Ulead VideoStudio Version 6.0

by Ulead

Product Details

• ASIN: B00005V25D
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,801 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #90 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

VideoStudio 6.0 is designed to make constructing a video from scenes shot with a DV camera simple and logical. In addition, this latest version allows you to burn the results to a DVD or Video CD.

The main editing screen, which really benefits from its redesign, is divided into four key areas. The main pane is a preview screen, which plays back your edited or partly edited footage. To the right is a library of thumbnails for the clips or scenes you may want to draw on. On the other side is a palette of controls for applying effects and transitions. The bottom section of the screen provides both a timeline, showing how scenes run and overlap, and a storyboard, displaying stills from each clip used. You can switch between the two modes at will.

The features new to version 6.0 are concentrated at either end of the editing process. To get video clips into the program, you can now connect a DV camera directly into an IEEE 1394 socket on your PC and use VideoStudio 6.0 to capture them, converting them directly to DVD-compatible MPEG files. It will even autodetect scene breaks, saving each scene as a separate file.

When you've finished editing, the program can prepare and render your video and burn it onto DVD or its smaller sibling, Video CD (VCD). You can even add the buttons and special scenes most professional DVD movies contain, too. Overall, Video Studio 6.0 is a tremendous tool for home video, transforming the whole process at a modest price. --Simon Williams

Amazon.com Product Description

Whether you're an aficionado or an amateur, videographers of all abilities and levels of experience will appreciate VideoStudio 6.0's easy-to-use suite of tools. Trim video, add your own soundtrack, create titles, drop in stunning effects, and much more. Capture video from DV, D8, and Hi8 camcorders. Grab DVD-ready video with MPEG-Direct capture. Share movies on CD, DVD, tape, or the Web with family and friends. All of this and much more is easily done using VideoStudio's many tools and a simple click of your mouse.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, Ulead gets it right!!!, February 15, 2002

By 

Bill Huber (Cicero, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ulead VideoStudio Version 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

Having pulled out most of my remaining hair on previous versions,(and putting it in the closet for 2 years) I bit the bullet and downloaded Video Studio 6 on the chance that it was better.
Well, it is fantastic. I have a Sony DV camera and this program has everything that was missing in previous versions. It even has the VCD burner included. This program does it ALL. Capture,Edit,Burn. Lots of great features, very user friendly.
In 2 days I was able to create 3 projects without any problems. Im not a pro by any means, and most pros have given this product a lower rating than most. BUT, if you are looking for an inexpensive way to convert tapes to vcd (or DVD with a DVD burner) this is the best for the money.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VideoStudio will capture and edit video., May 10, 2002

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Bruce Ledet (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ulead VideoStudio Version 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

When I bought my DVD burner it was bundled with a lot of software that was supposed to allow me to create DVD movies. VideoStudio 4.0 SE was one. I ran into many problems with the bundled software's light versions. I could not capture a video to an mpeg file and ended up with a lot of very large AVI files. The DVD authoring would clip off the last ten minutes of audio. I could not trim the beginning and ending of each clip. I decided that I needed an mpeg encoder, some way of easily editing scenes and a way to author a DVD that contains all the sound.

I took a leap of faith and bought VideoStudio 6.0 in hopes that it would get me where I wanted to go. I have since found out that none of the home software solutions will do it all. There are plenty of professional packages that will do much, much more but they are out of my price range for what I want to do. You will need a professional quality mpeg encoder to put a 2.5 hour movie on a DVD.

I use VideoStudio 6.0 to capture digital video from my Sony Digital 8 Camcorder to a mpeg file. The mpeg encoding is not a professional quality encoder as far as size compression goes. There are some parameters that can be changed, but going very far outside the bounds of the default settings will cause errors or just allow the capture to proceed and not much change in file size. This encoder will compress a 30 minute video down to about 1.5 gbytes. Forget about putting a 2 hour video on a DVD. Picture quality is decent and so is sound quality.

Editing the clips is not very intuitive for one that is new to the video world. But the manual is sufficient and explains most of what is needed. There are many small samples that are included so that you can experiment with most of the functionality. This is good because, when experimenting and learning, you don't want to spend a lot of time just watching video go by while waiting for your experimental transitions, titles and sound clip to come around.

The plug-in for authoring would only let me author a video CD. The DVD option was disabled and would not enable. I had to by DVD Movie Factory to create the DVDs. But it does the job, although not as efficiently as one would expect. It increases the size of the mpeg file when it creates a `movie' mpeg file.

If you want an easy way to capture digital video from a camcorder with an acceptable mpeg encoder, edit the start and end points, add transitions between scenes, add some titles and voice over and create video CDs. VideoStudio 6.0 will do it for you. But you will need additional software to author DVDs.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great software for the money., May 21, 2002

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"saluwas" (Dobson, NC United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ulead VideoStudio Version 6.0 (DVD-ROM)

In the beginning I had downloaded and used the trial version. I liked the the software so much better than Pinnacle Studios and Video Factory! If you install this software correctly (CLOSE ALL WINDOWS PROGRAMS, especially antivirus software!) everything should go great. Its graphical interfase is very easy to use. I noticed alot of high end movie editing software options included in this package. It is a very good deal for the money and a novice user shouldn't have any problems....I highly recommend this product.