The Viewer Window has a few good tricks up its sleeves too: you can resize clips, skew them, crop them, and move them around directly from there. This works very well and allows you to retime a clip to suit the exact duration you need with ease. One feature we quite liked was the ability to alter the speed of a clip by altering its length directly in the timeline simply by holding down the Shift key and dragging its edges. The list of effects is extremely long, and the fact the thumbnails all look the same from a distance until you mouse over them, makes it tricky to find the right one you want (Image credit: Corel) Effects and transitions As such, we wouldn’t call this editing platform “Pro”. Worse still, you can’t move clips between the overlay and the primary video layers. It is possible to increase that overlay’s size so it takes up the whole space, but that’s very convoluted. Yes, you can add a clip to a second layer, but it’s treated as a picture-in-picture overlay, where the clip is shrunk and placed in the corner of the screen. Something which is quite limiting, especially for a package advertising itself as “Pro” or “Ultimate”, is the inability to properly work with multiple layers of video. It can be confusing, especially at first, but you do eventually get used to it. In VideoStudio, it’s the opposite: the top track is the main video track, and to place a clip over it you have to add it to the track beneath the main one. Therefore, usually, if you place a video clip on a track above the current one, it will obscure the first clip. Usually, layers reflect how the real world works: put a piece of paper on top of another and you can no longer see the sheet that’s now under it. One thing which takes a while to get used to if you’re used to editing video with other software packages is the fact that the layer concept is reversed. The editing feels familiar yet also different due to the overlay tracks being displayed underneath rather than above the primary layer (Image credit: Corel)
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |