[about MediaStudio Pro]

10. How many transitions and effects does it have?

9. What boards does it work with?

8. Why have some programs been replaced in version 5.0?

7. How does it work with Firewire and DV?

6. How is MediaStudio Pro 5.0 different from other versions?

5. What plug-ins does it support?

4. What is SmartRender?

3. What is CG Infinity?

2. What is Video Paint?

AND...
the number one question about MediaStudio Pro is...

1. What makes MediaStudio Pro 5.0 the best desktop video editing solution available today?



10. How many transitions and effects does it have?
MediaStudio Pro now comes with 104 transitions, 52 Video filters and 13 audio filters. If you have Direct 3D installed on your system, you will also get another 5 3D specific transitions. In total, we surpass what the competition has to offer and also provide a wider range of control and customizability which gives users the opportunity to create hundreds of unique variations to suit their own needs and tastes.

9. What boards does it work with?
MediaStudio Pro is designed to work with all video capture boards that support Video for Windows or ActiveMovie, such as Truvision, ///FAST, miro, and Matrox to name a few. It also supports the new firewire boards for DV, such as the DVMaster from ///FAST, the Spark from Digital Processing Systems and the DV100 from miro.

8. Why have some programs been replaced in version 5.0?
We made a strategic decision with this version to move toward a more "video-centric" solution. While the programs in the previous versions were useful, they were never full-featured enough for the demands of the professional. With this version, 5.0, we have developed tools that are not only more comprehensive and robust, but provide solutions that are usually only available in higher-end, more expensive packages. The programs dropped can still be purchased from Ulead, either directly or on-line, and in fact make up most of our image editing package, Ulead PhotoImpact.

7. How does it work with Firewire and DV?
MediaStudio Pro works with any board that supports either Firewire or digital video (DV). (Firewire is the method used to transport DV from one device to another, such as from a digital video camera to a computer.) Currently there are two distinct types of boards that support Firewire and digital video. These can be categorized into two groups, low-end inexpensive boards and high-end expensive boards. Low-end boards take digital video and further transcode it into an editable AVI format. This process degrades the quality of the video as the data has to undergo additional compression. (Some examples of these types of boards are the miro DV100 and the DPS Spark, costing only several hundred dollars.) High-end boards take the digital video data directly from the source, to the PC and back out without any additional transcoding. (These boards still allow video editors such as MediaStudio Pro to edit the file, just like any other video file.) An example of this type of board is the ///FAST DV Master, a US$4,000 solution.

6. How is MediaStudio Pro 5.0 different from other versions?
Being the latest release, MediaStudio Pro 5.0 contains features and enhancements not found in previous versions, or in our bundled Video Edition (VE). The chart below describes some of the key differences between MediaStudio Pro 5.0 and the version you may currently own:

  • CG Infinity (new program)
  • SmartRender
  • Video Paint (new program)
  • 101 video and audio overlay tracks
  • vectorscope and waveform monitor
  • data rate analysis
  • output to MPEG
  • batch rendering
  • 109 transitions
  • support for APS plug-ins
  • 52 video filters
  • ripple editing
  • 13 audio filters
  • Wizards
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5. What plug-ins does it support?
MediaStudio Pro supports popular 16-bit plug-ins such as KPT 1.0, 2.0 and Andromeda. We are also working closely with leading plug-in developers such as Ultimatte, Videonics, COMO, Netscape, ICE, Pipeline Digital, Pinnacle Systems, Data Translation and Microsoft to bring you support for key plug-in products like Boris After Effects, Take 32 and Hollywood F/X. We expect that by Christmas, many of the new plug-ins will be in stock at retailers.

4. What is SmartRender?
SmartRender is an impressive new technology that provides for "changes-only" rendering. What this means is that whenever a user creates a video file, be it a preview or the final sequence, only the clips which have been changed in some way will be re-rendered. This not only saves time but also ensures quality as unchanged clips do not undergo any unnecessary compression. The other advantage of Smart Render is that it helps save disk space since MediaStudio Pro does not need to create additional files when previewing (as long as they are unchanged). When the user plays back the project from the timeline, MediaStudio Pro simply points to the original source files and plays them back in one continuous sequence, irrespective of where they may be on the system.

3. What is CG Infinity?
CG Infinity is a dedicated character generator that is designed specifically for one thing and one thing only - creating great looking titles. These can be anything from the starting and ending credits of a video, to call-outs, graphical frames, borders or spinning logos that appear anywhere within a video sequence. The key to CG Infinity is that it is entirely vector-based, and therefore resolution independent, allowing for the best possible playback quality. It also uses bezier curves for objects and moving paths and comes with a variety of unique gradients and textures to provide broadcast quality effects.

2. What is Video Paint?
Video Paint is a dedicated video painting (rotoscoping) program that is designed for painting, retouching and cloning over the frames of a video. Video Paint's tools are generally found in much more expensive editing packages and can be thought of as image editing on steroids. Using Video Paint users can create animated sequences such as laser beams and lightening bolts, remove background noise such as boom mikes and telephone lines, and enhance and color correct any feature from any frame in any video. And users can do this the hard way, frame by frame, or the easy way with PowerDuplication and macro recording.

1. What makes MediaStudio Pro 5.0 the best desktop video editing solution available today?
Ulead Systems has always been committed to bringing the best tools to the marketplace. It has long been our belief that to better serve our users, we need to provide them with more tools that can help them get the job done. This is why MediaStudio Pro 5.0. is the perfect video editing package. It provides the speed, power and quality so essential to video artists, but also adds a new level of creativity missing in many competing products.