With the limited amount of storage available on an iPad, how do you get high-definition video onto it for editing? Pull it from the cloud. The iPad app and the desktop application have new-found integration with Box.net, so you can import and export content to and from either kind of device. Studio 16 comes with 25GB of included storage on Box.net, and if you register your software with Corel, that gets increased to 50GB, an amount that would cost you $20 a month if you were to purchase it directly from Box.net. You can use the service outside of Studio, if you like, but either way, the maximum upload file size is 1GB. When I tried it, the service worked fine, though uploads via my cable-modem service were understandably slow, and Studio will not  allow you to upload more than one file at a time or queue files for uploading. In addition, while it's uploading or importing from Box.net, you can't do anything else with Studio.

Did Corel buy Pinnacle to get its software, or did it merely buy up its competition? I don't pretend to know the company's intentions with its two video editors, but the features, prices, and target market for Pinnacle Studio 16 Ultimate and Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 are very similar, Studio's newest features notwithstanding. Its GPU acceleration doesn't seem fully implemented yet, though, the 3D Vision-based editing requires lots of extra hardware, and the crashing I experienced concerns me. But my impression is that Studio 16 Ultimate is a better product than Pinnacle Studio versions of the past, and picking between Studio and VideoStudio is difficult.