It looks like the dam has burst on encoding MPEG2 at consumer prices whilst incorporating frame accurate editing and real time
transitions. Uleads Video Studio 3.0 is a very ordinary consumer market product so it's mass market launching. This means
DVD/broadcast quality and cheap editing.
This surely has to change the face of things, now surely the dam must burst.
I think it's a very recent announcement on:
http://www.ulead.com:80/vs/news0507.htm
it says....
Higher Quality Video, Lower Desktop Requirements
Traditionally, the biggest obstacles to consumer video adoption have been hardware constraints, complexity and picture quality.
These problems are solved when using Ulead VideoStudio together with a video card that integrates C-Cube's DVxplore solution. Users
can now create, edit, and playback DVD-quality MPEG-2 video on low-cost, mainstream PCs that utilize standard EIDE hard disk
drives. DVxplore enables this through MPEG-2 video compression, which has a significantly lower data rate than conventional
Motion-JPEG video. What this means to end users is that they can now work with video files on standard hard drives as well as create
significantly longer video files while using these drives (20 minutes versus a typical 8 minues). VideoStudio's proprietary
SmartRender technology, users can save even more time and disk space. DVxplore-based products allow users to leverage Ulead's
SmartRender "changes only" technology, eliminating the need to re-render entire video sequences when only slight changes have been
made.
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