Corel VideoStudio Pro - X4 Reviewer’s Guide

Reviewer’s Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing Corel VideoStudio Pro X4...........................1

2 | What’s included?.............................................................3

3 | Key features ....................................................................5

Simple steps to cinematic movies ............................................................... 5

Your vision on any screen ...........................................................................9

High performance video editing ...............................................................15

Share and show anywhere........................................................................16

Introducing Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X4

Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X4 tears down the
barriers to consumer video editing, offering a
robust feature set, outstanding speed, and simple
ways to quickly bring your video to life on-screen.
This high performance video-editing environment
combines an easy 3-step interface, a wealth of
intuitive creative effects, and an integrated
disc-burning and menu-authoring solution.

Simple steps to cinematic movies

With VideoStudio Pro X4, video editing is truly as
easy as 1-2-3. The clutter-free workspace is
uncomplicated enough for beginners and
powerful enough for tech-savvy video enthusiasts.
Simple steps speed you through the basics, while
an abundance of effects, menu templates, sounds,
titles, and transitions inspire creativity.

The dedicated Capture step makes it a breeze to
get your media from DSLR cameras, DV and HDV

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camcorders, and other mobile devices. In
addition, the Library lets you effortlessly organize
your photos, video clips, and audio files so you
can focus on the story you want to tell.

Your vision on any screen

You’ll marvel at how quickly you can transform an
idea into a captivating movie. The straightforward
Timeline makes video composition fast and easy,
letting you add animated titles, practically
limitless creative effects, as well as background
music and voice-over audio.

The new Stop Motion tools introduce the fun of
animation — a perfect activity for the kid in anyone,
whether you’re a parent looking for family-oriented
entertainment, a teacher with designs on an
exercise in cognizant learning, or a screenager
aiming to engross your online friends. And with
new Time-lapse effects, it’s easy for anyone to
produce stunning scenes from gradually developing
events, like a setting sun or moving clouds.

High performance video editing

Developed for the latest chips from Intel® and
AMD, VideoStudio Pro X4 ensures that you can
create without the wait. Plug-and-play support for
HD cameras and formats, like H.264 and AVCHD
makes it effortless to access media — no matter
the device. And with Smart Proxy editing, you can
enjoy fast and responsive HD video composition
that won’t tax your PC’s resources.

Share and show anywhere

Ready to debut your film to the world? With
VideoStudio Pro X4, it’s a cinch to screen your
movie with a diverse audience, whether viewers
will watch on iPhones or other mobile devices,
social media websites, game consoles, or disc
players and TVs. You can easily burn a DVD,

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AVCHD, BD-J, or Blu-ray
menu navigation. You can even burn 3D video
files to disc. What’s more, VideoStudio Pro X4
offers presets for uploading directly to Facebook

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Flickr

, Vimeo®, and YouTube™ — in SD, HD, and

even 3D.

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What’s included?

Main application

• Corel

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VideoStudio® Pro X4: This high

performance video-editing environment
breaks down the barriers traditionally
associated with digital video by combining a
simple 3-step interface, a wealth of intuitive
creative effects, and an integrated disc­burning and menu-authoring solution.

Supporting applications and content

• DV-to-DVD Wizard: The DV-to-DVD Wizard
lets users capture video from a DV camcorder,
add a theme template to it, and then burn it
directly to DVD.

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NewBlue®FX: A variety of NewBlueFX

animated effects are built right into
VideoStudio Pro X4 to help you customize
your video clips.

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SmartSound®: With integrated SmartSound

audio, you can easily built a fantastic
soundtrack, with sound effects, voice-overs,
and masterful mood music.

•3D glasses

Minimum system requirements

•Microsoft® Windows® 7, Windows Vista®,
Windows
installed (32-bit or 64-bit editions)

•Intel

2.0 GHz or higher recommended

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XP, with latest service packs

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Core™ Duo 1.83 GHz, AMD Dual-Core

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

• 128 MB VGA VRAM (256 MB or higher
recommended)

• 3 GB of free hard drive space

• Minimum display resolution: 1024 x 768

•Windows

•Windows

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-compatible sound card

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-compatible DVD-ROM for

installation

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• Recordable Blu-ray

drive required for

creating Blu-ray discs

• Internet connection required for online
features and video tutorials

Input/output device support

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

• Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394

• USB Video Class (UVC) DV cameras

• Analog capture cards for analog camcorders
(VFW and WDM support for Windows XP and
Broadcast Driver Architecture support for
Windows Vista and Windows 7)

• Analog and digital TV capture devices
(Broadcast Driver Architecture support)

• USB capture devices: Web cameras, and disc/
memory/hard drive camcorders

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

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• Apple® iPhone™, iPad®, iPod classic® with

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video, iPod touch
Portable

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, Pocket PC, smartphones

, Sony® PlayStation

Input format support

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVCHD™,
MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, DV, HDV

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QuickTime
Format, MOD (JVC

, RealVideo®, Windows Media®

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MOD File Format), M2TS,

M2T, TOD, 3GPP, 3GPP2

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Audio: Dolby

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Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital

5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows

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Media

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Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF,

Audio

ICO, IFF, IMG, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT,
PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PSPImage, PXR, RAS,
RAW, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF, UFO, UFP, WMF

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

(SVCD)

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, DivX®,

Output format support

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

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Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital

5.1, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media
Audio, Ogg Vorbis

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Images: BMP, JPG

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Disc: DVD (DVD-Video/DVD-VR/AVCHD),

Blu-ray Disc

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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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(BDMV)

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