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- #SONY MOVIE STUDIO PLATINUM 12 IMAGES OVER VIDEO INSTALL#
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- #SONY MOVIE STUDIO PLATINUM 12 IMAGES OVER VIDEO SOFTWARE#
The intro tutorial is a wizard that highlights and explains each program feature.
#SONY MOVIE STUDIO PLATINUM 12 IMAGES OVER VIDEO MOVIE#
When you first run Movie Studio, you'll see its still somewhat too-light-gray interface (you can fortunately change this color), with a Welcome window in the center, offering to let you create a new project using common presets, start tutorials, or simply start the editor. Another thing missing in Movie Studio is storyboard view, which can make arranging clips and applying transitions simpler. These helpfully lead users through the movie creation and delivery process. Unlike those apps, Movie Studio doesn't have an interface organized by "modes"-such as one for acquiring media, another for editing, and another for output options. Sony Movie Studio's interface still looks dated when compared with those three apps. Interface The program has a professional, usable, no-nonsense feel, but it lacks some important aids for consumer-level video editors found in Corel VideoStudio, PowerDirector 9, and Premiere Elements 9.
#SONY MOVIE STUDIO PLATINUM 12 IMAGES OVER VIDEO PRO#
Once you've got the content in the app, there's next to nothing in the way of metadata to help you organize your media-no keyword tagging, let alone face recognition or auto scene-type detection that you get with Adobe Premiere Elements and Final Cut Pro X. The capture option let me get video from a webcam and camcorder, but there's no stop-motion capture tool like the excellent one in Corel VideoStudio Pro (4 stars, $79.99). When you import media files, the program "builds peaks" for each in order to display its waveform (users have complained about the slowness and instability of this process, but I didn't find it excessively obtrusive). The folder browser didn't recognize Windows 7 Libraries, instead making me navigate down to the actual folders containing the media. Clicking the file icon let me import as though it were any other file location, but this button (tooltipped just "Open") actually added all the media to the timeline, when I really just want it added to my source tray.
#SONY MOVIE STUDIO PLATINUM 12 IMAGES OVER VIDEO SOFTWARE#
When I plugged in a USB video camera, no AutoPlay option was added for Movie Studio the way other software video editors such as PowerDirector and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 ($99.99 list, 4 stars) do. Most standard formats are acceptable, but MKV isn't among them, nor is Super HD 4K content-both accepted by PowerDirector. Import You can import video, audio, and still images from disk, cameras, or camcorders. This is something that's been available in other products, such as CyberLink PowerDirector, for years. Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit support.I can't really say this offers much over what you get free with YouTube. Sony now offers and online video- and photo-sharing service. This claim is based on new split and trim buttons, as well as 3D project templates, and "enhanced timeline interaction." Several competitors in the consumer video editing space allow up to 100 tracks. The allowable number of video and audio tracks has been upped to 20 from 10. I'll dig into what's new in more detail, but for shorter attention spans, the company summarizes it in four bullet points: What's New? I'm always happy to see a newly improved application, but for a product with as many difficulties as Movie Studio evidenced in my past testing, I'd hope for more than what Sony gave us this time around.
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But to run the program, I had to enter the longest serial number I've ever entered. Happily the installer doesn't try to load unrelated software such as browser toolbars onto your system, as is all too common, surprising as it is for software that costs nearly 100 bucks. On first run, a message window told me that the installer program requires administrator privileges to run, so a UAC dialog had to be OKed. I tested on a 3.4GHz AMD quad core Windows 7 Ultimate PC with 4GB RAM and an ATI Radeon HD 4290 graphics adapter-not state of the art, but not too shabby. That's still a bit less than the 1.4GB used by CyberLink PowerDirector 11 ($99.95 list, 4.5 stars), our Editors' Choice consumer video editor. Setup took just 2 minutes, and like most full-feature video editors, it took up a good chunk of disk space-over 1GB for the program plus its disc-authoring companion program.
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You can choose whether you want to install DVD Architect for disc authoring along with the video editing software. A pleasant wizard takes you through the process. Installation You can install Movie Studio in Windows 8, Windows 7, or Vista-no XP, no Mac! It's now a 64-bit app, which helps with performance when keeping a lot of large video footage in memory.