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Corel VideoStudio Pro X5: CPU Optimization and HTML 5 Output

23.05.2012
With its latest version of VideoStudio Pro, Corel is aiming to crack the Web video production nut. VideoStudio Pro X5 ($80 as of April 30, 2012) is a video-editing application capable of handling everything from start to finish, supplying all that you need to produce videos that you can host, and that play in any HTML 5-compliant browser. But you'll need a computer with one of the latest CPUs to produce cutting-edge video.

HTML 5--What's Hot for Video

To make your videos play on a Web page--as well as on smartphones and tablets--you can upload them to YouTube and use its embed code, or you can host them on your own server. All of the major desktop Internet browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) are compatible with Adobe Flash video content, but significantly Safari on the iPhone and iPad is not. Meanwhile, all of the latest browser versions recognize HTML 5 code, but they don't all play . For example, Chrome and the standard Android browser support and Google's (and YouTube's) own , while Internet Explorer and Safari support only the video format. Firefox and Opera support Ogg Theora and WebM. Due to , no single video format enjoys support in all browsers, so if you want to accommodate all of your website visitors, you must output video in multiple formats and use multiple HTML 5 source tags to instruct browsers to look for a format that they can play.

In light of that, VideoStudio Pro X5's new HTML 5 output feature has the potential to be a tremendous timesaver--not only will it output in multiple formats, but it will also produce the HTML 5 code to support them. The application comes with one HTML 5 template and provides easy access to a few additional ones (all of them especially cheesy) via download; you can drop video clips and still images into the template, and modify the titles with your own text. If the project contains a menu system (similar to that of a DVD or Blu-ray Disc), chapter points in the timeline will serve as links that take viewers to designated points in the composition. VideoStudio Pro X5 provides few output formatting options, other than standard- or high-definition; you can't adjust the quality settings at all.

Corel says that you can open the resulting HTML 5 file in any Web-authoring application, and that's true--but it's not like you're getting a chunk of YouTube embed code that you can simply drop into an existing Web page. Instead, VideoStudio Pro X5 produces a mini website with lengthy CSS files, so if you want to customize the look or add elements, you'll either have to modify the VideoStudio Pro X5-generated files to suit your needs or try to dig out pieces of the source code in those files and then copy the code to your existing pages.

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