Screenblast Movie Studio

by Sony

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00007B5DC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 24, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,926 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #66 in Software > Home & Hobbies > Movies & Television
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Screenblast Movie Studio offers amateur and semi-pro movie mavens access to Sonic Foundry's famed Vegas Video interface and many of its most important AV editing capabilities, minus the hefty professional price tag.

At the heart of the package is Screenblast VideoFactory Deluxe, an all-encompassing application that takes you through every step of the movie-making process within a single, convenient interface. You'll begin your cinematic masterpiece by assembling raw components in VideoFactory's Media Pool window. Here, the program stores and displays each element of your movie--be it a video clip, audio clip, or still photo--in a handy virtual gathering spot, regardless of its format and without actually relocating it from its original position on your hard drive.

To fit the various pieces together, merely drag-and-drop each item to its appropriate spot in the program's intuitive timeline window, where five individual tracks wait to be filled. At any time during the process you can reposition or crossfade your elements, add audio effects such as delay and reverb, drop in sophisticated text overlays, record new sounds, or employ a dazzling array of sophisticated scene transitions and backdrops.

Movie Studio features easy, two-step camcorder footage captures and integrated CD burning, but does not support DVD authoring. And, although the retail package doesn't include nearly as many professional video or audio clips as Nova Development's similarly Vegas-like Video Explosion Deluxe, the Screenblast Web site is filled with an ever-growing downloadable assortment of goodies.

A near-professional grade AV production package without the high-end price, Screenblast Movie Studio is highly recommended. --Gordon Goble

Amazon.com Product Description

Screenblast Movie Studio is a powerful, easy-to-use video editing software suite from one of Hollywood's leading studios. Capture, edit, enhance, and share your digital video or still photos. Make movies with hundreds of video clips, special effects, border treatments, and illustrations. It's everything you need to turn your videos into memorable movies in minutes.

Create movies, slide shows, music videos, corporate presentations, and more. Integrated tutorials guide you through every step of the process. Add effects and transitions, and use "green screen" techniques. Video clips, illustrations, borders, title cards, and more are included on the CD-ROM in the box. Share your movies on your own personal Web page at www.screenblast.com/yourname, or burn home movies onto CDs for playback in most DVD players.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The reason it seems to be cheaper than other software!, March 24, 2003

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James A. Renfroe "whipping_brady" (Mansfield, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screenblast Movie Studio (CD-ROM)

This is a great piece of software. It offers many clips, titles, fades, and the such. There's just one problem. On the box it says "burn your movie onto a CD and play in most DVD playes". That's what made me buy this software. I own a Sony Digital Studio and can make all the DVD's I want to. I wanted to make VCD's for some of the less important things because CD's are so cheap. So I bought this software thinking I'd be all set. I installed the software and clicked "make movie" and then it tells me that I need a plug-in (that I have to buy) to make a VCD. What?!?!?! I just spent [a lot] for some software that says it makes VCD's and I have to shell out another [significant amount] to actually make it work. This, needless to say, irks me.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Works with Mpeg video (for an EXTRA ) !!, January 30, 2003

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W. White III "ww111" (New York State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screenblast Movie Studio (CD-ROM)

I shopped around for a video editing program, and this one looked pretty good. Good reviews and so on. Nothing on the box or other product literature suggests that as packaged this product will NOT import or export MPEG Video (the industry and internet standard). There is no mention of video plugins in the manual, on the box, or on the screenblast website, but when you try to import or save a *.mpg file the program asks for your Credit Card number ... to "unlock" the MPEG plugin. ... I'm just waiting for more surprises. one star.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value considering price and special effects features!, September 17, 2003

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Patrick R. Bowman (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screenblast Movie Studio (CD-ROM)

If you're looking for special effects at an unbelievable price, you can't go wrong with Screenblast Movie Studio. Before purchasing this product, I used Pinnacle Studio 8 exclusively. While I like Studio 8 alot when it works, it is riddled with bugs and very unstable (it's constantly crashing). Screenblast Movie Studio has NEVER crashed on me.

The features I really like about Screenblast Movie Studio that Pinnacle Studio 8 does not have (without buying their Hollywood FX upgrade):

*two video editing tracks
*chroma keying (works great with good lighting)
*masking
*transparencies (you can overlay two clips and change the "transparency" of one to get a "ghost" effect)
*zoom in and out
*basic "animation" abilities (using zoom and fly path features)

After playing with Pinnacle Studio for a year, I was ready for more, and this package gave it to me.

This package does the basics just fine (I bought of copy of this for my father rather than Studio 8), and it also have some awesome special effects features that will not disappoint.