The Secondary Color Corrector, new to version 10, lets you select a limited range of colours in the footage and process only those areas.
The Color Corrector effect has three colour wheels for shadows, midtones and highlights, as well as the full compliment of gain, offset, saturation and gamma controls. The effects library doesn’t have the pizzazz of some of its rivals but its corrective tools are much more sophisticated. Corel VideoStudio X3 just copes with two and Premiere Elements 8 only manages one stream. However, even Movie Studio Platinum’s four streams are a considerable improvement on most other low cost editors. Best of all is Adobe Premiere Pro CS5’s revamped 64-bit engine, which manages ten streams. Sadly, Movie Studio Platinum isn’t available as a native 64-bit application – Vegas Pro is, and it managed six AVCHD streams on the same PC. On our Core i7 test PC, the software managed to play four simultaneous AVCHD streams at this setting. Half the full resolution is a good compromise for 1080p footage. Movie Studio Platinum lets you offset preview resolution against smoothness, so simple sequences can be viewed at full resolution, while complex, effects-laden ones might use a lower resolution to avoid dropped frames. Being able to preview edits as soon as you’ve made them is essential, but the high demands of HD formats, particularly AVCHD, mean editors often drop frames during playback, making it hard to preview works in progress.
It helps that the preview engine is efficient, too.
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