters
Accelerate the video-editing process by previewing your effects in real time. Less time waiting means more time creating!

Smart Proxy Editing
Edit HD content faster, even on basic PCs. Smart Proxy lets you work quickly in a lower resolution until you're ready to render your project in HD.

Studio-quality templates and effects

New--Movie Templates
VideoStudio Pro X3 includes over $500 US worth of high-quality templates from RevoStock. Turn video clips into polished movies in an instant, with Hollywood-style titles, transitions, pans and zooms, credits and more.

New--RotoSketch
Transform videos, video frames and photos into animated clips and hand-sketched drawings in a few clicks.

Enhanced--Title Effects
Create stunning titles in seconds by adding multiple title tracks and effects, then customize your work to get the perfect look.

New--Multi-track Overlay Effects
Apply filters on overlay tracks, including titles and images.

New--NewBlueFX Filters
The NewBlueFX Pack includes a variety of animated effects, including the Detail Enhancer for strengthening edges and bringing out detail in a dull or foggy scene, and the Active Camera for simulating every variety of camera jitter.

New--Mood Music from SmartSound
Load a multi-layered audio track as background to a video, then fine-tune individual instruments to ensure that the music complements your movie, not distracts from it. Add even more music and sound effects with two new audio tracks.

End-to-end HD video production

Enhanced--HD Capture and Import
Import HD video from anywhere, including HDV, AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc and JVC HD camcorders. Import standard video from DV, analog camcorders, the Web, USB and still image cameras.

Enhanced--Blu-ray Authoring and Burning
Create your own Blu-ray titles, and author menus for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, including BD-J menus.

New--H.264 Compression
Get HD quality in smaller files by creating HD MPEG-4 files with the H.264 codec.

Unlimited video sharing

Enhanced--Online sharing
Upload your videos and slideshows directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook and Flickr.

Enhanced--Format Flexibility
Save movies to AVI, FLV, MP3 encode, AC3 5.1, AVCHD, HD MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and more.

Enhanced--Copy, Convert and Burn
Copy movies to your device of choice, including iPod, iPhone, MP3 players (USB) and PlayStation Portable (PSP). Burn CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and AVCHD discs.

Product Description

Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle PVBPRX3ENMB Software Suite (*)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Like X2 - stay away from this one..., February 21, 2010

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D. Kenney (NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

Check online reviews also. No improvement over X2's slow performance. Lot's of crashes, eats up system resources. Corel very slow in responding with fixes. This is another "not ready for prime time " release.

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Corel has killed this product. Time to get PhotoShop, February 26, 2010

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A. Gundrum "agundrum" (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

I have to agree that since Corel took over, this product has gone downhill. I've used PSP since version 5 and the problems have really gotten worse with X2. Going forward my only choice is to get PhotoShop.

I've experienced the crashes and slow performance other people have mentioned - especially after the 12.01 update. My initial issues were the program complained all the time about paths not being found. Contacting tech support didn't get me far beyond the "use this utility to uninstall the app and follow these instructions." Initially, this seemed to work. But this was a false sense of security because the problem would appear again later on. Then it got worse. The app started crashing when I tried to use certain common functions - like Paste As New Selection!!! This rendered the app unusable. So I went through uninstalling it, deleting all registry entries and folders --- AGAIN! A reinstall seemed to work. Then I applied the 12.01 upgrade, and it's back to crashing. This time it's crashing before it even get to the application! The app has been rendered totally useless.

So once again, I'll do the uninstall thing and reinstall the original from the CD and not install the upgrade.

Heed this warning: DO NOT INSTALL the 12.01 upgrade! This seems to be the downfall to making PSP completely unusable.

Hopefully I'll be able to continue using the 12.00 version until I'm able to get PhotoShop.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the price, March 10, 2010

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B. Farnsworth "afs760bf" (OKC, OK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Photo & Video Pro X3 Bundle [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

I have used PSP since the old JASC days. I think version 5 was my first. I think version 6 was the best. I still use PSP because I'm used to it, but I may just have to bite the bullet and learn something else. I shoot Pentax, and the first thing I learned about X2 was that it did not accomodate Pentax raw. I was waiting for X3 to fix that, which it may have, although about half the time, the software shuts down instantly after opening the photo and exercising about four commands. X3 also appears to strip the EXIF data from the saved version of the image, which is rather frustrating. There is an option box to check if you want to save the EXIF data, but it doesn't matter if its checked or not.

I keep hoping that Corel will get their act together on this and put out a decent version. I've been hoping that for the last three versions, but nothing good seems to be happening. I suppose one could argue that you get what you pay for, but Corel should be able to do a lot better than this version. If I had used the money I paid for the last three versions, I could have come close to getting Photoshop. I suggest saving your money unless you can get it for less than ten bucks.