Wishlist for VS X11

[TonyP]

Smartsound support???? Or at least a plugin that can be paid for.

[Djard007]

I have to agree that AVI etc. is not outdated. I still use VirtualDub for synchronizing demuxed AV (with Audacity for the audio) as it has the most precise ability to measure audio and video duration, down to a millisecond.

[Ken Berry]

... Not to mention the uncompressed AVI I still regularly produce from Corel's own Motion 3D Studio for titles. They might be huge, but their quality is superb and they go without any problem at all into my AVCHD and Blu-Ray projects...

[RichardB]

What will be nice is to have more disk templates for AVCHD and BluRay There is currently only eight menu templates and they are limited to maximum five selections. It will also be nice to have chapter capability for these formats.

[netsonicyxf]

I always put my video, music, pic, etc for a video project and the .VSP file in the same folder.

The folder structure is as follows:

- parent folder (the whole video project folder)
--- video clip (sub folder)
--- music (sub folder)
--- pic ( sub folder)
--- xxx.VSP

The current X10 only support "absolute path", so when I move the whole video project folder onto another PC, I have to do lots of "relink" work, very tedious.

[Ken Berry]

VideoStudio has a "Smart Package" feature (under File) which allows you to collect all your media relating to a project, including the project file, into a package which you can move anywhere without the necessity to relink. I am assuming you are simply moving the Windows folder containing all your files to another drive -- which is what is causing your problem -- instead of building a Smart Package.

[tigerwarrior]

Please remove all "out-dated" content and "out-dated" formats. Most people use nowdays MP4, MKV and perhaps WMV.

Enhance installer *not* to install old images, sounds, themes, etc. that nobody, really nobody needs/use.

T H A N K Y O U.

PS: Such as PaintShop Pro X7-X9 is.

Those features might be "outdated for you, but there are people out there that might still use them. Like AVI support. You even removed MOV format that is common in Canon DSLR cameras. You've also eliminated the Sony X-AVC since is uses the MXF rapper/container. What about M2T or MTS which many older 1080HD camcorders use? MP4 is only a rapper/container for the actual codec, so I don't follow what you are asking for. The same with "out dated" content. I haven't used SD in ages, yet, there are people that still record and want to edit in that format, especially when transferring old VHS tapes, along with having SD content to work with. Unless you have access to some info everyone else does not, it's not really accurate to say "nobody needs/use" these features. Edius, a pro editor, prides itself and advertises it ability to import any format.
Consumer editors are made to appeal to the broadest base possible. And since, as far as I know, the "out-dated" content has no affect on the performance of VS except space on the hard drive, why not keep it? As you know, you can selectively install a lot of the "outdated" content, or not install any of it at all.
I shoot mainly in 4K. So, I should ask everything "outdated" be eliminated too since it's the latest, greatest and the future? I think not.

Agreed, some of the more "outdated" ones are useful in certain circumstances.

[pepegota]

I wish Corel would improve their processing time for VS as they have done with Pinnacle!
Also, at 99% completion and a long project, it just sits there too long.

[thauser]

Three suggestions regarding the Library:
1. Provide a marker, similar to the green checkbox in thumbnail view, in a separate column in the list view and allow sorting on that column.
2. Provide a 'Toggle' to choose whether to 'Copy' or to 'Move' the thumbnails to and from the library and the timeline.
3. Provide an adjustment as to the quality of the thumbnail images in the library.

[Mutchy]

Better control with TRANSITIONS use.
Hi, I'm a long time VS user from way back in the Ulead days. I've owned and used every version of VS since Corel bought it and think that, in general, Corel are doing a great job advancing this incredible program. I've just started using VX X10 and so far I like it.

One of my main uses in VS is create animated, storyline style productions of still images I've taken during travel trips. The results often end up to be quite full productions with lots of music, sounds, effects, intros and endings - I've been told than many people can't believe that they are 99% still images.
Anyway, with my love of use of stills there are a few things that I think could be improved to make this sort of production easier. When creating and editing productions containing hundreds of stills I need much better control over how, where and when to insert and adjust transitions, and sometimes effects, but mainly transitions.

I don't go nuts with transitions and mainly use just one or two for the main sequence but occasionally intersperse these with more dramatic ones.

I REALLY need to be able to select a string of stills on my timeline and then add a transition to all those SELECTED.
Currently, if I select a set of images on the timeline, the Library panel always switches to Media. If I then choose Transitions on the Library panel, my selection on the track disappears.
Currently there are only minimal ways I can add a transition to multiple images - right click on a transition and choose "Apply current effect to video track". Then if some transitions already exist on the track I get a second dialogue question "Do I want to overwrite the existing transitions?" If I say yes, they all get overwritten. If I say No then VS will insert the new transition into ALL areas currently without a transition. This happens very quickly and the user has no real way (in any lengthy production) of knowing exactly WHICH images were given the new transition.

Well, sometimes I don't want any transition, so the only choice to add it to the entire track is unsuitable. To overcome this problem I've always had to just drag at transition to literally hundreds of images one by one - so I keep control of where the transitions are going.

What I really need is to be able to select a set of images on the track and then simply be able to drag a transition onto the selected images and have it applied to th0se I've selected. Currently I can't because every time I try to select the transition I need, my selection disappears. This is a real pain.

Of course, if any of my selected images on the track already have a transition applied, I should always be given the choice to either overwrite or ignore them.

Also, having the ability to select non-contiguous images and even video within the track would be handy to be able to apply a transition, or an effect or make a timing change would be most helpful.

Thanks to be able to give my suggestion.

[canuck]

Three suggestions regarding the Library:
1. Provide a marker, similar to the green checkbox in thumbnail view, in a separate column in the list view and allow sorting on that column.
2. Provide a 'Toggle' to choose whether to 'Copy' or to 'Move' the thumbnails to and from the library and the timeline.
3. Provide an adjustment as to the quality of the thumbnail images in the library.

I don't understand what you mean by #2 or what you want to accomplish there. None of the library thumbnails are actual video/photo or audio. They only represent a link to where the actual media file is located on your system. There is no actual "copy" or "move" involved when you add a library item to the timeline.
Since none of the thumbnails are real media files, I don't see why the quality is important and why you would need adjustements

[TonyP]

Better control with TRANSITIONS use.
I REALLY need to be able to select a string of stills on my timeline and then add a transition to all those SELECTED.

Yes, that would be a good feature. Especially for those that use a lot of images or videos where you want a selected group to have the same transition. It's called "Ripple". You add a transition to the first clip in the group, highlight the clips you want to have the same transition, right mouse click on first transition and select "Ripple". That transition will be added to every highlighted clip. If you have clips either before or after the highlighted clips, they will not be affected.
Great suggestion!

[Djard007]

1) Being able to modify video speed without altering pitch, like in the freeware Audacity program, would have me upgrading VS in a heartbeat.

2) The video clip in the timeline needs to show all the picture frames, not just the first. I understand you want to keep the GUI simple, but adding this feature will make the program so much better. Moreover, identifying the frames (I,B,P) in the timeline would be a plus.

[Ken Berry]

2) The video clip in the timeline needs to show all the picture frames, not just the first.

Umm... Have you ever looked at Preference > General > Clip Display Mode. If you select "Thumbnail Only" you get all the frames (and indeed if you expand the timeline right out, it will show frame by single frame). As it is, it sounds as though you have Thumbnail and Filename selected.

Moreover, it's been like that since I first started using Video Studio about 14 years ago...

[Djard007]

I only recently bought the program. The default setting did not show the thumbnails. I was looking for frames not thumbnails. Thank you for your kind help.