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VideoStudio Ultimate X6 [Download]

Product Description


Explore unlimited creative possibilities with Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X6. Captivate your audience with powerful video-editing tools. Create impressive HD-quality stop motion and time-lapse animations using your DSLR camera. Streamline the editing process by following moving objects and attaching graphics using new Motion Tracking. Quickly place subtitles and narration in your videos using new voice detection technology. Work in visually-stunning Ultra HD (4K) quality. Output to a variety of formats, including, MP4 , AVCHD 2.0 and HTML5. Share your videos with built-in production for the web, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc and mobile devices. Plus, get professional results with high-end visual effects from proDAD, Boris FX and NewBlue.


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Product Feature


  • NEW! Motion Tracking ? New Motion Tracking in Corel VideoStudio Pro X6 gives you the power to target and automatically follow moving objects in a video.
  • NEW! Customizable Motion?The new motion tools of Corel VideoStudio Pro X6 give you faster and easier ways to customize the movement of graphics, titles, objects and video clips, letting you create new picture-in-picture and other pro-quality effects.
  • NEW! Ultra HD (4K) video support ? Take your photo slideshows and videos beyond high definition. Corel VideoStudio Pro X6 now supports Ultra High-Definition 4K video.
  • ENHANCED! Boris Graffiti 6 ? The latest version of the industry?s gold standard software for title animation is now available in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X6.
  • NEW! NewBlue FX Colorfast and NewBlue FX Video Essentials ? Create videos that dazzle your audience with the powerful capabilities of NewBlue FX.








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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
4Lots Of Power For Not A Lot Of Money
By Daniel G. Lebryk
VideoStudio X6 Ultimate is an inexpensive video editing and authoring suite that has some incredible power for not a lot of money. It is still a group of programs cobbled together to act like a video editing program.

The best part of this program is taking high definition video off of a camera, editing it and producing output video in either a file, on line share, or DVD / Blu-Ray works extremely well. The software appears to work well in native file formats without first doing a ton of rendering (or transcoding) before, during, or after each step in the process. The software waits until the very end at file output to do all the hard work of rendering.

The worst part of this program is the feel of four or eight or ten or twelve different software packages with a slightly different user interface, all trying to work together. For a new user, this will be daunting and create a huge learning curve. The second worst part is the video training materials and lack of a real paper manual, or easy to find getting started manual (even on line). Corel's support program on their website is some of the absolute worst in the software industry. Where the program has multiple user interfaces, the support site has so many dead ends and different approaches to troubleshooting, it is virtually impossible to figure anything out.

There are two bundles of VideoStudio X6 - the Ultimate (reviewed here) and Pro. The difference isn't exactly super obvious looking at the spec sheets or product descriptions. The Pro version is the core software with all the bells and whistles - honestly, this is the perfect version for most people looking for a video editing package. For about $10 more, the Ultimate package adds a second installation disc full of Add-Ins. From what I can tell these are all really cool effects, that I would use one time while evaluating the software; but would never use them in a real video production. The effects are mostly extreme and make the output video look like a person was trying filters or effects and messing around with them. On the other hand, $10 isn't much money to get these "bonus" features.

Installation is straightforward with Disc 1. A serial number has to be entered to start the installer (this one of those annoying 28 character codes split into 7 character chunks - I hate those things). The installer took care of putting files all over my hard drives. I was able to force the installer to use a disc other than my C drive, and it mostly followed that advice. Once I installed the software it was clear Corel has inherited a lot of different software companies and packages along the way to cobble this package together. The Corel DVD / Blu-ray burning engine decided to take over my computer and trashed a simple low level DVD / Blu-ray burner package. I've seen this happen before with Corel and Ulead software (Corel owns the Ulead products - the DVD authoring portion of this X6 suite is the ancient Ulead DVD Factory). There is little that can be done to fix the problem. I now have to burn DVD's with Corel's software, not the super simple program that came with my Blu-ray drive. Once the installation is completed, on line registration is started.

Installation of Disc 2 is a strange deal. This is the Ultimate in the Ultimate X6 package. The installer has a choice of installing all the add-ins at once or install them one at a time (there are many of them with absolutely no indication of what any of them actually do). Installing all the add-ins takes a very long time and allows absolutely no customization - whatever directory Corel wanted these programs installed in, that is where they are going to be installed. Some of them are standalone programs, others are mysterious add-ins that are, initially, hard to find. Some of the programs require registration, some don't.

When the software is launched, an initial fancy pop up window "Corel Guide" shows up with video tutorials. At first I thought, nice I'll watch these and get highlights of how to get started and make using the software easier. The Learn tab seemed like the right place to start. Oh how wrong I was! The first was "What's New in VideoStudio Pro x6" - wait a minute, I have the Ultimate version, why Pro? This was an almost 5 minute advertisement for the software, mostly a waste of time. Then the eight other choices ranged from Custom Motion Effects, to DSLR Stop Motion Animation; hardly getting acquainted with the software level. Each one to two minute clip has this incredibly annoying music intro. Once that was over, the teaching was good, but darn it I wanted to know how to use the product. These are all YouTube videos; I hope it was my video card because I could barely read any of the menus the instructor was talking about. Do More is a page of downloadable content that is free. None of it is explained very well, just a bunch of installer buttons. Finally the Message tab is a sales pitch for Corel's learning website at $29 or $99. Looking at the site, I was completely lost and wouldn't pay $1 for access to the things on that site.

The initial launch "Corel Guide" is a completely different interface than the rest of the software. Closing that lovely guide, the main page is opened up. There are three panels - pretty common for video editing software. A preview panel on the top left, an activity or selection panel on the top right, and the video tray across the bottom of the screen. All neat and tidy and well made.

Corel's attempt at turning video editing into a "wizard" activity is a little band at the top of the screen - 1 Capture 2 Edit 3 Share. Capture is all about different methods for getting video into the software. This is where screen capture for computer How To videos is started. The import from disc or media files uses a hideous file browser that almost looks like DOS. There is another way to add video files to a project, simply drag the files onto the time line. This is probably the easiest way to insert video.

Edit is where you will spend a lot of time. Corel did a great job on the video editor. Tracks are easy to understand, things drag and drop easily, titles are surprisingly easy to add and customize, and transitions drag and drop on the clip intuitively. Those funky add-ins from Disc 2 - select a clip in the timeline, select the FX menu from the effects panel, and then drag any of the effects down to the clip. A secondary menu in the effects panel opens to allow that effect to be customized. Some of these Ultimate effects have 10 or 20 different versions in that customization panel. I was impressed with how fast the effects were applied and previewed. Removal of the effect was super easy by simply deleting at the sub panel. The names are all a dizzying array of nonsensical names - proDAD, NewBlue, and Boris? In the world of proDAD, there is Mercalli SE, Handscript Animation, RotoPen, and Vitascene. Yes, I agree, until you play with these effects, the names make no sense at all.

I wish Corel has put together some kind of basics video on this software. There are just so many things to click on; options to try, subtle things to do that make a huge change in how the software works, and incredibly frustrating spots.

Sharing is where things go topsy turvy. Corel built this fabulous editor for the video clip. When it comes time to author a DVD, they basically open up the full version of Ulead DVD Factory. Fortunately the video clip doesn't have to be rendered to move to this step. This program has a full-fledged multi-trim editor, titling for the video clip, ability to split up video and clip manager built into it. And then layer in the whole world of creating DVD menus and chapters. And finally finishing everything up with the actual DVD burn. I know this program extremely well; I've used Ulead DVD Factory for the past five or six years. Corel did nothing to this module to change or improve it. It appears to be a necessary step to author a DVD or Blu-Ray disc. The worst part, the user interface is completely different from the main editing screen where I just made my clip super beautiful.

If I chose to send my movie to YouTube, the video clip is rendered to a more compact file size, then YouTube credentials and key information is added to a pop up page, and then the video is uploaded to YouTube. I built a 1 hour video that took up about 5 GB in raw form. The YouTube render reduced that file to 1.5 GB. I learned very quickly to let the YouTube render take place, then cancel the credential form. I would then go to my YouTube account and upload the saved video from there. If you don't do this, the whole VideoStudio is unusable for anything during the uploading time. I had other videos to work on while that monster video uploaded to YouTube.

I really like the main video editing screen. Although it wasn't intuitive at first, I figured out how to work with the tools. I was able to create nice looking titles easily. Shifting between storyboard and timeline view worked great. My projects were fairly linear without a bunch of special additions. I like that the preview panel can be for the Clip or the whole Project - that is a super nice setting.

The reason I love this package, even with its shortcomings, I was able to do what used to take me two or three days, down to an afternoon. My end result is a set of DVD's and videos uploaded to YouTube.

A huge caution to watch out for with this software - it leaves temporary files all over the place. And then it never cleans them up. Whenever the software renders a clip, it stores a set of temporary files. As far as I can tell, there is no way to tell the software to do this on a particular drive or directory. If you continue to create new projects, gigabytes of files start to accumulate.

I hesitate to talk about how fast this program renders or works. I am working on a brand new computer that is very fast. The software will peg 8 cores (4 physical and 4 hyper threaded) at 100% until the work is done. With an i7 processor at 3.4GHz, the software renders about 4 to 8 times real time. The reason I'm so particular about all those temp files, my boot drive is an SSD, and I prefer to not use it as a scratch disc that doesn't get cleaned up. My mechanical drive is a 3Tb SATA 6 drive, so it is extremely fast. I do not believe this software uses the graphics card to do the rendering - so a high powered graphics card would not make this faster.

For the price this is an excellent value. There is a huge amount of horsepower in here. Given the cobbled together nature of this package, Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere is probably a better, more expensive approach. There are a lot of things I wish Corel would do to make this a better user experience.

41 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
5Powerful and easy to use, great for hobby or serious video making.
By Jesus Hector Fernandez
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3FKP9SRZ6Z5XS Corel Video Studio offers a simple to use yet robust enough video editing program thats great for people that want to get to do some video editing but dont have time or money for the better video editing programs.

Pros
Cheap
Simple to use
Has many features, effects and you can even make your own with other included software in the box.
Has many templates

Cons
Not as many formats to record your videos as other video editing software does.
No printed manual (you can download a free pdf, url included in the box)

I say that if you want a good and cheap video editing software, this program is very very good, ive used Pinnacle Video Studio and Sony Vegas and while those are superior, Corel Video studio is simpler to use and get the hang of using it.

Hope you like the video, I wish I could show alot more in the video but unfortunately there isn't enough time.

24 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
3fast and FAIRLY intuitive -- but needs fewer HIDDEN features
By Thomas M. Sipos
I'm a casual user, not a power user with big projects. From that perspective, Corel X6 is fairly intuitive to learn, but not prefect. My main problem is there are too many HIDDEN buttons and features. That was true with X4 and X5, and is worse with X6.

I wish computer programs came with literate, complete, paper manuals. Corel used to include paper manuals with X4 and X5. They were skimpy, but they were something. They stopped that with X6, but you can download a free PDF manual. Okay, but since they're now saving on paper, must it remain so skimpy? Almost useless, even.

Say you want to rotate and color correct a video. The manual says that these features are in the Options/Attributes section. And where are those? Here is what the manual says:

"The Options Panel in the Edit Step allows you to modify the media, transitions, titles, graphics, animation, and filters that you add to the Timeline The elements that you use in your project or effects that you apply to your clips can be modified or fine tuned in the Attribute tab."

But good luck finding any "Options Panel" or "Attribute tab." Some images in the manual and online tutorials suggest that these features are somewhere under the FX (filter) tab, but again, it's not that simple.

I've not found any online tutorial that answers the above question. I did find a YouTube tutorial that talks about color balancing for X5, but it was no help for X6. The tutorial locates these features by clicking "Browse" but when I click "Browse" I get Windows Explorer.

I suppose one could find these mystery features eventually, but what a waste of time! Why can't these features -- rotate, color correct -- be less hidden? -- and why can't the PDF manual be more complete?

Here's a HINT you won't find in the manuals or tutorials. You must HIGHLIGHT the video track by clicking it; only then will these features under the FX tab appear and work. Until then, they are hidden from view.

I learned this from having worked with X4 and X5, but the newbie might be totally lost. WHY doesn't any manual or tutorial SAY to FIRST click/highlight the video track? That should be a STEP in the instructions. But alas, the people who write these manuals are techies, who don't realize that what's obvious to them is a mystery to newbies.

Of course, I've bought many paper manuals for other programs over the years. I've yet to find one that's complete, literate, or well-indexed. Useful information is often buried under much vapid verbiage and happy talk (as though pointless chatter makes a manual "user friendly") and certain features are always left unexplained or un-indexed.

But onwards with the review... Here are some new things:

Corel's X6 has introduced "variable speed control," so now you can be specific in choosing the speed of your fast-forward and slow motion effects.

There's also "motion tracking" for title effects. This means that you can create a caption for a moving object (a speeding car, person. etc.) and the caption will follow that object as it moves. For instance, say you're doing a crime drama or neighborhood watch tape. You can caption a person "This man is about to pick a pocket" and the caption will follow that person wherever he goes on screen.

I haven't tried that feature yet, but I did find another online reviewer who found this feature confusing to locate and figure out. I suppose that, as Corel adds more and more stuff, its video editor will become more and more confusing.

Corel X6 claims to be able to work with the latest devices and formats. For instance, "enhanced" AVCHD 2.0 support, if you want AVCHD 3D/Progressive work. I've never worked in 3D -- don't care to -- so I that doesn't mean anything to me.

I do simpler stuff. Corel remains easy and intuitive in some ways. I downloaded a YouTube video in SD mp4 format to my Downloads folder. At first I didn't see how to open it through Corel. So I used Windows to move the video clip from the Downloads folder onto the Corel track, and Corel immediately recognized it as a video clip -- the format was no problem -- and began to play it. That was easy.

X6 takes longer to install than X4 or X5. Its Disk 1 took about a half hour to install.

Disk 2 had all sorts of additional programs -- such as Boris Graffiti, for animated titles. I initially had trouble installing from that disk. The install froze. So I rebooted my laptop. After that, I had no trouble installing from Disk 2.

I have an Intel Core i5 CPU and 8 Gig RAM, running Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. Corel's runs quickly on it, no freezes or slowdowns.

X6 makes the screen capture a bit quicker, though not by much. There is now a desktop icon for Screen Capture, which loads the entire X6, set to screen capture. So you can load X6, or load X6 set to screen capture -- it saves two clicks if you want to screen capture right away. I don't see why this is such a big deal as to merit its own desktop icon.

You can run X6 without registering it. But you need to register to get free updates and free downloads -- additional fonts, templates, titles, music, tools, etc -- and to access their online forums and tutorials.

X6 remains relatively easy to learn and use -- but the learning curve would be quicker with fewer hidden features.

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