Corel VideoStudio Pro - X2 Ultimate Reviewer’s Guide

Reviewer’s Guide

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Corel VideoStudio

Pro X2 Ultimate Reviewer’s Guide

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Contents

1 | Introducing Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate............1

2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3

3 | What’s Included? ..............................................................5

4 | The Ultimate Solution for HD Video Production............9

Fast, Smooth Video Capture and Editing .................................................... 9

Fast Encoding ................................................................................................ 9

Choice of Output ........................................................................................ 10

5 | Key Features ...................................................................13

Professional, Easy-To-Use Editing Tools ..................................................... 13

Unique Special Effects ................................................................................ 22

Any Output, Anywhere .............................................................................. 24

6 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................27

Introducing Corel VideoStudio™ Pro X2 Ultimate

Corel VideoStudio™ Pro X2 Ultimate is the premier high-definition (HD) digital media collection, providing everything users need to take their video editing to the next level. VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate includes:

• the full video editing power of Corel VideoStudio

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Pro X2

• the world’s leading DVD and Blu-ray playback software

Corel

• and disc copy and conversion tools with Corel

• audio mastering with Steinberg

WinDVD® 9 Plus Blu-ray

DVD Copy™ 6 Plus.

WaveLab™ LE 6

With VideoStudio Pro X2, users can import video from HDV (High-Definition Video), AVCHD

JVC

HD camcorders to take advantage of free-form creative tools and a wealth of professionally designed templates. Steinberg for Dolby

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(Advanced Video Codec High Definition), Blu-ray Disc®, and

WaveLab™ LE 6 and full support

Digital 5.1 make it easy for users to create stunning professional soundtracks for their slide shows and videos. Users can also share their productions with family and friends on Blu-ray Disc, AVCHD disc, standard DVDs, or by uploading directly to YouTube

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The Ultimate Solution for HD Video Production

With everything users need to take their HD editing to the next level, VideoStudio Pro X2 provides fast and smooth editing, quick encoding, and flexible output options. Users can capture and edit video in all the leading HD formats, including HDV, AVCHD, Blu-ray Disc (BDMV), and JVC (TOD).

HD camcorder

With its Smart Proxy editing and support for both dual-core and quad-core CPUs, VideoStudio lets even midrange PCs edit HD content efficiently. The new MainConcept H.264 codec provides rapid encoding with superior quality, and the MPEG Optimizer suggests the fastest, best-quality encoding settings. In addition, WinDVD

9 Plus Blu-ray lets users playback their Blu-ray and AVCHD

productions at home or on the road.

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Professional, Easy-To-Use Editing Tools

VideoStudio Pro X2 provides an array of professional, easy-to-use editing tools that help users create compelling, Hollywood-style video projects. The new, sophisticated graphite user interface provides enlarged controls for filters and effects, one-click previews, scalable Library thumbnails, and an instant timecode tip. Users can easily create sophisticated picture-in-picture and montage effects, automatic audio and video crossfades, title animations, color backgrounds, and much more.

With support for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround-sound audio, users can create videos that take full advantage of today’s home theater systems. What’s more, the powerful mastering application Steinberg WaveLab LE 6 lets users edit audio and improve sound quality.

Unique Special Effects

Users can explore their creativity and personalize their video projects with a collection of special effects and easy-to-use templates. The new Painting Creator is an unrivaled feature that lets users paint, draw, or write on their videos. Users can also give their video an “old-film” appearance by using one of the filters from NewBlue

Film Effects.

With the Chroma Key effect, users can superimpose any background onto a video — just like the pros do. In addition, many professionally designed HD-style templates, menu templates and transitions, overlay objects, frames, and Flash animations are included.

Any Output, Anywhere

With Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 Ultimate, users can easily share their videos with family and friends or seek a much broader audience. They can author Blu-ray Discs with advanced menus, burn HD video on a standard DVD in AVCHD format, create DVDs with professional menus, output video to mobile devices, and even upload directly to YouTube. With support for Apple Video) users can easily watch their videos on the go. In addition, Corel

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Copy

6 Plus lets users copy and convert any disc or video, and even convert

video for mobile devices.

iPhone™ and FLV (Flash

DVD

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Customer Profiles

Specialist: Technology Enthusiasts

Technology enthusiasts are early adopters of new technology who enjoy capturing video during family, school, social, club, or sports events. They have invested in an HD camcorder, HDTV, set-top Blu-ray DVD player, and HD burner for their computer. They seek professional tools that let them pursue advanced video-editing projects and take advantage of their technology investment by working with the latest HD video, audio, and disc formats.

Intermediate: Hobbyists

Hobbyists shoot lots of videos and photos, particularly during significant social events. They seek easy-to-use tools that let them express their creativity by personalizing their videos and photos with unique features and effects. They enjoy the immediacy of sharing their projects on mobile devices or the Web.

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What’s Included?

Main Application

• Corel VideoStudio™ Pro X2 Ultimate: This all-in-one video-editing and

disc-authoring application makes it easy to create professional-looking videos, slide shows, and DVDs.

• VideoStudio Editor – for powerful editing and disc authoring tools

• Movie Wizard – to make complete movies in a few clicks

• DV-to-DVD Wizard – the fastest way to record directly from tape to disc

Extra Applications

• Corel® WinDVD® 9 Plus Blu-ray: The world’s #1 DVD and Blu-ray playback

software.

• Corel

• Steinberg

DVD Copy™ 6 Plus: Disc and video copying and converting software,

with support for converting for mobile devices.

WaveLab™ LE 6: A fast, streamlined audio editor and mastering

application.

Supplementary Content

• An extensive library of templates, overlay clips, title animations, menus, and

effects are included to help users personalize their projects.

Bonus Effects

• NewBlue® Film Effects: Five filters with 81 presets that give videos the

magic of an “old-film” appearance.

Documentation

•Help file

• PDF user guide

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System Requirements

Minimum requirements for VideoStudio™ Pro X2, WinDVD

•Intel

• Microsoft

• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB of RAM or more recommended)

• 1 GB of hard disk space (for installation)

• Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card recommended

• Windows-compatible DVD drive (for installation)

For non-proxy HDV editing:

• 3.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor, AMD Althon

• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB or more recommended)

For Blu-ray Disc

• Minimum CPU – Intel

• Recommended CPU – Intel

• VGA chipset – 128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (256 MB recommended) with

• Minimum graphic card – NVIDIA

• Recommended graphic card – NVIDIA

• VGA driver version – To ensure that you can enjoy full quality of Blu-ray

• Optical drive – A Blu-ray optical drive is required for Blu-ray Disc

• Display device – If you are using a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) or HDMI

9 Plus Blu-ray, and DVD Copy™ 6 Plus:

Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™ XP (or equivalent), or higher recommended

Windows® XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP

Media Center Edition, Windows

Windows Vista

operating system software

XP Professional x64 Edition, or

for surround sound support)

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XP 3000+ or higher with

Hyper-Threading technology

and HD DVD playback:

Core™ Duo T2400 1.83 GHz; AMD Athlon 64 X2

3800+ 2.0 GHz

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2.13 GHz, Core

2 Quad Q6600 2.40 GHz, Core™2 Duo T5500 1.66 GHz, or

higher; AMD Athlon

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AMD Turion

64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz, or higher

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64 FX-60 2.6 GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 4200+ 2.2 GHz,

Core™ Duo T2500 2.0 GHz, Core™2 Duo E6400

support for hardware acceleration

GeForce® 7600, ATI Radeon™ X1600

GeForce® 8400, ATI Radeon™ HD

2400 or higher

and HD DVD movies, please visit the NVIDIA

or ATI websites to download

the latest drivers.

playback, a HD DVD drive is required for HD DVD playback. Both Blu-ray and HD DVD drives support playback of standard DVDs. Standard DVD optical drives support playback of HD DVD videos on standard DVDs, as well as AVCHD

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discs.

(High-Definition Multimedia Interface) connection to a digital output, please make sure that your display device is HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) compatible and that your VGA supports HDCP.

Input/Output Device Support

• IEEE 1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV camcorders

• Support for OHCI-compliant IEEE-1394

• Analog capture cards for analog camcorders

• Analog and digital TV capture device

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• USB capture devices, PC cameras, as well as DVD, hard drive, Blu-ray, and AVCHD camcorders

• Windows-compatible Blu-ray, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, or CD-R/RW drive

• Apple Pocket PC, Smartphone, Nokia

iPhone™, Apple® iPod® with video, Sony PlayStation® Portable (PSP),

mobile phone, Microsoft® Zune

Input File Format Support

VideoStudio™ Pro X2

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV, AVCHD, M2T, MPEG-4, H.264,

QuickTime

, Windows Media® Format, DVR-MS, MOD (JVC® MOD file

format), M2TS, TOD, BDMV, 3GPP, 3GPP2

• Audio: Dolby

Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital 5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, Windows

Media Format

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Image:

BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD,

PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, UFP, WMF

• Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

WinDVD® 9 Plus Blu-ray

• Disc: DVD-Video, VCD, SVCD, Mini DVD (DVD on CD), WMV HD, Audio CD, AVCHD, HD DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD DVD-R, BD-R, and RE

• Video: MPEG-1, 2, 3GPP/3GPP2, DivX

QuickTime

• Blu-ray Disc

formats, HDV, MPEG-2 HD, AVCHD

/ HD DVD Video: MPEG2, VC1, H.264

• Audio: Dolby Digital, MP3, AAC, MPA, M2A, WAV, WMA, DTS

• Blu-ray Disc

Dolby

/ HD DVD Audio: LPCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital® Plus,

TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD

, Windows Media, AVI, RealPlayer®,

, LPCM.

DVD Copy™ 6 Plus

• Video: AVI, MPG, M2V, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, QuickTime, MOV,

ASF, WMV, DVR-MS, 3GPP, 3GPP2, DivX, Xvid, TiVo

• Disc: DVD (DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), AVCHD

Output File Format Support

VideoStudio™ Pro X2

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media Format, BDMV, 3GPP, 3GPP2, FLV

• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format

• Image: BMP, JPG

• Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Blu-ray (BDMV)

• Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, BD-R/RE

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