The Good
* Straightforward and easy to use.
* Supports many input audio/video (HD & SD) formats, output video formats (HD & SD), and a handful of electronic devices.
* Users can add custom background audio (in addition to the audio that comes with input videos).
* Allows users to perform basic edits on input videos.
* Has 48 transition effects users can use.
* Allows users to modify volume level of input audio (the audio that comes with input videos and the audio files imported separately).
* Can upload videos directly to Youtube.

The Bad
* Lacks the ability to add custom text (such as titles, captions, and credits).
* Lacks the ability to use still images (JPG, PNG, etc.) in videos.
* Has many transitions but lacks on number of effects (only has four).
* Once a transition has been placed on a video, it is impossible to tell what transition it is short of previewing the video.

Free Alternatives
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 15 Silver
Windows Movie Maker/Windows Live Movie Maker

For final verdict, recommendations, and full review please click here.

Ashraf  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+182)

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Installation and Registration

1. Unzip the package you've downloaded and install the software;
2. Run the software you installed;
3. Click "Get KeyCode" button, enter your e-mail address on the popup page to get keycode;
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Giveaway of the Day project team  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+46)

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I've just downloaded & will post more later, but for now in case it helps anyone...

One of the feedback suggestions was to add fade in/out -- the traditional way of doing that, &/or the fades between clips or scenes, it to use a short back or white clip at either end of the regular video clip [&/or between 2] & then use whatever transitions. BTW & FWIW, fancy transitions are often [but not always] considered fairly amateurish. When it fits with what you're doing, the most commonly used pro transition is called an L cut, where you use simple audio & video fades, but not at the same time, hence the name: L cut [on the timeline the different start points look like an L or it's mirror image].

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RE: subs or CC [#3, #6, #7]... On a DVD & with digital broadcast in North America standard CC is text that is embedded inside the mpg2 video -- DVDLab & Encore are the 2 apps consumers use that I'm aware of that will do this embedding, & without re-encoding. Cable broadcast HD CC is more like subs [can't pass regular CC over HDMI], which are a separate, graphics overlay stream included in the VOB file of a DVD, or m2ts files with Blu-Ray & AVCHD. AFAIK no video editor really does anything with subs -- the text files they're based off of can be created in several free apps just for that purpose, & those or other apps, plus a few DVD &/or Blu-Ray authoring programs can turn them into the normal image based sub files or streams that players overlay on the video. Windows media, Real Video, MKV, Nero digital mp4 files, DivX etc., even Shockwave Flash can also do subs or captioning, but the players that will display it are limited. In most of these formats the subs are also separate from the video itself, created with the same sorts of tools used for DVD & Blu-Ray subs, then combined in a container with or stored alongside the video, usually as text rather than graphics-based files. Creating those text files has been traditionally done in a way that's very similar to typing up dictation &/or court reporting, but for the last several years there have been advances in voice recognition -- Google is IMHO leading the way, putting this tech to work with YouTube & their phone apps... YouTube can create captions or subs using your uploaded video. Finally, several apps including a few of the video converters that have been on GOTD can hard code or burn subs, meaning they're overlaid on the video before encoding -- generally this isn't that popular or widely used because it forces everyone to see them, not just those who want or need them.

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#7: "... because every time you render a video its quality diminishes."

Generational loss has always been a fact of life for digital video -- if it helps, the usual strategies are 1) start with original video at greatest possible quality, 2) stick with (near) lossless video formats (codecs) for intermediate video files, 3) when possible & when it applies, use apps that feature Smart Rendering... you can also minimize quality loss by avoiding changes in the video format's color space or method of storing color data [effected by both your choice of formats & software]. The way Smart Rendering works, is video that doesn't change is not re-encoded but just copied as-is into the new file; it works very well when the only changes are where scenes come together, but not at all when you change everything, e.g. do something like change the brightness or color.

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#9: "... One such example is the very popular Windows Live Movie Maker..."

The problem with Microsoft's video stuff is it of course relies on wmv... Windows Media Video has loads of good things going for it, but it's just plain hard to work with, there aren't as many tools avail as there maybe should be (many advanced encoding settings have to be made in the registry for example), & it's *very* slow, with inefficient encoding/decoding. Yes the VC1 version did make it as a standard for HD, but there aren't many ways to encode it [Windows Media Encoder won't -- in fact MS only released the code on how to write an encoder, not a VC1 encoder itself], & it's still a PITA to work with.

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If it's of any interest, while not direct competition to Video Studio Express, if you need/want more, Adobe is running a special till the end of month on Premiere Elements [I've seen $50 after MIR], but be aware it won't do full HD.

Happy Thanksgiving

mike  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+34)

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http://www.wondershare.com/guide/video-studio-express.html
Here is the guide.Thank.

Do Do Re  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+27)

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Nice package for free, but it's missing the one feature I NEED in a video editor, and will still be using the Free VirtualDub for until something better comes along.

Image sequences.

Why so few video editors refuse to accept image sequences is beyond me. I do lots of animation, from 3D stuff to Fractal Animation, and almost all of the software I use creates numbered image sequences. I hardly ever use video files as a starting point (don't even own a camera!) and really need to be able to compile image sequences into video files. Fortunately, VirtualDub does this, and it is free! Get it at http://virtualdub.sourceforge.net/

If Wondershare's offering did this, it would be a Wonderful Tool, as it is - it's just mediocre at best (for my purposes).

I hope the kind folks who provided this software will consider adding this feature to a future version (and give it away here??).

Otherwise, it does support many video formats that are hard to find editors for (like rm, and mkv and even some I never heard of!), so I'm still likely to find uses for it on rare occasions, but only on rare occasions.

Thanks for this giveaway!

Noah Body  –  14 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+23)

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