Description:
Less expensive than professional video editing software, MediaStudio Pro 6.5 nevertheless offers an excellent range of tools and effects that lets you put together your own videos and burn them to DVD. Unlike a lot of DVD authoring software, MediaStudio Pro 6.5 concentrates on tools for capturing and editing video. Automatically splitting your captured video into scenes is handy, and it also gets past the Windows 98 limit of 4 GB video files (that's just 18 minutes of footage) by automatically dividing captured video into 4 GB chunks. Learning to make the most of MediaStudio Pro's video editing tools will take some time, but the eventual payoff is well worth it. Professional features like multiple tracks on the timeline let you layer video clips and effects together, while a wide range of transitions lets you move from one clip to another, subtly or with flashy 3-D effects. Best of all, you can preview everything right away, with no lengthy waits for effects to render. Design your own special effects and animations with the video paint tool, which lets you paint individual frames of your video clips. Instead of adding plain text in the video editor, you can create rendered 3-D text titles in CGI Infinity. Narrate comments over the video preview or edit the sound in a video file (although the tools here are basic). Producing effective video requires skill and thought as well as the right tools. If you're willing to provide the inspiration and spend some time learning the features, MediaStudio Pro 6.5 can be a powerful and effective video editing tool. --Mary Branscombe, Amazon.co.uk
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