The save-to-disk options appear to be comprehensive but we were mystified to find no 30 frames per second (fps) or 60fps and barely any 24fps and 50fps templates. Destinations include optical discs and social media sites, and profiles for Xbox, PS3 and PSP. The export options have been redesigned to make them easier to use, although the available options are largely unchanged. The Share tab is better laid out than before, but where are the 24fps and 30fps templates? It's switched off by default, though, and most users are unlikely to find or make sense of it. To its credit, VideoStudio has a comprehensive proxy editing mode, whereby footage beyond a specified resolution is converted to a lower resolution to improve preview performance, reverting to the originals for export. All of this footage contains 1080-25p AVC video, and other editors are much more consistent in their ability to handle them. Some formats are inevitably more demanding than others, but it's odd that X7 was able to deliver smooth playback of seven simultaneous streams in AVCHD format, but two streams from a Panasonic G6 (with a MP4 file extension) and only one stream from a Canon EOS 70D (in QuickTime format). Preview performance also varied widely depending on the type of source footage. There was a discernible delay in responding to our input, typically of less than a second but sometimes as much as four seconds for more complex projects. Sadly, the move to 64-bit code hasn’t resolved various issues we've noticed before about VideoStudio's performance. We also saw render times fall by up to 48 per cent, although our test results varied widely from project to project. VideoStudio Ultimate X7 played seven simultaneous AVCHD streams on our Intel Core i7 870 test PC compared to five streams in X6. VideoStudio Ultimate X7 is one of the last editors to make the jump, but it's better late than never.
The move to 64-bit code brings a significant boost to preview performance and export times. There's no shortage of creative effects and animated titles and graphics
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