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**Elie** · 27 January 2010, 09:12

This is amazing for the price. CUDA and OpenCL support is awesome.

**Dr Mordrid** · 27 January 2010, 12:02

Some "little things"

A VERY powerful "Picture in Picture" effect that can do much more than standard PiP's.

MUCH enhanced SmartSounds

A Video Paint-like tool called Painting Creator that talks to a tablet

AWB/manual white balance, including all the requisite sliders, a magic wand and manual setting by color temperature.

To my eye the chromakey, while still basic, does a better job of removing spillover

When you first access the tab containing SmartSounds it enters a live update dialog that pulls down and installs a ton of content.

It'll import your entire My Documents/My Music library into the audio module. Takes a while, but nice. Once that's done all it imports is new stuff.

There is a slider at the top/right that lets you scale media content icons dynamically. Nice as it lets you read the text but still zoom out quickly to see a bunch.

Tabs are down to just 3: capture, edit and share. The sub-features are in a bar to the left of the media/effects library: Media, Transition, Title, Graphic (object/frame/color/flash), Filter and Music.

Batch conversion, package, proxy etc.

Instant Projects - sort of like the templates in MSP8

Multi-track ripple manager

1 voice, 2 title and 3 music tracks

**paulw** · 27 January 2010, 22:44

Were you a beta tester on this one Doc??

**Brian Ellis** · 28 January 2010, 01:18

this is beginning to sound like a half-decent mid-entry-level application. However, because of Corel's terrible policy, I'll stick with Magix!

**wkulecz** · 28 January 2010, 06:40

I'll stick with Magix!

Which Magix you using?

I've tried Movie Edit Pro 13 & 14 (I think) and it was terrible with DV -- mangled the audio. Their support is pathetic, but on one of their forums I found you had to convert the Type2 DV from the camcorder (or my ADVC-100) to the old Adaptec style Type1 DV. This is a workflow killer for me. Other than not handling my main format it seemed pretty decent

The 64-bit Sony Vegas Pro 9 is working well for me on Windows 7 64-bit, got an update for $150 from my Vegas Video 3.

What a reasonably priced video card that'll support CUDA? I'm using an Nvidia 9400 of some flavor, but it was cheap and works well.

--wally.

Edit: What do you need to qualify for the Upgrade price?

**Brian Ellis** · 28 January 2010, 07:52

I'm using the Magix pro X. To be quite honest, I'm still using the MSP independent capture module to use with the Magix product. Of course, this works fine ADVC-100. I agree that Magix capture still lose a little bit to be desired although I still use it for little bits and pieces.

Because of one year's poor health, I have not been doing nearly as much video as I would like and I'm still not 100% familiar with Magix, but I like it!

I also agree that their support is pathetic, but fortunately I have not been needing very much as I find that it is quite intuitive. Of course, Corel's support is even worse! The only decent support is from the non-Corel Forum (I think I am still a moderator there but I haven't opened it for a long time!). If Corel had played the game with MSP, I would probably still be with them (also DVD Workshop 3, if only it existed!)

I know it is only a tiny drop in the ocean, but I have over half a dozen Corel applications on my computers and I have chosen not to upgrade to any of them in favour of other marques. I used to swear by such applications as WordPerfect and Ventura, as well as Corel Draw! Such a pity that their commercial policy is so awful.

**gt40** · 28 January 2010, 15:15

It's a $19 upgrade for me (purchased X2 just a cuople months ago). It's a no-brainer.
Not bad considering I purchased X2 for only $39

**Dr Mordrid** · 28 January 2010, 16:12

A few notes on the pip effect....

First, it's one of the filters from NewBlue, and it's a doozie. Think in terms of a cross between a pip and moving path.

One of my favorite toys: REFLECTION. It gives you a controllable mirror image of the pip.

Other NewBlue filters include Active Camera, Air Brush, Crop Borders, Detail Enhancer and Water Color.

Camera shaking effects. Now you can do your own Cloverfield

Basic air brush effect. Works.

Crop borders is interesting because of the finely adjustable feather.

Basically their sharpness tool.

Basic water color tool.

**Hulk** · 28 January 2010, 22:43

I miss this place.

NLE's have gotten so good and so cheap that they pretty much just work.

I miss the days (kind of) of posting and replying all the time in here to figure out how to get this or that working!

- Mark

**wkulecz** · 29 January 2010, 06:37

Fry's has Video Studio Pro X2 for $50 with a $50 rebate this week. They changed their rebate setup to something really ridiculous -- register at a web sight (hello spammers) get a secret code, write the secret code on the back of the envelope, fill out the mail in form, enclose .....

Absurd. So its not going to happen for me.

--wally.

**Debbie** · 2 February 2010, 00:37

Originally posted by Brian Ellis View Post

Because of one year's poor health, I have not been doing nearly as much video as I would like.

Corel's support is even worse! The only decent support is from the non-Corel Forum (I think I am still a moderator there but I haven't opened it for a long time!). If Corel had played the game with MSP, I would probably still be with them (also DVD Workshop 3, if only it existed!).

Brian, So sorry to learn about your health. Hope you are better now.
I agree with you 100% about Corel. BTW you're still a mod. at the forum.

**coastie** · 24 February 2010, 09:06

Video Studio Pro X3

How Does It Compare With Media Studio 8,
I Am Currently Not Getting Smooth Transitions With Msp8 For Some Reason So I Am Considering Getting Video Studio Pro X3

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VideoStudio Pro X3 released

VideoStudio Pro X3 released

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