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I am willing to overlook that for the benefit of having the tool there, but it did annoy me just a little. A time or two I had to wonder if the program had locked up, but after 5 seconds or so everything was fine. I will be honest and say that occasionally I experienced some lag in editing the photos. For example, if you want to adjust the brightness of a picture, change the contrast, remove the yellow hue, fix the red eye, etc, you can do that right there in the Library without having to hop over to Photoshop to do it. But I must admit that providing you a way to quickly edit any media in your Library is pretty darn neat. Very nice touch! One of the things I do on a daily basis is graphics editing, so I have been a Photoshop user for over a decade. You can preview media in the library by clicking the triangle play button at the bottom of the media item. You can even set ‘watch’ folders for the library and any new content that is added to the ‘watch’ folder on your harddrive will automatically be added to your library.

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But the Library tab is a full screen way to view all your media in your project. Just about every video editor has a small area/panel on the screen to organize your photos, videos, music, etc, and Avid Studio has that as I mentioned (the mini-library). I will go on the record to say that the Library tab (screenshot below) is awesome! I am a very organized person in just about every aspect of my life, and the Library tab is a dream come true for me. This was pretty cool because it leaves a halo-effect on the screen to help you line up your still frames. Something neat is that you can capture a stop-frame animation using your webcam, at either 8 or 12 fps. You can scan your computer to automatically grab media from all over your harddrive, you can import from your DVD/Blueray drive in your pc, you can capture video and stills from your webcam, connect a digital camera or import converter box, and of course you can individually grab files from the harddrive, although you can do that in the library so I don’t really see the point of having that option in the import screen. The import tab is easy to understand and use. The video preview area is in the upper right, your collection of media for your project is in the upper left (which is a mini-view of your library), and the timeline is across the bottom.

#Avid pinnacle studio hd 15 review movie#

The layout of the program (seen in the first screenshot above) while you are editing your movie is similar to other programs. There are tabs across the top that allow you to quickly flip back and forth between importing, the library, editing your movie, editing your DVD menus, and exporting.

Because of that, I believe I am safe to say that Avid Studio is a prosumer package. In pricing that is certainly true, and I think in terms of features and power that is also true. But maybe that isn’t a fair comparison to make because it seems to me that Avid Studio sits between the likes of Pinnacle Studio and Adobe Premier Pro.

My reaction when I opened the program for the first time was ‘wow, there is a lot going on here.’ But compared to Adobe Premier Pro, this program is way easier to get up and running. While not exactly the same, there are some similarities in the location of buttons and general layout of the screen. Having been a long-time Pinnacle user, it didn’t take me long to get used to the Avid Studio interface.