But if you hold CTRL when you start dragging it (which seems the logical choice to me!) the drag operation won’t work at all. If you don’t hold CTRL when you drop it, the clip appears in a rectangle rather than filing the shape. You have to start dragging the clip without holding the CTRL button but you have to remember to hold down CTRL before you drop it. The keyboard shortcut for doing this is a bit weird though. You can then drag video clips onto these tracks. When you add one of these templates it automatically adds each ‘shape’ onto its own track in the timeline. There is also a split-screen editor to let you make your own templates that can include all kinds of fancy shapes such as circles, stars and hearts. These templates divide the screen into multiple geometrical shapes. For example, split-screen templates were one of the new features added to Cyberlink’s latest edition of the competing video editor, PowerDirector 16 ( see my review). These seem to be quite fashionable at the moment. Video Studio Ultimate 2018 comes with a range of split-screen templates. In the Capture area you can grab video from a connected camera or you can start the screen capture tool to record video direct from your computer screen. You can select these by clicking tabs at the top of the screen. In addition to the video editing environment there are also ‘Capture’ and ‘Share’ environments. To the left of the Library there is a set of buttons that can be clicked in order to browse through sets of Transitions (fades, wipes, page-folding effects and so on), Titles (to add animated text effects), Graphics (static images), Effects (everything from coloured ‘filters’ to sparkles, ripples, distortion effects and rotations), and Paths (to move selected videos in predefined directions). The user interface of Corel Video Studio provides a multi-track timeline, where you arrange your video and audio clips over which there is a video preview window and a Library pane in which source files are arranged. You can scale and crop the videos interactively in the preview window (top left) It may not be suitable for high-end pro users but it has everything that you’d need to make good quality promotional and educational videos for your company or to publish on YouTube. Video Studio Ultimate 2018 is the latest release of Corel’s video editing package suitable for home and professional users.

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