VideoStudio 11.5 Plus 1080p support?

Pixelation5 · Post by **Pixelation5** » Mon May 04, 2009 10:16 am

Hi all,

I own VideoStudio 11.5 plus and planning to buy a digital video camera soon that records at 1080p, and was wondering if VideoStudio 11.5 Plus supports editting this format?

Also, I have a 4:3 CRT monitor that does not support 1080p, is it possible to edit 1080p content from my computer?

My CPU is a Pentium 4 HT 3.2Ghz and I have 2GB of PC-3200 RAM. Would my system cope well with editting?

Thanks

Nik

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon May 04, 2009 10:31 am

Welcome to the forums,

VS11.5+ can edit the Hi-Def formats, however if your 1080p camcorder records in the AVCHD format, then your PC might not be able to handle it. To edit AVCHD it is recommend to use a Quad-Core PC. VS has Smart Proxy for dealing with some of these very highly compressed HD formats, however even with that, a very powerful PC is required. It takes a very long time just to create the proxy file(s).

Pixelation5 · Post by **Pixelation5** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:29 am

Do you know if Canon's record to AVCHD? If not, what format do they record in?

I have a 4:3 CRT monitor that does not support 1080p, is it possible to edit 1080p content from my computer?

Is it possible to get VideoStudio to call upon the processing power of my GPU, like CUDA?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue May 05, 2009 12:52 am

Depends what model camcorder it is.

Pixelation5 · Post by **Pixelation5** » Tue May 05, 2009 1:05 am

All of the Canon HD range.

I just ran a 1080p movie and it runs totally smooth, so I am assuming editting would also run pretty good?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue May 05, 2009 1:21 am

Camcorder List.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Wed May 06, 2009 12:13 am

I have a 4:3 CRT monitor that does not support 1080p, is it possible to edit 1080p content from my computer?

That should not be an issue. Your video driver will translate the pixel resolution, aspect ratio, and framerate. This won't affect the actual editing, which is done via the CPU.

Is it possible to get VideoStudio to call upon the processing power of my GPU, like CUDA?

I don't think so. (Last time I searched corel.com for CUDA, I only got forum hits.) And, with all of the different video formats & format variations, encoding/transcoding can be "difficult" (unreliable), even with the "old" CPU method. So, I think reliable encoding/decoding that uses CUDA would be limited to a few formats.

Klaas · Post by **Klaas** » Fri May 08, 2009 8:59 am

I bought Video Studio X2 for editing my Canon HF100 footage. I capture my recordings in 25p format 1920x1080.

I use smart rendering when doing so, and only the transitions, titles, etc are rendered again. Here is the catch. They are rendered as interlaced video. When playing the created video you can there for see the interlaced effect in the transitions and titles. Especially with titles which scroll up or down.

So basicly: Video Studio X2 doesn't support 1080p AVCHD.

I have addressed this issue to Corel, unfortunately they do not have a solution for this (yet). I will start a separate topic regarding this issue.

You can however export it to MPEG2. Then you have can export your footage as 25p, but than there is no smart rendering and all frames are re-rendered. From my few this is a very poor work around which I will not use.

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EDIT: Didn't look closely enough. My version X2 is version 12, you where asking about 11.5. I don't know for sure if it has the same limitations.

Pixelation5 · Post by **Pixelation5** » Sun May 10, 2009 3:14 pm

Does rerendering mean a loss in quality?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Sun May 10, 2009 4:59 pm

Depends on the format. DV-AVI is lossless and will not suffer quality loss when re-rendering. MPEG-2 is a lossy format and you may notice quality loss after several re-renderings. With other very compressed formats you may notice quality loss after only 1 re-rendering.

Klaas · Post by **Klaas** » Sun May 10, 2009 5:54 pm

I don't think any non-professional will edit there work in a lossless format. So basicly YES. With re rendering you will always lose some quality.

Coral · Post by **Coral** » Sun May 10, 2009 7:55 pm

Whatever resolution you have. If you intend to author the movie as DVD, it would knock it down to (720 X 576 PAL) (720 X 480 NTSC). That's as far as I know.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Sun May 10, 2009 10:17 pm

Coral -- you can, of course, burning high definition video onto a standard DVD using the AVCHD format. This makes it a 'hybrid disc' and it can only be played on a Blu-Ray player rated to play hybrid discs. You can use either HDV or AVCHD source video, and even make a menu for it in VS. But it is of course not a standard definition video DVD...

Pixelation5 · Post by **Pixelation5** » Mon May 11, 2009 1:16 am

Is there a PCI AVCHD accelerator or something of the sort that could solve this issue of using AVCHD?

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon May 11, 2009 1:26 am

That's unknown, probably not (yet). However if you want to do a little research on why this current format poses problems, Google AVCHD.. here's a start..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVCHD
AVCHD and the AVCHD logo are trademarks of Panasonic corporation and Sony corporation

I found this suggestion on another forum, where the question in using CUDA along with a competitor's NLE program. It was recommended to use TmpGenc4. http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/te4xp.html
or Grass Valley FirecoderBlu