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Summary: Great Product
Review: I wanted to make a movie / slide show for my family to show at Thanksgiving. I didn't think I could do it, but after buying the Screenblast Movie Studio, I did. The tool was simple once I got going - they even included helpful guides to show me how to do everything. My family didn't know I made a movie, I just played it after dinner. Not a dry eye in the house. Now I am expected to make a movie every year - glad I bought the software!
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Summary: Great value considering price and special effects features!
Review: If you're looking for special effects at an unbelievable price, you can't go wrong with Screenblast Movie Studio. Before purchasing this product, I used Pinnacle Studio 8 exclusively. While I like Studio 8 alot when it works, it is riddled with bugs and very unstable (it's constantly crashing). Screenblast Movie Studio has NEVER crashed on me. The features I really like about Screenblast Movie Studio that Pinnacle Studio 8 does not have (without buying their Hollywood FX upgrade): *two video editing tracks
*chroma keying (works great with good lighting)
*masking
*transparencies (you can overlay two clips and change the "transparency" of one to get a "ghost" effect)
*zoom in and out
*basic "animation" abilities (using zoom and fly path features) After playing with Pinnacle Studio for a year, I was ready for more, and this package gave it to me. This package does the basics just fine (I bought of copy of this for my father rather than Studio 8), and it also have some awesome special effects features that will not disappoint.
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Summary: Great value considering price and special effects features!
Review: If you're looking for special effects at an unbelievable price, you can't go wrong with Screenblast Movie Studio. Before purchasing this product, I used Pinnacle Studio 8 exclusively. While I like Studio 8 alot when it works, it is riddled with bugs and very unstable (it's constantly crashing). Screenblast Movie Studio has NEVER crashed on me. The features I really like about Screenblast Movie Studio that Pinnacle Studio 8 does not have (without buying their Hollywood FX upgrade): *two video editing tracks
*chroma keying (works great with good lighting)
*masking
*transparencies (you can overlay two clips and change the "transparency" of one to get a "ghost" effect)
*zoom in and out
*basic "animation" abilities (using zoom and fly path features) After playing with Pinnacle Studio for a year, I was ready for more, and this package gave it to me. This package does the basics just fine (I bought of copy of this for my father rather than Studio 8), and it also have some awesome special effects features that will not disappoint.
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Summary: MPEG for another $...
Review: In comparison to comparbly priced products, I found this software to be less functional and more complicated. As stated by others, I too am extremely put off by the fact that you have to purchase additional modules in order to export videos as mpeg's. This is a feature that is fundamental to burning video cd's and to much of the video editing world!! The only positive aspect to me is the fact that the software did not lock up and ran very smoothly for me compared to Video Deluxe 2. If, however, Video Deluxe were to actually work as advertised without locking up, there would be no contest in terms of price, funtionality and overall satisfaction. The quest for the perfect video software continues...
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Summary: A dissapointment
Review: In comparison to comparbly priced products, I found this software to be less functional and more complicated. As stated by others, I too am extremely put off by the fact that you have to purchase additional modules in order to export videos as mpeg's. This is a feature that is fundamental to burning video cd's and to much of the video editing world!! The only positive aspect to me is the fact that the software did not lock up and ran very smoothly for me compared to Video Deluxe 2. If, however, Video Deluxe were to actually work as advertised without locking up, there would be no contest in terms of price, funtionality and overall satisfaction. The quest for the perfect video software continues...
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Summary: MPEG for another $...
Review: No mention of the fact that you will have to pay an additional $... to get an MPEG plug-in until you try to use the program (which by the way both my Sony Digital Camcorder and my Sony Digital Camera spit out in the MPEG format - but their software won't work with it). You had best compare this to similar products that run around a $... because once they're done with you at Screenblast that's what you'll have into it!
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Summary: Excellent new product from Sony
Review: The Movie Studio is super easy to use and is a lot of fun. Also, the wizards are very helpful. I uploaded photos from my summer vacation and created a living, breathing, slide show with great transitions and effects; making my movie seem like a real Hollywood movie. I highly recommend this product!
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Summary: depends on what you want ... great tools for power users
Review: The product lacks some of the features that I love with Pinnacle Studio 8. The DVD tools in Pinnacle Studio 8. Having used Pinnacle 7 & * pretty extensively, I was curious about this product based on feedback I had received.
authoring in MovieStudio (MS) is lacking, compared to the awesome
If DVD & VCD authoring and making basic videos is your thing, don't stop at MS. Use Pinnacle 8. For basic video editing and creating videos from pictures, it does not get much easier. However, once your imaginations starts to run wild, you are going to need something more power. I bought MS for that reason, realizing that I will still use Pinnacle 8 for DVD authoring. Pinnacle 7/8 provides only a single Video track. Splicing in video is possible, but much more painstaking than having multiple tracks (like most decent video editing tools.) MS has two tracks, but even on a single track you can overall (and blend) multiple video tracks! Pretty neat in concept. Cool features:
* Chroma keyer: pretty much the big winner for me. This allows you to make solid color backgrounds (though not limited to backgrounds) to become transparent in a video (or image) that is to be overlaid unto another track. (Now you can be in a scene with out having ever been there.) * Much better collections of transitions and video filters out of the box then Pinnacle 8. (MS has 23 dissolve type transitions versus the single one in Pinnacle Studio 7/8). Although lacking 3-D object type transitions, the collection quality is on par with the Pinnacle Hollywood Effects add-on (non-pro version.) * While Pinnacle 8 is one of the easiest to use editors out there (that I have tried), I prefer the general layout of WS. There seems to be less wasted space. From the video editing side, I am hard pressed to see what Pinnacle can do that does not seem possible in WS. (I can definitely see the other way.) As for DVD/VCD authoring, I will not waste my time trying to do it in WS. Now, if you do not have Pinnacle 8, then what I might suggest you consider is to get MS plus a stand-alone DVD authoring kit. Both Pinnacle and Ulead have great packages. I am interested in seeing how well the codec in WS works. The rendering process in Pinnacle is among the slowest!! There's more, but I will stop here until I log more time in WS. Hope this is helpful.
Rating:
Summary: depends on what you want ... great tools for power users
Review: The product lacks some of the features that I love with Pinnacle Studio 8. The DVD tools in Pinnacle Studio 8. Having used Pinnacle 7 & * pretty extensively, I was curious about this product based on feedback I had received.
authoring in MovieStudio (MS) is lacking, compared to the awesome
If DVD & VCD authoring and making basic videos is your thing, don't stop at MS. Use Pinnacle 8. For basic video editing and creating videos from pictures, it does not get much easier. However, once your imaginations starts to run wild, you are going to need something more power. I bought MS for that reason, realizing that I will still use Pinnacle 8 for DVD authoring. Pinnacle 7/8 provides only a single Video track. Splicing in video is possible, but much more painstaking than having multiple tracks (like most decent video editing tools.) MS has two tracks, but even on a single track you can overall (and blend) multiple video tracks! Pretty neat in concept. Cool features:
* Chroma keyer: pretty much the big winner for me. This allows you to make solid color backgrounds (though not limited to backgrounds) to become transparent in a video (or image) that is to be overlaid unto another track. (Now you can be in a scene with out having ever been there.) * Much better collections of transitions and video filters out of the box then Pinnacle 8. (MS has 23 dissolve type transitions versus the single one in Pinnacle Studio 7/8). Although lacking 3-D object type transitions, the collection quality is on par with the Pinnacle Hollywood Effects add-on (non-pro version.) * While Pinnacle 8 is one of the easiest to use editors out there (that I have tried), I prefer the general layout of WS. There seems to be less wasted space. From the video editing side, I am hard pressed to see what Pinnacle can do that does not seem possible in WS. (I can definitely see the other way.) As for DVD/VCD authoring, I will not waste my time trying to do it in WS. Now, if you do not have Pinnacle 8, then what I might suggest you consider is to get MS plus a stand-alone DVD authoring kit. Both Pinnacle and Ulead have great packages. I am interested in seeing how well the codec in WS works. The rendering process in Pinnacle is among the slowest!! There's more, but I will stop here until I log more time in WS. Hope this is helpful.
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Summary: A lot of bugs
Review: The product went back. It's not ready yet. Use Movie Maker for FREE. ;(
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