Smart features do more for you

Work faster and focus on the creative parts of your project thanks to new time-saving features. Get pro-quality audio with new Audio Ducking, which automatically adjust background sound to keep dialog or narration clear. Plus, it’s much easier to keep track of the clips you’ve used, re-use clips from other projects, and save and re-use custom Filters and Transitions.

New creative possibilities

Enhance your video with the refined effects in VideoStudio Pro X8. Get more control over how overlays blend with the background, create interesting effects with Video Masking and Freeze Frame. Convert titles to Alpha Channel files for professional results. Plus, get over 100 presets in 10 plugins from NewBlue.

Faster and more compatible

VideoStudio Ultimate X8 builds on its proven 64-bit performance with improvements in playback and rendering. Plus, 4K hardware acceleration delivers over 400% faster 4K and HD rendering than the previous version when using the latest Intel 5th generation chips. New XAVC S support means you can keep pace with the latest standard for video cameras for truly stunning movies.

Balance dialog, narration with background sound for pro-quality audio. With Audio Ducking, VideoStudio Pro X8 detects audio or narration and automatically lowers the volume of background sound. Adjust the Ducking Level and Sensitivity if you wish for even more control.

Work with XAVC S, a new standard for video cameras based on MP4-AVC/H.264, and get support for resolutions up to 4K 3840 x 2160.

Enjoy a variety of effects options by adjusting how overlay objects blend with the background. With new Add, Multiple and Grey Key options, you can create unique semi-transparent and color blend results. Use a video mask to hide or reveal different parts of your video for interesting special effects or title sequences.

Whether it's a beautiful smile, your child scoring a goal or stunning scenery, sometimes you want to add extra impact by temporarily stopping the action to focus on a single frame. The new Freeze Frame feature makes it easy to select the frame and set the duration to get the effect you want.

Create stylish, professional-looking titles by converting them to alpha channel images or animations.

Create incredible special effects with bonus tools from industry leader, NewBlue. Video Essentials II offers over 100 presets in 10 plugins to create vignettes, enhance and adjust color, and much more. TitlerEX gives you a professional way to create 3D titles for your video.

Easily keep track of the clips you’ve used in your video. Thumbnails in the Library show a check mark when the clip has been used to help you avoid reusing the same footage. Re-use your existing video projects thanks to Multiple Projects Editing. Easily save and re-use your customized Filters or Transitions in future projects.

No movie is complete without a soundtrack. Add music with the included Scorefitter library of royalty-free sounds and songs—they even automatically adjust to fit the length of your movies.

Capture the mood of your movie with the perfect soundtrack. Get 17 royalty-free music tracks from Triple Scoop Music.

More mosaic types and better size control let you perfectly blur a face or car plate in your clip. Easy motion tracking also lets you target and track moving objects on screen and connect them to elements such as text and graphics.

Recording directly from your screen is a great way to add custom content to presentations, demos or training videos. With enhanced Screen Capture, you can easily capture both system audio and microphone sound. Snap View Capture works in Windows 8 to let you record Windows apps in action.

Easily bring your existing organized media folders into the intuitive Media Library. Plus, the enhanced list view in the library helps you edit faster with easy access to more information, including resolution, frame rate and start/end times.

4K hardware acceleration is optimized for upcoming Intel 5th Generation processors, delivering over over 400% faster performance than VideoStudio Pro X7. Overall playback performance in full HD is also enhanced and more tracks can be played in real time.

Enjoy more compatibility with import support for MKV files, which act as multimedia containers that can hold video, audio and subtitles in a file. New support for MOV (H.264 format) has been added to VideoStudio’s variety of export options, which include AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, QuickTime, WebM, Windows Media Format, HTML5 and more.

Make movies and slideshows in just 3 steps. Select a template, add your media and share your movie to Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo. Save your project to a variety of video formats.

Access a wide range of learning resources from within the Help menu. Search the latest Help, download the User Guide (PDF), or watch one of the many video tutorials in the Discovery Center.

Multi-track editing allows you to combine multiple levels or sequences of video, photos, graphics, effects and titles. VideoStudio Pro X8 lets you layer your content onto up to 21 easily customizable multimedia tracks, plus add transitions and effects.

Toggle between simple storyboard editing and more advanced multi-track timeline editing according to your preferences or project needs.

Import music, voiceover, sound effects or the audio of your choosing and easily sync up to your timeline. Record your own voice, apply royalty free auto-music and easily control the relative volume of your clips.

Get the right look for your production with drag-and-drop transitions that deliver easy fades, dissolves, wipes and many other effects.

Add on-screen text effects, such as credits, captions, or subtitles, and customizable attributes such as color, font and animation. Apply motion to your text using title animation tools or apply filters to your text using preset Title Effects.

Use drag and drop effects, or Cut and Paste Attributes from one clip to another. Swap overlay tracks without losing any information.

Evoke drama by using slow motion, or speed things up for a unique time-lapse effects. With enhanced Variable Speed controls, it's easy to alter the speed in any part of your video without having to work with multiple video clips.

Experiment and add a unique look to your videos and photo slideshows with your favorite transition effects. Select only the transition effects you want and add them to the Random Effects category.

VideoStudio Pro X8 delivers complete DVD and AVCHD authoring in one complete video production workshop. Use comprehensive built-in disc authoring tools to save your videos and photo slideshows to DVD, AVCHD or ISO disc image.

Customize the movement of graphics, titles, objects and video clips. It's the perfect way to create dynamic videos featuring picture-in-picture and other pro-quality effects. Plus, save your customizable motion to a Path library for quick and easy reuse.

Now, you can create full-HD stop motion videos using your DSLR camera. Bring the processing power and unique lens capabilities of your DSLR to life and create stop motion films your audience won't forget.

Import animated sequences with transparent backgrounds using new built-in support for QuickTime movies containing alpha channels. Now you can make animations and video effects in popular 2D and 3D animation packages and then use them directly in VideoStudio Pro X8.

Share movies anywhere with full support for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and Sony PSP, as well as Windows and Android smartphones. View your video masterpiece no matter where you are.