Presale Newbie Questions

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 8:30 pm

Hello Everyone,
I am not new to technology but am just starting to look at vidoe capture and editing. I appologize in advance for the newbie questions I am about to ask; I'm sure you get plenty. I have spent the last several days pilfering through a ton of websites and user manuals on video capturing and editing products. I am starting to get my arms around the various formats and what not and am close to selecting a product. Right now, I am leaning heavily towards buying Ulead Media Studio - it seems to have a lot of good features at a pretty good price. I downloaded the user manual today and the one thing that stuck out as a limitation is the dvd menu creation tool. I could be very wrong; it is late in the day and I have read too many manuals now. From the manual, it did not appear that the menu portion of Media Studio does not support motion background and seemed to be a bit limited in menu creation. From what I read, it kind of seemed the buttons are pre-positioned, you can't really customize the layout and such. Is this true or is my brain just warped from all the reading today?
I really like the product because of the graphics editor which seems to blow the doors of Pinnacle's comparable product. It would be a shame if the DVD menu system was lacking (but i prefer the graphics over the menu system).
Also, aside from the 3D graphics stuff, would I get a lot more with Quartet?
What I want to do is capture/edit home movies, convert VHS tapes to DVD so the kids can watch in the car, and I want to be able to insert graphics right into video (I coach little league football and that would be sweet). What would be especially sweet if I could make training videos with animated playbooks; I don't know if Media studio graphics engine is that good though. If not, I can create things like animated GIFs in other programs to do the trick; can I import those and include them in a movie clip? last, I want to take digital stills and save them to DVD to send to extended family so they can just look at them on the TV.
I need to try to make my product selection in time for Father's day

and was hoping some of the more experienced guru's here might throw me a bone and help me out?

Thanks!!!

Coach

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:20 pm

It has been a very long day; I just realized I posted this in video studio and not media studio forum....

jchunter · Post by **jchunter** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 10:01 pm

Coach,
You can do all that with Video Studio 9 for $99 - $30 rebate. Animation with stills can be done but could be time consuming, depending on what you want to do. Still pictures are easily converted to video and vice versa.
John

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jun 03, 2005 11:42 pm

jchunter wrote:Coach,
You can do all that with Video Studio 9 for $99 - $30 rebate. Animation with stills can be done but could be time consuming, depending on what you want to do. Still pictures are easily converted to video and vice versa.
John

Whoa, I didn't realize that there was a rebate. So if I understand this correctly I can upgrade from VS8 for $49 - $30 = $19 ?

AnimeChick · Post by **AnimeChick** » Sat Jun 04, 2005 12:09 am

The rebate is only for purchasing the full retail version.

http://www.ulead.com/store/rebate/runme.htm

Many of our products have upgrade rebates and/or competitive rebates. The purpose of this page is to offer replacement rebate forms for full version box products purchased in retail stores and direct from Ulead.

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:25 pm

Thanks - I'll look into VS 9!!!

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:06 am

AnimeChick wrote:The rebate is only for purchasing the full retail version.

http://www.ulead.com/store/rebate/runme.htm

Many of our products have upgrade rebates and/or competitive rebates. The purpose of this page is to offer replacement rebate forms for full version box products purchased in retail stores and direct from Ulead.

Darn!!
I re-read the terms and yep only the full physical version.... Oh well was hoping that Ulead was having a blue light specilal

kebrinton · Post by **kebrinton** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 12:12 am

Well, wait a minute:

I bought VS9 at Fry's recently. The sticker read $99 but they were selling it for $69, and they offered a $30 straight rebate and another $20 upgrade/competitive rebate (or the other way round). Total rebates were $50 off of a $69 purchase price.

Unlike my upgrade to v.8, this one wasn't labeled "Upgrade" and I hope that word doesn't show up when I install it. I could, after all, throw away the rebates and then I'd have the "full version."

The rebate forms included a telephone number with the instructions, "If your rebate does not arrive within a reasonable time, call here" [or some equivalent language]. I guess somebody heard about delayed rebates from Ulead.