Instant Movie

[gsquaredb]

I just installed Videostudio X4 and was wondering if it could make an instant movie e.g. Muvee or Pinnacle Studio Smartmovie. Basically takes your raw video and depending on the length and music, it will pick out the best scenes and create an instant movie?

[Ron P.]

I'm not familiar with those programs, and their method of producing an instant movie. You claim they can pick out your best scenes. Does the program(s) doe this without any user input? If so, how would they determine what is your best scenes. What the program may think is my best scenes is not going to be the same as what I think my best scenes are.

VS X3 & X4 has the Instant Project feature. It basically provides templates for you to use. You replace the images in the templates with your own. However VS does not have a function where you simply insert your clips and let the program do all the editing. You may have bad shots, the ones where you filmed your shoes because you didn't know that you had turned the camera on, or perhaps what segment of scene that you were actually shooting for, when you intentionally shot extra footage for establishing shots, or whatever other reason. I think this must be handled manually, not relying on a software program to know what you're wanting the shot to really look like.

[gsquaredb]

This is from the PC Week review of Videostudio

Instant Movie Making
Corel's Instant Project feature is different from the "magic movie maker" features in most consumer video editors. It's more of a template tool with some prefab effects for you to manually build out with your own content.

I guess that answers my question.

[teknisyan]

It looks like Pinnacle Studio Smartmovie is the same as the Instant Project feature of VS X3/X4.

Here, how the Pinnacle Studio Smartmovie from http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/u ... smartmovie .

To use Smartmovie, capture or import your clips in the normal way, then grab the clips you want to be in your edit from the album and drag them to the timeline. Import some music and drag that to the timeline in the music track (make sure your music is around half the length of your video clips so that Smartmovie will have something to work with).

Now select Make Smartmovie from the Toolbox menu, and choose a style from the dropdown list at the top left. Type the text for your opening and closing credits into the boxes underneath.

Finally, click the Create button and Studio will produce an edit of your footage.

While the Instant Project, you select the template first then the clips/video/photos and music. If you want to know how Instant Project works, I would recommend that you download the trial version of VS X4 from www.corel.com/trials.

[phaseman]

I just installed Videostudio X4 and was wondering if it could make an instant movie e.g. Muvee or Pinnacle Studio Smartmovie. Basically takes your raw video and depending on the length and music, it will pick out the best scenes and create an instant movie?

I used Pinnacle before using Corel VS, I know what you are referring too. Unfortunately VS does not do instant movies.

[Ron P.]

The earlier versions, up to VS X2 had what's called Movie Wizard. This is about the same as the Instant Movie function of those other programs. You simply would insert your video or photos, it would provide a lot of the rest. They replaced it in VS X3 with the Instant Project.

Currently Corel has another program, that was included with VS X3 as Easy Edit, called VideoStudio Express. It performs very similar to the old Movie Wizard or those Instant Movie functions.