For instances where artificial light has turned your video rather blue or yellow, the colour correction tool can help, performing a similar function as the one-touch white balance function found in the feature set of Moving on to the video side of things, and you’ll find that the existing effects, transitions and DVD menu templates are largely unchanged, although the new tools will be of particular interest to anyone whose footage might not be as good as they’d like. If you’d actually prefer to hear less of this kind of thing on your audio, then the Noise Reduction tool can help to clean up your recordings, as well as reducing common issues like wind noise - don’t expect too much from the latter, though, as it’s a bit hit and miss. The last two can be used for stripping the vocals from a music track or adding hiss, crackle and distortion if that’s what’s required. As it stands, however, there are five VST add-ons to choose from, namely a graphic equaliser, an auto leveller, a reverb filter, a karaoke filter and the Grungelizer. It’s no surprise now that Pinnacle owns Steinberg to find a slew of new filters under the audio section of the software, while support for the widely accepted VST format means that third-party developers can add their own in the future. To find what else has changed, you need to dig down a little into the video and audio toolboxes. That said, there are two new additions to the familiar silver front end, with the application now rescaling to fit resolutions of up to 1,600 by 1,200 pixels, and a full-screen preview button that enlarges the low-resolution preview (Esc toggles back to the application). With Studio 9, however, it has achieved this by leaving the already intuitive front end alone, and tucking the new features beneath the surface. Or, in Pinnacle’s case, stepping on the toes of the more advanced NLE software that they sell (Liquid Edition).
One of the problems facing the developers of non-linear editing (NLE) software at the consumer end of the market is improving the application’s capabilities without making it too complicated.
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