Features Include:

• Smart Compositor: Openings that Rock - 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.
• Smart Proxy: Real-time HDV - 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 - 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 - 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.
• Meet any Challenge - 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, 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.

Minimum System Requirements:

Windows

• 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

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