Studio MovieBox HD [OLD VERSION]

3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars | 39 ratings

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Last update: 07-22-2024


About this item

Import video and photos from camcorders, digital cameras, phones, game systems, and more
Edit and add aminations, effects, sound, and music-all in HD
Use stop-motion capture for animation or amazing fast-motion effects
Fix shaky camera shots with the same technology used on major motion pictures
Over 130 templates give you a head start with easy-to-use animations, transitions, and titles

Top reviews from the United States

Mark M Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Studio MovieBox HD Does the Job
Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2011
Purchased this product to digitize VHS tapes for transfer onto DVDs. Installation was a breeze and the product connected easily from by Sony dual-deck DVD/VHS player and to my Windows 7 box via USB without a hitch. Within minutes, I was transferring VHS tapes onto my computer and into Studio 14 via MovieBox. Scene detection was very good. This was important as I was converting several TV programs ladled with commercials that I wanted to remove. Finding the commercials and removing those scenes was quick and easy.

Studio 14 software is OK as an entry-level product for movie making. I start making movies way back with Studio 8 but have since graduated to Premiere Pro CS5. This is my first Studio upgrade since version 9 and I see that not much has changed. The interface appears to still be limited to two video tracks. While fine for many projects, this is very limiting for advanced movie making.

One feature in Studio 14 that is very nice (and that I have not seen in another product) is the ability to capture actual titles off of DVDs into separate files. Having many homemade DVDs with many titles, the ability to extract selected titles is a big feature. Most other products that I have used only copy the VOB files to disk, something you can do by hand without the overhead of another app. The VOB files are not much use by themselves so further editing would be required to obtain the exact titles. The title extraction is quite a lengthy process though.

Overall, I rated this product as very good and would recommend it to friends would have a similar mission. Installation was quick and easy and the product worked as advertised.
BCD
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money.
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2014
If you are purchasing this product to replace a firewire connection for your camcorder, don't waste your time or your money. This is perhaps one of the most disappointing technology products I have purchased. But the problems do not end with the product; the company's 14 day "free support" is a ruse. Mostly, they suggest you to got to the website and search the "knowledge database", which is little more than a deficient "FAQ" section. After the 14 day free period, you expected to pay for more of the same frustration and agitation. They never did answer my question. If you need to transfer data, either buy a deck, install a card, or transcribe it with a hammer and chisel...it will be more gratifying and productive and much less frustrating. If I had an option to give it no stars, I would have.
Voytron
2.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I was looking for
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2011
I've been looking for something like this for a long time. My laptop has no firewire port nor an expansion port. It was easy to setup and captured beautiful video from my HV20. I can't speak to the other features as I don't need them. This is the first day, I'm hoping it will be as smooth from here on out but will post it's not.

11/15/11
Aaaaaand now the update. I have been able to capture video from it, but it's buggy and unintuitive. It will often drop frames while recording from my HV20. If there was a better alternative, I would use it. For now I'm stuck with it.
dittoskorner
3.0 out of 5 stars Beware, very memory hungry.
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2011
Got this thing to do videos to DVD. Thought it was an up grade from the other one we got and had to send back. Tried it with Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. Turns out I didn't have enough memory in any of my computers to make this thing work properly. Thought we had it with the Window 7 computer after shutting everything off, but all of a sudden it would freeze and stop (usually in the middle of the tape. So had to send it back and got half my money back. There was nothing about how much memory was needed that I remember seeing. So it is a memory hungry little machine, So beware!
Kindle Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Works Good
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2011
I needed something to transfer my video's from my handy cam to my computer. My laptop does not have a fire wire port, and this solved the problem. When i hooked everything up my computer instantly reconized my handi cam and started uploading video. I do need to keep wathcing it while it is transfering video because it will start skipping frames sometimes and i need to stop the transfer and restart it, and that seems to fix it. It does exactly what i needed it to do.
M.L.
5.0 out of 5 stars PERFECT for Laptop without expansion slot
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2011
Summary: The Studio MovieBox is great for laptops that do not have an expansion slot for an IEEE 1394 firewire card because it lets you connect either Firewire, supervideo, or standard RCA (red/white/yellow) audio cable to a USB port on your computer.

We purchased a new CD video camera to replace our old mini DV video camera. We have been transferring the videos using our old desktop computer using IEEE 1394 firewire. The computer has a Celeron Processor and 1 GB of ram, so it was a painfully long process. I broke down and purchased a HP laptop (i5 processor, 6 GB ram) on the basis that the phone salesman told me there was NO expansion slot BUT there was a firewire-to-eSATA converter that I could purchase.

It was very difficult to find, but I found a firewire-eSATA converter...but all the reviews said they do not work. I was stuck transferring the videos onto the old desktop computer, transferring them to an external hard drive, transferring them to my laptop, editing and producing the video. The new laptop was WICKED FAST at producing the videos but all the transferring was too time-consuming, as video files are extremely large.

So either I get a new laptop or I find another method of transferring the videos. Come to find out, HP no longer makes a home-use laptop with an expansion slot. So I started searching again. Not sure why it was so difficult to find, but after a lot of searching I found the MovieBox and it is perfect! The MovieBox lets you connect either Firewire, supervideo, or standard RCA (red/white/yellow) audio cable to a USB port on your computer. So I was finally able to transfer videos from my camera directly to my laptop. I was skeptical at first because Firewire is supposed to be so much faster than USB2.0. I have used it to make DVDs from mini-DV and VHS and have had no problems with this product and am very pleased.

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