Hello and welcome to this review of Corel's Video Studio 2022.
This version that I'm reviewing today is the ultimate version and it cost me £90.
I paid for it.
I'm not being sponsored.
This is my honest review, first of all.
What I want to say is you get a lot of value with this package.
So in addition to Video Studio 2022 the editor, you also get Fast Flicks, which
basically just allows you to use templates and insert videos and pictures.
And it just makes editing that type of thing easier.
And you get my DVD, which is a programme
you can use to build a DVD with menus and other things for your video files.
Probably people aren't going to use that
very much, but it is included in the package.
So while you do get a lot of value and you get lots of things included, there's also
a store to buy things if you really, really want to.
You can see all the things you can buy here.
I'm not going to buy any of these things, so we're going to go to edit.
So now we're in the main editing window.
It's pretty much like any standard non-linear video editor.
You've got tracks down the side.
You are a bit constrained in what you can have.
You can have your video track, and then it's overlays titles and music.
It seems very difficult to add in extra video tracks from what I've seen.
So first of all, I'm going to talk through music.
Like I said, it is quite value driven, so
it does come with sound effects, which is really good to see, and it does come with
some preloaded music just waiting for that to load.
So it comes with quite a lot of background tracks.
Are they any good? I don't know.
I haven't really looked into them.
And there is an integration with Triple Scoop Music.
But if you use this, you have to pay for the music you use.
So it's nice to have an integration there.
But again, it's selling you additional things.
We have a lot of templates which makes videos easier.
You might have noticed that this template was available in the Fast Flick.
So if I just bring this down.
So if I drag this down to the timeline, it
sets everything up for me and all I have to do is just change things over.
So you can see here we've got a general
image and all we have to do is replace that image.
And once we replace the image, the effects are going to be there as well.
So this isn't something I'm going to use, although it does look really professional.
This one.
And there are lots of templates, but I'm unlikely to use the templates, but they do
have them and they might be useful for certain people.
Now here we have all the transitions and there are a lot of transitions, and this
product works really well with transitions.
There's loads and loads of transitions.
They are in categories here.
And of course, you get new blue
transitions and you get pro dad transitions.
And those are third party transitions that they have included.
So to add a transition, all you have to do is just drag it across.
So I'm going to add this transition here and we can see it adds in.
And if I Scroll through.
So I do apologise because in recording the
video, the software has crashed a couple of times.
So I had to reload it.
So I'm going to bring in a piece of
footage for Green screen called it Green Screen Lady.
I've actually put it in the wrong track, so I'm going to put it up here.
So we've also got a lot of text and lower
thirds and things like that, and they look quite good.
So I'm just going to add a lower third.
And of course, this goes on to this overlay clip like so.
And if I double click on it, I can add what I want.
So just type in here, Video Studio 2022.
Now, unfortunately, every time I've tried to play this through, it's crashed.
So I'm not going to show you what this
looks like because it just crashes, unfortunately.
So I'm not going to make any cuts or play it through because it crashes and already
it's crashed three times, which has been really unfortunate.
So we've also got things like overlays.
We've got shapes, we've got boxes, we've got animated boxes.
They're a bit gimmicky.
You can go and add your own.
Here we have effects and again, this is
good value because you get lots of effects.
As you can see, I'm going through.
We've got lots of them.
We've also got new blue effects, which are
a third party set of effects, and we've got pro dad effects.
We've also got the new Blue Tiler as well,
which allows you to create really sophisticated titles and things like that.
I've always found it a bit complicated to
use, and this isn't a video where I explain how to use it.
So I'm not going to I've got this green screen clip up because
I'm going to show green screen and I think Green screen is quite good here.
So I'm going to type in green screen and
we don't get anything because it's called Chroma key.
I think it's a new blue one.
So I'm going to pull it down here and it's going to add to the clip.
So I now need to double click on the clip.
And here is the Chroma key pro, and I need to click on customise.
Now, I can go through and change all these
things, but I'm not going to because when I've been trying this out, I found if I
just click Green screen, that seems to work so much better than
just going through and fiddling about with it.
So you can see this clip here.
We've got someone with hair and actually
it's done a good job of removing all the green.
For some reason, it seems sort of a beige background.
I'm not sure about that, but if I put a
colour in, I'm pretty sure that it would be okay.
So what I'm going to do, I'm going to get
rid of this and I'm going to bring this down here now, as soon as I bring it down
here, it goes smaller for some reason because it thinks it's an overlay track,
but you can see that actually that beige colour isn't there.
It's there around the hair, but I guess we could fine tune that.
So I'm pretty confident that it has keyed out the background going back to the clip.
If we double click on it, we can edit lots
of things so we can adjust the volume, we can adjust the speed, we can put spits in,
so we can do lots of adjustments with colour and exposure.
So I can drop the exposure.
If I want double clicking, it sends it
back and we can adjust shadows, highlights, etc.
We can also add video scopes, which I think is incredibly useful.
Again, as I say, this is quite a high value package.
You get lots of features in this package for £90.
We can look at histograms, we can look at RGB, it's really quite good.
I'm going to turn that off.
We've got lens correction, which I don't think is particularly useful for this,
particularly as the presets are GoPro three and four.
I don't think that's particularly useful, but going back to colour, we've got HSL,
we've got curves, we've got colour wheels, we can even add in LUTs.
So there's an awful lot you can do.
And let's have a look at what Auto tune does.
I think it's worse with Auto Tune.
That's interesting.
I've already touched on this in my other video about Video Studio 22 ultimate, is
that they have a lot of technology to do with faces, so there's this face effects
and I can change the size of the eyes and it does take a while to show that change.
And I can make the face a bit thinner and
I can add skin smoothing and I can see her eyes have become a lot bigger.
I can change the brightness of her face and I can change the skin tone.
It does take a while to see those changes
go through, but essentially this is a beautify effect, so I can change
things to make people look different and I can save that as a preset.
I think she does look a lot better with bigger eyes.
She just does.
I'm going to take that off and make her eyes smaller.
That's not very good. I'm going to put them back to normal.
So, yeah, I think this lady does look more
beautiful with bigger eyes, but it's personal preference, really.
So I'm going to turn that off and we're going to go down to AR stickers here.
Now, again, I have done a video all about
this, so I'm going to just put some glasses on her.
So what I do is I copy it down to the track.
It tracks them on the face, so it does the tracking already.
I don't need to worry about that.
And if I play this through, you'll see
that those track in the right place on her
eyes and it can even cope with rotation.
They're not designed to look really authentic, but they do work.
So if I double click here, I can go to AR and I can add more and I
can take them off and I'm just going to take this off.
So we've also got various ways to speed up
and ramp footage so we can have it twice as fast, etc.
So I can bring this down and it's going to change the length of the clip.
So it's going to be fast initially, then
it's going to be fast out and there's all various presets for this.
So down here we've got even more options.
Still, we can export our video as a giff.
We can add captions in and this is speech to text.
This clip doesn't have any speech, but it will analyse the speech and you can create
subtitles from it or you can add them to the timeline.
We have this thing called painting creator where you can basically draw all over it.
So
what I can do, I can draw all over it, I can draw on my frame and I can record
myself doing that and then let's just record that.
Okay? So I can go and add that in if I want to.
So it recreates what I've done and it will
put that in the video what I actually want.
So I can add that there we can see my painting being painted over.
I don't know that that's useful, but it has that feature.
So for £90 you get an awful lot of features included in this.
But there is a downside and the downside is as follows.
This keeps crashing.
It keeps crashing all the time.
And with all the features, there is a bit of a steep learning curve to getting
things done and working out how to do them.
There's so many features and sometimes I
find it's not particularly intuitive to use.
But the main gripe I have with this is the crashing.
I'm not using 4K footage, it's probably
crashed five or six times while making this recording.
I'm only using HD footage.
I would understand it crashing if I were using 4K footage, but it's not 4K footage,
it's 1080 footage and it just keeps crashing up here.
It's reminded me here that we have
multicam editing as well, which is very useful.
It's nice to see multicam editing.
However, I didn't do any multicam editing
in the software because, like I say, it kept crashing every time I do multicam
editing it kept crashing for £90 you get a lot of product for your money.
The downsides to this are it seems an
unstable video editor seems to crash a lot and it is not very intuitive to use.
But do let me know what you think.
Do check out my video with the AR face effects and I'll see you next time.
Thank you. Goodbye.