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Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

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Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

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Digital Video for the Creative Professional Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 is powerful, versatile and intuitive video editing software, for professionals and enthusiasts in independent production, event videography, business, and education. Integrated, quick-to-master tools take you to the forefront of professional real-time HDV, DV or MPEG editing.

Realize Your Vision
	Smart Compositor: Create Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly
	Smart Proxy: real-time mobile HDV editing on a notebook PC
	Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks
Get the Job Done
	Single-track editing interface, with virtual clips
	SmartSound Auto Music: custom royalty-free soundtracks
	Enhanced integration with the entire family of Ulead tools
Meet any Challenge
	Future-ready with extensive HDV support
	Built-in authoring tool to author single- or double-layer DVDs

Smart Compositor: Openings that Rocks

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly - with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths
Choose from a variety of themes and add your own video, images and audio
Export sequences as virtual clips, which can be opened and further tweaked as required by your production
All the speed without the “cookie cutter” effect of templates!

Smart Proxy: Real-time HDV

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 HDV editing, even on mid-range or mobile machines - in real-time!
Lower-resolution, easy-on-the-resources proxies are automatically created in the background for files above a preset frame size
Completely lossless, your final output always links back to the original full-resolution files
The perfect solution for producers shooting HDV, who want to edit on the go

Extensive HDV Support

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 Batch capture HDV video from all the latest HDV camcorders and decks, with device control
Edit HDV either in full-resolution lossless native format, or in Proxy Mode
Freely convert between HDV Program Stream and Transport Stream (.m2t or .mpg), viewing HDV on your PC, or write back to HDV Camcorder or deck
Convert HDV to WMV-HD, or downconvert to any other SD format of your choice, such as DV, WMV, Quicktime, or MPEG 2 for DVD authoring

Realize Your Vision Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Powerful, fast, intuitive and affordable HDV and DV batch capture and editing
Audio Mixing Panel offers the real-time channel steering to create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks
SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of your video
Realtime Audio Mixing with VU meters lets you adjust individual track levels and do stereo panning in real-time
Color correction tools with color wheels to adjust Levels, HSL or Curves for an entire clip, or select channels such as midtones, highlights or shadows
Secondary-color correction gives you powerful options to adjust selected, defined areas of the clip
Title Tool offers unlimited creativity with dramatic text effects and animations. Resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, easily create text crawls and rolls, and add a variety of professional effects

Get the Job Done

Single-track interface allows for transitions and overlay options on every track
Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output. Perfect for long projects or collaborative editing
Virtual Clips allows you to wrap a group of edited tracks in a timeline window into a Virtual Clip, and easily insert into your main project’s timeline
Effect Manager offers large buttons and expandable view to put keyframes exactly where you want. Control all aspects of audio video filters and transition, as well as video distortion and moving paths
Enhanced integration lets you import Ulead VideoStudio projects for a smooth upgrade path, also sharing many workflow elements and dialog layouts. Also import PhotoImpact .ufo files with alpha channel for lower-third graphics and overlays

Video and audio Editing Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks with channel steering
NEW Color Correction Tools perform secondary-color correction on selected, defined areas of the clip, with control over Similarity, Feathering and Size of selection
SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video - easy and fast
All-new Title Tool allows you to resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, and easily create text crawls and rolls titles
Enhanced Chroma Key tools greatly simplify keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects
All-new Video Transitions and Filters give you more creative choices for your video projects
- Organic, modifiable Mask Transitions
- Unique Particle Filters like Clouds, Snow or Rain
- All new Strobe Motion Filter, Flashback transition, Duotone filter and Ghost Motion Filter
Auto-save functions have been enhanced to automatically save incremental backups at preset time periods. No more hours of lost work due to corrupted project files!
Unique Enhance Lighting Filter lets you add “fill light” to an image with a dark foreground, without burning out the highlights

Color Correction

Chroma key Tools

Meet any Challenge with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Versatile enough to go from batch capture to final output, in whatever format you choose. Whether you are shooting weddings and events, family or corporate productions, or you are an HDV documentary producer on the go, Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8’s tools are designed to make things easier for you
Real-time drag-resize preview window to adjust overlay size and motion paths, and clip distortion, directly on the screen.
Mix and match formats such as DV, MPEG, and HDV on the timeline, then output to SD, HD or back to your DV, analog or HDV device
DVD authoring tool imports Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 projects directly without rendering first, offers motion-menu templates, and authors single- or double-layer DVDs

Full Integration & Real-time

PhotoImpact™ UFO files can be directly inserted in the timeline, maintaining all objects and alpha channel
VideoStudio™ Integration allows you to directly import your existing projects from VideoStudio
Multi-threaded rendering allows users to see improved performance from Hyper-Threading CPUs
Real-time audio preview lets you immediately preview an audio clip on the timeline while adjusting parameters, including Dolby Digital 5.1 steering

System Requirements Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Compatible with HDV Camcorders

JVC JY-HD10
JVC GR-HD1
JVC GR-PD1
Sony HDR-FX1 Camcorder
Sony HDR-Z1 Camcorder
Sony HVR-M10 VTR
Sony HCR-HC1

System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz processor (Pentium 4 2.8 GHz recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP
256 MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)
800 MB of available hard disk space for program installation
4 GB+ hard drive space for video capture and editing
Windows-compatible display adapter with at least 1024x768 resolution (1280x1024 recommended)
Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Non-Proxy HDV editing requires

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology
Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack2 for HDV camcorder support recommended)
1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)
7200 RPM IDE hard disk or above
16X PCI ExpressTM display adapter

Input/Output Device Support

1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV camcorders
Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 and 1394 Adaptec 8940/ 8945
Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support)
USB capture devices and PC cameras
Windows-compatible CD recorder (CD-R/-RW) required for CD creation
Windows-compatible DVD recorder (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW) required for DVD creation

File format Support

IEEE 1394/FireWire cards for DV/D8 camcorders/decks
OHCI & Adaptec 8940/8945 compliant
MCI and V-LAN device controllers
Analog capture cards for analog sources (VFW & WDM support)
USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 capture devices and PC Cameras
Windows-compatible DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW drives
WinTab compatible pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets

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Standard file format support

Input file format

Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Real Media, VideoStudio 8/9 Project File; Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1*, MP3, MPA, QuickTime, Real Media, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: C3D, GIF89a, FLC, FLI, FLX, SWF, UCG, UIS, UVP
Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Input file format

Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: FLC, FLI, FLX, UIS
Images: BMP, CLP, EPS, FPX, ICO, IFF, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCX, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, TGA, TIF/TIFF, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) movie title
Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-RAM (CPRM)

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See the Full Features (PDF, 74KB)

Realize Your Vision
	Smart Compositor: Create Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly
	Smart Proxy: real-time mobile HDV editing on a notebook PC
	Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks
Get the Job Done
	Single-track editing interface, with virtual clips
	SmartSound Auto Music: custom royalty-free soundtracks
	Enhanced integration with the entire family of Ulead tools
Meet any Challenge
	Future-ready with extensive HDV support
	Built-in authoring tool to author single- or double-layer DVDs

Smart Compositor: Openings that Rocks

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 Professional-quality opening sequences or segues instantly - with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths
Choose from a variety of themes and add your own video, images and audio
Export sequences as virtual clips, which can be opened and further tweaked as required by your production
All the speed without the “cookie cutter” effect of templates!

Smart Proxy: Real-time HDV

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 HDV editing, even on mid-range or mobile machines - in real-time!
Lower-resolution, easy-on-the-resources proxies are automatically created in the background for files above a preset frame size
Completely lossless, your final output always links back to the original full-resolution files
The perfect solution for producers shooting HDV, who want to edit on the go

Extensive HDV Support

Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 Batch capture HDV video from all the latest HDV camcorders and decks, with device control
Edit HDV either in full-resolution lossless native format, or in Proxy Mode
Freely convert between HDV Program Stream and Transport Stream (.m2t or .mpg), viewing HDV on your PC, or write back to HDV Camcorder or deck
Convert HDV to WMV-HD, or downconvert to any other SD format of your choice, such as DV, WMV, Quicktime, or MPEG 2 for DVD authoring

Realize Your Vision Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Powerful, fast, intuitive and affordable HDV and DV batch capture and editing
Audio Mixing Panel offers the real-time channel steering to create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks
SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of your video
Realtime Audio Mixing with VU meters lets you adjust individual track levels and do stereo panning in real-time
Color correction tools with color wheels to adjust Levels, HSL or Curves for an entire clip, or select channels such as midtones, highlights or shadows
Secondary-color correction gives you powerful options to adjust selected, defined areas of the clip
Title Tool offers unlimited creativity with dramatic text effects and animations. Resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, easily create text crawls and rolls, and add a variety of professional effects

Get the Job Done

Single-track interface allows for transitions and overlay options on every track
Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output. Perfect for long projects or collaborative editing
Virtual Clips allows you to wrap a group of edited tracks in a timeline window into a Virtual Clip, and easily insert into your main project’s timeline
Effect Manager offers large buttons and expandable view to put keyframes exactly where you want. Control all aspects of audio video filters and transition, as well as video distortion and moving paths
Enhanced integration lets you import Ulead VideoStudio projects for a smooth upgrade path, also sharing many workflow elements and dialog layouts. Also import PhotoImpact .ufo files with alpha channel for lower-third graphics and overlays

Video and audio Editing Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Create Dolby® Digital 5.1 Surround audio tracks with channel steering
NEW Color Correction Tools perform secondary-color correction on selected, defined areas of the clip, with control over Similarity, Feathering and Size of selection
SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video - easy and fast
All-new Title Tool allows you to resize and reposition text anywhere in the frame, and easily create text crawls and rolls titles
Enhanced Chroma Key tools greatly simplify keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects
All-new Video Transitions and Filters give you more creative choices for your video projects
- Organic, modifiable Mask Transitions
- Unique Particle Filters like Clouds, Snow or Rain
- All new Strobe Motion Filter, Flashback transition, Duotone filter and Ghost Motion Filter
Auto-save functions have been enhanced to automatically save incremental backups at preset time periods. No more hours of lost work due to corrupted project files!
Unique Enhance Lighting Filter lets you add “fill light” to an image with a dark foreground, without burning out the highlights

Color Correction

Chroma key Tools

Meet any Challenge with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Versatile enough to go from batch capture to final output, in whatever format you choose. Whether you are shooting weddings and events, family or corporate productions, or you are an HDV documentary producer on the go, Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8’s tools are designed to make things easier for you
Real-time drag-resize preview window to adjust overlay size and motion paths, and clip distortion, directly on the screen.
Mix and match formats such as DV, MPEG, and HDV on the timeline, then output to SD, HD or back to your DV, analog or HDV device
DVD authoring tool imports Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8 projects directly without rendering first, offers motion-menu templates, and authors single- or double-layer DVDs

Full Integration & Real-time

PhotoImpact™ UFO files can be directly inserted in the timeline, maintaining all objects and alpha channel
VideoStudio™ Integration allows you to directly import your existing projects from VideoStudio
Multi-threaded rendering allows users to see improved performance from Hyper-Threading CPUs
Real-time audio preview lets you immediately preview an audio clip on the timeline while adjusting parameters, including Dolby Digital 5.1 steering

System Requirements Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8

Compatible with HDV Camcorders

JVC JY-HD10
JVC GR-HD1
JVC GR-PD1
Sony HDR-FX1 Camcorder
Sony HDR-Z1 Camcorder
Sony HVR-M10 VTR
Sony HCR-HC1

System Requirements

Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz processor (Pentium 4 2.8 GHz recommended)
Microsoft® Windows® 2000, XP
256 MB of RAM (1GB or more recommended)
800 MB of available hard disk space for program installation
4 GB+ hard drive space for video capture and editing
Windows-compatible display adapter with at least 1024x768 resolution (1280x1024 recommended)
Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Non-Proxy HDV editing requires

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology
Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack2 for HDV camcorder support recommended)
1GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)
7200 RPM IDE hard disk or above
16X PCI ExpressTM display adapter

Input/Output Device Support

1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV camcorders
Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 and 1394 Adaptec 8940/ 8945
Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support)
USB capture devices and PC cameras
Windows-compatible CD recorder (CD-R/-RW) required for CD creation
Windows-compatible DVD recorder (DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW) required for DVD creation

File format Support

IEEE 1394/FireWire cards for DV/D8 camcorders/decks
OHCI & Adaptec 8940/8945 compliant
MCI and V-LAN device controllers
Analog capture cards for analog sources (VFW & WDM support)
USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 capture devices and PC Cameras
Windows-compatible DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM, CD-R/RW drives
WinTab compatible pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Standard file format support

Input file format

Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Real Media, VideoStudio 8/9 Project File; Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1*, MP3, MPA, QuickTime, Real Media, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: C3D, GIF89a, FLC, FLI, FLX, SWF, UCG, UIS, UVP
Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FAX, FPX, GIF87a, ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Input file format

Video: 3GPP*, 3GPP2*, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Windows Media Format
Compression: DV, M-JPEG, Indeo, Cinepak, RLE
Audio: AAC*, Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format
Animation: FLC, FLI, FLX, UIS
Images: BMP, CLP, EPS, FPX, ICO, IFF, JP2, JPC/J2K, JPG/JPEG/JPE, PCX, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, TGA, TIF/TIFF, WMF
Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) movie title
Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-RAM (CPRM)