will videostudio x8 work in upgrade to windows 10?

[monjanse]

I upgrading to windows 10 right now and i wonder, will videostudio x8 work well in windows 10-upgrade?

[Terfyn]

It seems it will judging by the other posts on this Forum.
Corel produced a list of programmes they claim will work with Windows 10.

[Ken Berry]

This has already been raised in another thread: http://forum.corel.com/EN/viewtopic.php ... 85#p310885

The answer seems to be that there is no clear answer! I have upgraded 6 computers to Win 10, and have VS X7 and X8 on three of them. All of them seem to work fine for the purposes I use them for. As these VS versions were already installed on the computers being upgraded, the Win 10 installation apparently just took note of them and incorporated them into its architecture. This in turn meant that there was no need to go through the VS registration process again. In other words, there was no need for a clean reinstall of VS except in one case where the initial upgrade failed for one reason or another and I had to do a clean reinstall of Win 7 on that computer. I then upgraded it without having installed any other programs. This time the upgrade worked fine, and the first program I installed was X8. It worked fine and the registration process also worked -- unlike what happened for the above user. But he apparently did a clean install of Win 10 i.e. on a formatted hard disk with nothing on it. (It's not clear, though, if he had a commercial version of Win 10 or not, but I suspect he must have. My understanding of the Microsoft free offer of the Win 10 upgrade is that it only applies to upgrades of an existing Win 7 or 8/8.1 OS on your computer. Totally clean installs of Win 10 have to be paid for.)

So if you are merely going through the normal Win 10 upgrade process, I suspect you will not have any trouble with X8 afterward. There may be problems with older versions of VS, though as I say my X7 seems to be working, though others are reporting some problems with X6. Corel have also told me that there appears to be some problem getting full captures of the DV/AVI format in X8 under Win 10, and they will soon provide a patch for this. But I have not used DV/AVI for some years, so have not encountered that one. I suspect it will be the same for you if you don't use or have Firewire installed on your computer. Most people don't these days.

EDIT: When answering another question here, I have just discovered another flaw in X8 (and X7) under Win 10. This flaw to me is fairly significant since it involves a process I use quite a lot. And that is making new video Templates using the Add feature. In Settings > Movie Profile Manager, you can click on Add instead of New, then navigate to a clip whose properties you want to form the basis of the new template. This gets around things such as low bitrates available in the templates supplied by Corel. You make a new Profile with those properties, and when you want to render a project to a new video with those properties, you select that Template instead of one of the presets. However, I have just found that in X8 and X7 on this Win 10 computer, that Add will no longer accept any clip, regardless of its properties/format and regardless of the fact that I have in the past used some of these clips to make a new template. Unless this is fixed, it will be a serious limitation. I might note that some of the Custom templates made this way are still listed, and the one I have so far tested -- made in X8 under Win 8.1 -- worked just fine.

Anyway, I will report this to Corel to add to their To Do list. But if you do not make new Templates this way, it won't be a concern to you. And in any case, using Share > Same As Project Properties and Same As First Clip still appear to work well.