Amazon.com: J. J. Marino "Geekasa...'s review of Corel VideoStudio Pro X2
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5.0 out of 5 stars While not Final Cut it IS a powerful video editing suite., October 25, 2008
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This entire video was made in Video Studio Pro X2. I purposely did it as fast as I could to show the power of the product (matter of fact this writeup took longer). Besides the obvious time line oriented video editing, there are a ton of video outputs that can be utilized whatever your ability. You can export directly to You Tube, or record it in HD for watching in 1080. Direct to DVD authoring is another really nice addition.
I have used Final Cut Pro Studio costing $1300. While this is NOT as powerful at all, it does allow for a good deal of professional editing. It has a very low learning curve and if you just need to make excellent quality videos and not spend a very long time learning then this is the product for you.

You can import your own clips very easily, just drag and drop. It will even import your entire audio library. I tried to do a voice over for this video but my mic is really poor quality so it sounded very digitized. It allows you to add a voice over with 1 click though and I may redo this review if I can get a better mic. It is very refreshing the amount of video outputs this program has. If your a novice and want to make a video that is high quality for You Tube it is just a few clicks and you are done. The menus are easy to navigate and very intuitive.

About this video: Because I did not want to wait 3 hours to upload it. I rendered it at 30fps mpg. I am not sure how Amazon codec will re-render so I hope it looks nice when it is finally converted.

Thank you for watching!
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Initial post: Nov 8, 2008 8:36 PM PST
 AP in USA says:
Awesome idea. Thanks so much.
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Posted on Nov 15, 2008 4:53 PM PST
 Daniel G. Lebryk says:
Nicely done, you used most of the canned background videos from the package. And then overlayed some good text. Creative idea.
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In reply to an earlier post on Nov 16, 2008 10:50 AM PST
 J. J. Marino says:
Thanks! Yes, I thought it would be more helpful to see what was possible in less than 5 mins with all canned stuff. Since I posted this I have found many more really great features. It is a pretty nice complete video solution for the beginner to intermediate level.

Thanks for the very nice comments.
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In reply to an earlier post on Dec 17, 2008 1:29 PM PST
 J. Chen says:
HI, I want to know did you experience some lagging on preview when you edit the videos? I just recently upgrade from a Pentium 4 3.0GHZ to a Intel Q9300 2.5GHZ QUAD CORE/Nvidia 8500GT 512MB VIDEO/8GB Ram/ 1TB HD/ when I import a MTS file from my Canon HF100 in 1440x 1080 it lag and picture look choppy but after you scroll the timeline bar few time it goes away. When I trying to cut part of the video from a different video it lag again. can you tell me what do I need to correct? since it can't be my hardware it has to be my software setting.

Thank you in advance.
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In reply to an earlier post on Dec 19, 2008 3:23 AM PST
 J. J. Marino says:
Your system seems more than adequate. When I am previewing it may take 2-3 seconds before it starts but plays really well. Maybe something else is running in the background? Which OS are you running? There could be some malware or spyware running in the background that is not associated with this software. Especially since you have huge RAM and Quad core. I think this software would eat it up. Good luck!
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In reply to an earlier post on Dec 23, 2008 1:38 PM PST
 J. Chen says:
I now even upgraded the video card to Nvidia 9800GT 512mb and it still lags. I am running windows xp, Do you think that might be the reason that it's lagging since windows xp only shows 3.2GB of ram and it's not using all of my 8GB of ram?
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In reply to an earlier post on Dec 27, 2008 10:36 AM PST
 J. J. Marino says:
That could be a possibility. XP is not able to use anything over 4GB. I would try the OS first then also you could be sure you have the latest video drivers too.

HTH
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In reply to an earlier post on Jan 30, 2009 7:23 PM PST
 A. Korogodsky says:
I am new at this, I mean really new...My question is, could you do slide shows on this softwate or it is just for videos?
Thank you so much for your time to answer.
Andreyko@hotmail.com
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Posted on Feb 20, 2009 2:49 AM PST
 Anastasia Coza says:
What a great review!! Thank you very much for posting it :)
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