Any Ulead Video Studio users here?

[Patrick]

Once again, I'm using dirt cheap NLE software for my projects. In this case a trial version of Ulead Video Studio version 11. There is no help menu or guide that I can find in this software but most of it is pretty much self-explanatory.

However, I have just finished the trimming and now Ive come to the rearranging of shots which I thought would be the easiest part. With clicking and dragging in the storyboard mode, it seems that I can only move shots from left to right which is ridiculous. The exception is the very first shot - that cannot be moved at all. And no matter how many times I try, I cannot move shots from right to left. Crazy.

There are 94 seperate shots in this film and obviously, I don't want to shift every single one of those to the right just to get the correct arrangement of several shots. Ive held down the shift key and the alt key while clicking and dragging but that does nothing. For anyone who's familiar with Ulead, is there indeed a way that I can move shots from right to left?

[wahiba]

I downloaded a trial/demo and found exactly the same problem.

Best editing programme I have used is EditStudio available here:

http://www.mediachance.com/video/index.html

Bit of a chequered history. Originally a UK programme but sold a while back to Media Chance. Only snag is it has not been updated for a while, but worth a look.

Otherwise it is Premier Elements.

[David M. Leugers]

Wow, so Ulead is still as "buggy" and "unusable" as ever. Unbelievable it is still around. I wasted my first money for a video editing software on it and never was able to produce anything useful. I then bought Premiere starting with 6.5 to show you how long ago that was...

[carllooper]

Wow, so Ulead is still as "buggy" and "unusable" as ever. Unbelievable it is still around. I wasted my first money for a video editing software on it and never was able to produce anything useful. I then bought Premiere starting with 6.5 to show you how long ago that was...

I've still got my copy of Premiere 1.0.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

There is always a quick fix for the bugs. It is usually called "If you buy our next version it will be more stable and better, and..." ;)

It is quite interesting how so crappy software survives for a long time. Would anyone accept a piece of hardware that needed patches, upgrades and bugfixes? But for software it seems mandatory. :roll:

[aj]

There is always a quick fix for the bugs. It is usually called "If you buy our next version it will be more stable and better, and..." ;)

It is quite interesting how so crappy software survives for a long time. Would anyone accept a piece of hardware that needed patches, upgrades and bugfixes? But for software it seems mandatory. :roll:

Theres is hardly electronic hardware without software in it How many updates did your Apple hardware receive over its lifetime?

Not to mention Microsoft OSses.

And my TV, sound-system, SAT-tuner (all Linux based ) get an update every month.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

Theres is hardly electronic hardware without software in it How many updates did your Apple hardware receive over its lifetime?

I was talking about hardware that is not so software-related (although of course they all have some kind of software on them).

How many times have your digital camera, your car or your TV needed bug fixes or updates?

And my TV, sound-system, SAT-tuner (all Linux based ) get an update every month.

Why? Are they not working properly with the current versions?

[aj]

The SAT tuner is somewhat older and needed 6 updates before the user-interface/desk-top was working correctly and sustainable. And then I wasn't an early buyer of that model

The TV and sound set is only 1 month old. Clearly the factory loaded versions were outdated and needed immediate replacement. Since then there was one update. Problems are in decoding software for video streams. Reading protocols properly or reacting to improperly coded streams by others. Enhancing the desk-top. Blunder repairs. And what more.

Apparently time for development is solely spent on the electronics. The equipment can be updated so, in my perception, they start selling it just after stage one of the beta-testing. Not very nice but that is how things in modern household electronics work. Also I suppose the programming is in some far away site and not close to the engineering lab which designs the hardware. So they have long comm lines and many people are involved in managing and interpretation. Then you get 100 people working on matters which would need only 10 when it were in-house.

[Uppsala BildTeknik]

...needed 6 updates before the user-interface/desk-top was working correctly and sustainable..... Clearly the factory loaded versions were outdated and needed immediate replacement. ... problems are in decoding software for .... And what more.

The equipment can be updated so, in my perception, they start selling it just after stage one of the beta-testing. Not very nice but that is how things in modern household electronics work.

It only works this way if you let it work this way. Return the goods that is not working properly. Let them finish the product and then buy it.

Only by not letting the manufacturers get away with this can we stop this route to hell. I prefer equipment that is working properly when I purchase the item. I have no time or interest to play betatester and download patches and bugfixes for everything. It is madness, IMHO, and already way down the drain when it comes to software for computers.

Do we want all electronics to work this way? I know I don´t.

[aj]

It is how things are. It is the modernity

Just be glad you don't need to bring it to the workshop for protocol adjustments It gets the updates automatically over the network.

Every new model has these same maturing periods. If you wait till it is perfectly stable or finalized you will get an old model.