Review by Carol T.

Wow. This software - Corel Video Studio Ultimate X6 - is pretty powerful and yet intuitive enough to use without too much of a learning curve, particularly if you’ve never used any of the previous versions.

The price is reasonable for what you get which is the Video Studio program and all of its special effect features, stop motion capabilities, subtitles, HD video support, animation, screen capture and on and on. Also some additional programs on the second disc and a number of templates are included. One flaw - no instruction manual. You need to get it online with the download instructions in the box. A slightly lesser flaw - the program creates lots of temp files. Not sure why or if there’s a way to correct that. Or if it’s my own user error.

I’ve been working on a little stop action short film. It’s pretty interesting to be able to try this though I’m still in a bit of a learning curve right now which I’m muddling through bit by bit. I found some useful videos on youtube that actually did help me.

As far as output, you have the following capabilities: AVI, MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-4, H.264, BDMV, HDV, QuickTime, RealVideo, Windows Media Format, 3GPP, 3GPP2, WebM, Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, M4A, WAV, QuickTime, Windows Media Audio, Ogg Vorbis, Images: BMP, JPG, Disc: DVD (DVD-Video/DVD-VR/AVCHD), Blu-ray Disc (BDMV), Media: CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, BD-R/RE.

This review comes from a place of a person learning, not from a seasoned film professional who has used multiple types of software and can compare across products. I think the demographic for this is, in fact, the lay person who wants to try their hand at editing. But for what it’s worth, I’m really liking this and finding it not so difficult to tackle.