VideoStudio :: How To Customize Old Film Filter In Pro X4
May 10, 2011
I have started my project with the Instant Project function (middle category) and I am trying to apply the Old Film filter effect to my project but I want most of the original colour to come through. Rather than have the whole thing sepia with scratches and dust, I would like it mostly colour but with scratches and dust etc.
I have clicked on the strip of film that I want to edit the filter on and clicked 'Customize Filter' in the options. From there I clicked 'Duotone' and edited the picture there to how much colour I would like to show through. The problem is, when I click 'Ok', the colour hasn't changed when I go back and replay it. It is still all sepia and not colour.
I have a problem with Pro X4. With Studio 11 Pro, I was able to view the film during saving to file but I cannot with X4. I can't find a solution in the user guide.
I have used VideoStudio for many years. I am currently using VideoStudio Pro X2 and I am trying to burn a film I have just put together on a DVD. I have got to the Preview stage which works perfectly and then I am told to click on "Next" but all I am offered is a "Back" button. The instructions say that I should click on "Show more output options" but that is not there.
Is there any way to use the "old film" effect, but keep the original colors. I really enjoy the look of the scratches and dust, but I do not want a grey movie.
I have used Corel Video Studion for a number of years. I purchased VideoStudio Pro X4 some months ago and have no problem until now.Having edited a film into five segments. I have re-edited each segment with success until I got to the last one, having saved the earlier ones at each stage so only dealing with one at a time. On saving the last segment all went well until playback when I got the correct audio BUT the picture is now just a BLUE screen and nothing else. In desperation I delted the programme from the computer then reloaded, updated with service pack 1 and 2. Also, followed an on line recommendation to putin a new dll detail. Restarted the computer, downloaded the film and re-edited the final segment. It did seem to save quicker but AGAIN i have the correct audio BUT the same BLUE screen and for the life of me I do not know why.
The problem is that when I put a 2minute film in AVI format it works great, but I want to put a piece of it, so I use option to cut the film and I'm doing from it let's say 30s clip. The problem now begins, because when I play this clip in "Clip" option tagged I got the sound, when I change it to "Project" the sound vanishes... Using full film the sound is available in "Clip" mode and "Project" mode.
I have just received back a 15min 8mm movie from a film transfer company. They suggested for editing purposes that it has been transferred as a AVI file.
Having transferred the AVI file to my Video folder in Windows 7 i have tried to enter the file into Coral Video studio 12 by right clicking on the time line, this will not open the file for me to edit.
The file plays straight from the disc ok on the computer ok but does freezes intermittently. the file size is 3.36Gb
Any list of what the little symbols mean in the video clips? I stumbled (the usual method for finding anything out in Video Studio) upon somebody posting that twin icons that look like movie film mean that the clip has been through Smart Proxy. what all these cryptic symbols/icons/whatevers mean? I have the Picture Yourself book and the pamphlet that comes with VS4 and I can't find a simple page that explains these. How lame.
How to add/change/delete the menu items that appear in the drop down menus in the library? I see how you can add a new folder for Titles but not for the Transitions or Effects. Also, is there any way to change which filters appear for a particular menu selection?
I have created a short film using numerous clips. The footage is shot with a ratio of 16:9 and this is how it is viewed on my PC.
However if I export it to any format other than MPEG the first and last second of each clip stretches horizontally and then returns to the correct ratio (see images). I have tried every possible conversion with no luck. It is always the first and last second of a clip and happens for every clip in the film. The only time it doesn't happen is with the title templates.
I'm trying to find a way of adding "film burn" or "light leak" effects (which give a faded, colour distorted, 70s look) to clips while editing in VSProX4. I'm working with SD avi clips, in a 4.3 aspect ratio (made with Mpeg Streamclip). find something like a "grunge" effects plug-in, compatible with VS ProX4, that is not too expensive.
My OS is windows vista, 32 bit with a 98G hard drive and 4G of ram (on Toshiba Satellite Intel duo laptop).
I have long been using the program. I like the filter Video Pan and Zoom, if not a big BUT.
If the clip you select multiple control points pan and some of them coincide with the center, it is impossible to capture the crossing point for the desired position correction frame, since the engine is the player immediately jumps to the first control point. If the pre-shift frame with panels Anchor, then grab the frame with the mouse is already possible, but the trajectory of the frame after this change. The latter leads to the door frame at the edge of the screen in motion.
How to select a frame, which is currently in focus when several centers framework be at each other?
In my current project, after spliting the audio from a certain clip, the Audio Filter buttom is greyed even the audio clip is marked, so I can't use it. It doesn't happen to me in previous projects.
I'm a user of Corel x6 at the moment and it works perfectly. I wonder if there's a sort of VHS filter/mask available to be used with Corel x6 so the digital copy looks a bit 'damaged' and as if it was recorded in the 1980s.
Filter does not shift in the UVS Pro X4. When applied to the chest and later attempt to modify or even delete it the program shuts down. . Win7 x64 System
I have a nephew that send me a bunch of video's from his camera, they are 90 degrees to the left.Is the easiest way or only way to do it is the use the rotate filter?
I have some old 8mm family films which decades ago (back in 1980) were converted to VHS.The 8mm reels are long gone now, they got moldy, brittle and turned to dust, so I binned them around 1992.About 6 years ago, we converted the VHS tapes to DVD - direct copy from VHS deck to DVD recorder - so the family could enjoy the tapes again, because they were getting too old. We binned the VHS tapes about 3 years ago.
So here is my conundrum:Considering I have no longer access to the original 8mm reels, and the VHS tapes are long gone as well, during the process of copying across from VHS to DVD the 'interlace' has remained and become digitally burned into the VOB files... is this correct in my thinking?
The reason I say this is because now that I'm trying to bring these old films back to life (which were VERY dark) I can start to see the interlaced lines start to show up as I lighten them in X3.So my curious mind is now wondering:
-Is there a way I can remove those lines? -Where is the 'de-interlace filter' in X3?
Is there a way to save a FILTERS ATTRIBUTES to recall for use in my next project, PRO X3.Titles can be saved, and a type of filter can be saved in FAVORITES, but not the attributes.Have searched here, and tried in the program, but no luck.
I am wondering if there is an easy method to apply a video filter to EVERY video clip in a project instead of having to apply it manually to every clip.
After trimming a clip I can save it by File - Save trimmed clip. But if I use filter(s) with trimming before, after or no trimming, the File - Save trimmed clip greys out and I could not find any instruction how to save (render) the clip.
As I am having problems with a NewBlue video filter (Picture in Picture - see separate post with no replies so far) I would like to find out if video filters (esp NewBlue) are stored in a folder which is not a subfolder of Corel/VideoStudio (and which may not get removed during an uninstall). Where they are located (as I cannot locate them).
I'm trying videostudio pro x5 and it looks very nice, but I have a problem that I think will lead to be a big limitation in the potential this software has, so I guess this is a bug or maybe I am not using it in the right way. I just hope is not that way by design
Anyway, the problem is that when I apply a filter to an animation or to an image (like PNG) that has alpha channel, I can see the filter coverin the whole frame if the clip is in the main video track, while if I move it to the overlay track the filter will only stay inside the picture, for example I've tried this with the lens flare.. please see this image (situation 1 on top and then situation 2 bellow the orange line):
I'd expect the lens flare to go over the transparent area of the clip so that it will be overlaid with the "background" main video track, but it is not. This is just an example but for example the same happens if I apply the lightning filter to a text filter or to a png..
I also have a similar concern with the free TitlerEx plugin that I've downloaded after registering: if I put it on an overlay track I can't just have the text with transparent background overlaid to the main video track.
Is there an easier way to crop a video than using the cropping filter? I'd love to flip some bit that makes dragging in the border of a video crop instead of distorting the aspect ration. Is there a faster way?
