Review by Kyle Slayzar

As a hobby, my buddies and I started a youtube channel devoted to gaming and each of us (crew of five) have editing software of some kind. I use Final Cut Pro X (FCPX) on my MacBook Pro as does our executive producer while the other three use Windows and, unfortunately with the updates from 7-X making it incompatible with Windows, they have to use other software for editing. We were thinking of acquiring a few licenses for Adobe Premier as some of us had used it before, but were very fortunate to be able to try Corel VideoStudio Pro X7 and Ultimate Edition (see ultimate edition for related review).

Our co-producer and primary screenwriter tested Corel Pro and, after a month of use he has produced several video prototypes that look almost as good as FCPX albeit with some missing features that are in the Ultimate Edition.

Our screenwriter (Barnard) noted that the editing interface was incredibly comprehensive with your standard storyboard tools and clip editor very similar to FCPX. He loves the selection of transitions, text editor, features generator (blank screens, shapes, etc.), and much more but laments that it lacks the smooth streamlined feeling of Final Cut. Perhaps it was his older computer (Windows Vista, yick!) but he did notice a few moments of technical delays and lacking smoothness of operation. Oh well.

All in all, Corel Pro is good for any amateur filmmaker or personal creating fun family videos that doesn’t want to shell out well over $1000 in Mac products for industrial quality.