VideoStudio Pro X6 - Wishlist for future versions.

[BrianCee]

Every so often we have contact with a Corel employee or software engineer regarding new versions. It is always handy if we can point them to a thread such as this.

Please keep any suggestions sensible
In addition, this is not a place to complain about what YOU may consider to be bugs or faults. Those items should be placed in a new thread or tagged onto an existing one dealing with that same issue.

Include a one-line title summarizing the suggestion
We will then have an idea of what each post is about. This would avoid having to read all the thread before determining if a new post is required or not as the topic may already have been covered by someone else. It will also be easier for the Corel developers quickly see each suggestion in the thread and easily find the new added ones.

The title should be BOLD and UNDERLINED at the beginning of the post, as per my own examples in this post.

A link to the Previous wish list thread is here: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40687

[cobo04]

Separate DVD writing application

I realise this suggestion may appear a little odd asking for a searate DVD qwriting application but my reason is as follows.

I have two camera I use, one is a SD 4:3/16:9, writing to Mini-DV tapes - the output from this is Firewire. My other camera is a HD 16:9 camera which outputs via USB.

Up to VS10 - Firewire as supported and my SD camera was seen and footage captured no problem, after this version Firewire wasn't supported but USB is, hence I have both VS10 and X4 loaded to my machine. Although I only use VS10 for capture of SD footage (yes it is still asked for and besides I often have to do a two camera shoot). Then I edit the captured footage in X4, often along with the footage from my HD camera.

After edting comes the issue, this isn't a Corel issue, it's down to the way Windows (XP and 7) work, only one DVD writing script may live in the registry at any one time. Having VS10 loaded before X4 came about, means that VS10 claims the DVd writing area of the registry. X4 crashes out this the point of writing to disk (or to ISO file).

A few years back I had a similar issue and created a small script which lay in Autoexexc.bat which re-wrote to the registry depending on which application was needed, this no longer works with Corel VS.

So back to my orginal request, if Corel would detach the DVD writing application - or indeed the entire DVD authoring package then life would be easier as I could then use VS10 and X4/5/? and then onto this new detached package for the Disk.

[Ken Berry]

I am afraid you are a bit like King Canute, commanding the tide to go back. The premise of Video Studio since its earliest days was that it was to be a video editor with an inbuilt burning application. Most users have wanted this arrangement, and for those that preferred a separate authoring program, there was (and still is) Movie Factory (current version 7) and prior to its sad demise, DVD Workshop in the Corel stable. I have no idea what Corel's current plans are for Movie Factory, though I hope they continue it. But as it is, it is already a separate authoring package such as you desire.

The awful experiment with VS X3 when Corel supplied a new, and mostly separate, authoring program is also a sort of warning...

I am also interested in your comment about Firewire not being supported beyond VS10. This is more properly the subject of a separate thread. But it is simply not the case. I use almost exclusively Firewire camcorders both for standard definition and high def HDV video. All versions of VS up to and including the latest X5 still can capture from Firewire cameras. With Windows 7, Microsoft upgraded their Firewire driver (which VS uses) and many people -- me included -- found VS would not work with the new driver. But it was a fairly simple matter to roll back the Firewire driver in Windows Device Manager > IEEE1394 to a legacy OHCI driver.

[teknisyan]

@cobo04

Corel tried this already with VS X3 and it was not pretty.

[cobo04]

I posted a message to Coral a while back when VS12 came out which I trialled and noted that it no longer supported Firewite, or at least it didn't see my Sony VS1000 camera (which VS10 did easily).

I never did get a reply from Coral about this. I had to get X4 in order to support my new Panasonic HD camera, which it does very well.

But the issue I have is not really with Corel more windoes in that the registry only allows one instance of a CD/DVD writing application, hogged by VS10, so my poor X4 doesn't get a look in.

Anyone any idea on how to get X4 to support firewire on XP pro?

Thanks for sorry if this is the wrong thread.

[Ken Berry]

I am not sure what you mean when you say that Windows registry only allows one instance of a CD/DVD burner. On my various XP, Vista and Win 7 machines, I have various CD/DVD burning programs on each, and all seem to work just fine, with none denying access to the burner to any other program. Apart from having several versions of VS on two of my computers, I also have Movie Factory 7 on them both, Nero burning suite, Windows own CD/DVD making and burning program, and ImgBurn which immediately spring to mind. There may even be more.

There used to be a problem -- which indeed may still exist -- with packet writing software which tends to hog a burner. Nero's InCD module and a similar one in the Roxio suite, were notorious for this. But these days those modules are no longer installed by default and you have to make a conscious decision to install them. But this was the only instance I can recall where VS had trouble accessing the burner because of another program on the same computer.

And I thought I had already dealt with the question of X4 and Firewire above. I use firewire for my mini DV and HDV cameras with X2, X3 and X4 (and now X5) with no problem. The only problem I had was with Win 7 having installed a new firewire driver which VS could not use. But rolling back the driver to a legacy OHCI firewire driver quickly fixed that.

[jecklehead]

Plz plz plz plz more than 4 tracks for audio.

And some audio effects that run realtime on the tracks.

[pvreditor]

Plz plz plz plz more than 4 tracks for audio.

More audio tracks would be good, but you can also have audio on video files that are placed on the insert tracks. I've used that a couple of times.

But yes, more audio tracks would be a good thing.

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[RoadRanger]

Support for two cameras would be fine for what I want to do but I suspect four would be about the maximum that anybody using this program would want.

[pvreditor]

I have two items on my wishlist, one of which was already mentioned in the wishlist for version x5:

1. Some sort of automated audio ducking, so that you can set a primary audio track and set the level drop for the other tracks. VS would identify the in/out points of the primary track and reduce the other audio tracks as indicated. This would save a lot of tedious rubber-band fiddling for those of us who do narration and voice-overs.

2. A waveform monitor function so that we can see a representation of the actual video levels and can then intelligently use the video level controls already in VS.

Thanks!

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

[babdi]

Motion path, 64 bit, seperate wave editor

[Natal]

I want what I asked for in X3, then in X4, then in X5, namely to have a revamped H.264 encoder with bit rates appropriate for modern cameras. I hope I wont be asking for the same thing for X7 (but suspect I will).

[andi33x]

...I want see the audio track as a wave form. Then synchronisation is much easier.
I always record classical guitar music with a camera and separate micros and have to synchronize the tone of the micros with the (bader) camera tone which is in the video file.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehe9lk9FrJw
(this is me) the tone comes from a complete different system than the camera.

Also I would repeat what the other poster said: More mp4 bitrate.
CU Andreas

[pvreditor]

...I want see the audio track as a wave form. Then synchronisation is much easier.
I always record classical guitar music with a camera and separate micros and have to synchronize the tone of the micros with the (bader) camera tone which is in the video file.
Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehe9lk9FrJw
(this is me) the tone comes from a complete different system than the camera.

Also I would repeat what the other poster said: More mp4 bitrate.
CU Andreas

If you click on the "Sound Mixer" icon just above the timeline, it will give you audio waveforms. The waveforms aren't big, but they are there. I use them to synchronize speech and music when I have two sources -- for instance, when I have a second camera shooting the same scene or when I have a separate audio recording.

Here's an example, if not the world's most scintillating video. I shot this using a lavalier mic and an audio recorder in my back pocket. I then synchronized the audio with the video, comparing the audio recorder's audio to the video recorder's audio... it's not hard. None of the audio you hear comes from the camera... it's all from the audio recorder. Here's the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvU95gQcHUY

Yeah, that's me.

Bob Kovacs
http://www.bobkovacs.com

PS: Beautiful guitar playing, Andreas!

[Ken Berry]

Marevellous synchronization! And a great tie to go with it!!