Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11.5 Plus

Easy and Powerful Video Editing + DVD Authoring



VideoStudio 11.5 Plus is video editing and DVD authoring software for anyone who wants to easily produce professional-looking videos, slideshows and DVDs. Create amazing High-Definition videos.  Work quickly with intuitive wizards, or express your creativity with hands-on timeline editing.  Share your movies everywhere, from iPods to the latest home theater systems.  

Full Dolby 5.1 Surround

InterVideo WinDVD 8 Silver
Plays back any video and audio files, including AVCHD.As an added bonus enjoy WinDVD 8 Silver - Superior audio and video playback technologies.  Play DVDs, video files and SVCHD camcorder discs.

Corel MediaOne Plus
Manage and Edit Your Media - 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 media management 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.

End-to-end AVCHD – (AVCHD on standard DVD)
Author HD content (from AVCHD or HDV camcorder, or any other HD source) and burn to a 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 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 Slideshows, including 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 encoded and uploaded directly to YouTube. 
• Logging in and uploading all takes place from within VideoStudio.

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 is 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 camcorder, 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 recorded in poor light conditions.
• DeBlock and DeSnow filters
  Clean up video with digital noise or blocky compression artifacts.
• MPEG Optimizer
  Suggests 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 that segue smoothly between menus and DVD content, and menu filters which allow you to create movement even on static menus, for professional-looking DVDs.
• MPEG-4 and H.264 Support
  Take advantage of output templates for creating video for iPod, PSP, Zune, Smartphones, PDAs and other portable devices.
• InterVideo WinDVD Player included
  Share your standard and high-definition video, (AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD/WMV-HD), right from your computer.

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 timeline for 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
• Mobile phones
• 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.

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System Requirements (For general and Proxy HDV Editing)

• Intel Pentium 4 (equivalent) or higher recommended
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows Vista
• 512 MB (1GB RAM or above recommended)
• 1 GB of available hard disk space for program installation
• Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
• Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Non-Proxy HDV editing requires

• Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology
• 1 GB of RAM (2 GB or above recommended)
• 16x PCI Express display adapter

Input/Output Device Support

• 1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV camcorders
• Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394
• Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support for XP and Broadcast Driver Architecture support for Vista)
• Analog and Digital TV capture device (Broadcast Driver Architecture support)
• USB capture devices, PC cameras, and DVD/hard drive/AVCHD camcorders
• Windows® compatible HD DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive
• Apple iPod with video , Sony PSP , Pocket PC, Smartphone, Nokia Mobile phone, Microsoft Zune

Input File Format Support

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV, AVCHD*, MPEG-4 , H.264 , QuickTime, Windows Media Format, DVR-MS, MOD (JVC MOD File Format),3GPP**, 3GPP2**
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 , MP3, MPA, QuickTime, WAV, Windows Media Format.
• Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, UFP, WMF
• Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Output File Format Support

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, HDV, MPEG-4 , H.264 , QuickTime, Real Media, Windows Media Format
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 , MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format.
• Images: BMP, JPG
• Disc: HD DVD, DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)
• Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer , HD DVD.

Note:   AVCHD supports import directly from camcorder or DVD disc only