The iPad app and 3D editing is relatively niche, but the Storyboard and Trim mode should benefit everyone.
It builds on Avid Studio’s strong foundation with a range of well-implemented, genuinely useful new features. It can be unnerving for existing users when software changes owners, but it looks like Studio is in safe hands. We hope our results are the exception to the rule, but it’s worth experimenting with this setting in the Control Panel to see which gives best results. Thankfully, CUDA acceleration can be turned off, and we were able to restore performance to previous levels. Avid Studio could play five on the same PC. Pinnacle Studio 16 could only play two simultaneous streams in our standard preview test, which involves stacking multiple AVCHD streams and mixing them together using variable opacity.
Studio now uses nVidia CUDA acceleration to handle H.264 decoding, and in Corel’s own tests this gave a notable improvement to preview performance for AVCHD editing. We found it useful not only for reordering clips, but also as a way to navigate the project without having to zoom in and out of the timeline. Here, the Storyboard appears just above the timeline, allowing both to be used simultaneously. However, it looks tidier than the timeline and makes it easy to reorder clips. Unlike timeline editing, it gives no indication of the length of each clip, and it doesn’t work when arranging clips on multiple tracks. This is a common feature in entry-level editors, where a thumbnail represents each clip. The iPad app was also the inspiration for a clever spin on the storyboard-editing concept. It’s an extremely welcome feature for adjusting edits with frame-accurate precision – something that’s often quite fiddly in consumer editors.
It bears more than a passing resemblance to features in Premiere Pro CS6, right down to the ability to loop around the edit point, although this version stops playback whenever adjustments are made. Clicking on a preview monitor dictates which clip is adjusted, and Ctrl-clicking moves them together so the overall length of both clips is unaffected.
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