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Item Description:
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows and DVDs. Create amazing High-Definition videos. Work quickly with intuitive wizards, or express your creativity with hands-on timeline editing. Share your movies everywhere, from iPods to the latest home theater systems.

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Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows and DVDs. Capture video from the latest HD camcorders and create amazing High-Definition HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Work quickly with timesaving template-based Wizards, or express your creativity with powerful hands-on tools. Fix common video problems with one-click corrective filters, generate Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks, and add pro-quality titles and transitions. Share your movies everywhere, from iPod to DVD to YouTube to the latest Home Theater systems. Award-winning VideoStudio sets the standard for powerful features and ease of use.

End-to-End Consumer HD Production

The Most Complete HD Solution Available
The first complete HD solution, no matter what camcorder or playback format users choose, VideoStudio 11.5 Plus lets them capture, edit and output their video.

Practical HD Production Is Here
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus of producing HD video on standard DVD media, which can be played back on PCs or players like the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Microsoft XBOX 360 add-on HD DVD player.

Real-world AVCHD workflow:

• Capture from AVCHD camcorders
• Edit in VideoStudio Editor or Movie Wizard
• Author & burn to standard DVD
• Play on PC, PS3 or Blu-ray Disc player

Real-world HDV workflow:

• Capture from JVC HD or HDV camcorders
• Edit in VideoStudio Editor or Movie Wizard
• Author & burn to standard DVD
• Play on PC or HD DVD player

Real-world AVCHD workflow

Real-world HDV workflow

What's New
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows, and DVDs. Work quickly with intuitive wizards, or express your creativity with hands-on editing tools. Share your movies everywhere, on iPods, YouTube, or the latest HD home theater systems, with full support for AVCHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

Users of the new VideoStudio 11.5, enjoy the following:

• The latest HD formats
• The latest in online sharing
• More creative content and templates
• Bonus media management software

Enhanced--End-to-End AVCHD
Author HD content (from AVCHD or HDV camcorder, or any other HD source) and burn to a standard DVD, using a standard burner.

• AVCHD discs with menus play back pristine HD video on your PC, Blu-ray Player or Sony PS3, or from disc based AVCHD camcorders.
• Supports standard screen sizes from SD to HD, 1280x720 to 1920x1080 as well as PAL and NTSC systems
• Audio formats include LPCM and Dolby 2.0 or 5.1.

New--M2TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) Import

• Import video files directly from AVCHD hard drive or memory card camcorders.
• Use the 'Insert Video' function to preview clips and easily import to hard drive
• VideoStudio 11.5 Plus opens M2TS files that have been copied to your hard drive using other utilities.

New--Blu-ray Disc (BDMV) Authoring
Now users can author HD productions in MPEG 2 HD format, with High Definition motion menus, and burn them to Blu-ray Disc.

• BD supports standard screen sizes from 720 to 1920 as well as PAL and NTSC systems.
• Compliant video, (such as HDV) isn't re-rendered, ensuring shorter encoding times and excellent picture quality.
• Supports Dolby 2.0 and 5.1 audio formats
• Both single- and double-layer discs are supported.

AVCHD Authoring

Blu-ray Disc Authoring

New--H.264 High Profile (HD) Encoding

• VideoStudio 11.5 Plus incorporates the new MainConcept H.264 codec, offering fast encoding with superior quality.
• Supports 1440x1080 and 1920x1080 output frame sizes.
• Encoding is optimized for multi-core processors, including Intel Core 2 Quad.

Enhanced--HD DVD on Standard DVD Production
Users can author HD DVD productions with motion menus, and burn to standard DVDs.

• There is now a dedicated workflow for producing such '3X DVDs'.
• Choose a disc size and the capacity indicator will show how much space is available on the disc.
• HD DVDs play on set-top or PC HD DVD players, Xbox 360 HD DVD players, or standard PC DVD drives with appropriate software.

New Movie Wizard templates

New DVD menu templates

New--Native .TOD format (JVC HD Camcorder) Import and Editing

• VideoStudio 11.5 now offers support for importing and editing native .tod HD video from the latest JVC HD-7 camcorders. No conversion is required.
• Fully supports all frame sizes offered by this camera, including the 'FullHD' 1920x1080i frame size.
• MPEG Optimizer works with TOD video and VideoStudio will SmartRender it for more efficient performance.

Enhanced--New Menus, Templates and Overlay Graphics
Even users who have not made the jump to HD yet, are always looking for fresh content. The 11.5 Upgrade adds a set of rich, professionally-designed templates and graphics to the VideoStudio 11 Plus library:

• 8 New Movie Wizard templates for Home Movie and Slideshows, including powerful, eye-catching multiple-overlay sequences.
• 20 DVD Menus in text, thumbnail and unique One-Scene styles.
• 5 video frames for custom openings or segues.
• 19 Animated Flash overlays to enhance video.
• 5 Overlay mask frames for transparent overlays.

New--Direct YouTube upload
Sharing videos online has become one of the most popular activities in the wired world. The leader of this revolution is YouTube, and now VideoStudio makes it easier than ever to create and upload cool videos.

• After completing editing, users can select from a range of quality settings before video is encoded and uploaded directly to YouTube.
• Logging in and uploading all takes place from within VideoStudio.

Bonus--Manage and Edit Your Media with Corel MediaOne Plus*
With the proliferation of photos and video on consumers' desktops, an efficient tool to organize and retrieve content has become essential. The Power Pack includes a full version of Corel's complete digital media management suite.

• Now users can keep track of all their digital media. Import, tag and sort photos and video, and find any image fast.
• Create virtual groups, or 'Smart Collections' to keep photos and video organized.
• Add descriptions and tags, to retrieve images individually or in groups.
• Prepare photos for slideshows by correcting exposure, fixing red-eye, and other essential photo-editing functions.

*DVD Maker not included within MediaOne Plus











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Customer Rating: - Oldie but Goodie
I needed to produce a video for the web within a two-day timeframe. I couldn't pass up the deal on this software ($90 off for the non-current version).

After a short while, I was editing with ease and was able to ouput the format needed for YouTube and a contest website. My ONLY gripe would be the audio editing window ... you are not able to expand the view vertically enough (for my tastes).

Other than that flaw ... I can't complain at $39.99.

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Customer Rating: - Same Old Ulead but Edits AVCHD
Like most Ulead products there are still some stability issues. When playing raw AVCHD video through the preview window during editing it maxes out the CPU on a Core 2 Duo T7200. Sorry, I thought that would be enough. It is so bad that when I am sorting through video segments I have to use the player that came with my camera (which plays perfect with little CPU usage), remember the file name and then go back to VideoStudio and load the clip into the project. What a pain!

Typical set of editing tools for a low-mid range video editor. Contains quite a few transitions standard. Rendering time to create a DVD from raw AVCHD shot in 1080p, 30fps on a Canon Vixia HF100 is supper fast (20 mins of video in about 3 mins). However, if you add one of VideoStudio's stock DVD menu screens it can take close to an hour just to render the menu.

Unlike Sony Vegas Studio (which to my knowledge still only handles Sony and Panasonic AVCHD), it will handle Canon's AVCHD format which is great considering Canon makes them too. What gives, Sony?

Overall a good product for the price especially when it was a Gold Box Lightning Deal for $30. Easy to navigate and learn for the novice editor. If Ulead would just fix their pesky stability problems I would give it 5-Stars.

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Customer Rating: - great product
This was purchased for my 13 year old son who has been able to do some increadible things with our home movies.

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Customer Rating: - wonderful program
I was very impressed with this program. It took me about 2 and half hours to open the program and end up with a finished product without even opening the manual. The animations and menus provided in the program are impressive and helped me make professional looking DVDs. The only problem I had was when the program came, the disk couldn't be found by my computer, I called Corel (After trying to find a phone number for support for 20 minutes) they were helpful and sent me a replacement disk that arrived in about a week. I would have been more than happy with the program if I had paid full price, but the Amazon.com exclusive price at $40 has me raving about not only the program, but amazon for supporting quality products.