#COREL VS ADOBE VIDEO PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE#

If you work with cameras with fish-eyed lenses, you’ll definitely appreciate the Lens Correction tools. This is also the place to find all the effects you’ve added to a clip - by default you can only add one at a time, but a simple untick will allow you to cram in as many as you fancy. This is where you can apply some colour correction, or change some of the basic parameters like creating a pan & zoom effect across your photo or video. These are all useful timesaving tools.Īny changes you wish to apply to a clip can be done via the Options Panel. There are even Smart Guide Alignments to make it easy to position a clip to the centre, and an aspect ratio button to resize a clip or photo with the click of a menu. The Viewer Window has a few good tricks up its sleeves too: you can resize clips, skew them, crop them, and move them around directly from there. This works very well and allows you to retime a clip to suit the exact duration you need with ease. One feature we quite liked was the ability to alter the speed of a clip by altering its length directly in the timeline simply by holding down the Shift key and dragging its edges. The list of effects is extremely long, and the fact the thumbnails all look the same from a distance until you mouse over them, makes it tricky to find the right one you want (Image credit: Corel) Effects and transitions As such, we wouldn’t call this editing platform “Pro”. Worse still, you can’t move clips between the overlay and the primary video layers. It is possible to increase that overlay’s size so it takes up the whole space, but that’s very convoluted. Yes, you can add a clip to a second layer, but it’s treated as a picture-in-picture overlay, where the clip is shrunk and placed in the corner of the screen.

Something which is quite limiting, especially for a package advertising itself as “Pro” or “Ultimate”, is the inability to properly work with multiple layers of video. It can be confusing, especially at first, but you do eventually get used to it. In VideoStudio, it’s the opposite: the top track is the main video track, and to place a clip over it you have to add it to the track beneath the main one. Therefore, usually, if you place a video clip on a track above the current one, it will obscure the first clip.

Usually, layers reflect how the real world works: put a piece of paper on top of another and you can no longer see the sheet that’s now under it.

#COREL VS ADOBE VIDEO PHOTO EDITING SOFTWARE#

One thing which takes a while to get used to if you’re used to editing video with other software packages is the fact that the layer concept is reversed. The editing feels familiar yet also different due to the overlay tracks being displayed underneath rather than above the primary layer (Image credit: Corel) Unfortunately veteran editors will miss some traditional keyboard shortcuts like setting In and Out points or scrolling through the edit via the JKL keys. This is a good way to build an edit fast. You aren’t allowed to have any gaps in it so if you delete a clip, any remaining footage to the right of it will move to the left until the gap created by the deleted clip disappears. Although good for novices, the other, more traditional mode view should be your go-to choice of interface, the main advantage being that you can work with multiple tracks. You can switch the Timeline between two modes: “Storyboard”, where each clip is represented by a large square icon, irrespective of its length. The look of the interface feels clean yet antiquated, like something that wouldn’t look out of place in the 1990s. Speaking of the Timeline, this is where you add media to your project and build your video. It is divided into four parts: top of the screen are the Viewer Window, the Library Panel (where you can gain access to your media, and any effects you’d like to apply to your video), and the Options Panel (a floating window where you can fine tune various parameters, depending on what is selected in your timeline). The main Editing section is where you’ll be spending most of your work.

Corel vs adobe video photo editing