Corel VideoStudio Pro - X5 Reviewer's Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing Corel VideoStudio Pro X5...........................1

2 | Customer profiles ...........................................................3

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

4 | New and enhanced features ..........................................7

Fast and easy HD video editing................................................................... 7

Advanced visual effects and animation.....................................................10

Complete screencast production ..............................................................12

Innovative sharing options .......................................................................13

5 | Defining features ..........................................................15

6 | Multi-threading at work ...............................................21

Video preview performance scenario........................................................ 21

Transcode performance scenario ..............................................................22

VideoStudio Pro comparisons...................................................................22

Introducing Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X5

“The best camera is the one you have with you.”

This old photographer’s adage rings equally true for today’s videographers. According to InfoTrends, 2012 marks the “first year that mobile phones have taken the leading role in video capture.”

The implications of this trend are clear: video capture is becoming more pervasive thanks to the spontaneity offered by smart phones and other mobile devices.

At Corel, development for VideoStudio

Pro has always emphasized simplicity, speed, and quality. We want to help people with video to quickly and easily make the cuts and embellishments they envision so they can share their video with the world in whichever format they choose.

This release offers new avenues of creative expression, increased application efficiencies, and powerful new features that position VideoStudio Pro to address new customers and new use cases, such as online training, product and business demonstration, and education.

VideoStudio® Pro X5 is an all-in-one video editor that combines creative editing, professional effects, complete screen recording, interactive web video, and total disc authoring. Ultrafast and packed with intuitive tools, it helps you create everything from family movies and slideshows to stop-motion animations, screen recordings of tutorials, presentations, and game play, and much more. In addition, with native HTML5 web video output, easy online and mobile device sharing, and advanced disc authoring, you can share your productions everywhere.

Fast and easy HD video editing

With its simple 1-2-3 workspace, Instant Project templates, and advanced multi-core acceleration, VideoStudio Pro X5 helps you get started immediately and finish fast. By employing multithreading, VideoStudio Pro X5 fully harnesses the processing power of multi-core technology, which means that you can do more and wait less

— especially on today’s triple and quad-core PCs. And when you’re looking for a little creative inspiration, you can visit our new online trading community, photovideolife.com (English only), where you can connect with other users, get the latest VideoStudio Pro news, and download both free and premium templates and additional content, such as 3D titles and animations.

What is multi-threading?

Multi-threading is the best way to tap into the processing power of modern multi-core processors. It lets VideoStudio Pro X5 distribute processes across several PC cores, which means that those processes are completed in parallel, faster than ever before.

Advanced visual effects and animation

VideoStudio Pro X5 now offers you greater creative freedom with more multimedia tracks, so you can incorporate up to 20 overlay tracks which can consist of video clips, graphics, or photos, two title or subtitle tracks, and four audio tracks.

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In addition, new support for multi-layer graphics,

means you can drag and drop Corel

PaintShop™ Pro (PSP) graphics into your video productions. VideoStudio Pro X5 automatically detects and distributes each layer of the graphic onto separate overly tracks in the Timeline, which lets you apply effects and animations to the individual layers.

What are multi-layer graphics?

In Corel PaintShop Pro and other graphic-design software, a layer is like a single sheet of paper that contains an element of the complete graphic. The non-element portion of a layer is often transparent, so you can see through it to the layer below. VideoStudio Pro X5 detects layers and distributes them to separate overlay tracks, which gives you a wide variety of new compositing and animation options.

Complete screencast production

Innovative sharing options

With VideoStudio Pro X5, you can quickly and easily create interactive online video, burn professional-quality discs complete with menus, titles, and transitions, upload directly to

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YouTube as output your videos for specific mobile devices. New support for HTML5 lets you produce dynamic projects that let viewers interact with your video. You can easily add chapter and cue points, just as you would with a disc-based production. And you can get started right away by using one of the included HTML5 Instant Project templates. Formerly the domain of gearheads and the creative agency, this puts interactive HTML5 video in the reach of anyone using VideoStudio Pro X5.

, Vimeo®, Facebook®, and Flickr®, as well

VideoStudio Pro X5 introduces new screen recording tools that make it easy to create complete screencast productions — and for just a fraction of the price of the leading brand. You can quickly and easily capture the activity on your screen, add voice-over narration, background music, and all the titling, subtitles, animations, transitions, and visual effects that VideoStudio Pro has to offer. Its high-speed rendering, multiformat authoring, and complete editing functionality put VideoStudio Pro X5 a giant step ahead of conventional screen recording software.

Whether you’re a business looking to reduce the costs associated with training, or just a regular Joe trying to teach something technical to a loved one separated by miles, the difference in cost between a leading screen-recording solution and VideoStudio Pro X5 represents massive savings.

What is a screencast?

Screencast is the popular name for a video production made by recording activity on a computer screen. Screencasts are instrumental in the world of training, and usually contain an audio voice-over as narration. Screencasts are also rapidly gaining popularity with Youtubers, businesses demonstrating their products or services, and gaming enthusiasts.

What’s more, VideoStudio Pro X5 provides an advanced disc authoring solution, which lets you

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create professional-quality DVD and Blu-ray discs, complete with menus, titles, subtitles, and transitions. Plus, you can add your own custom decorations by replacing default button and icon images with your own graphics. You can even burn from an ISO disc image, which is great for disc replication.

What is HTML5?

HTML5 is the new standard for HTML, the language that drives the web. It has been designed to allow for interactivity and better presentation of video online, and will eliminate the need for browsers to install add-ons such as Adobe HTML5 enables an interactive online video experience with hyperlinked cue and chapter points, onscreen graphics, and transitions.

Flash®, Java®, and Microsoft® Silverlight®.

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Customer profiles

With the proliferation of camera-enabled mobile phones and devices, video shooting and editing has become increasingly mainstream. No longer is video editing the sole domain of the tech-savvy. Here’s a snapshot of the personas that inform our development priorities.

Multimedia enthusiasts

The unifying trait among these traditional users of video editing software is that they’re in it for fun. They have a wide range of creative interests and enjoy the impact their video productions have on their audience. They have multiple cameras, are sophisticated and tech-savvy, and enjoy using VideoStudio Pro for its speed, stability, rich feature set, and creative flexibility.

Adventurous and outgoing families

Families seek out video-editing software so that they can share the precious moments they’ve captured on video. They are compelled to share as a means to further their connections to friends and family, whether it’s video of their latest vacation, a family milestone, or a kid’s sporting event. Limited for time due to their busy lifestyles, these families prefer VideoStudio Pro for it’s fast, responsive, and easy editing environment. They simply want to get it in, get it done, and get it out.

Web authors

The web is where video reveals the full potential of the communication power. Afterall, why use words when you can show something more quickly and easily with video? With the emerging standard of

HTML5, digital media is a central component of the Internet’s future. Web authors want people to interact with their videos online without hassle or interuption, such as the need to install plug-ins. VideoStudio Pro X5 is the world’s first video editor with HTML5 output, helping web authors to create compelling experiences with interactive links and cues in their videos.

Online video enthusiasts

More than simply a place to share video, YouTube, Vimeo, and similar sites are communities for individual expression and social interaction. In many ways, they offer a glimpse at the future of entertainment. They provide a platform where anyone with a talent or a creative bent can engage with anyone in the world and develop a following. Youtubers and online video enhusiasts are passionate about their software choices and are quickly frustrated with products that don’t meet their needs. They are, however, fiercely loyal to their tools that work.

Educators and trainers

Educators and trainers consider screencasting a valuable learning aid and want the ability to build interactivity into their tutorials and presentations. They also enjoy the creative applications of video editing techniques, such as stop-motion animation. The broadening of HTML5 development tools, the introduction of screen recording, and the potential cost savings when compared to the leading brands of screen recording software, all make VideoStudio Pro X5 a legitimate choice for educators.

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What’s included?

Main application

• Corel

VideoStudio® Pro X5: This all-in-

one video editor combines a simple 3-step workspace with creative editing, professional effects, complete screen recording, interactive web video, and total disc authoring.

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, picture-in-picture effects, and sound enhancement tools are built right into VideoStudio Pro X5 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.

• 128 MB VGA VRAM (1 GB or higher recommended)

• 3 GB of free hard drive space

• Minimum display resolution: 1024 × 768

•Windows

-compatible sound card

-compatible DVD-ROM for

installation

• Recordable Blu-ray creating Blu-ray

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drive required for

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discs

• Internet connection required for accessing online features and video tutorials

• Internet connection may be required to verify the serial number during installation

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

Minimum system requirements

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

•Intel

2.0 GHz (multi-core processor recommended)

• 2 GB of RAM (4 GB or higher recommended)

XP, with latest service packs

Core™ Duo 1.83 GHz, AMD Dual-Core

• 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

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

• Apple video, iPod touch Portable

Input format support

iPhone®, iPad®, iPod classic® with

, Sony® PlayStation

, Pocket PC, smartphones

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

QuickTime Format, MOD (JVC

, RealVideo®, Windows Media®

MOD File Format), M2TS,

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, DivX®,

M2T, TOD, 3GPP, 3GPP2

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Audio: Dolby

Digital Stereo, Dolby® Digital

5.1, MP3, MPA, WAV, QuickTime, Windows

Media

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

Audio, Ogg Vorbis

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)

Output format support

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

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Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital

5.1, MPA, M4A, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis

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Images: BMP, JPG

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

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Blu-ray Disc

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Media: CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,

(BDMV)

DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, BD-R/RE

1. Some input format support may require third party

software.

2. Some output format support may require third party

software.