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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 79 reviews)
Sales Rank: 25
Category: Software
Publisher: Corel
Studio: Corel
Brand: Corel
Label: Corel
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8 x 1.9
MPN: VS115PLENPC
Model: VS115PLENPC
UPC: 735163120202
EAN: 0735163120202
ASIN: B0013OAHTG
Release Date: March 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 How did I live without this program? July 6, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I first received this program I was a little bit intimidated to use it. I had used free slideshow software in the past to create product slideshows for clients, and was happy enough with the results. Had this product been available back then, I would have been thrilled.
When I first installed this software, I was not entirely confident in using it, but since my teenage son often makes youtube videos of his garage band to share with the world, I put him to task learning this software.
By the next morning he quickly and easily tutored me in how to create slideshows, use the templates, add in my own music tracks, add text, and burn CD's. Yes, all of that in about 10 minutes.
Once I started using this software I found it to be a breeze to learn and easy to use. The wizard function walked me through easy tasks giving me the confidence to try out some of the more advanced features. I was able to take about two dozen short video clips of my daughter doing her happy dance at Disney and turn them into a fun video complete with her favorite music.
When creating slideshows, the templates will pan and zoom your photos making them look like short videos, and it's easy to edit the amount of pictures to fit a song length perfectly.
What I like most about this software is it is so flexible and supportive that it has room for me to grow. It supports many camera phones, it burns high def and blue ray discs as well as standard dvds, it uploads directly to youtube.
My son also wants to try out the Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound features, and even though I can't comment on how well that feature works, I like the fact that this very affordable program includes features like this to grow with us.
My next project is I'm going to chronologically organize my families Christmas pictures and set them to holiday songs. I felt the template themes were a bit light. The only obvious themes were school play, wedding, baby, and vacation. It would have been nice to see holiday themes such as Fourth of July, Christmas, Graduation, and Thanksgiving, for example.
I also plan on filming many of my children's school plays and concerts and producing free/cheap DVD's for the school rather than hiring that service out as we have in the past. From what I can tell, my videos already look better than what the other company has produced for us at a great cost.
Ease of Use....great product July 3, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Can't believe that I can make some serious DVD. Take clips from favorite scenes from other DVDs or for family movies. I used it to make a photoalbum on DVD. At first I was skeptical, but the plus is that its easy to use.
Intuitive and Pretty Easy to Learn July 2, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've played with this program for about a month now, have learned a lot and have more to learn. I think if you're a creative person you can do a whole heck of a lot with Ulead and if you're not, well the program offers a bunch of templates that will get you going.
Before Ulead, my movie making skills were just copy the program onto the computer, burn it to a DVD and that was it. Now I turn out pretty good stuff. Not professional stuff, by any means, but very watchable, entertaining. I like to think so anyway. You won't dread coming over to my house, being bored by boring videos. No sir. My videos are not boring, thanks to Ulead.
Ulead is intuitive and really easy to get to know. Lots of tools and templates. Lots of effects too, like picture in picture and overlays. The program is very stable and burning DVDs is a piece of cake.
My wife Sara has had a camera slung over her shoulder for as long as I can remember, snapping my picture when I'd least expect it. Now I carry around a video cam, turn about is fair play. I think so anyway.
Jack Priest, author of Ragged Man, Gecko & Night Witch.
 Sadly does not support 3g2 file formats July 1, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
About the only video I'm interested in working with is the video that I get from my cell phone. I have Motorola RAZR so it isn't some obscure model no one ever heard of. I was surprised to see that there was no support for the 3g2 file format in Ulead.
I contacted Corel to make sure that they did, in fact, not support this file format. They don't--at least not yet. They may support it in the future as patch update (no time line was given).
Ulead Has Turned Me into a Pretty Complexual Girl June 29, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've got several videos saved on my computer, but I've never ventured into the world of video editing, thinking it was beyond me. Well, I don't guess it is after all. I installed Ulead without a hitch and found it to be pretty stable on my system. That means I didn't crash my computer, something I seem to be good at doing, so that's a big plus for Ulead right off the bat.
I was able to create a pretty good DVD, with transitions after only a few tries and it would have been easier if I'd bothered to read the manuel. You can create simple or complex edits and I find that I'm getting to be a complexual girl. I'm just loving this program.
There are plenty of advanced tools which I'm not familiar with yet, but I'm getting there, in no time at all, I'm going to be editing up a storm, making DVDs of all my old videos, which I'll send to friends, probably boring them to death. Sometimes it's more fun making them than watching them, I think. Well, it is for me thanks to Ulead.
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