The most technically ambitious new feature adds a Track Motion function to VideoStudio X6. The inability to delete the first and final keyframes is another frustration which can lead to unnecessary extra work. Separate keyframe lanes would have made the process easier to manage. For example, after creating ten keyframes to animate a logo around the screen, the only way we were able to adjust its size or add a drop shadow was to apply the changes to each of the ten keyframes, one by one.
The proliferation of controls also makes animation using a single set of keyframes cumbersome. There’s no obvious reason why the new controls couldn’t have been built directly on the old ones, with existing settings transferred over to the new editor. When clips have been resized, repositioned or had a drop shadow applied using the old controls, opening the new Customize Motion editor discards the previous edits without warning. The old and new controls appear to be at odds with each other, though. It isn’t as sophisticated as Premiere Elements, which has Bézier keyframes for both direction and velocity, but it’s a huge improvement over the crude animation tools in VideoStudio X5. It offers skew controls and rotation in three axes for 3D perspective effects, and drop shadows, borders and variable opacity are included, too. It supports curved paths between keyframes, and can ease motion in and out to avoid abrupt starts and stops. Over in the main editing environment, the new Customize Motion editor greatly improves VideoStudio’s ability to animate text, graphics and video around the frame. Stop-motion is a niche feature, especially when it’s limited to Canon DSLRs, but VideoStudio X6 does it better than any other consumer software. Setting our camera to its lowest 2,592 x 1,728 resolution reduced file sizes and allowed for smooth playback of our animation, while still capturing enough detail for final export at 1080p. It’s worth lowering the camera’s resolution during capture, however.
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The picture can be cropped to a 16:9 aspect ratio, but this seemed to confuse the software – it’s best to crop after capture.
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