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In my continuing quest to find a vidding program I don't want to kill with my bare hands (I tried to love Vegas, I did!), I'm now noodling around with Ulead, or, Corel Video Studio as it's now called.
I quite like it because it miraculously doesn't crash and renders well which means it beats Pinnacle hands down even though I liked Pinnacle's functionality much better.
Anyway, I have three requests, on the offchance anyone has any advice (and yeah, I know I've basically traded a really obscure vidding program for a slightly less obscure one!)
- Am I being absurdly dumb or does this program, despite claiming to be a nonlinear editor, actually not support either delete-and-leave-a-gap (ripple editing partially compensates for this) or selecting multiple clips at once (as you do in most programs by holding down CTRL or SHIFT) to drag around the timeline in groups? This is probably the issue I have that bugs me most. It's not quite a dealbreaker because of how much I love the lack of crashing, but it's close.
- Can you put transitions at the start of clips on the overlay track? Can you fade in and out of overlays? I have a workaround for this (fading in/out of a .jpg file of appropriate aspect ratio at 100% transparency) so it's not a huge deal, but it's a bit fiddly.
- There's no mirror-image effect (you know, to flip the picture.) Again, workaround is simple if I do that in another program, but I'd really prefer not to have to - does anyone know of any good plug-ins for this program? I haven't found any so far and Ulead 11 type stuff doesn't necessarily seem to be compatible.
Thanks guys!
In my continuing quest to find a vidding program I don't want to kill with my bare hands (I tried to love Vegas, I did!), I'm now noodling around with Ulead, or, Corel Video Studio as it's now called.
I quite like it because it miraculously doesn't crash and renders well which means it beats Pinnacle hands down even though I liked Pinnacle's functionality much better.
Anyway, I have three requests, on the offchance anyone has any advice (and yeah, I know I've basically traded a really obscure vidding program for a slightly less obscure one!)
- Am I being absurdly dumb or does this program, despite claiming to be a nonlinear editor, actually not support either delete-and-leave-a-gap (ripple editing partially compensates for this) or selecting multiple clips at once (as you do in most programs by holding down CTRL or SHIFT) to drag around the timeline in groups? This is probably the issue I have that bugs me most. It's not quite a dealbreaker because of how much I love the lack of crashing, but it's close.
- Can you put transitions at the start of clips on the overlay track? Can you fade in and out of overlays? I have a workaround for this (fading in/out of a .jpg file of appropriate aspect ratio at 100% transparency) so it's not a huge deal, but it's a bit fiddly.
- There's no mirror-image effect (you know, to flip the picture.) Again, workaround is simple if I do that in another program, but I'd really prefer not to have to - does anyone know of any good plug-ins for this program? I haven't found any so far and Ulead 11 type stuff doesn't necessarily seem to be compatible.
Thanks guys!
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Date: 2009-04-18 05:34 pm (UTC)Thanks for the tip about those buttons; in general in 12 they seem to be for the audio rather than video which is weird; but like I said, I have a workaround, so it's okay.
I know that the gap-leaving thing isn't a sign of a true NLE but...it seems like...really useful. (Pinnacle does it for sure - delete leaves no gap; CTRL+DEL = gap). I was sure I'd heard others mention that they had similar things.
The issue with this program is that I can't put stuff further ahead on the timeline at all unless I fill it in with a filler clip or something. Which is frustrating. Although I can in the overlay track, just not in the main video track which is quite odd. But there you have it.
Like I said the main issue is just not being able to copy-paste numerous clips at a time. Oh well.
Thanks again for all your responses.