Wishlist for VideoStudio X9

[Terfyn]

Right click on a text track and be able to select "remove animation." The problem arises when a Lorem Ipsum item is taken to a text track. Later on, if you wish to create a new text item the Lorem Ipsum format repeats. It would be nice to select the text track item, right click and remove the animation. However, one must now engage animation, under attribute, and remove the animation check mark. This can happen under other circumstances as well. A simple right click remove would be more efficient.

This is an odd request as you can make a title without the "Lorem Ipsum". The Lorem Ipsum is there to provide animation and can be ignored for a static title.

[pepegota]

Not odd at all. You just don't get it. I alluded to other conditions as well as L. I. When you make the first text item and then animate it, it stays with all the subsequent text items you will create unless you disable them. I am asking for a quick way to do this via a right click on the text item instead of attributes /animation/uncheck. Now, I hope you understand what I am driving at? However, there maybe something I am not cognizant of regarding a quick fix.

[pepegota]

Add to the "Share Screen" the option to shut down the computer after rendering is complete.

[agal1057]

I think it would be nice if you can advance the timeline frame by frame using the arrow keys on your keyboard, I am new to VS and I am used to do this in all other editing programs that I have used.

[asik1]

I think it would be nice if you can advance the timeline frame by frame using the arrow keys on your keyboard, I am new to VS and I am used to do this in all other editing programs that I have used.

ShortCut D or F doing so.
Arrows jumps clips.

[zehavi]

Ability to use the "audio filter" on 5.1 sorround audio files

[leszektrojanowski]

Character spacing for TITLES/fonts.

[asik1]

Character spacing for TITLES/fonts.

It is called kerning, and I agree with you

[SoNic67]

Use of NVENC (or CUDA) for NVidia cards and GPU rendering. Presently, nVidia supports resolutions up to 4K in h264 and h265 formats.

[Emma]

Well x8 is soo bad the only way is up. I only got one wish for x9....Remove project setting in advance, let the program read the file and work from that. Sometimes you really make me wonder if you know anything about video and file´s at all.*** number one. You never trim files in other formats? Always in the original file format? Ofc! We got home movies from 1987..Format 4:3 - Letterbox - HD - True HD - and the list go on, now you have too work with files matching Project setting instead of being creative...Just let the program read the files you add and it will do fine.

[Terfyn]

I am always amazed at these type of comment. If X8 is so bad, why did you buy it in the first place? One of the good points about VideoStudio is its flexibility, it tolerates a reasonable range of formats and provides good editing facilities.

I recently bought PowerDirector 13 and I am struggling with it. The reason I bought it is that it is rated as better than X8. (First and second on the list, leaving all the others trailing) Do you see an "the only way is up " comment on PD 13 - NO because the problem is not the program but my inexperience with the new format.

I suggest you get used to VS X8 before comments like this.

[canuck]

Emma,

"you really make me wonder if you know anything about video and file´s at *** number one"

[Scubbie]

Ok, I'm still a relative newbee when it comes to video editing and I've been going through a somewhat steep learning curve getting to know VS X7 and now VS X8.

I've become to love the software and I'm finding it a relatively user friendly package. Sure there might be a few things missing and several features I may not personally use, but I do agree that it would be nice to see some things improved upon and perhaps fixed too.

• Extra Tracks
• Expand/contract tracks
• Library sub-folders
• HD samples
• Different Extensions
• Improved Blu-Ray Templates
• Improve Disc Editor
• Audio Sync
• Edit Multiple Videos at once
• Transitions
• Pop-out Video Window
• Support

Extra Tracks

Reading through the comments in this thread regarding improvements, there are many I would agree with. For example extra tracks. Not just for sounds, but also for titles. I had to create a work around for a short sequence I've created that meant creating a collection of .png images for the titles I had created because I couldn't have more than two at a time. If I'm hitting this limit having just started playing with the software, surely it needs to be looked at and revised.

Expand/contract tracks

At the same time being able to expand or contract a specific group of tracks would be really helpful too. Viewing narrow tracks with hard-to-read names/titles isn't good. Then expanding them all so that you have to scroll up and down isn't useful either and makes the whole process time consuming. Yes there is another option, but that wasn't too easy either. The following additions would be useful IMHO:

Opt.1 - Expand a group such as all the titles, leaving the rest narrow
Opt.2 - Expand selected tracks

Library sub-folders

It's been mentioned about the sub-folders for your personalised library. I would agree with this. After sorting out the folders for my project, then adding some folders for the royalty free music I'd downloaded, I quickly ran out. Getting organised on any project is important. These folders are a great addition and the new feature that shows which items have been included already is great. Better control of the folders would be really useful.

HD samples

Some HD Content in the libraries please.

It is nice to see that the provided samples automatically stretch to fit a 16:9 layout when they have been recorded in 4:3, but I don't tend to work in 4:3 or watch SD any more. Ok I have access to a Sony Handycam that records in SD, but everything else I can record with works at up to 1080p. As VS X8 now fully supports 4K, I believe that many of the current samples are letting the software down.

Different Extensions

When I create a DVD or Blu-Ray and save the project, the saved extension is identical to a video project. This is confusing and has annoyed me a few times. It wouldn't be too hard to accidentally delete the wrong file either as you might thing that a file is empty or re-use the same name for a disc as you did for the video. Disaster!

Improved Blu-Ray Templates

Well now we're paying extra money for the rights to author BLu-Ray discs, I guess it would be nice to have a little VFM.

There are quite a few nice templates in the DVD options, but not as many in the Blu-Ray section.

Whilst on this section I would love to be able to take a disc project that I have created for say the Blu-Ray disc and use it to create a DVD or vice versa. Ok I appreciate that the video quality will be different, but not everyone has a Blu-Ray player and it would make life a little easier to be able to do this. It would reduce to time required on a project.

Improve Disc Editor

Great, you've spend several days/weeks editing together your video. You've uploaded a copy to YouTube and now you want to create a disc.

Wow! What a let down. You're limited to working in a small window, not full screen. You no longer have access to all those lovely tools you had when creating that video and simply moving things around is so hard.

Without the templates you'd truly be in dire straits too as there appears to be no easy way to create your own disc menu.

Please can someone look at this area. I'd love to be able to tinker with my own disc menu system. Using my own graphics or even using a library with different options. Perhaps this could be accomplished with a separate template editor?

I would also like the option to have both a 'play video' and 'select chapter' instead of one or the other. Perhaps with a little more playing around I might find that this is buried somewhere, but it isn't obvious like so many other wonderful features.

I haven't explored the options to create to AVCHD or SD Card yet. However if their respective editors are the same, then they too should be suitably improved.

I do like the fact that much of the standard required functions are automated, but there are many flaws. For example, I have found out through the tutorials how to choose a required 20 second clip (and change that time frame), but this can only be done with the templates that have multiple windows. Currently I have found that you need to choose one of them, sort out the clip, then go to the menu template you actually want to use. Not very user-friendly.

Audio Sync

This has been mentioned and I totally agree with this. Ok I know that you can use the Sound Mixer button to help align two tracks with each other and that a clapper board will make things a lot easier, but not every amateur carries this with them all the time.

With the possibility of using screen capture as well, a clapper board isn't going to be much use for many other people either.

Edit Multiple Videos at once

This would really be a useful feature and one I thought that X8 supported. Well if it does I haven't found out how to do so yet.

There are a few times when I have wanted to have two or more videos open at the same time, along with being able to go back to a video when creating a disc. Ok I have access to two computers which helps, but one feature I would love to use would be the ability to copy a piece from one project to another, such as a title or customised transition. Yes I know that you can put them in the library and this does help.

I have also wanted to create a short 'highlight' video to use as the introductory video on the disc. Having multiple videos open at the same time would make this a far easier process.

Transitions

I love the transitions. A friend used to work with some old broadcasting kit and the transitions he had compared to what VS has were incredibly limited. Ok I'm not going OTT and using them all. That would IMHO just ruin the final video.

However I have come to realise that if you apply a transition to a 2nd video track or title, the transition is applied to the whole screen. Try the 'Blowout' transition as one example. Set up two short videos on video track 2, with a coloured background (don't use black, choose a colour to make it obvious). The template '029_HD-Project' (under 'Other') is ruined it you don't use the black background, but look again. It actually doesn't work as well as it could if just the image were to 'explode'.

I would like to be able to do more than just fade in or fade out a short clip in a window.

Pop-out Video Window

I love the ability to preview the project before creating the final video or disc image. Being stuck with watching it in a windowed area is not IMHO always the best choice.

In creating a HD video on a laptop with 1600*900 resolution is one thing, but my desktop has a 1920*1200 resolution for the monitor and is also connected to my TV. However I can't show the preview in a window without the surrounding borders.

It would be nice to review the project in full screen without the border it ensure that everything will be clear before creating the final video.

I think that this might be even more important for those editing 4K content.

Support

Ok directing people to a forum such as this is a positive step and one that many other firms now use. However, as has been mentioned, support could be improved upon.

The apparent lack of feedback from Corel is sadly a common thing now with many of the sites hosted by other firms, so I won't have a go a Corel for this.

However there is room for improvement, as there always is with any firm who provide a product.

It has taken me the best part of a couple of months to get to know VS X8. I was working to learn about VS X7 previously and am now starting to create something. It is now that I have hit a problem that I have posted about on this forum, but I would have been happier contacting Corel to see if it is a bug of just me making a foolish mistake.

Your products are sold across the globe and each country will have different laws when it comes to protecting the consumers. Asking me in effect to pay to report what is possibly a software bug I think would come under "unfair contact terms" in the UK or something else. I am sure that I could speak with a suitable legal specialist and they would find lots of holes in this approach.

30 days is far too short. 1 year would be far more practical. Even if you were to limit it to say 5 specific cases and not close one too early and count the re-opened/started case as a new one, it would be better.



Thank you for reading through this list. I am sure that there might be ways around some of the suggestions I've made. As I have played with the software more, I've learned a lot more about its capabilities and I'm glad I made the choice to purchase it. Nothing is perfect, but there are some things that Corel could change in order to improve upon what it has here.

[asik1]

Two short comments scubbie,
- You don't have to use title track for titles, you can place them on any overlay track.
- Regarding overlay transitions, I agree and I raised that issue before, but.... due to misconception (or patent problem) done by ulead, the forefather of VS, this can't be corrected unless major recoding of VS will be done.
In a nut shell, what should be done is that the transition need to be applied only to the key of the overlay.

[Scubbie]

Thank you asik1, I shall look at moving the titles into the overlay track area as this would suit me better.

Shame about the Transitions though. That would IMHO improve things a great deal.