Ulead Media Studio Pro and Ease In / Ease Out

[bsdcatharine]

Hi,

when working with an effect I was used to add soft and smooth speed changes called Ease In / Ease Out (term used widely in Avid). I am missing that badly in Ulead Media Studio Pro - everything seems to look very "mechanical" now.

Things like transitions or zoom usually do not go linear - they usually start slow, speed up, go on fast and in the end slow down again.

It is pretty impossible for me to simulate this effect with adding keyframes - effects then look "mechanical with hickup".

Am I just missing something or am I pathetic?

Thank you!

[Downstairs Video]

Sorry bsdcatharine, but one of my pet peeves is a loaded survey.

Another words, worded to get the results you want rather than seeking the true feeling of people or opinions of people.

My answer to the survey would be: - It's not a problem to me.

[Devil]

DV

The fact that only 2 persons responded shows how valueless such a poll can be. If the person concerned had simply asked how she could get better results, without using terminology specific to a competitive product, I'm sure she would have had many answers, instead of trolling.

[blakelyc]

Perhaps this should not be a poll, but it is most certainly not trolling.

"Easing in/out" is not a term solely related to a competitive product, but rather it is near industry standard across most video and animation packages.

Just last night I was trying to figure out how to do such a thing for some titles while I'm evaluating the product for purchase. I ended up having to resort to flash to get the effect that I wanted.

[Amalthia]

I've also tried to duplicate the ease-in/ease-out effect with MSPro8 with no sucess. I've only seen it with windows movie maker and I really liked how i've seen the effect used in other videos. I'm not sure why it's not included in the basic transition packages?

[bsdcatharine]

Ok, my intention was not to troll. I downloaded a trial version and I wasn't sure whether this was Ulead or me.

As I didn't find an answer neither in your messages neither in the manual, I guess it really isn't me.

Thanks for the responses.

[Amalthia]

Ok, my intention was not to troll. I downloaded a trial version and I wasn't sure whether this was Ulead or me.

As I didn't find an answer neither in your messages neither in the manual, I guess it really isn't me.

Thanks for the responses.

I've been studying Premiere. Not sure if they have the ease-in/ease-out effect, but someone mentioned keyframing as a way to create it. I'm curious, if you already know how to use AVID why are you trying to find another Video editing software to use?

[bsdcatharine]

I'm curious, if you already know how to use AVID why are you trying to find another Video editing software to use?

Well, while I can use Avid for TV and film editing, I can't use it to edit "moving pictures" in various nonstandard formats (like 800x600) produced with CG.

Strangely Ulead - although not purposed for this at all - seems to be a better solution in some ways than dedicated tools... for its price or audio post sync

[Amalthia]

Well, while I can use Avid for TV and film editing, I can't use it to edit "moving pictures" in various nonstandard formats (like 800x600) produced with CG.

Strangely Ulead - although not purposed for this at all - seems to be a better solution in some ways than dedicated tools... for its price or audio post sync

I think it's worth keeping for that alone. I'm mostly using Ulead because it accepts AVI xvid files where as a lot of other programs won't. Now I just need to figure out how to re-create some of the effects I've seen in other video editing programs and I'll be good to go.