No matter what your current level of expertise is in video editing, from video enthusiast to seasoned professional, MediaStudio Pro 8 provides the tools you need to realize your vision, meet your challenges and get the job done.

Video Enthusiast
Step up into the world of professional video editing. MediaStudio Pro 8 is powerful, fast, intuitive and affordable. It's easy to learn and use, but loaded with advanced video editing tools, such as:

• Smart Compositor offers you a powerful tool to create professional-quality opening sequences or segues with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths. Smart Compositor maximizes your creativity and it's a breeze to master, giving you stunning and professional results.
• Extensive HDV support – Batch capture, edit, and freely convert or down-convert your HDV. With powerful tools like Smart Proxy, MediaStudio Pro 8 is your future-ready HD solution.
• Full Dolby Digital 5.1 support - Real-time audio preview lets you immediately preview an audio clip on the timeline while adjusting parameters, including Dolby Digital 5.1 steering.
• The new Keyframe Control Manager offers large buttons and an expandable view to easily put keyframes exactly where you want them. Control all aspects of your audio/video filters and transitions, as well as video distortion and moving paths.
• SmartSound™ gives you more styles and variations to create and insert custom, royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video. It's easy and fast.

Wedding/Event Videographers
Time is money. Save both using MediaStudio Pro 8! Even if you use another NLE, there are some things that MediaStudio Pro 8 does extremely well. Add MediaStudio Pro 8 to your video toolkit for those less-complex jobs that need to be completed quickly and efficiently.

• Smart Compositor offers you all the speed without the “cookie cutter” effect of templates. Even if MediaStudio Pro is not your primary NLE, Smart Compositor can come to the rescue for those quick-turnaround jobs that still have to look really high-end. Starting with one of the many perfectly suited themes in Smart Compositor, compose your sequence and then simply render it as a video clip for use in your main NLE.
• Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output. Perfect for long projects or collaborative editing.
• Extensive HDV support – Batch capture, edit, and freely convert or down-convert your HDV. MediaStudio Pro 8 is your HD solution. You've probably already spent a lot of money on a new HDV camcorder, but with MediaStudio Pro 8, you don't to spend any more money upgrading your editing hardware. With Smart Proxy, edit HDV in real-time, even on mid-range machines!
• New color correction tools like color wheels for making color adjustments, the unique Enhance Lighting Filter to add “fill light” to an image, and the ability to perform secondary-color correction, all save you time without sacrificing the professional quality you and your clients demand.
• SmartSound™ integration allows you to create and insert custom royalty-free soundtracks, precisely matching the duration of the video quickly and easily, saving your valuable time.

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Documentary Filmmakers
Produce and edit HDV on the go! With MediaStudio Pro 8's revolutionary Smart Proxy mode, you can edit your HDV footage even while "out in the field." MediaStudio Pro 8 is the complete solution for mobile HDV editing, and for collaborative editing as well.

• Smart Proxy - Edit HDV in real-time, even on notebook or mid-range machines! Smart Proxy mode is completely lossless and it's great for collaborative editing and archiving. Package and share proxies, edit, and then combine as multiple timelines all referring back to the original footage.
• Smart Compositor offers you a powerful tool to create expressive opening sequences or segues with pre-made masks, frames and moving paths. Smart Compositor maximizes your creativity and saves you time, while giving you stunning and professional results.
• Multiple Timelines give you the flexibility of working on different parts of a project separately. Create a Main Timeline but also work and edit on other timelines, combining them for final output. Perfect for long projects or collaborative editing.
• Single-track editing means you can now place transitions on ANY track.

Corporate/Government users
Produce professional-looking videos that that cannot be done in a consumer-level video editing program, quickly and easily. Even with little or no experience in video editing, MediaStudio Pro 8 gives you all the tools you need to easily produce videos that look sharp.

• Smart Compositor - Produce professional-quality opening sequences or segues with Smart Compositor. Simple select a suitable theme, drop in your own video or images, modify the text, perhaps change the background music, and save. So fast and easy, and you get professional results.
• Enhanced Chroma Key tools greatly improve keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects.
• Full integration with many of Ulead's other tools. Ulead® PhotoImpact® UFO files can be directly inserted, and Ulead® COOL 3D® Production Studio projects can be directly imported into your timelines. Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio projects don't even need to be rendered first! And with the complete integration with Ulead® VideoStudio®, which shares many workflow elements and dialog-box layouts, you can step up into the world of professional video with MediaStudio Pro 8.

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Education
MediaStudio Pro 8 is the complete, professional and easy to master and use video editing solution. With an advanced set of powerful tools, MediaStudio Pro 8 is the perfect tool for teachers and students alike. Whether your needs are in documenting sports or scientific experiments, creating “digital” yearbooks on DVD, producing video presentations and reports, or in teaching media students, MediaStudio Pro 8 will satisfy all of your educational needs.

• Smart Proxy mode is the perfect tool for collaborative editing. It's ideal for teaching and working with a classroom full of students. Teachers can keep one set of full-resolution files on a server, and your students can share and use the proxy files to edit. Then combine them as multiple timelines, all referring back to the original footage.
• Smart Compositor - Produce professional-quality opening sequences or segues with the Smart Compositor. Simple select a suitable theme, drop in your own video or images, modify the text, perhaps change the background music, and save. So fast and easy with professional results.
• The new Keyframe Control Manager offers large buttons and an expandable view to easily put keyframes exactly where you want them. Control all aspects of your audio/video filters and transitions, as well as video distortion and moving paths.
• Enhanced Chroma Key tools greatly improve keying in backgrounds, with clean edges on foreground subjects.
• Built-in DVD authoring – Powerful DVD authoring tools are included in MediaStudio Pro 8 that allow you to make dynamic menus with motion backgrounds, sophisticated buttons and custom labels.
• Full integration with many of Ulead's other tools. Ulead® PhotoImpact® UFO files can be directly inserted, and Ulead® COOL 3D® Production Studio projects can be directly imported into your timelines. Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio projects don't even need to be rendered first! And with the complete integration with Ulead® VideoStudio®, which shares many workflow elements and dialog-box layouts, you can step up into the world of professional video with MediaStudio Pro 8.