Ulead MediaStudio Pro is powerful, versatile and intuitive video editing software, for professionals and enthusiasts in independent production, event videography, business, and education. Integrated, quick-to-master tools take you to the forefront of professional real-time HDV, DV or MPEG editing.
Smart Compositor: Openings that Rock
- Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly - with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths
- Choose from a variety of themes and add your own video, images and audio
- Export sequences as virtual clips, which can be opened and further tweaked as required by your production
- All the speed without the "cookie cutter" effect of templates!
Smart Proxy: Real-time HDV
- HDV editing, even on mid-range or mobile machines - in real-time!
- Lower-resolution, easy-on-the-resources proxies are automatically created in the background for files above a preset frame size
- Completely lossless, your final output always links back to the original full-resolution files
- The perfect solution for producers shooting HDV, who want to edit on the go
Extensive HDV Support
- Batch capture HDV video from all the latest HDV camcorders and decks, with device control
- Edit HDV either in full-resolution lossless native format, or in Proxy Mode
- Freely convert between HDV Program Stream and Transport Stream (.m2t or .mpg), viewing HDV on your PC, or write back to HDV Camcorder or deck
- Convert HDV to WMV-HD, or downconvert to any other SD format of your choice, such as DV, WMV, Quicktime, or MPEG 2 for DVD authoring
Realize Your Vision
- Powerful, fast, intuitive and affordable HDV and DV batch capture and editing
- Audio Mixing Panel offers the real-time channel steering to create Dolby®Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks
- SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of your video
- Realtime Audio Mixing with VU meters lets you adjust individual track levels and do stereo panning in real-time
- Color correction tools with color wheels to adjust Levels, HSL or Curves for an entire clip, or select channels such as midtones, highlights or shadows
- Secondary-color correction gives you powerful options to adjust selected, defined areas of the clip
- Title Tool offers unlimited creativity with dramatic text effects and animations. Resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, easily create text crawls and rolls, and add a variety of professional effects
Get the Job Done
- Single-track interface allows for transitions and overlay options on every track
- Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output. Perfect for long projects or collaborative editing
- Virtual Clips allows you to wrap a group of edited tracks in a timeline window into a Virtual Clip, and easily insert into your main project's timeline
- Effect Manager offers large buttons and expandable view to put keyframes exactly where you want. Control all aspects of audio video filters and transition, as well as video distortion and moving paths
- Enhanced integration lets you import Ulead VideoStudio projects for a smooth upgrade path, also sharing many workflow elements and dialog layouts. Also import PhotoImpact .ufo files with alpha channel for lower-third graphics and overlays
Meet any Challenge
- Versatile enough to go from batch capture to final output, in whatever format you choose. Whether you are
shooting weddings and events, family or corporate productions, or you are an HDV documentary producer on the go, MediaStudio pro 8's tools are designed to make things easier for you
- Real-time drag-resize preview window to adjust overlay size and motion paths, and clip distortion, directly on the screen.
- Mix and match formats such as DV, MPEG, and HDV on the timeline, then output to SD, HD or back to your DV, analog or HDV device
- DVD authoring tool imports MediaStudio Pro 8 projects directly without rendering first, offers motion-menu templates, and authors single- or double-layer DVDs
Please note that this product is not compatible with Windows Vista.
HDV Camcorders Compatibility
JVC JY-HD10
JVC GR-HD1
JVC GR-PD1
Sony HDR-FX1 Camcorder
Sony HDR-Z1 Camcorder
Sony HVR-M10 VTR
Sony HCR-HC1
System Requirements
This software has been engineered for the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor with Hyper-Threading Technology for an outstanding home entertainment experience.
Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz processor (Pentium 4 2.8 GHz recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP
256 MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)
800 MB of available hard disk space for program installation
4 GB+ hard drive space for video capture and editing
Windows-compatible display adapter with at least 1024x768 resolution (1280x1024 recommended)
Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation
Non-Proxy HDV Editing System Requirements
Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology
Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack2 for HDV camcorder support recommended)
1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)
7200 RPM IDE hard disk or above
16X PCI ExpressTM display adapter
Input/Output Device Support
1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV camcorders
Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 and 1394 Adaptec 8940/ 8945
Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support)
USB capture devices and PC cameras
Windows-compatible CD recorder (CD-R/-RW) required for CD creation
Windows-compatible DVD recorder (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW) required for DVD creation
File format Support
IEEE 1394/FireWire cards for DV/D8 camcorders/decks
OHCI & Adaptec 8940/8945 compliant
MCI and V-LAN device controllers
Analog capture cards for analog sources (VFW & WDM support)
USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 capture devices and PC Cameras
Windows-compatible DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW drives
WinTab compatible pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets
Standard file format support
Input file format
Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, VideoStudio 8/9 Project File; Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1*, MP3, MPA, QuickTime, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: C3D, GIF89a, FLC, FLI, FLX, SWF, UCG, UIS, UVP
Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)
Output file format
Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Real Media, Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: FLC, FLI, FLX, UIS
Images: BMP, CLP, EPS, FPX, ICO, IFF, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCX, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, TGA, TIF/TIFF, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) movie title
Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-RAM (CPRM)
