Studio makes editing movies on your PC as easy as one-two-three

Step One: Capture

After you've installed Studio, attach your camcorder to your video capture device, and capture the video clips you want to use in your project to your computer's hard drive.

Step Two: Edit

Import your video clips, then drag-and-drop them onto the editing timeline. From there, trim the clips, add a 2D or 3D transition and title or two, and sync the whole project up with your favorite music (Studio supports CD, MP3, and WAV audio). Studio even includes SmartSound, which automatically generates music to fit entire scenes in your movie. If you want to get really creative, try out a few of the software's built-in special effects features.

Use SmartMovie, an automatic movie creator, to make the process of moviemaking even easier. Simply select raw video footage, add a favorite song for a soundtrack, and choose an editing style for your finished movie. With one click, Studio creates a professional-looking movie-complete with titles, transitions and special effects-and synchronizes it to the beat and duration of the music.

Make your video look better than when you filmed it with Studio's advanced audio and video correction tools. Use automatic color correction to enhance poorly lit footage and brighten dull, unsaturated video. Experiment with the noise reduction tools to remove unwanted background noises such as camera whine, hiss and wind. Give your productions the full cinema treatment by editing in native 16x9 (widescreen) and mastering your audio using our built-in surround sound editor. And lastly, fix all of your shaky handheld shots using our image stabilization tool. And more tools are on the way! Thanks to Studio's new open architecture, we're providing support for third party developers to create even more exciting audio and video plug-ins that will regularly become available in the coming months.

Step Three: Output

Add menus and chapter breaks and burn a disc that can play in your living room DVD player. Studio saves your finished movie in any number of formats, including AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, RealVideo, or Windows Media Format. Use RealVideo and Windows Media Format to export your video to the web, and use MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 to export your video onto VCD, SVCD, or DVD.