COREL VIDEO STUDIO 11.5 PLUS

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 ltest HD home theater systems, with full support for AVCHD, Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.

Features

Easy & Powerful Video Editing + DVD Authoring

Imagine the Movies You'll Make

VideoStudio Editor gives you all the tools you need to produce great-looking home movies. Follow an easy, step-by-step workflow that lets you spend your time being creative rather than learning technical editing.

Movie Wizard: Ideal for users new to video editing. Select from attractive themes and let auto-editing create a professional opening sequence for you. Instantly produce entertaining photo slideshows with Smart Pan & Zoom. You'll have a complete movie in only three steps.

DV-to-DVD Wizard™: The fastest way from DV to DVD. Just hook up your camcorder and choose the clips you want. In just two steps you have a finished DVD complete with menus, titles, transitions and music.

Total High-Definition Solution: Make the most of your HD camcoder, widescreen TV and surround sound system. Easily produce high-definition videos and HD DVD discs with the best quality picture and sound.

Multiple Overlay Tracks and Expandable Timeline: Create sophisticated picture-in-picture and montage effects with up to six overlay tracks.

Multi-track Movie Wizard Templates: Automatically create great movie-style opening sequences and movies with picture-in-picture overlays, music and titles

Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound: With Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, your home movies will sound like you're in a movie theater.

Auto Color and Tone Filters: Auto-correct videos that were recorder in poor light conditions.

DeBlock and DeSnow Filters: Clean up video with digital noise or blocky compression artifacts.

MPEG Optimizer: Suggest encoding settings for the best quality and speed.

DVD Authoring: Create fully-interactive DVD or HD DVD motion menus and submenus, including 16:9 widescreen. Customize menus by resizing and positioning buttons. Apply menu transitions movement even on static menus, for professional-looking DVDs.

InterVideo® WinDVD® Player Included: Share your standard and high-definition video, (AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD/WMV-HD), right from your computer.

Unmatched Ease of Use

Making complex tasks easy and complicated technology simple is what Ulead all about.

Easy, Flexible User Interface

• Expandable Timeline: Expand the timeline to see all your overlay tracks.
• Storyboard and Timeline views: Switch between the two to easily rearrange clips and manage transitions and titles.
• "My Favorites" transitions folder: Find the most-used transitions quickly.
• DVD Sub-Title capture:Import the subtitles from a DVD and embed them with the video, in the language of your choice.
• Multi-Trim Editor: Quickly and easily extract multiple segments from videos for further editing.
• Ad-Zapper automatically detects commercials in TV programs for easy removal.

Capture Video From Anywhere

Capture and import video from DV, DVD, AVCHD or HDV camcorders. Import video from mobile devices,VHS tape or the Web.Photos too.

Enhanced Movie Wizard

Advanced Movie Wizard Templates

• Capture, edit and output full-resolution HD movies and discs.
• Automatically create exciting movie-style openings using your video clips in multiple animated frames.
• Personalize videos with your own background music and titles.
• Quickly trim video with Multi-Trim editor, including Ad-Zapper* and AccuCut.
  Smart Pan & Zoom: Automatically recognizes faces in photos to create dynamic slideshows.

DV-to-DVD Wizard

Transfer an entire DV tape to DVD in one step.
Auto Subtitle Track: Automatically capture video file date and time and view as a subtitle track.
Print out DV tape scene digests: Keep a record of the content on your tapes.

Tools for Creative Power

Multiple overlay tracks: Create sophisticated picture-in-picture and montage effects.
Combine Effects: Overlay videos can have transparency, mask and chroma key effects.
Chroma Key: Create some TV magic. Shoot your video subject against any uniform color and then superimpose over a shot of any background.
DVD title chapter points: Add directly to the timelinefor a more intuitive way to set DVD navigation.

Fix Common Video Problems Easily

Auto Color & Tone: Auto-correct videos that were recorded in poor light conditions.
DeBlock Filter: Clean up video with blocky compression artifacts.
DeSnow Filter: Remove digital noise from your video.
Anti-Shake Filter: Stabilize shaky video.

New Encoding Options

MPEG Optimizer: Suggests encoding settings for the best quality and speed.
Smart Project Package: Copy all the files used in a project to a single folder for easy archiving.

Pro-Quality Titles and Subtitles

Rotate titles directly in the preview window
Sync .srt subtitles to downloaded movies.
Add Multi-language titles such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Unicode character set simplifies multi-language titles.

More Brilliant Filters and Effects

Hundreds of customizable effects, filters, and transitions.
Creative Video Filters like Fish Eye and bubbles.
Video Pan & Zoom on the details of your video clips.

Great Sound for Great Videos

Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround Sound: Make your home movies sound like you're in a movie theater.
Audio View: Mix between clip, overlay, narration and music tracks.
Audio Rubber-banding: Adjust sound levels of your video, overlays, narration and background music directly in Audio view.
SmartSound® Auto Music Maker: Create unique royalty-free tunes to fit the style and duration of your project.
Audio Filters: Audio Normalization, Remove Noise and others help fix audio problems and enhance the sound.

Enhanced Menus and Authoring

High-definition Authoring: Author HD DVD discs with crisp, professional 16:9 high-definition menus.
Easy-to-use menu templates: Select from over 100 motion menus in a range of styles for any occasion.
Modify and personalize menus: Add your own photos, video and titles.
Switch on the fly: Choose 4:3 and 16:9 authoring modes and standard and high-definition output at any time.
SmartScene Menus: Project titles share a single large preview area that changes as you roll over titles.
Menu transitions: Create menu-in and menu-out transitions just like Hollywood DVDs.
Create 3X DVDs: Author your project in HD DVD, then burn it to a DVD using a standard burner. Get about 40 minutes of HD DVD content on a standard DVD disc, and play it back on an HD DVD player.

The Most Complete Solution

Use virtually any video source:
DV camcorders
DVD camcorders
HDV camcorders
AVCHD camcorders (Disc, SD card and Hard Drive)
JVC® hard drive camcorder MOD file
USB camcorder device control
Set-top DVD recorders
Digital & analog TV tuners
VCRs
Webcams

Output to anywhere:

Create movies and show them on the go. MPEG-4, H.264 and WMV templates for:

• Apple iPod
• Sony PSP™
• Zune™
• Nokia® mobile phones - including import from videophones
• Smartphones, PDAs and other portable devices.

DivX Support: Import and export DivX - encoded video with an appropriate codec.
Windows Vista™, Windows® XP64 and MCE Support.
Intel® Core 2 Duo™ support: Enjoy improved performance from dual-core CPUs.
Output to Any Disc: Burn CDs, DVDs and HD DVD discs.

Bonus Features

InterVideo® WinDVD® 8 Silver plays back any video and audio files, including AVCHD.

The powerful new features in VideoStudio 11.5 Plus

Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is comprised of the VideoStudio 11 Plus program along with the VideoStudio 11 Power Pack and Media One Plus. If you are an existing VideoStudio 11 Plus owner, click on the icon below for your free upgrade. If you purchased VideoStudio 11.5 Plus then you do not need to download the update packs.

End-to-end AVCHD - (AVCHD on standard DVD)
Author HD content (from AVCHD or HDV camcorder, or any other HD source) and burn to 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 to 1920x1080 as well as PAL and NTSC systems.
Audio formats include LPCM and Dolby 2.0 or 5.1.

M2TS (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.

Blu-ray Disc (BDMV)authoring
Now users can author HD productions in MPEG 2 HD format, with High definition Type I 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.

H.264 High Profile (HD) encoding

Supports 1440x1080 and 1920x1080 output frame sizes.
Encoding is optimized for multi-core processors, including Intel® Core™2 Duo and Core™2 Quad.

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 isavailable 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.

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.
VideoStudio 11.5 Plus 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.

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 Slieshows, include 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.

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 encoding and uploading directly to YouTube.
Logging in and uploading all takes place from within VideoStudio.

BONUS! Manage and Edit Your Media - 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 managment 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.