Ulead VideoStudio 8 - Home Movies

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Summary: Good product for beginners
Review: This is a good product for beginners because of one very important reason... it comes with a disc that shows you how to do each step. I've used this to create a DVD for my nephew's 5th birthday. My in-laws had tons of video on VHS that I went through, transferred much of it to my digital camcorder, then to my computer via this product. Worked like a charm. Added tons of effects, graphics, and music. Turned out great. I really like this product. Only knock I have against it... I'd like the ability to add words in the stock footage provided, replacing the words within that footage. For example, there footage of the world, with "ulead" going around it. I'd like to put my own words. Other than that, I think this program is easy to use, fun to use, and worth every penny.

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Summary: Awful product!
Review: This product is extremely difficult to use. I have registered my product with Ulead and cannot access any type of help whatsoever. I have several problems with using the software namely sound/vision sync problems; menus/chapters do not save, rerender and you lose them and have to type them all in again. Input a video clip into the timeline and you have to manually alter every title, sound track, overlay after that point. White rolling credits on a plain black background (simple eh!) take forever to render. Can't enter cda or wma files into menus as background music. All very frustrating. What is more frustrating is that the video quality was very poor as I rendered several times as it doesn't say not to. I took the trouble of using Uleads tutorials on their open web pages. When the DVD came out picture quality extremely poor, and then when I improved Video Quality, the sound then suddenly became out of sync! Everytime I entered menus/chapters etc again, as they were lost and everytime was several hours inputting and rendering/burning DVD. Have also updated this software with latest releases. My computer is 2.8ghz/80gb/512mb and brand new and nothing else running! I have emailed Ulead customer support with very intricate details and they have been no help whatosever, I have 20+years computer experience professionally and privately. I can't even access registration page without going into a perpetual loop with it keep sending me a new password and then it sends me another and another!!! Extremely frustrating. On the face of it, product is excellent, but when you actually use it that is a different matter altogether, and then when you want help, again none whatsoever. I ask a question, does the product actually work satisfactorily and is there such a thing as techinical service from Ulead?

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Summary: Easiest and most stable video editorive worked with
Review: This program is unreal. I was given it as a gift to help me pass time during the day, and i couldn't believe how easy it was to use. The other programs i played with kept blowing up the system, and id have to restart, but Ulead never crashed out once.
Ive been able to edit all my old footage, and its been fun to do. At the same time, the software was even able to edit a bunch of my footage for me!