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(More customer reviews)I purchased Corel VideoStudio X2 November 9, 2010 from Amazon (and it was sold by Galactics). I installed it on my Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 3) computer two weeks ago (late February 2011). The installation went fine with no problems.
My primary reason for purchasing this software was to take AVCHD movies off my Panasonic Lumix DMC Zs7 digital camera to be "edited" and burned to a standard television viewing DVD format.
I studied the software booklet for a week to familiarize myself with the software. I consider myself to be a "power user" of graphics design software, yet new to "video" software. And fundamentally this software looked like it would work for me and appears to have decent "tools" for editing.
Importing AVCHD movies into this software can be done either from a folder on your hard drive, or directly from a camera.
Where things went wrong is I could not get rid of a jitter, or flicker problem after an AVCHD movie was converted by, brought into, this software. On my camera the movie looked fine and had no jitter. And indeed when an AVCHD movie is first imported into this software, it also looks and plays fine.
Then came the problem. The moment I did any editing procedure in Video Studio X2 the flicker, or jitter, appeared in the movie on play back on my computer. This flicker-jitter transfered to the movie when burned to a standard DVD for viewing on my television.
Soooooooooooooooooo... I did some research online and discovered other people having problems with flicker-jitter with this software.
Like a good little doobie I downloaded from Corel a Service Pack 1 (which on Corel's website seemed to imply in their notes that this would deal with the flicker-jitter problem). I installed the Service Pack I and it did not help, nor did it solve the problem.
There is also a Service Pack 2, but it is primarily aimed at Windows 7.
Looking at this software it is designed by Ulead, not Corel. Corel only markets this product. AND, there is no phone tech support any more at Corel to help, unles you want to pay a fee (which I believe is unfair to newly installed software problems).
I gave up. I deleted this software off my computer. This software is a complete waste of money, and time, so if you think you're getting a good deal pricewise, think again. Corel should not be selling this software, nor should Ulead, until Ulead fixes the Jitter-flicker bug.
If you want to through your money away buy this software and you'll be perfectly happy.
I have purchased the Sony Vegas Movie Studio HD Platinum 10 suite which will arrive soon. I'll let you know now "Vegas" works after I use it.
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