On the upside the Magic bullet plug-in allows you to set the scene and define your style and lighting with over one hundred presets, and that has to be an advantage worth considering. If you’re one of those, we don’t think you’d be disappointed from a creative point of view, but at this price point it’s neither entry level nor professional so tempting keen newbies without giving them the option is a little unfair. That doesn’t change the capacity of the software, it just narrows the target in terms of who would choose it. A reality that may push some potential costumers in the direction of products that at least allow them to flip a coin when deciding whether to do it the easy or difficult way. Simple drop and drag makes it easy to place everything that’s needed on the time-line, and with over 500 transitions and effects it would be difficult to run out of choice.Īs usual there’s a but with so many transitions it seems Sony completely forgot to throw in a few templates for the less adept user. Once over the intimidating first glance the guidance from the desktop tutorials will have you up and running relatively quickly.

With everthing on hand, including in-program Show Me How tutorials will get you swiftly on you way for some reasonably rapid results. The Sony video editing software comes packaged along with Sound Forge Audio Studio, DVD Architect Studio for both DVD and Blu-ray authoring…hence the Suite name. Sony Movie Studio Version Tested: Platinum Suite 12

Sony movie studio platinum 12 review