Corel Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus [OLD VERSION]

I bought this software a year or so ago and I still use it. But it is very buggy and unreliable and crash prone. I wish I had bought something else. But the reviews I read about other home video editing software say the same thing about them. I don't have an answer.

I studied and tried (free trial) all video studio type products and chose this product. Great and best choice, does it all very effectively. You simply can not go wrong with this product. Highly recommended. Corel Ulead is the way to go.

If you're a new to the home video editing world and you're looking for something fun and easy to use, then get Ulead. It's pretty much drag and drop.

Like all software, make sure you check the home website for patches.

Purchased a few months ago and installed on my vista machine. It works most of the time but I have had numerous / recreateable app crashes with this software. Additionally, the video complile is extremely slow.
* Takes about 30 minutes to turn a 20 minute video in to a MPEG2. Much longer for a MPEG4.
* App crashes way too often. One example: tried to create a DVD with MPEGs and WMV. The software allows you to put each on the clip section but it crashes everytime a WMV is include (doesn't tell you the WMV is the issue though. Learned this by trial and error).
* Doesn't convert FLV files from You Tube to other formats. You can get free tools to do this so why doesn't a tool you buy do this? :-(
* Software doesn't have a good feature for removing commercials. It would be easier if they would simply allow you to select what you didn't want (commercials). Instead, you can only select what you want and then you drag to the clip/project bar. That is ok for somethings but is more time consuming than being able to exlcude what you don't want. Also, and this is very annoying, when you do select a clip to keep and then move to the clip / project section it changes the focus to that clip down below instead of keeping the 'focus' on the orignial clip. Hard to explain here, but it is backwards of you would expect and want. Will cause you to swear when you realize you just screwed up a lot of work and time becaue the focus change.

Bottom line, it works but could be better. I'm not sure I would pay over $30 for this product. There must be something better than this. :-(

I have used Ulead Viedo products and I have to say that this is the best yet. It is easy to use and makes video editing fun.
It has may features that other programs have that cost many hundreds of dollars more.