Product Review: Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus

Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus is a full featured video editing software package that is a great deal better for video editing and DVD creation of your own videos and ones captured from VCR's, DVD's and camcorder devices. Often I have found that TV capture and hardware capture devices come with a software package of OEM or free video editing software that is available all over the internet.

While this type of free software is good for general use when purchasing a capture device you often are more serious about your video editing than this free software entails. After all if you're paying good money for a capture device you want a software package to deal with that captured video in a professional or even semi professional manner.

I have received several video capture and television signal devices for my computer that I have reviewed and none had any full featured video editing software that equaled the value of the capture device or card. Corel sent me their full featured VideoStudio 11 Plus editing software to review after I had recently reviewed the Plustek ConvertX that also had the Ulead VideoStudio 8 SE software with it.

Although the VideoStudio 8 SE does an adequate job of editing video it is not very full featured and this was something I had not reviewed before and wanted to. Ulead is among a few companies that specialize in video editing and have quite a few various software packages as well as several free and trial versions that are available with other products or for download from the internet.

Windows Movie Maker is also a free version of editing software but this is not exactly feature rich for things like capture and export to several different device types as well as a good user friendly interface like Ulead's VideoStudio 11 Plus. Although both are pretty similar I found that Ulead's interface was a bit easier to pick up and use without reading much of the help guide or tutorials as I often do to see how easy something is to use.