Video Studio X3 Wish List for Future Versions

[metmot]

When are software designers going to understand that users more advanced than a kindergartener do not generally want their My Documents folder populated with anything they don't specifically want to be there?

Go ahead and make that your default if you must but PLEASE let me choose if I don't want your folders residing there!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I"M BEGGING NOW FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

[zforray]

I 2nd and 3rd the motion.

My "My Documents" is almost never used. I have 3TB+ of internal disk, organized into projects/purposes. If I am going to create a slideshow from a set of pictures, I want everything (pictures, projects, DVD/mpeg output, etc) in the same directory.

When are software designers going to understand that users more advanced than a kindergartener do not generally want their My Documents folder populated with anything they don't specifically want to be there?

Go ahead and make that your default if you must but PLEASE let me choose if I don't want your folders residing there!!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!! I"M BEGGING NOW FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

[metmot]

I 2nd and 3rd the motion.

My "My Documents" is almost never used. I have 3TB+ of internal disk, organized into projects/purposes. If I am going to create a slideshow from a set of pictures, I want everything (pictures, projects, DVD/mpeg output, etc) in the same directory.

The most common strategy I see for advanced users with multiple hard drives is to keep the C partition as small and uncluttered as possible to make backing it up or restoring it as easy as possible as the inevitable Microsoft termites move in and start their mischief. Nothing but windows, program files and disposable temps belong on C. My Documents is for......MY documents, not yours. This is especially true with the indexing of libraries in Windows 7.

Are you listening Corel? Mention it to your good buddy Adobe too if you are

[sjj1805]

I mentioned this to Corel during Beta Testing pointing out that I consider my computer as typical of many.
My computer contains over 15,000 photographs and over 6,000 sound files
they are nicely organised, filed, indexed and cross referenced and I do NOT want yet another program attempting to organize them again for me.

As mentioned in the posts above, these items are not even on the hard drive with the operating system. All that is required is the standard Windows File Manager box to apear whenever we need to import anything into a program. That includes videos, images, drawings, sounds or anything else that you may want.

[Roberto]

One things that could be useful is the possibillity to mute in one shot (i.e. 1 mouse click) set of video or audio clips previously selected.

[Ron P.]

I wonder if Corel would be able to do this with the VSP. I know that a UPD (Ulead Private Data) file is created when projects are rendered to video files. I think that those are directed more towards the video file, than the working project file.

I use a flash authoring program called Swishmax 3. This program does something very nice and quite possibly unique. It uses the file extension of SWI as it's proprietary working file format. Now whenever you save your working file, it automatically creates a back-up of that file, giving it another extension of sbk. Now you're probably thinking that you end up with tons and tons of these sbk files, not the case though. Every time you save your project, it over-writes the sbk file. This way at least you have a back-up of the most recent work. If while working on a project something happens and your SWI file becomes corrupted and will not open, just rename the backup file from sbk to swi, and off you go.

[Frontier]

- If one wants to insert an empty title-page...let one do so.
- Please remove the boosted-audio-while-applying-transitions bug.
- If one adds yet a video to the overlay track, right after some other clip also present in the overlay track, position and size properties aren't used/copied from the previous clip in the overlay track.
- Encoding to standard DVD MPEG2 in less than 8Mbit results in blocky pictures if there's even a little action in the video. Cinemacraft basic, a $50 program, encodes better at half the bitrate. Adding 2-pass doesn't do any difference.
- One can't manually edit fade-in or fade-out.
- Capturing video with Sony HDR-HC9e simply doesn't work. HDVsplit does this without any issues.
- Why aren't users allowed to browse whole folders with video? Right now, one has to drag & drop video to VideoStudio.
- Please save smartproxy files in the project folder or something? And maybe enable "auto-delete smartproxy folders on project/program exit".
- One can't apply transitions to titles.
- If I open a 1440 x 1080 MPEG2 file and apply ANY filter...I can only output 720x576 with the MPEG optimizer.
- If I'm working on a 1440x1080 project and I encode it to a PAL Bluray H264 video, the preview is OK in VideoStudio (I'm guessing it's a smartproxy file), but when playing the final MPEG file, Windows Media Player 11 will hang whenever it encounters a time in the video where a transition is applied. What the heck is encoded into the MPEG stream?

I guess that's my bugs of wishes I'd like to see fixed in VS X3...

[Black Lab]

- If one wants to insert an empty title-page...let one do so.
You can. They are called color blocks.
- Please remove the boosted-audio-while-applying-transitions bug.
This is not a bug. Please see your other post http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 6&start=15
- If one adds yet a video to the overlay track, right after some other clip also present in the overlay track, position and size properties aren't used/copied from the previous clip in the overlay track.
You can set, in Preferences, how you want clips in the Overlay tracks to be treated. You can also copy/paste attributes from one clip to another.
- Encoding to standard DVD MPEG2 in less than 8Mbit results in blocky pictures if there's even a little action in the video. Cinemacraft basic, a $50 program, encodes better at half the bitrate. Adding 2-pass doesn't do any difference.
I always encode to 7mbps and do not suffer from pixelation.
- One can't manually edit fade-in or fade-out.
Edit in what way?
- Capturing video with Sony HDR-HC9e simply doesn't work. HDVsplit does this without any issues.
- Why aren't users allowed to browse whole folders with video? Right now, one has to drag & drop video to VideoStudio.
Please explain.
- Please save smartproxy files in the project folder or something? And maybe enable "auto-delete smartproxy folders on project/program exit".
- One can't apply transitions to titles.
No, but fade in/outs are possible.
- If I open a 1440 x 1080 MPEG2 file and apply ANY filter...I can only output 720x576 with the MPEG optimizer.
- If I'm working on a 1440x1080 project and I encode it to a PAL Bluray H264 video, the preview is OK in VideoStudio (I'm guessing it's a smartproxy file), but when playing the final MPEG file, Windows Media Player 11 will hang whenever it encounters a time in the video where a transition is applied. What the heck is encoded into the MPEG stream?

I guess that's my bugs of wishes I'd like to see fixed in VS X3...

Again, many of these issues are not bugs. If you are having particular problems please start a new thread so that we may help you resolve them.

[Frontier]

I have also discovered the "insert colour" function. But simply removing the other check for empty title-tages would allow users to do so too.

I know that the preferences allows one to set the lead-in delay, but simply being able to adjust a "volume-line" in the same way as Pinnacle or Sony uses it...would make life a lot easier. With both editors, a line along each clip indicates the audio level. One can insert all the adjustment-points that one wants, and change the level between the 2 points from 0 to 130-140% (not sure of exact volume boost, but it's prolly in that area).

About the pixelation, I'll upload samples tomorrow.

About browsing a folder, multiple other video editors allows one to open a folder with a lot of videos. All the videos in that folder will then have a snapshop image created and is selectable as available via drag&drop to the timeline. In VideoStudio, one has to select the same videos and drag and drop the folder in VideoStudio. This is not a bug, but behavior by design. I'm suggesting yet a method for viewing available clips, already used in other editors.

I haven't figured out how to do fade in/outs to titles, will try so ASAP.

Once again, I'm not trying to trash VideoStudio, merely suggesting areas that could use some improvement, in my humble oppinon. Today, if you want to find something, you "google" it. If an image has been manipulated/changed in any way, it has been "photoshop'ed". These new terms didn't happen by accident, but because both products are so greatly designed that they simply set the standard for working enviroments. It has taken an awful lot of work and a lot of listening to what people want. Please consider all of my posts as my way of trying to tell Corel how they could improve the product - not as trashing. Disregarding any oppinion other than one's own is the fastest way of getting to the next subject on the agenda...but also the fastest way of becoming one of the software companies which faded into nothing over time. Does anyone remember OS/2, WordPerfect, Novell Netware, CSI text etc.? All great products...which got overtaken by competition. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Corel Video Studio, which seems like a promising product. It just needs some functions and bugs ironing out...

[Ron P.]

I know that the preferences allows one to set the lead-in delay, but simply being able to adjust a "volume-line" in the same way as Pinnacle or Sony uses it...would make life a lot easier. With both editors, a line along each clip indicates the audio level. One can insert all the adjustment-points that one wants, and change the level between the 2 points from 0 to 130-140% (not sure of exact volume boost, but it's prolly in that area).

Would this be something similar to VS's Rubber-Band ?

[metmot]

I haven't figured out how to do fade in/outs to titles, will try so ASAP.

Once again, I'm not trying to trash VideoStudio, merely suggesting areas that could use some improvement, in my humble oppinon.

Make your titles fade in and out by creating them, cut them in half and apply fade in attibute to the first one and fade out attibute to the second one. You can easily control the speed of the fade by inserting a non fading place holder of the same title in between the two and changing the duration of the fading ones to suit your taste.

With all due respect sir, you come on here and complain about VS when it's pretty clear that you simply don't know how to run the software well as of yet. It would be like me saying a jet airplane is primative simply because I can't understand the cockpit controls and fly it. There is nothing wrong with prefering features another software as long as you have taken ample time to find out what the other one can actually do before just assuming and giving up. It's not realistic to expect the controls of the cesna you're used to flying be the same as a 747. All software has a learning curve. I find VS to be extremely powerful and flexible almost beyond my personal creativity and imagination. But I have taken the time to discover that. Does it have some shortcomings? Of course it does, what software doesn't? Can most ot them be overcome using the existing platform? Yup.

If you would like to become an adept user of VS then hang around this board. The members and mods are first rate and no one has ever asked a question deemed too stupid by anyone. I for one have asked some pretty silly ones looking back. If Sony Vega or Pinnacle has help available like this, then stick with it. No shame in that.

[Black Lab]

I have also discovered the "insert colour" function. But simply removing the other check for empty title-tages would allow users to do so too.
Again, personal preference.

I know that the preferences allows one to set the lead-in delay, but simply being able to adjust a "volume-line" in the same way as Pinnacle or Sony uses it...would make life a lot easier. With both editors, a line along each clip indicates the audio level. One can insert all the adjustment-points that one wants, and change the level between the 2 points from 0 to 130-140% (not sure of exact volume boost, but it's prolly in that area).
VS allows the same, using key-frames, when in Audio view.

About the pixelation, I'll upload samples tomorrow.
I don't doubt your problem. Please start a new thread and supply the requested info in this thread: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

About browsing a folder, multiple other video editors allows one to open a folder with a lot of videos. All the videos in that folder will then have a snapshop image created and is selectable as available via drag&drop to the timeline. In VideoStudio, one has to select the same videos and drag and drop the folder in VideoStudio. This is not a bug, but behavior by design. I'm suggesting yet a method for viewing available clips, already used in other editors.
Still not clear on what you are saying, but from the Video Library there is a button to insert a video. It opens an explorer window where you can choose what clips to import.

I haven't figured out how to do fade in/outs to titles, will try so ASAP.
With your title selected click on the TT on the edit tab. That opens the attributes of your title.

Once again, I'm not trying to trash VideoStudio, merely suggesting areas that could use some improvement, in my humble oppinon. Today, if you want to find something, you "google" it. If an image has been manipulated/changed in any way, it has been "photoshop'ed". These new terms didn't happen by accident, but because both products are so greatly designed that they simply set the standard for working enviroments. It has taken an awful lot of work and a lot of listening to what people want. Please consider all of my posts as my way of trying to tell Corel how they could improve the product - not as trashing. Disregarding any oppinion other than one's own is the fastest way of getting to the next subject on the agenda...but also the fastest way of becoming one of the software companies which faded into nothing over time. Does anyone remember OS/2, WordPerfect, Novell Netware, CSI text etc.? All great products...which got overtaken by competition. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Corel Video Studio, which seems like a promising product. It just needs some functions and bugs ironing out...
While I understand your intentions, I believe some of your misconceptions are due to the fact that you are not very familiar with the program. I am simply trying to help you understand that some of the things you think are bugs or are needed to be included are, in fact, in the program. They might just be called something different or work a little differently.

[metmot]

I have also discovered the "insert colour" function. But simply removing the other check for empty title-tages would allow users to do so too.
Again, personal preference.

I know that the preferences allows one to set the lead-in delay, but simply being able to adjust a "volume-line" in the same way as Pinnacle or Sony uses it...would make life a lot easier. With both editors, a line along each clip indicates the audio level. One can insert all the adjustment-points that one wants, and change the level between the 2 points from 0 to 130-140% (not sure of exact volume boost, but it's prolly in that area).
VS allows the same, using key-frames, when in Audio view.

About the pixelation, I'll upload samples tomorrow.
I don't doubt your problem. Please start a new thread and supply the requested info in this thread: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php?t=8959

About browsing a folder, multiple other video editors allows one to open a folder with a lot of videos. All the videos in that folder will then have a snapshop image created and is selectable as available via drag&drop to the timeline. In VideoStudio, one has to select the same videos and drag and drop the folder in VideoStudio. This is not a bug, but behavior by design. I'm suggesting yet a method for viewing available clips, already used in other editors.
Still not clear on what you are saying, but from the Video Library there is a button to insert a video. It opens an explorer window where you can choose what clips to import.

I haven't figured out how to do fade in/outs to titles, will try so ASAP.
With your title selected click on the TT on the edit tab. That opens the attributes of your title.

Once again, I'm not trying to trash VideoStudio, merely suggesting areas that could use some improvement, in my humble oppinon. Today, if you want to find something, you "google" it. If an image has been manipulated/changed in any way, it has been "photoshop'ed". These new terms didn't happen by accident, but because both products are so greatly designed that they simply set the standard for working enviroments. It has taken an awful lot of work and a lot of listening to what people want. Please consider all of my posts as my way of trying to tell Corel how they could improve the product - not as trashing. Disregarding any oppinion other than one's own is the fastest way of getting to the next subject on the agenda...but also the fastest way of becoming one of the software companies which faded into nothing over time. Does anyone remember OS/2, WordPerfect, Novell Netware, CSI text etc.? All great products...which got overtaken by competition. I'd hate to see the same thing happen to Corel Video Studio, which seems like a promising product. It just needs some functions and bugs ironing out...
While I understand your intentions, I believe some of your misconceptions are due to the fact that you are not very familiar with the program. I am simply trying to help you understand that some of the things you think are bugs or are needed to be included are, in fact, in the program. They might just be called something different or work a little differently.

Sorry to clutter this thread with non relevent subjects but......I had never even clicked on the TT box in all these years. I figured out how to control the pause by using the technique I described above. Inserting placeholder title between the attributed ones and changing the length of them to control the effect and am pretty good at doing it quickly but I see corel has a much better way included. See there's so much to learn!! Thanks Jeff!!

[Xyzzy2]

Dear Corel, if you decide to release localised versions:

- spend some money and let somebody check translation in the product. In Polish translation nobody did it (or whoever did it had no idea what this software is about).

- if you decide to release single version to all markets, make it possible to choose language, or at least resort to English.

[sjj1805]

Just a gentle reminder folks, please do not turn this thread into a discussion.
This particular thread is monitored by staff from Corel looking for your suggestions for future versions. If it is abused then Corel will simply stop monitoring this thread and the members of this Web Board will lose the benefits afforded by it.

If you are unsure about how to do something in VideoStudio, or you "Think" you have found a bug then please start a new thread.

Every so often I have contact with a Corel employee or software engineer regarding new versions. It is always handy if I can point them to a thread such as this.
Please keep any suggestions sensible - plus 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.

A link to the Previous wish list thread is here: