MediaStudio Pro 7

Ajex5654 · Post by **Ajex5654** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:35 am

I originally purchased this product online and due to a hard drive crash have lost it. I have been unable to find it again to download and Corel Support only seem to offer answers to prescribed questions! I do have V6.5 on disc but cannot find an upgrade to 7 either. Can anyone offer any help please?

Post by **Ron P.** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:05 am

Welcome to the forums,

Unfortunately I don't have any good news. MSP7 is considered by Corel as a phased-out product, and does not support it. The current release MSP8, is also now a phased-out program, but Corel will continue support for only a short time longer. Corel decided to discontinue the MSP product.

I know this thread will be of little comfort now...Lost Serial Numbers and Software. However it is our responsibility to ensure we have backups for the software we purchase, not the manufacturer.

Ajex5654 · Post by **Ajex5654** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:08 am

Thankyou for your speedy reply. After years of telling cusotmers to take backups you would think I would have learned the lesson!
I am sorry to hear that MSP is being phased-out, though I have to admit it wasn't as user friendly or intuitive as stuff available now. It did however offer so much more for the price at the time.
Will look around and see what is a good alternative.
thanks again

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:20 am

I thought the interface of MSP7 was also a bit hard to follow - however MSP8 had a whole new look and was far more user friendly. If you have XP then it is still available and remains my favourite Video Editor.

Interestingly the easiest way to learn MSP7 is to firstly use MSP8!!

My theory is that the demise of MediaStudio Pro is due to the earlier versions being so user unfriendly and had already made users shy of the program. If it had started out with the Version 8 interface I am sure it would have continued to be developed - version 8 stands head and shoulders above all other video editors I have looked at and is very easy to master.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:58 am

Sorry, I can't agree with you. Earlier versions (from MSP5 onwards) were easier to use than their competitors at the time. I tried to get my head round Premier 5 and if you think MSP 5.2 was unfriendly, then Premier beat it into a cocked hat for unfriendliness. I think MSP was always ahead of the competition and, even today, stays at the head of the prosumer league for ease of use.

No, I think the reason for its demise was purely because of poor commercial activity. Magazines of 5 years ago had full page ads for Premier and this was also the editorial yardstick (after all, the editors did not want to offend their best advertisers). When did you ever see a full page ad for MSP? I remember when 6.0 was launched, one of the mags very reluctantly gave it a reasonably good review, pointing out where it was poorer than Premier and mentioning a few good points almost in parentheses. They gave it 3/5 stars where Premier, that was reviewed a month earlier and got 5/5. A few months later, Ulead took a back cover ad, for a catalogue of products, for three months, and their products suddenly got good reviews (I think this was about the time of the launch of MovieFactory), but slipped back to bad reviews after the ads stopped.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:05 am

I don't think there is one single reason why it has failed to meet its expectations. Another very strong reason is that if you pop into a Computer Superstore and look on the software shelves you will find lots of Video Editing Programs with one noticeable exception - the former Ulead range.

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:42 am

That also was a part of their poor commercialisation: no incentives for resellers and lower margins.

Gorf · Post by **Gorf** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:57 pm

sjj1805 wrote:I thought the interface of MSP7 was also a bit hard to follow - however MSP8 had a whole new look and was far more user friendly...

Dif'rent strokes. I found the MSP6 and 7 interfaces far better than MSP8.

sjj1805 wrote:My theory is that the demise of MediaStudio Pro is due to the earlier versions being so user unfriendly and had already made users shy of the program....

My theory for it being discontinued is a huge loss on MSP8- the differences from MSP7 to MSP8 did not warrant (for most people) the cost of the upgrade. I suspect Ulead (or whatever it was called at the time) made a big loss on MSP8.

Devil wrote:Sorry, I can't agree with you. Earlier versions (from MSP5 onwards) were easier to use than their competitors at the time. I tried to get my head round Premier 5 and if you think MSP 5.2 was unfriendly, then Premier beat it into a cocked hat for unfriendliness. I think MSP was always ahead of the competition and, even today, stays at the head of the prosumer league for ease of use.

Agree with all that absolutely. Even now, Premiere (in fact, all Adobe creative products) are cluttered and unintuitive. About the only thing they have going for them apart from the massive user base is their consistency across the range. I've never had anything other than Photoshop and Photoshop Elements installed for more than a couple of weeks, so I can't really comment on the video applications' reliability.

Ajex5654 · Post by **Ajex5654** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 2:53 pm

I think unfortunately that they had a window of opportunity where they had a product superior in quality and price but didn't recognise and take advantage of the situation at the time. And they also didn't look at what they had and then tried to build on the foundation. There are so many alternatives out there now, though I have yet to find one that incorporates all MSP could do for the price.