Video Studio 5.0

by Ulead

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000056ORJ
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,884 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

With more and more folks diving into the joys and challenges of digital video editing at home, VideoStudio 5 offers the aspiring videographer the latest in digital video technologies in an easy to utilize package. Presenting itself as movie-making software for everyone, VideoStudio is designed to reduce the learning curve while improving upon the previous version's capability to create fairly sophisticated videos and output them in a variety of useful formats.

VideoStudio 5 comes with two CDs--the program itself, and a content CD of source material. In addition to VideoStudio, the program CD will also install QuickTime, Windows Media Format, RealPlayer, and Acrobat Reader. VideoStudio 5 supports the IEEE 1394, or FireWire, video capture card; but, if you have Windows NT, FireWire cards are not supported. You can use one of a number of other capture cards if this is the case. If you have a FireWire card and a DV camcorder, this means smooth plug-and-play operation. Just connect your DV camera and, with a couple of mouse clicks, you're controlling playback of your camera, capturing video directly to your hard drive.

In fact, several new enhancements of VideoStudio 5 improve upon the video capture capabilities. For example, there is now automatic plug-and-play capture device detection. VideoStudio will recognize most DV cameras when plugged in, and select the appropriate capture plug-in, eliminating the need to restart the application and manually select the plug-in. There is now support for batch video capture, an extremely useful tool for capturing multiple sections of the same tape in one pass. Just set the mark in and out points of all the scenes you wish to capture, run batch capture, and go make coffee or change Junior's diapers while the footage is imported. New scene change detection will recognize date and time changes of an AVI-formatted DV video file, and break it into multiple clips, as in many cases these breaks indicate a content or scene change. This speeds up the organization of your source footage.

Other new features include video filters, such as emboss, mosaic, and oil paint, that can be applied to clips directly. Titling has also improved, allowing for basic or 3-D-style text with transparency, edges, and shadows. An important enhancement in light of the popularity of video streaming over the Internet is support for the latest video streaming protocols like RealVideo and Windows Media files. You can also edit in MPEG-2 format, for DVD-quality video, and export to QuickTime, AVI, and other file formats.

VideoStudio 5 continues to improve on Ulead's elegant, if slightly overdesigned, application. The goal is clearly to present a user interface that is as fun to look at as it is easy to use and create with. Ultimately, the latter is what really matters, and to this end VideoStudio succeeds. --John Bosch

Product Description

Ulead VideoStudio DV 5.0 is a complete consumer video editing application that allows users to capture and edit video through USB Instant Video. Designed with an intuitive interface for beginners, VideoStudio also includes powerful functionality such as batch capture, and scene detection for easy video acquisition, and storyboard and timeline modes.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For the Budding DV Director, June 28, 2001

By 

Brian K. Davis (APO, AP USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Video Studio 5.0 (CD-ROM)

I found this program easy to use yet highly versatile. Once installed, I had made my own 8 minute compilation of video scenes within several hours. Although this program comes with a manual, I didn't feel that it was needed. The software is fairly intuitive and forgiving of editing errors. The feature that I am most appreciative of is the IEEE-1394 ("Firewire") interface capability. I am using Windows 98 SE and a Sony DCR-PC110 Mini DV camcorder and the software instantly recognized my device and transferred video smoothly without any troubleshooting or loss of data. In addition, this software is compatible with some photo editing programs to give additional flexibility for transitions or title/credits (If you should want more than the literaly hundreds of pre-installed options) I highly recommend this program to any DV enthusiast who wants to get started immediately and without paying seven to nine times the cost of this software.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Video Studio 5.0 Disappoints, July 3, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Video Studio 5.0 (CD-ROM)

Had previously used video editing software that came free with a PCI TV card I had installed, was ready for an upgrade and thought this was the answer to my problems (mainly associated with different output formats). Story board editing is very simplistic and gets old fast. Very good for those who have no exposure to video editing software, my expectations were a bit higher. Limited control of most aspects, so be prepared for restricted editing. Many problems with program crashing while creating movies. It is mostly capable of putting clips in an order and selecting transitions to go in-between, if that is all you need this is the editor for you. I would recommend finding another video editing title for most everyone else, my search continues...

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst Interface Ever = 0 stars, December 23, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Video Studio 5.0 (CD-ROM)

This program has one of the worst user interfaces ever. The team at Ulead definitely skipped the software developement process that tests average people (people that didn't directly write-code the program) using thier program.

The interface is their own design. Missing is the HELP button! No standard buttons are featured. The program has no help, rather it pops up everytime you do something and you have to fumble around for a G circle thing button where you turn help off, otherwise it pops up every time you do something.

Editing out commercials in this program is annoying. You cannot enter in a frame number manually or a numerical time. Instead you have to use touchy slider that goes either too far too fast to not far enough. There is no precision. Worst, while exporting if you have a bad frame, it quits. There is no way I have found to kill the bad frame because of the lack of precision.

I have a degree in computers and I find the interface useless. I can't figure it out. NO PROGRAM SHOULD BE THIS HARD TO USE!
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