I have a couple of questions regarding videostudio

[kojack]

HI,

I am a new user here and I have a few questions regarding VideoStudio.

1. Can it be setup to use multiple monitors for editing?
2. Can it be setup to take advantage of multiple drives for speed of editing? I have resolve now and have 4 drives being used. One for program, one for scratch content, one for project content and the last is finished output storage.

Maybe pinnacle can do this as well.

Thanks in advance.

[Ken Berry]

1. I have never used more than one monitor for Video Studio (or anything else for that matter). But I know there are some users who do, so I hope they will come in here and post some comments.

2. You can certainly use more than one drive with VS, subject to a couple of caveats. I use at least two most of the time, and sometimes three. There's no real limit, and four is indeed possible.

The caveats relate to how the external drives are named. If, say, you start a project with VS itself on Drive C:\ (your hard drive), and have the content of the project on, say, drive D:\, that's fine and that's what I usually do. But if editing takes a while and you unplug D:\ but come back to it later, you may in the meantime have inserted a different external drive for another purpose. So when you reinsert what was your original D:\ drive, your OS will likely give it another letter, say E:\ if the intervening drive has been named D:\. But of course VS will be looking for D:\ and not find the content on it.

VS does have what it calls relinking where you search for a specific file in the content, and VS finds it on E:\. You can then relink that location to VS and it will usually open all the other content files on that drive at the same time, and your editing can continue. It would, however, be more useful if you could either leave the external drive continually connected to the computer, and so always have the same drive letter while you are editing your project. Or else, as you would be aware, you could use your OS to either permanently assign a letter to the external drive, or else, if you have unplugged it and plugged it back in again, use the OS to reassign drive letters, so your project files will still be on D:\.

It's much the same thing with what you call your scratch file. VS calls it the working folder. Its location is controlled by Settings > Preferences > General up near the top of that tab. By default it is set to C:\Users\[YourName]\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro\25.0 (with VS 2022). You can set it to another location, essentially anywhere you want. Just bear in mind what I have already said about projects which take some time and where you regularly unplug and plug external drives back in again.

With the working folder, you also need to bear in mind that there are two in VS, both called the same thing but operating separately. The other one is sort of hidden away under Share and using the disc output tab. When you get to the Share > DVD (or other disc) tab, down in the bottom left of that tab are several icons. The first is Preferences, and when you open that you will see Working Folder. It will still be at the original C:\Users\[YourName]\Documents\Corel VideoStudio Pro\25.0 location even if your have changed that for the other parts of your project. So you can change it here too either to where you have made your other working folder, or somewhere else again, or leave it alone.

As for your project output storage, that is simple enough. Again on the Share page, you can choose the format of your output (AVI, MPEG-2, AVC/H.264 etc) and you will see a bit further down the location where your output file will go.

[asik1]

You can try it out
https://www.videostudiopro.com/en/

What with resolve that you considering VS instead or along side to?

[RobertOZ]

There is no problem using a dual monitor setup for VS, place the pointer on the 8 dots in the left hand top corner and drag to 2nd monitor, to reset to default, press F10 (Settings/Layout Settings indicate F7, that does not work on this system)

[pogonips]

I have used a dual monitor configuration for years, and I find it so much easier to get things done. I place the 'preview' panel on my larger, external monitor and leave the other panels on my 17" laptop screen. It's easy to configure and save. Just open "Settings" and "Layout Settings" to save or reload a configuration.