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One thing I don't like seeing in a consumer editor is the Media Bins folder in the left source pane – the term 'media bins' should be left to pros from the past. Another help is the Show Me How button, which opens tutorials for common procedures like adding fades or crops. Along the top are the menu row and a toolbar row loaded with small, perplexing icons, but thankfully tooltips appear to explain their functions when you hover the mouse over them.

The interface looks like most video editing software, with a three panel layout dividing the top half of the screen into a left-side source panel and a right-side video preview window, with a timeline running across the entire bottom half of the window. However, the preview window lacks a helpful button you see in most consumer video editors: Jump to last/next edit point, though it does have play-from-start and frame-by-frame advance buttons. You can break any panel out into its own window, and the video preview window has a button that lets you send it full-screen to a second monitor.

The interface is actually one of the most flexible around, in terms of letting you resize and move panels around. Another helpful touch (and almost necessary for this program) is the 'What's This?' button that gives you a cursor that you can click anywhere, and this opens a help page about a program element. The intro tutorial is a wizard that highlights and explains each program feature. When you first run Movie Studio, you'll see its still somewhat too-light-grey interface (you can fortunately change this colour), with a Welcome window in the centre, offering to let you create a new project using common presets, start tutorials, or simply start the editor. Another thing missing in Movie Studio is a storyboard view, which can make arranging clips and applying transitions simpler. These helpfully lead users through the movie creation and delivery process. Unlike those apps, it doesn't have an interface organised by 'modes' – such as one for acquiring media, another for editing, and another for output options. Sony’s interface still looks dated when compared to those three apps. The program has a professional, usable, no-nonsense feel, but it lacks some important aids for consumer-level video editors found in Corel VideoStudio, PowerDirector, and Premiere Elements.

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Once you've got the content in the app, there's next to nothing in the way of metadata to help you organise your media – no keyword tagging, let alone face recognition or auto scene-type detection that you get with Adobe Premiere Elements and Final Cut Pro X. The capture option let me get video from a webcam and camcorder, but there's no stop-motion capture tool like the excellent one in Corel VideoStudio Pro. When you import media files, the program 'builds peaks' for each in order to display its waveform (users have complained about the slowness and instability of this process, but I didn't find it excessively obtrusive).

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The folder browser didn't recognise Windows 7 Libraries, instead making me navigate down to the actual folders containing the media. Clicking the file icon let me import as though it were any other file location, but this button (tool-tipped as just 'Open') actually added all the media to the timeline, when I really just wanted it added to my source tray.

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When I plugged in a USB video camera, no AutoPlay option was added the way other software video editors such as PowerDirector and Adobe Premiere Elements 11 do. Most standard formats are acceptable, but MKV isn't among them, nor is Super HD 4K content – both accepted by PowerDirector. You can import video, audio, and still images from disk, cameras, or camcorders. This is something that's been available in other products, such as CyberLink PowerDirector, for years. Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit support.

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I can't really say this boasts much more than what you get free with YouTube. Sony now offers an online video and photo-sharing service. This claim is based on new split and trim buttons, as well as 3D project templates, and 'enhanced timeline interaction.' Several competitors in the consumer video editing space allow up to 100 tracks. The allowable number of video and audio tracks has been upped to 20 from 10. I'll dig into what's new in more detail, but for those with shorter attention spans, the company summarises it in four bullet points: I'm always happy to see a newly improved application, but for a product with as many difficulties as Movie Studio evidenced in my past testing, I'd been hoping for more than what Sony has given us this time around.

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