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What's new in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2023 26.0.0.136

Feb 22, 2023
  • Title editing features and effects:
  • Title motion options:
  • With new Enter/Middle/Exit title motions, assign different title effects to the various stages of the title animation.
  • Take it one step further with new Merged Title editing and specify the different motion for each component of the title, then quickly preview the result.
  • Title effects:
  • Make your animated titles look unique and impressive with new title effects:
  • Parallax Titles leverage speed to create a dragging effect on text and characters.
  • Kinetic Titles apply variable speed with acceleration on text to create diverse title animations.
  • Transition effects:
  • Get mesmerizing 3D-like effect with new Parallax Transitions that deliver layers with varying speeds attached to the foreground and background movements.
  • Give your video an even more modern aesthetic with new Instant Color Change and Split transition effects and enhance the overall impression that your film delivers.
  • Extra song selections:
  • With more than 500 new songs added to the ScoreFitter music library, your reel will never feel restricted! Listen, select, pair, and enjoy!
  • Rendering performance:
  • The Intel OneVPL and Deep Link Hyper Encode integration has been leveraged to optimize performance and make the CPU and multiple GPUs work much more efficiently.
  • 8K Video Decode:
  • With a rapidly increasing number and variety of devices supporting 8K recording, VideoStudio has been optimized for 8K to enable you to import 8K videos for further editing.
  • UI enhancements:
  • With multiple enhancements made to select features and general usability, leverage customization options and achieve incredible results more quickly and efficiently! 

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2022 25.0.0.363 (Feb 21, 2022)

  • What's new:
  • Face Effects:
  • Make everyone in your video look their very best with new Face Effects! Easily brighten or smooth skin with simple controls, adjust face width and even eye size to fine-tune facial features. Play with these super popular editing tools and adjust the levels manually depending on how much impact you’re looking to create. Easily polish lifestyle videos, create glam Instagram and TikTok clips, or even goofy clips to share with friends!
  • Speech to Text converter:
  • Save time creating subtitles by easy converting speech in your video to text with a new tool designed for easy caption creation. With new VideoStudio, even edit captured subtitles, export them, then import them into Youtube, TikTok or another platform. Use auto subtitling to keep your viewers engaged when speech in your video includes specific terminology, product names, or when the original narration is not perfect in quality.
  • Animated AR Stickers:
  • Add instant fun and flair to your next project with new animated AR Stickers! These face-tracking stickers are a great way to achieve anything from masking faces to emphasizing emotions and creating playful moments. They even can be applied to multiple faces and later edited for position and size. Use AR Stickers to accent reactions and add personality to gaming videos, reaction videos, online challenges, and other projects. With VideoStudio 2022, both static and animated AR Stickers are enhanced to be easier to explore, categorize, and organize into collections.
  • GIF Creator:
  • Explore GIF Creator to capture a section of your video and convert it to a short, looping clip in GIF format to express emotions and easily share highlights, over-the-top moments, and even cringe-worthy content— across all online platforms. GIFs are the best way to feature your most unique frames in a flash!
  • Camera Movements transitions:
  • Unlock creative customization through the new Camera Movements transitions with motion blur that make your videos look awesome! Mimic impressive transitions from your favorite movies, create transitions that blend scenes together, adjust them to look more natural or more dramatic—you decide the best way to add impact to your footage and make it look more cinematic.
  • Other new and enhanced features:
  • New Non-Linear Keyframing in Variable Speed
  • Leverage Non-Linear Keyframing to save time and make speed adjustments to your video easily and intuitively. Experiment with certain scenes using preset speed templates—make them run at bullet speed or demonstrate every detail in slow motion. Even save your custom speed presets if you plan to use them again.
  • Enhanced Audio Waveform editing:
  • Fine-tune audio in your project with ease and make it sound its very best with improved Audio Waveform editing. It is now easier than ever to operate and discover the entire suite of related tools with more user-friendly interface where high and low sound waves appear obvious while being displayed in the preview window, and audio related tools can be found quickly in the Music tab within the option panel. All to master the sound in your video in an intuitive and concerted way!
  • Enhanced LUT Profiles:
  • Explore popular LUT profiles for customizing colors in your video and categorize the profiles or rename them to suit your needs. This enhancement has been designed to make it easy to quickly access the right profile when the volume of profiles in your collection has exceeded a simple search.
  • Enhanced Media Library:
  • The enhanced media library with improved content tagging makes content discovery in new VideoStudio 2022 much faster and easier. Use intuitive tagging tools to organize your media by multiple keywords and save time searching your media for further editing needs.
  • Format support including ProRes Smart Proxy:
  • VideoStudio 2022 expands your export options with new codec and file format supports. Enjoy new tools to create GIF animations and new support for HEVC MOV files and PCM 5.1CH audio. These capabilities deliver far greater flexibility and quality when saving video projects. Plus, Smart Proxy now delivers ProRes, which can create smaller proxy files to save disk space, while enabling faster performance and preserving the high quality of the video, for a smooth and streamlined editing experience.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2021 24.0.1.257 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • Instant Project Templates:
  • Save time and energy by re-creating popular video styles in minutes! Reproduce trending viral clips or easily edit eye-grabbing social media posts with new Instant Templates and add theme intros, turn portrait video into landscape, replicate marketing promo templates, and more. Unlock your creativity by combining ready-to-use templates and effects with your unique customizations and achieve incredible results!
  • AR Stickers:
  • Add instant fun and flair to your next project with new AR Stickers to enhance emotions and introduce playful moments to your videos. These face tracking stickers are the perfect way to emphasize reactions and add personality to gaming videos, reaction videos, and tutorials!
  • More premium effects:
  • Achieve remarkable creative transformations with optimized effects packs from NewBlueFX and more than 100 new VitaScene effects from proDAD. Make real-time corrections to shaky hand-held footage with the enhanced proDAD Mercalli video stabilization tool. Go beyond basic editing with this expanded collection of exclusive premium effects from industry leaders.
  • Enhanced video stabilization:
  • Make real-time corrections to shaky hand-held footage more quickly and efficiently than ever with the enhanced proDAD Mercalli video stabilization tool. Turn wobbly handheld videos and bumpy action shots into usable footage with this quick fix!
  • Enhanced performance:
  • Enjoy a faster, smoother editing process with major performance improvements across the product. VideoStudio Pro 2021 is optimized for the latest video hardware acceleration technologies from Intel, AMD, and nVidia, which dramatically improves previewing and speeds up rendering to popular file formats. Reliable performance, improved rendering, and our fastest interface responses to date make VideoStudio 2021 our best editor yet.
  • Improved tools & features:
  • Enhanced Video Mask Creator
  • Enhanced Split Screen editing
  • Enhanced Customize Motion controls
  • New Auto Motion blur

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2020 23.0.1.404 (Feb 26, 2020)

  • New titles and creative content
  • Streamlined editing tools and shortcuts
  • New smart slideshow and video tools
  • Optimized 4k display
  • Enhanced video masking, more blending modes and new premium effects – exclusive to Ultimate!

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2019 22.1.0.326 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • NEW Color Grading
  • NEW Dynamic Split Screen video controls
  • NEW Morph and Seamless transitions
  • NEW Video and screen recording software
  • NEW Premium plugins and video effects

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 2018 21.1.0.90 (Feb 13, 2018)

  • Exclusive to Ultimate - More creativity, more power:
  • Stabilize Video:
  • Help fix one of the most common problems when capturing video. Remove the shake and stabilize video from handheld cameras for a cleaner, smoother end result with proDAD Mercalli.
  • New Split Screen Video Template Creator:
  • Show multiple videos simultaneously with pre-designed split screen templates, or create your own custom layouts with the Split Screen template creator.
  • New 3D Title Editor:
  • Captivate your audience with new titling possibilities. Start with presets or create your custom motion, control lighting, textures, and more in the 3D Title Editor.
  • Mask Creator:
  • Apply effects to selected areas of your video. Use brush and shape tools to define and fine-tune a masked area and add selective color, blurring, and more.
  • Ultimate Exclusive:
  • Premium Plugins - Ultimate Effects Collection:
  • Add incredible creative effects and correct almost any video problem with these popular apps from proven industry leaders. Get hundreds of dollars’ worth of professional-quality special effects applications for only a few dollars more than the price of VideoStudio Pro.
  • Blue Titler Pro 5:
  • Create a stunning title in seconds by applying one of more than 100 animated templates, customize text, colors, and more for a result beyond what you thought possible.
  • Enhanced Boris Title Studio:
  • Create professional broadcast titles and high-quality motion graphic animations. Create stylized 2D or 3D titles with custom bevels, fills, and styles with Boris Title Studio.
  • Video overlays from ProDAD:
  • Enjoy over 400 amazing overlay effects to add to your videos for transitions and more. You’ll find something for any occasion with proDAD Adorage video effect packs.
  • Your creative video editor:
  • Split Screen Video:
  • Show multiple video streams simultaneously with new Split Screen video templates. Easily drag and drop to create impressive promotional videos or share the highlights from your latest trip! Looking to do even more? Create your own custom split screen layouts with the Template Creator in VideoStudio Ultimate.
  • Multi-Camera Video Editor:
  • Tell your story from multiple angles. Easily combine, sync, and edit footage from multiple cameras and select the angle you want to show as your video plays. Combine up to 4 camera angles with VideoStudio Pro and up to 6 angles with VideoStudio Ultimate.
  • Stop Motion Animation:
  • Plug in your camera and create a stop motion animation, frame by frame. Now with expanded support for Canon and Nikon cameras, auto capture settings, and new grid tools to help make it easy to make controlled motions.
  • Track Transparency:
  • Easily adjust the opacity of your tracks directly in the timeline to show multiple clips at once. Create custom fade in, fade out, or superimposed effects. The creative possibilities are unlimited with this fun effect.
  • Customize Motion Path:
  • Create and customize the movement of graphics, titles, and more along a defined path. It’s the perfect way to introduce or emphasize elements in your video.
  • Filters & Effects:
  • Get the right look with hundreds of drag-and-drop effects, animated titles, and transitions. Create picture-in-picture effects, overlays, and more video effects and filters!
  • Motion Tracking:
  • Track an object and add moving text, graphics, or blur faces, logos or license plates in your video with accurate Motion Tracking tools.
  • Green Screen/Chroma Key:
  • Adjust how overlay objects blend with the background with the Green Screen effect. Use a video mask, set transparent color, and easily swap out backgrounds and add fun effects.
  • Create high impact, action-packed videos:
  • Lens correction tools:
  • Remove the distortion or fisheye effect captured by wide angle or action cameras. Start with presets for GoPro cameras and then fine-tune adjustments with correction tools.
  • Slow motion and fast motion:
  • Play with speed with Time Remapping and easily add slow motion or high-speed effects, freeze the action, or reverse and replay scenes.
  • For all common formats:
  • Dive into hands-on editing and edit virtually any type of media. Import your video from cameras or mobile devices, and edit freely in VideoStudio.
  • Smart proxy editing:
  • Enjoy a smooth and fast editing experience when working with large, high resolution video files. Smart Proxy creates low res working files to edit with, then reverts to the original high-res files when you render out your video.
  • High quality audio tools:
  • Normalize Audio:
  • Editing a mix of audio from different sources? Easily balance audio levels among selected clips or the entire track to keep audio at a consistent level.
  • Audio Ducking:
  • Working with music and dialog? Automatically lower background sound to make narration and dialog clear, and make adjustments with audio controls.
  • Royalty-Free Music Library:
  • Access royalty-free soundtracks in the ScoreFitter music library. Easily add them to your timeline and have them automatically adjust to the length of your movie.
  • Improved tools for faster results:
  • Crop tool
  • Pan and zoom
  • Chapter and cue points
  • Smart Guide
  • Faster editing
  • Crop and resize your media directly in the preview window. Make quick edits, create picture in pictures, or straighten your media in a few easy clicks.
  • Easy video editing:
  • Get started quickly with the intuitive editing workspace. Create your videos and combine photos and videos in Storyboard or Timeline editing modes. Add subtitles, graphic overlays and more!
  • Video templates:
  • Start from scratch or drag and drop your media into a range of customizable templates to match your style. Even save your own projects as templates to fast-track future projects.
  • One-click video fixes:
  • Add filters and enhance color, or create that old film effect with drag and drop filters. Fine-tune adjustments in the options panel to get the exact look you want.
  • Enhanced Edit 360 videos:
  • Go full circle with the full suite of 360 degree video editing tools to trim, enhance, add titles or graphics and edit your 360 video. Even preview your 360 video in the new VideoStudio 360 video player before you export.
  • Enhanced 360 video format support:
  • Import your video and start editing! Now with support for all popular 360 cameras. VideoStudio supports 360 spherical video formats - equirectangular, fisheye, and dual fisheye.
  • Convert 360 to standard video:
  • Set the viewing angle and convert 360 video to standard video for playback on TVs and standard video players. You control the view the audience sees.
  • Export 360 video:
  • Export your video to view on your VR headset or 360 player. Even upload your 360 video directly to YouTube, Facebook, or Vimeo 360.
  • Upload directly to social media:
  • Upload your video to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo and Flickr directly from VideoStudio.
  • Enhanced Burn to disc:
  • Author DVDs complete with themed templates to add chapters and menus. Now add chapter cues directly in the VideoStudio timeline as you edit!
  • Enhanced Videos for mobile devices:
  • Share movies anywhere with full support for Apple and Android devices, game consoles, and more. Now with support for exporting vertical/portrait video.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X10.5.0.57 (Aug 23, 2017)

  • New native support for videos captured in portrait
  • orientation—vertical videos can be edited without converting to landscape orientation.
  • New 360-degree video format and conversion support: Single fisheye, dual fisheye, and monoscopic equirectangular. Right-click your 360 video in the Timeline, choose 360 Video, and choose a format from the menu. Output 360 videos for YouTube or other 360 players.
  • New 360-degree video editing: Add and edit 360-degree titles and objects in your 360 video projects. Right-click a title or object in the Timeline, choose 360 Video > Insert as 360, and use keyframes to edit in the 360 Editing window.
  • New Stop Motion Grid options that serve as a reference for object movement.
  • Enhanced video trimming and frame selection in Time Remapping.
  • Enhanced MXF support extends compatibility to MPEG-2.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X10 10.0.0.137 (Feb 13, 2017)

  • New Apply effects to selected areas with masks—only in Ultimate
  • New Layer effects for unique results
  • New Play with speed and reverse clips
  • New 360° video controls
  • Everything in Pro, PLUS 14 premium effect packs, including 3 New collections

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X9 19.3.0.18 SP3 (Jun 8, 2016)

  • This service pack improves the overall stability of the application and resolves a multi-select issue in the Library.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X9 19.1.0.12 (Feb 18, 2016)

  • This service pack includes enhancements to the Multi-Camera Editor, enables users to multi-select by dragging in the Library, addresses localization issues, and improves the overall performance and stability of the application.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate X9 19.1.0.10 (Feb 16, 2016)

  • VideoStudio Pro:
  • New 4 angle Multi-Camera Editor
  • New Multi-Point Motion Tracking
  • New HEVC (H.265) support and optimized for 6th Generation Intel chips
  • Enhanced Audio balancing and controls
  • Bonus Software included: FastFlick, Screen Capture and VideoStudio MyDVD
  • VideoStudio Ultimate:
  • New MXF (XAVC) support

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 18.0.1.26 (Jul 4, 2015)

  • Audio Ducking:
  • Don’t let background music overpower important audio or narration in your video. The Audio Ducking feature in VideoStudio Pro X8 detects audio or narration and automatically lowers the volume of background sound. You can adjust the Level and Sensitivity to get the results you want.
  • Freeze Frame:
  • Whether it’s a beautiful smile, your child scoring a goal or stunning scenery, sometimes you want to add extra impact by temporarily stopping the action to focus on a single frame. The new Freeze Frame feature makes it easy to select the frame and set the duration to get the effect you want.
  • Creative overlay options:
  • Create new looks by adjusting how overlay objects blend with the background. With new Add, Multiple and Grey Key options, you can create unique semi-transparent and color blend results. Use a video mask to hide or reveal different parts of your video for interesting special effects or title sequences.
  • Enhanced Live Screen Capture:
  • Recording directly from your screen is a great way to add custom content to presentations, demos, or training videos. With enhanced Live Screen Capture, you can easily capture both system audio and microphone sound. Snap View lets you capture in Windows 8.
  • More formats supported:
  • Enjoy more compatibility with import support for MKV files, which act as multimedia containers that can hold video, audio and subtitles in a file. Support for export to MOV (H.264 format) has also been added.
  • Convert titles to Alpha channel files:
  • Create stylish, professional-looking titles by converting them to alpha channel images or animations. Converting the titles lets you access a wide range of overlay settings and effects.
  • NewBlue Effects pack:
  • Create incredible special effects with bonus tools from industry leader, NewBlue. Video Essentials II offers over 100 presets in 10 plugins to create vignettes, enhance and adjust color, and much more.
  • Triple Scoop Music:
  • Capture the mood of your movie with the perfect soundtrack. VideoStudio X8 includes 17 royalty-free music tracks from Triple Scoop Music.
  • ScoreFitter:
  • No movie is complete without a soundtrack. Auto Music now uses the Scorefitter library, a collection of royalty-free sounds and songs—they even automatically adjust to fit the length of your movies.
  • Enhanced 4K hardware acceleration:
  • The 4K hardware acceleration is optimized for upcoming Intel 5th Generation processors.
  • XAVC S:
  • Based on MP4-AVC/H.264, XAVC S is a new standard for video cameras that can support resolutions up to 4K 3840 x2160.
  • Combine projects:
  • Now you can add existing video projects to new projects thanks to multi-project support.
  • Thumbnail ticking:
  • The thumbnails in the Library now show a check mark when a clip has been used in the Timeline to help you avoid reusing the same footage.
  • Smart Package with disc settings:
  • Now all disc modifications, including menu and chapter updates, can be included when you save your project files to a Smart Package.
  • Save and reuse your custom settings:
  • My Favorites has been extended to let you save and re-use your customized Filter or Transition settings.
  • Right to left titles:
  • VideoStudio Pro X8 supports right to left titles, making it easier to create titles in right-to-left languages.
  • Easier Media library management:
  • Backup and restore all customized folders or media in VideoStudio Pro X8 and later versions.
  • HD Capture:
  • Capture HD quality video with your web camera or other capture devices.
  • More motion tracking settings:
  • Choose from different mosaic shapes and enjoy better size control so that you can blur video content such as a face, trademarked logo, or car plate.
  • Enhanced List view in the Library:
  • The List view in the Library now includes more information about your media files, such as resolution, frame rate, and start/end time.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 17.0.0.249 (Mar 6, 2014)

  • New:
  • FastFlick for quick and easy slideshows and videos:
  • FastFlick is an easy 3-step way to quickly make movies and slideshows. Select a template, add your media and share your movie to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo. Save your project to a variety of video formats
  • Fresh content and new content collections:
  • Create totally new looks with updated templates, frames and objects, plus fresh content in the Media Library. Be sure to check out the new color pattern and background collections. With great content, it's fun and easy to put together fabulous videos
  • Learning resources:
  • Access a wide range of learning resources from within the Help menu. Search the latest Help, download the User Guide (PDF), or watch one of the many video tutorials in the Discovery Center
  • Enhanced:
  • Faster multi-track rendering:
  • Make the rendering of multi-track video projects faster than ever with raw 64-bit power. Enjoy a smooth editing experience at resolutions up to 4K. New 4th generation Intel Core processors take multi-track performance further, delivering render times up to 130% faster than X6!
  • Striking 4K performance and Ultra HD quality:
  • New performance gains give you the ability to upscale HD to 4K, or render 4K projects (AVC 4096 x 2304) more than 200% faster than VideoStudio Pro X6. Plus, the new 4K Smart Rendering saves time when generating 4K projects.
  • Streamlined workspaces:
  • Enjoy a cleaner and more enjoyable way to work with new UI enhancements that give VideoStudio Pro X7 a sleek, sharp new look for the Media Library, the Timeline and the Share workspace.
  • Sharing workspace:
  • With updates to the Share workspace, it's now faster and easier to share your movies and choose the right format. The Movie Profile Manager makes it easy to select, customize and save your preferred settings as a profile.
  • More HD support, custom tools and settings:
  • Opt to preview your project in HD and choose from a larger selection of project properties to edit videos your way. Define your favorite filters, position project settings for your camera, and create, save and delete your preferred profiles.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 16.1.0.45 (Oct 7, 2013)

  • Motion Tracking:
  • Target and track moving objects on screen and connect them to elements such as text and graphics. Attach a thought bubble to someone walking down the street or place security mosaics over moving license plates and faces.
  • Customizable Motion:
  • Customize the movement of graphics, titles, objects and video clips. It's the perfect way to create dynamic videos featuring picture-in-picture and other pro-quality effects. Plus, save your customizable motion to a Path library for quick and easy reuse.
  • DSLR Stop Motion:
  • Now you can create full-HD stop motion videos using your DSLR camera. Bring the processing power and unique lense capabilities of your DSLR to life and create stop motion films your audience won't soon forget.
  • DSLR Enlarged Mode:
  • Mimic your DSLR camera's controls on your PC or Windows tablet. Just set up and shoot the frames you want—all without jostling your camera!
  • Ultra High-Definition (4K) video support:
  • Go beyond high definition with support for new Ultra HD (4K) video. Work with high-res photos and take maximum advantage of your DSLR camera's capabilities, or import and edit videos with resolutions up to 4096 x 2160 to create movies in stunning Ultra HD.
  • AVCHD 2.0 support:
  • Take your videos further with AVCHD, one of the leading formats for high-definition video. Work with AVCHD 2.0, AVCHD 3D, AVCHD Progressive and AVCHD 3D/Progressive formats. Additional AVCHD features let you add menu navigation, subtitles and more. Plus, save AVCHD content to an SD card for instant viewing on SD-compatible devices.
  • Variable Speed:
  • Evoke drama in a video using slow motion, or speed things up for unique time-lapse effects. With enhanced Variable Speed controls, it's faster than ever to alter the speed in any part of your video without having to work with multiple video clips.
  • Screen capture:
  • Record whatever you're doing on screen and then edit, save and share it as a video. It's the fast and easy way to create how-to and tech support videos, as well as in-depth presentations. Choose from multiple frame rates to get the look you want. Plus, guide your audience more effectively with new animated mouse clicks.
  • Subtitle Editor:
  • Add text to accompany the audio in your videos or to interpret another language on screen. The new Subtitle Editor saves time and effort by using new voice detection technology to instantly match subtitles to the dialogue in your video.
  • Track Swapping:
  • Organize and work with tracks more effectively. With a few simple clicks you can swap overlay tracks without losing any information. All of a track's associated effects, contents and attributes will instantly be copied over.
  • Customizable random transition effects:
  • Experiment and add a unique look to your videos and photo slideshows with your favorite transition effects. Select only the transition effects you want and add them to the Random Effects category.
  • QuickTime Alpha channels:
  • Import animated sequences with transparent backgrounds using new built-in support for QuickTime movies containing alpha channels. Now you can make animations and video effects in popular 2D and 3D animation packages and then use them directly in VideoStudio Pro X6.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 15.0.0.258 (Jun 8, 2012)

  • Screen recording:
  • Create screen recordings for less than one-third of the cost of the leading screen recording software. Record slideshows, tutorials, product demonstrations, gameplay, how-to videos and more directly from your screen in one easy-capture interface.
  • HTML5 support:
  • Create interactive video with onscreen graphics, integrated hyperlinks and titles directly in VideoStudio Pro X5 thanks to built-in HTML5 support and HTML5 Instant Projects.
  • Enhanced! Faster performance:
  • Harness the full power of your PC with GPU and multi-core acceleration. VideoStudio Pro X5 runs more processes simultaneously for faster rendering than ever.
  • Import multi-layer graphics:
  • Support for Corel PaintShop Pro layers means you can now import individual layers of a multi-layer image file on to individual tracks, so you can layer clips to create effects that wow your audience.
  • Template library:
  • Drag a template directly from the library to the Timeline to jumpstart your production. Make your own templates, download them from the Corel Guide or from the free PhotoVideoLife.com community (English only).
  • Workspace scalability:
  • Now you can scale VideoStudio Pro X5 on the main screen. Undock, drag and place your interface any way you want.
  • DVD authoring:
  • Dramatic improvements in DVD and Blu-ray authoring in VideoStudio Pro X5 mean you can edit and create DVD subtitles to show or hide, burn from an ISO disc image and more.
  • Download and trade templates, plus get free tutorials:
  • Sign in to the enhanced Corel Guide to download movie templates, free tutorial content, graphics and much more. Plus, PhotoVideoLife.com offers a blog and free template trading, along with affordable premium templates and effects.
  • Support for more cameras:
  • VideoStudio Pro X5 works with your footage from a huge variety of cameras, from camcorders to mobile phones, to iPod and iPad, and advanced HD cameras. This version includes 3D camcorder support, along with support for Canon DSLRs that shoot stop motion. VideoStudio Pro X5 also supports the frame rates found in newer HD camcorders, so you can edit in 50 or 60fps mode, which is ideal for higher quality and slow motion effects in sports footage.
  • 21 multimedia tracks:
  • Make content-rich videos with 21 tracks for media, graphics and titles. Plus, use new Track Visibility controls to hide or show tracks when editing or outputting, which is especially useful for adding subtitles in multiple languages.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 14.0.0.342 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • New! Stop Motion Animation
  • Create your own animated movie featuring people, toys, clay figures or any object. The VideoStudio Pro X4 Stop Motion module is the ideal video and animation play-place for kids and adults alike!
  • New! Time-Lapse photography
  • With the VideoStudio Pro X4 Time-Lapse feature, you can make the sun set in seconds or show a day in the life of your neighborhood in just minutes. Start with a video clip and speed it up or remove frames. Or use a series of photos taken at regular intervals and play them in sequence as a movie. A cool effect, made easy.
  • New! Flexible workspace
  • Make more room to work and get better control over your tools—just drag to resize and position panels where you want them, even across two monitors.
  • Enhanced! Integrated HD authoring and burning
  • Easily author HD movies to DVD and Blu-ray Disc with the new integrated burning tools.
  • Enhanced! Enhanced Library and Timeline
  • Quickly organize and find your content—including video and audio clips, photos, filters, graphics and transitions—with the streamlined Navigation panel. Then use the enhanced Timeline to place titles on any track, put transitions at the beginning and end of clips on overlay tracks, and apply settings and filters to multiple clips and batches of images.
  • Enhanced! Instant Projects
  • Create, import and export movie templates! Make a template of cool title sequences, effects or complete movies, then reuse or share with others.
  • Enhanced! Speed and Performance
  • Why wait for results? VideoStudio Pro X4 is optimized for the new 2nd generation Intel Core processors to let you edit and render faster. Plus, check the enhanced Corel Guide regularly for new content and product enhancements—VideoStudio Pro X4 is going keep getting faster!
  • New! Advanced upscaling
  • VideoStudio Pro X4 lets you make regular video outstanding. Enhance the quality of standard definition video and upscale it to fit your HD display with new high-performance upscaling technology. You can also take advantage of cutting-edge GPU acceleration technology to take standard definition video to near-HD quality in the blink of an eye.
  • New! 3D movies—glasses included!
  • Save your 2D movies in 3D or upload them to YouTube 3D, then watch them with your free 3D glasses! (Glasses in box version only)
  • New! Take it with you
  • Use Smart Package, now with integrated WinZip technology, to combine all the video, photos and audio related to a project in one package, making it easy to move your project to another PC.
  • Enhanced! Corel Guide
  • Watch bonus training videos, download new movie content, product updates and much more through the enhanced Corel Guide.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 13.6.0.272 (Jan 28, 2010)

  • Dramatically enhanced speed and performance:
  • New! Hardware acceleration for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA and AMD
  • New! Launcher – quick access to express or advanced editing modes
  • New! Express Edit mode – make movies in minutes!
  • Enhanced! Smart Proxy for faster previewing and more responsive HD editing
  • Enhanced! All-new interface for a faster video-editing workflow
  • Studio-quality effects and templates:
  • New! Professionally designed templates from RevoStock—worth over $500 US!
  • New! Real-time effects, including NewBlue FX filters with key framing
  • New! Effects for compositing and video animation, including RotoSketch and AutoSketch
  • New! Multi-track filters that let you add effects to each of your tracks
  • New! GPU-accelerated high-speed filters with real-time preview
  • New! Customizable, royalty-free audio tracks from SmartSound
  • Enhanced! Title effects for easy compositing
  • HD enhancements:
  • New! Blu-ray authoring with Hollywood-style menus, titles, transitions and effects
  • New! HD authoring to standard DVD media
  • New! Web-ready files – save HD MPEG-4 files for the Web with H.264 compression
  • More sharing options:
  • New! Upload directly to Vimeo, Facebook, YouTube and Flickr in standard or HD
  • Enhanced! DVD authoring – output to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc
  • Enhanced! Save to more file formats, including AVI, FLV, MP3 encode, AC3 5.1, AVCHD, HD MPEG-2 and MPEG-4
  • Enhanced! Send to more devices, including iPod, iPhone and PSP

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 11.0.0157.0 (May 2, 2007)

  • easier to adjust chroma key settings.
  • Expandable Timeline
  • Expand the timeline at a click of a button, so that you can conveniently see all your overlay tracks.
  • Place cue marks on the timeline to easily mark where you want a title to start, or perhaps some music to come in.
  • "My Favorites" folder in Transitions Folder makes it easier to find the most-used transitions quickly.
  • New Encoding Options
  • MPEG Optimizer analyzes the bitrates of all clips on the timeline, and suggests encoding settings to ensure the least re-rendering for the best quality and speed.
  • Safely Pause rendering at any time when you need to do something that requires more PC resources.
  • Expanded Title and Subtitle Support
  • Multi-language titles such as double-byte Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters supported.
  • Unicode character set supported to simplify multi-language titles.
  • Rotate titles directly in the preview window to any angle you like.
  • DVD Sub-Title Import lets you Import a subtitle set in the language of your choice together with the video from a DVD.
  • Sync subtitles to downloaded movies, which often have subtitle files available in .srt format that will automatically synch to the video when burning a DVD.
  • More Filters and Effects
  • Corrective Video Filters
  • Auto Color & Tone will auto-correct the color and tone of videos that were recorded in low light or less than perfect white balance conditions.
  • DeBlock Filter cleans up video with blocky compression artifacts, such as movies copied from VCD.
  • DeSnow Filter removes digital noise from your videos shot in low light.
  • Combine transparency and mask or chroma key effects for more striking overlays.
  • Enhanced DVD Menus and Authoring
  • Lots More Content. Flash Animations, Movie Wizard Video & Slideshow Style Templates, and HD DVD* menus.
  • Distort menu objects like buttons and overlays for creative effects.
  • The Most Complete Solution
  • Create Quality Movies for Mobile Devices and show them on the go. Works with virtually any handheld device with MPEG-4*, H.264* and WMV templates for:
  • Apple iPod
  • Sony PSP
  • Zune
  • Nokia� mobile phones* � including import from videophones
  • Smartphones (Windows Mobile 5.0), PDAs and other portable devices.
  • Windows Vista� Support for the latest-generation systems.
  • Intel� Core 2 Duo� support � enjoy improved performance from dual-core CPUs.

New in Corel VideoStudio Ultimate 10 (May 6, 2006)

  • Full MPEG-4 support, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, Multiple Overlay Tracks, Total High-Definition Solution, InterVideo WinDVD Player included