Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0 | Very stable with great features.

Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0 | Makes me look good!

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	Screenblast Movie Studio 3.0 Windows \| Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment, 2003 average customer review:based on 38 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Very stable with great features.

To briefly re-state what the previous reviews have correctly stated:
1) Much better than the competition. I've tried them.
2) Has all the features 'that you would probably really use' of the high end programs. It is the same as Sony Vegas with a couple of the features that most people would never use chopped out. A couple of the messages still say 'Vegas' in them.
3) Very stable. Has never crashed over multiple large projects
4) You are easily able to take out or lower the volume on a little part of the sound track (if there is an unwanted sound or somebody says a few words that you want to take out).
5) It comes with Sonic MyDVD which is a piece of junk but it does work if you want ugly menus. The latest CD version of Screenblast 3.0 comes with MyDVD 5.23 which is the newest version of MyDVD as of today! Earlier reviews said that their Screenblast came with MyDVD 4.5 which is not true anymore.
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An earlier Amazon reviewer gave this product 1 star because they said: If you take out a picture then you have to move all of the pictures after it manually to fill the hole. That is not true! Just turn on 'Ripple Edit' and everything moves over by itself.
Another reviewer said it was not stable. Those people need to fix their computers. In my experience (and according to all of the reviews around the internet) this is a rock solid stable program with no crashes.
I have not needed customer service for this program but I think that Sony customer service stinks for their other products but that is another story that doesn't go with this review.

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Makes me look good!

I bought this software to edit large-format videos that I take with my Minolta Z2 digital camera, which records sound and motion in the Quicktime (*.mov) format. My WinXP Movie Maker can't import that format, and I haven't found a way to make it handle more than 320x240 pixels. I checked other video editing software packages (the ones that allow a free-trial download) and not all of them can import Quicktime files. One more requirement: my Minolta can shoot video at up to 800x600 pixels -- a "knock-your-socks-off" level of resolution. I wanted a video editor that could input and output video files at that level of resolution.

I've found that Screenblast does the best job with the 800x600 format by outputing in MPEG2. MPEG2 is playable in Windows Media Player if it is given the MPEG2 codec (which should have been provided in Windows Service Pack 2 but wasn't). The videos are, if I may immodestly say so, beautiful. They make me look good as a movie maker.

I found, to my surprise, that Screenblast is intuitive. You can start using it immediately for simple editing, and teach yourself the fancy tricks as you go along. It is also powerful enough to be fun. For example, you can brighten up a scene that appears dark because it was shot in low light, or correct for a color cast given by tungsten lights. It is sometimes tempting to over-use the wizardry, which can overshadow the video's content. This is not a criticism of the software, only a warning that "...with great power comes great responsibility."

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Great software, lots of fun.

This siftware does it all. Great, precise editing. 5 stars!!!

Quite good until you want a DVD

I am reasonably happy with Screen Blast Movie Studio 3.0. I am using a Sony VAIO computer Pentium 4 3 GHZ. 512 MB RAM 2 DVD-CD drives. I haven't had any of the crashes which others have written about here. I believe those are due to conflicts with other programs. For example the problems with importing Media into the Media Pool that one person wrote about could occur if you also have Adobe Photoshop installed on the computer. The crashing may be caused by one of Photoshop's associated files.
This is not a difficult program to master. There are lots of show me tutorials provided with the program. Movie Studio provides up to 6 tracks if one wishes, three video and three audio. One finds it easy to do fades and transitions. I loaded a 35 minute clip where I had filmed an interview without stopping the camera. It's easy to combine stills and videos. I've appreciated the pan and crop feature for stills.
Like others here I appreciate Movie Studio for what it does do. I am not happy for what it doesn't do which I think it should do. One cannot put in chapter points to DVD's unless one goes through the step of recording to a Mini DV tape first.
Again, as others have said, Screen Blast seems a quite adequate piece of software. It's when you reach the step of wanting to burn to a DVD that you will experience some frustration.
MY DVD which is shipped with Screen Blast, is a separate program which one loads upon completion of one's movie and after rendering the movie. Even then I couldn't seem to locate a finalizing feature. For that I needed to also buy Record NOW. I thought having the SONY name on my computer, my video editing software, and my camcorder would assure a seamless integration. This is not so. I can't use Movie Studio to convert analog video to digital through the camcorder. For that I will need to also purchase an IEEE compliant 1394 card or device.
Some reviewers feel that Movie Studio is slow when it comes to rendering your finished movies. The steps to complete a finished DVD are complex. To write a 35 minute DVD took me a total of 75 minutes. This included rendering, building menus, transcoding, transcribing, planning the video and audio, and writing the files. It takes much less time if one wants to make a copy of the DVD. For that one can accomplish the task in about 15 minutes.
I am also not happy to read that Sony is closing down its ScreenBlast.Com web site. I'm assuming this means that Sony may no longer even support Movie Studio.
One's results using Movie Studio look quite professional. It is easy to add text overlays, music dubs and graphics. It is inexpensive as video software goes and provides many of the features that more expensive software has.

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