ULEAD The Next Generation - VideoStudio7

[EricB]

I have always been a supporter of ULEAD products. In my opinion, they offer great features for the money.

I tried each of the next generation products: VideoStudio7, MovieFactory2, and DVD PictureShow2, and I am really disappointed.

VideoStudio has some great new features, but it crashed constantly. I would say it is my system, but VideoStudio6 continued to work perfectly. Between crashes, 7 was very slow.

Anyone discover an undocumented fix? I have tried contacting ULEAD with no success.

[apco25]

Hello EricB,

please read my post (I am about to buy VS7). Where does it crash? It has worked great for me. What do you think about the features however? Do you think there are other programs that offer better results/features for the money?

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=146814

Apco25

[EricB]

apco25,

I've purchased VideoStudio since version 4. When the DVD plugin first became available through download I purchased that and had my first success with VCD / SVCD. I currently use Premiere for most of my editing, but that is not in the price / complexity range of VideoStudio. Most of my editing is DV, which Premiere does very well. However, it is lousy with mpeg editing so I still use VideoStudio6 for that and also recommend it to anyone starting out.

VS7 crashed and ran slowly throughout the program. I finally just removed it and haven't tried it since. Others have reported great results, so if it works for you, have fun. I like the new features but I don't "need" any of them.

[oldfart13]

The program seems to work best if you cap, edit and convert all within the same program. My VS6 created files could not be loaded into 7 rendering them useless. I think you best wait til a patch is available from Ulead...

[apco25]

oldfart13/EricB :

I use the follwoing programs and get great results:

1). Vdub to capture (.avi) Using Huffy Compression
2). TMP + to encode to NTSC mpeg2 (I use 2-pass VBR/Ghosting/Noise - all at high qulaity)
3). VS7 to import the mpeg2 files (it does not re-encode it so it is very fast).
4). I then use VS7 to export a .iso file.
5). I use Alcohol 120% to mount the image and test it.
6). For some reason the .iso for the DVD from VS7.0 does not burn into "DVD" format. It's like it's an image for CD-R. That's why I use Alcohol to mount the image. Then I drag the DVD folders to Nero and write out to a DVD.

Now, I do get great results from this. I did not get as good of results just using VS7 to do capture/encoding. Because of all this work, that is why I was asking how people like VS7.0. It's obviously not perfect, but the demo works for a lot of things.

[oldfart13]

Yeah, well I think a lot of people are still looking for all-in-one solutions rather than the cap in one format, encode to another format, author in one software, burn in another software which is the norm. I personally would opt for a lower quality picture if I could get a single soft that would allow capture, editing, conversion and authoring. I'm still looking...

[pepegot1]

VS 7.0 works great for me. It is better than VS 6.02. The picture quality is very good. I do not need to go the Capture with one program-edit with VS 7.0-encode with TempGenc and burn with CDRWin. It does a good job in total. I crashed just once-not a problem.

[b33]

VideoStudio 7 is great but you need alot of memory to run it without error.
I'm using 768mb.
There is some known bugs:
http://www.ulead.com/tech/vs/vs70faq.htm
and make sure you download extra components:
http://www.ulead.com/vs/esd.htm