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July 4, 2008

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows and DVDs. Capture video from the latest HD camcorders and create amazing High-Definition HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Work quickly with timesaving template-based Wizards, or express your creativity with powerful hands-on tools. Fix common video problems with one-click corrective filters, generate Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks, and add pro-quality titles and transitions. Share your movies everywhere, from iPod to DVD to YouTube to the latest Home Theater systems. Award-winning VideoStudio sets the standard for powerful features and ease of use.

End-to-End Consumer HD Production

The Most Complete HD Solution Available
The first complete HD solution, no matter what camcorder or playback format users choose, VideoStudio 11.5 Plus lets them capture, edit and output their video.

Practical HD Production Is Here
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus of producing HD video on standard DVD media, which can be played back on PCs or players like the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft XBOX 360 add-on HD DVD player.

Real-world AVCHD workflow:

Capture from AVCHD camcorders
Edit in VideoStudio Editor or Movie Wizard
Author & burn to standard DVD
Play on PC, PS3 or Blu-ray Disc player

Real-world HDV workflow:

Capture from JVC HD or HDV camcorders
Edit in VideoStudio Editor or Movie Wizard
Author & burn to standard DVD
Play on PC or HD DVD player

Real-world AVCHD workflow

Real-world HDV workflow

What's New
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows, and DVDs. Work quickly with intuitive wizards, or express your creativity with hands-on editing tools. Share your movies everywhere, on iPods, YouTube, or the latest HD home theater systems, with full support for AVCHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

Users of the new VideoStudio 11.5, enjoy the following:

The latest HD formats
The latest in online sharing
More creative content and templates
Bonus media management software

Enhanced--End-to-End AVCHD
Author HD content (from AVCHD or HDV camcorder, or any other HD source) and burn to a standard DVD, using a standard burner.

AVCHD discs with menus play back pristine HD video on your PC, Blu-ray Player or Sony PS3, or from disc based AVCHD camcorders.
Supports standard screen sizes from SD to HD, 1280x720 to 1920x1080 as well as PAL and NTSC systems
Audio formats include LPCM and Dolby 2.0 or 5.1.

New--M2TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) Import

Import video files directly from AVCHD hard drive or memory card camcorders.
Use the "Insert Video" function to preview clips and easily import to hard drive
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus opens M2TS files that have been copied to your hard drive using other utilities.

New--Blu-ray Disc (BDMV) Authoring
Now users can author HD productions in MPEG 2 HD format, with High Definition motion menus, and burn them to Blu-ray Disc.

BD supports standard screen sizes from 720 to 1920 as well as PAL and NTSC systems.
Compliant video, (such as HDV) isn't re-rendered, ensuring shorter encoding times and excellent picture quality.
Supports Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 audio formats
Both single- and double-layer discs are supported.

AVCHD Authoring

Blu-ray Disc Authoring

New--H.264 High Profile (HD) Encoding

VideoStudio 11.5 Plus incorporates the new MainConcept H.264 codec, offering fast encoding with superior quality.
Supports 1440x1080 and 1920x1080 output frame sizes.
Encoding is optimized for multi-core processors, including Intel Core 2 Quad.

Enhanced--HD DVD on Standard DVD Production
Users can author HD DVD productions with motion menus, and burn to standard DVDs.

There is now a dedicated workflow for producing such "3X DVDs".
Choose a disc size and the capacity indicator will show how much space is available on the disc.
HD DVDs play on set-top or PC HD DVD players, Xbox 360 HD DVD players, or standard PC DVD drives with appropriate software.

New Movie Wizard templates

New DVD menu templates

New--Native .TOD format (JVC HD Camcorder) Import and Editing

VideoStudio 11.5 now offers support for importing and editing native .tod HD video from the latest JVC HD-7 camcorders. No conversion is required.
Fully supports all frame sizes offered by this camera, including the "FullHD" 1920x1080i frame size.
MPEG Optimizer works with TOD video and VideoStudio will SmartRender it for more efficient performance.

Enhanced--New Menus, Templates and Overlay Graphics
Even users who have not made the jump to HD yet, are always looking for fresh content. The 11.5 Upgrade adds a set of rich, professionally-designed templates and graphics to the VideoStudio 11 Plus library:

8 New Movie Wizard templates for Home Movie and Slideshows, including powerful, eye-catching multiple-overlay sequences.
20 DVD Menus in text, thumbnail and unique One-Scene styles.
5 video frames for custom openings or segues.
19 Animated Flash overlays to enhance video.
5 Overlay mask frames for transparent overlays.

New--Direct YouTube upload
Sharing videos online has become one of the most popular activities in the wired world. The leader of this revolution is YouTube, and now VideoStudio makes it easier than ever to create and upload cool videos.

After completing editing, users can select from a range of quality settings before video is encoded and uploaded directly to YouTube.
Logging in and uploading all takes place from within VideoStudio.

Bonus--Manage and Edit Your Media with Corel MediaOne Plus*
With the proliferation of photos and video on consumers' desktops, an efficient tool to organize and retrieve content has become essential. The Power Pack includes a full version of Corel's complete digital media management suite.

Now users can keep track of all their digital media. Import, tag and sort photos and video, and find any image fast.
Create virtual groups, or "Smart Collections" to keep photos and video organized.
Add descriptions and tags, to retrieve images individually or in groups.
Prepare photos for slideshows by correcting exposure, fixing red-eye, and other essential photo-editing functions.

*DVD Maker not included within MediaOne Plus

Product Description
Easy and Powerful Video Editing + DVD Authoring

VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software foranyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows andDVDs. Create amazing High-Definition videos. Work quickly with intuitivewizards, or express your creativity with hands-on timeline editing. Shareyour movies everywhere, from iPods to the latest home theater systems.

Full Dolby 5.1 Surround

InterVideo WinDVD 8 Silver
Plays back any video and audio files, including AVCHD.As an added bonus enjoyWinDVD 8 Silver - Superior audio andvideo playback technologies. Play DVDs, video files and SVCHD camcorderdiscs.

Corel MediaOne Plus
Manage and Edit Your Media - With the proliferation of photos and video onconsumers? desktops, an efficient tool to organize and retrieve content hasbecome essential. The Power Pack includes a full version of Corel?s completedigital media management suite.

Now users can keep track of all their digital media. Import, tag and sort photos and video, and find any image fast.
Create virtual groups, or ?Smart Collections? to keep photos and video organized.
Add descriptions and tags, to retrieve images individually or in groups.
Prepare photos for slideshows by correcting exposure, fixing red-eye, and other essential photo-editing functions.

End-to-end AVCHD ? (AVCHD on standard DVD)
Author

Customer Reviews: Read 43 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Ease of Use....great product July 3, 2008
Can't believe that I can make some serious DVD. Take clips from favorite scenes from other DVDs or for family movies. I used it to make a photoalbum on DVD. At first I was skeptical, but the plus is that its easy to use.

5 out of 5 stars

Intuitive and Pretty Easy to Learn July 2, 2008
I've played with this program for about a month now, have learned a lot and have more to learn. I think if you're a creative person you can do a whole heck of a lot with Ulead and if you're not, well the program offers a bunch of templates that will get you going.

Before Ulead, my movie making skills were just copy the program onto the computer, burn it to a DVD and that was it. Now I turn out pretty good stuff. Not professional stuff, by any means, but very watchable, entertaining. I like to think so anyway. You won't dread coming over to my house, being bored by boring videos. No sir. My videos are not boring, thanks to Ulead.

Ulead is intuitive and really easy to get to know. Lots of tools and templates. Lots of effects too, like picture in picture and overlays. The program is very stable and burning DVDs is a piece of cake.

My wife Sara has had a camera slung over her shoulder for as long as I can remember, snapping my picture when I'd least expect it. Now I carry around a video cam, turn about is fair play. I think so anyway.

Jack Priest, author of Ragged Man, Gecko & Night Witch.

2 out of 5 stars

Sadly does not support 3g2 file formats July 1, 2008
About the only video I'm interested in working with is the video that I get from my cell phone. I have Motorola RAZR so it isn't some obscure model no one ever heard of. I was surprised to see that there was no support for the 3g2 file format in Ulead.

I contacted Corel to make sure that they did, in fact, not support this file format. They don't--at least not yet. They may support it in the future as patch update (no time line was given).

5 out of 5 stars

Ulead Has Turned Me into a Pretty Complexual Girl June 29, 2008
I've got several videos saved on my computer, but I've never ventured into the world of video editing, thinking it was beyond me. Well, I don't guess it is after all. I installed Ulead without a hitch and found it to be pretty stable on my system. That means I didn't crash my computer, something I seem to be good at doing, so that's a big plus for Ulead right off the bat.

I was able to create a pretty good DVD, with transitions after only a few tries and it would have been easier if I'd bothered to read the manuel. You can create simple or complex edits and I find that I'm getting to be a complexual girl. I'm just loving this program.

There are plenty of advanced tools which I'm not familiar with yet, but I'm getting there, in no time at all, I'm going to be editing up a storm, making DVDs of all my old videos, which I'll send to friends, probably boring them to death. Sometimes it's more fun making them than watching them, I think. Well, it is for me thanks to Ulead.

5 out of 5 stars

Professional Quality video, Powerful Editing and DVD Authoring software << Great Buy for the Price!!>> June 28, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

First of all, I want to say that the quality of videos published with this software is amazing! Also, I want to say that my purchase was worth the price. I bought VideoStudio 11.5 Plus for about 50 dollars for my Windows XP Inspiron 8600 and my Windows XP with Vista and it was a great buy, and produces EXCELLENT quality videos.

Now, as for the program itself, there are bugs. And help is slow, or non-existant. The first problem I had with VS was that it wouldn't install automatically on my Windows XP, so I had to do the manual installation, which wasn't hard, but sometimes I couldn't even do the manual install because the computer would not "find" or read the disc when I put it in. Other times, Installation went perfectly, and setup was automatic, with no "choppy" sounds during installation. To manually install I put the disc in, went to "My Computer" and you right-click on the disc Icon, click explore, and click on the Auto-Run Icon, or Ulead Icon, then, Setup for installation will follow.

I should also mention that at those times when installation did not work, restarting the computer, or re-inserting the disc did not work most of the time, and I found that leaving the computer off for a couple of minutes and trying the installation later would serve more a efficient method.

However, I didn't have the same problem installing it on my Vista. The program would run itself automatically for setup. And I had no concerns during the installation.

Another, which would occur is that when I open the program I will see white boxes with X's on them, under the the "Video Tab" (an alternate location in the program itself, where videos can be stored for easy access instead of loading it from somewhere else on the computer) where the thumbnails for my saved videos would usually be. And some of the video clips I saved for editing were unaccessible. The program would then cease to repond, and close itself upon notifying me of its error. Again, closing the program and shutting off the computer for a few minutes, or a restart would be needed for the program to go back to normal.

Finally, I found it extremely helpful to use the "repair" option (available by selecting the Ulead software under the "Add/Remove programs" option in the control panel) if these quick fixes don't do the job. It's faster then reinstalling the entire software, and it works.

Aside from these two very rare (only happened once each) problems, the only common program I found is that it does not work well on a slow computer, so it is reccomended that your computer have a good amount of free Gigabytes (although it's not necessary if your computer works up to speed, but mine doesn't so I had to do some cleaning up) to work with and rid your computer of programs that slow it down. Right-click on your hard drive, and click on properties to find your free space versus used space. My computer gets slow sometimes when I'm on it for a long time, but mostly, it works seamlessly.

The result is lagging of the actual software during editing -so much so that previewing videos or music on the program, and clicking to specific timecodes take longer than normal. When this happens, my computer actually gets hot, and I just close the program and let it cool off and it goes back to good.

Finally, this is not to exclude the normal (yes -normal) delay the program goes through between buttons. Yes, there is a short delay in clicking between buttons, and while it annoyed me initially, I got used to it as I worked with the program more and more. Small, but noteworthy detail.

That's all of the bad...now for the good!!

What I like most about the program is that you can go to general parts on a clip, and then to very specific points from then on in a short amount of time. It has a frame by frame display of the video if you need it, called "multi-trim". Where you use a dial to jog to a general area on the clip, and then you can use the timecode arrows to move along the clip more specifically. The timecode box displays Hours-Minutes-Seconds, and milliseconds.

For this reason, Multi-Trim is my best friend when editing with Ulead, allowing speedy location to a part in a clip, to extract, or save parts of that clip for furthur editing. I love this feature because it just saves so much time. Other than that, it's got all the other features of your basic editor, with lots of transtitions, effects, and titles. Like other editors, you can also use images in your videos or slideshows, and even create images from your video clips.

You can find out more about all of the features of VS11.5 on the Ulead site -just go to the product's online manual. Overall, Video Studio comes with all the basics and more. The program is easy to use, with lots of customizable specifications, and provides high quality sound and video editing with the ability to publish HD DVD, AVC HD, and Blu-Ray Discs, as well as Tape, mobile devices, and Online sites.

Storyboard, Timeline, and Audio view; Hundereds of effects, transitions, and templates; comes with audio filters, and audio editing tools; and even chroma key (blue/green screening) capability.

It's compatible with DV, DVD, HDV, Hard Drive, and Analog Camcorders; VHS tapes and personal dvds; Pc's with Tuner Card, or Personal video recorders (dvd recorders);and digital camers and hand held devices such as iPod, PSP, Zune, and Mobile phones. Best of all, you can upload directly to Youtube, and other online sites without loosing the quality or sound of the video.

Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus's strongest point is that it delivers High quality videos, providing full-featured dvd authoring and editing for the Intermeadiate to Advanced user. It's both a powerful, and professional editor with the quality to back it up. Although it can be a little buggy at times, I was excited at the quality and the amount of features that came with it. And I was not surprized to learn that the origianl retail price of the software was over $139 USD!

Great buy for the price! Get it!