Ulead Videostudio 7

3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars | 12 ratings

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KML
5.0 out of 5 stars A pretty good product for home movie editing
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2005
I spent less than 5 hours to learn how to use this product, and afterward I understand the basics and start to edit my first DVD home movie with music background and everything runs smoothly.

The user interface is intuitive. Even after 5 hours of studying, I am able to understand the flow. The PDF manual is quite good, if I have problems I can easily find out from this manual.

You can import media and edit it, once you start your project, the software automatically goes to the capture mode, so if you have a firewire hooks up to a Sony/Cannon camorder, you will have total control of this camorder, and start downloading. One word of caution downloading takes a lot of CPU power. This step is very easy, and the software does it all for you.

The output audio is very good, and put Rock, folk, easy listening, New age music and they all sound good.

On a larger project, it may get slow,in my case I have a AMD 2200 system, 1 GB of Ram, and 200 GB of hard drive, so for me is a little slow while doing editing and previewing, but it still does it job well. So I think if I update my machine to more than 3 ghz, I think I'll be fine.

I had one crash, and it probably runs out of virtual memory; all I did was just to reboot my system and I am fine. But one thing to remind is to save you file frequently.

The feature sets are very rich for regular home users. I have no complaint for a product that is less than $89, for my case I got it with my capture card.

Overall, the money for this product is wll spent, and I am very happy with it. Since I have no problems with it, I never call the tech support, so I have no comments on this.

BTW, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand this product, this is a real good deal for home movie editing.
William H. Coffin
1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely baffling
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2003
I spent more than 50 hours trying to learn how to use this product and learning how to work around its bugs. I gave up and bought Sony Screenblast, which is working quite well for me. Here are some problems I had with the Ulead product:
The user interface is wildly non-intuitive. Absolutely baffling. Even after 50 hours of intensive effort, I couldn't figure out its behaviors. Also, the help system was clearly tacked on as an afterthought; it's in Adobe PDF format, so you can't search it, it's hard to read, and the index is laughable. The text is completely inadequate. If you buy this product you will have to use the online web boards (which are actually quite good) to figure out how to use it.
They say you can import media and edit it, but this is not actually true. It will edit mpegs captured by other tools, but when you try to burn a DVD it crashes with no diagnostics. A phone call to tech support established that you cannot render a file unless it was captured by VS (Video Studio). (There is a workaround, but the tech support guy didn't know about it.)
The output audio is bad, with occasional clicks and pops inserted.
On a larger project, it gets horrendously slow. (Other programs, like Screenblast, are slow to load but are quite quick once loaded.)
I had one crash, after which VS was no longer able to start. I tried to uninstall so I could re-install, but that caused system errors. Fortunately the original installsheild .exe could uninstall. But this one crash cost me half a day of experimentation just to find the way to re-install.
The feature set is not very rich compared to Screenblast at about the same price. I've also used ArcSoft ShowBiz, which has a lovely interface but cannot render acceptable output. And I've also used a few really low-end tools.
Overall, the money I spent on VS was money flushed down the toilet. And my weeks of work were wasted -- I should have quit earlier.
BTW, I have a degree in Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley and have been in the software development business for 20 years, so I'm not easily intimidated by software.
TexasShopper
4.0 out of 5 stars old version of VS but still useful for simple projects
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2008
My projects are only simple: create photo slideshows with background music, titles, credits, and some interesting transition effects.

I have Windows Movie Maker (WMV), but can't use it to burn AVI to DVD so I bought this VS7 primarily for that function and it works great.

It's simple enough IMO to use although WMV feels easier for making
photo slideshow projects. Got the software for $8.50 with S&H so it's worth it for the simple projects.
T. R. Matheson
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for the Home User
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2004
I have been using Ulead Video Studio 6 for over a year for editing my videos and preparing them for burning to DVD, and it has given me 95% satisfaction, so I recently upgraded to 7.
For video editing software under $100, I don't think you can beat UVS7. I agree that it does take some getting used to, but if you're not in a rush to do a perfect production the day you get it, and allow yourself some tinkering time, you'll see that it works and works well.
Mine has never dropped a frame during capture, which itself is worth a lot. The edit "flow" is natural and very flexible -- but, again, I agree that it takes some getting used to. And the quality of the final video or disk is very nice, which is what it's all about.
Personally, I think it could use more choices for title animations, which, right now, is the only negative thing I can say about it.
If you get the download version, be sure to go back and get the 7.01 patch and the "extra content," which is many more effects and filters. You'll be cheating yourself if you don't.
Again, I don't think a home digital video buff can find better software for this price.

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