Review by Shala Kerrigan

I liked X6 quite a bit for making animations, slide show videos and editing videos because it was clear and intuitive. This version has a few more bells and whistles, but it’s mostly the same program. Except it’s a lot faster.

What I like about VideoStudio is that it’s somewhere between being absolutely a beginner’s video editing program and a full featured pro editing software. It’s more than enough for the types of videos that I make- mostly instructional craft videos or simple animations and slideshows. Putting in subtitles, or timing the animation frames is easy to do. Adjusting a slideshow to fit the music I’m setting it to is also easy.

It does use a lot of memory still, but as long as I’m not trying to work with huge graphics in my graphics suite at the same time I’m editing a video- it hasn’t frozen or crashed my system. So it seems very stable.

I like the speed, and still like how easy it is to use. It installs easily. My only complaint is that you have to download a user’s manual.