Ulead Mediastudio Pro 8 Free Download With Crack And Keygen
Bernd Manison
Ready to do more with video? Once you have some experience editing video with"consumer" tools like Ulead VideoStudio or Pinnacle Studio(priced starting at around U.S. $50), what's your next step?
Moving up to a much more professional editor like Adobe Premiere Proor Sony Vegas is a big step at around $599 and up, and a big investmentin learning to be proficient with the tool, especially if you're only using itoccasionally. Adobe and Sony offer one solution with Adobe Premiere Elementsand Sony Vegas Movie Studio at around $99. These provide the basics ofthe more professional applications, plus the growth path to the full versions,but are tailored for more casual use and focused on DV editing.
Ulead offers another approach with the new Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8,released in October 2005 for $399, on Windows 2000 and XP (www.ulead.com/msp).The company describes MediaStudio Pro as a "mid-range" video editingapplication, providing easy to use but professional features. In particular, itsupports editing HDV video with a nice Smart Proxy mode that allows you to edithigh-def video on mid-range or mobile machines.
At first look, it's clear that Ulead has updated the MediaStudio Pro 8multi-track interface to be familiar from other editors. The main window istiled into the Production Library to manage the project clips, the Previewwindow to play video, the multi-track Timeline, and the Effects Manager tofine-tine effect parameters. You also can use your own preferred layouts.
The Timeline is more flexible: you can expand and contract tracks, placetransitions on any track, and set overlay options for clips on every track. Tohelp manage larger projects, you can work with multiple Timelines, and alsocreate Virtual Clips from a group of tracks.
MediaStudio Pro actually consists of three applications, the main VideoEditor, a Video Capture module, plus a separate Audio Editor for waveformrecording, editing and effects. These tools are available on a Switch menu thatappears in each application, along with Ulead DVD Workshop (if installedseparately).
The Video Capture module can capture from analog sources, USB cameras, and DVand HDV camcorders. You can manually capture sections of clips, or batch capturefrom a list of time codes. For previewing the contents of a tape, MediaStudioPro offers a helpful Scan DV Tape option to zip though the entire tape andcreate a thumbnail list of its contents (based on breaks in the stop and starttimecodes). You even can save the result, or export it as an HTML file to use asa visual index of the tape.
For audio editing on the timeline, the main MediaStudio Pro applicationincludes a variety of audio filters, plus an Audio Mixing Panel for real-timemixing with VU meters. Plus, you now can create Dolby Digital 5.1 audio trackswith surround channel steering.
MediaStudio Pro is particularly interesting if you're getting tempted to moveup to high-def video with a HDV camcorder. It supports full HDV editing,from 720p up to 1080i (www.hdv-info.org).You can batch capture HDV video from HDV camcorders, and edit directly on thetimeline, mixing with clips in different formats.
MediaStudio Pro can convert between the HDV MPEG-2 Transport Stream andProgram Stream formats (.m2t from the camera and .mpg for editing), to view andedit HDV on your PC, and export back to a HDV camcorder. You then can exportyour productions in high-def in Windows Media Video WMV-HD format, ordownconvert to great looking SD formats, including widescreen MPEG for DVDauthoring.
However, the huge HDV frames really do require a high-end computer to processand edit in real time. Some applications offer the option to convert the HDVoriginals to a more usable intermediate format for editing, but it's clumsy todo this manually and it can lead to some loss of image quality.
Instead, MediaStudio Pro offers an automated Smart Proxy mode, in which itdownconverts the HD video to a lower-res proxy, all in the background as youedit. You then can edit the video with real-time performance on more typicalcomputers and laptops. The proxy video is used only for editing; when youexport, the proxy clips link back to the HDV original, so the final output isgenerated at full HD quality.
MediaStudio Pro includes a variety of fun video transitions and audio andvideo filters, including camera and lighting adjustments, motion paths, andoverlay masks with chroma keying. Use the Effects Manager pane to adjustparameters and add keyframes. And use the new Color Correction tools to performboth primary and secondary color correction to selected areas of the clip.
To save time in building opening sequences or segues, MediaStudio Pro 8 alsohas a new Smart Compositor tool that provides a variety of pre-designed animatedsequences already laid out in a timeline with effects and overlays.
You select a sequence from the provided themes, and then use the SmartCompositor to replace the default clips with your own materials: video/images,audio, title text, filters, and overlays. You then can export the final sequenceas a virtual clip on your timeline, which then can be further edited.
MediaStudio Pro 8 can export back to tape, or in a variety of video fileformats: AVI and QuickTime, Windows Media Video (including WMV-HD) andRealNetworks, and MPEG-1 and -2 for VCD and DVD. It also has a handy BatchConvert feature. Ulead also offers separate plug-ins for MPEG-4 and 3GPP (MPEG-4for mobile phones) formats ($29.99 each).
MediaStudio Pro 8 is a comfortable video editing tool for people whounderstand the basics of using timelines and effects, but who do not have thetime to invest in becoming an expert in a professional tool. It's a nice step upfrom Ulead VideoStudio (it can import existing projects directly). And it's morethan just a DV editor for standard-definition video, as you can not only workwith high-res HDV video, but also mix SD and SD content directly in thetimeline. The HDV Smart Proxy feature is particularly helpful, since you don'tneed to get involved in manually converting and managing intermediate-formatclips.
Ulead has kept MediaStudio Pro accessible to less professional users, with astraightforward interface and friendly icons. The response is a bit sluggish onmy main test machine, and I did see a couple of crashes, particularly related tousing HDV clips before the Smart Rendering was complete.
Ulead Media Studio Pro is an innovative and visually stimulating personal productivity application that assists users in organizing and generating a vast database of multimedia files. With the latest version Ulead Media Studio Pro, it offers new ways to manage multiple files simultaneously for quick creation, conversion and distribution. It has been designed to be user friendly, so that even those not skilled at computers can also use it, to help them with their job. In addition, it can be used for editing, converting, storing and organizing of media files like videos, images, sound tracks and music.
The basic function of Ulead Media Studio Pro is to convert audio files into text format, and store them in the specified folders. Advanced features of the suite include real-time processing of multi-media files, and support for many popular video formats. The software allows you to preview any item in the package before installing it, so that you can decide on its performance. The user-friendly interface of ulead mediastudio pro allows you to add, remove and modify video, audio and text items with ease, and can also be operated directly from the terminal.
The basic package of Ulead Media Studio Pro includes the following tools: A large variety of keyboard shortcuts for controlling the main menu items, a large number of utility tools for various uses, audio and video conversion tools, a large number of effect and trimming tools, a number of sample playlists and a MIDI editor. The most advanced tools of the suite include a photo retouching tool that can perform edits to photographs and replace red eye, adjust color and remove backgrounds. There is also an audio visual interface design tool, a digital clock, and a virtual production console. With the Ulead Media Studio Pro service pack, you get even more robust and feature-rich software, which provides a wealth of capabilities that will take your work to the next level. The Ulead Media Studio Pro service pack also enables users to integrate the suite with existing project files, so that all your work in Avid Media Server will be in one place.
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