Ok then! Ho ho ho it’s time for some juicy Christmas specials from our favorite video editing software companies!

Alright I guess what I should be doing is filtering the multitude of discounted video editing software information that I am receiving daily and post them all up here. Quite frankly that sounds like work to me and by the time I cut and paste and upload the images and the other stuff… you know… blogging… well it all seems a bit hard really.

So here’s the deal, or should I say here are the deals! Through the wonders of the internet I have gathered together the basic discount links from most of the big players in the video editing software field. None of these links below go to a particular discount but go generally to whatever discount that company has going at the moment.

Because we are heading into the Christmas season some of the deals will chop and change around but the links will always go to whatever special deal is going at the time.

My advice is to go here Video Editing Software Reviews and check out which software you think is good for you. Then use the trials to make sure we all play nice on your computer set up. Then hit the applicable link here to go directly to the discount page and see what you get.

Magix Movie Edit Pro and Magix Video Pro X

CyberLink PowerDirector 8

Corel VideoStudio Pro X2

Save 40% on Corel VideoStudio Pro X2. Was $99.99. Now only $69.99 & Free shipping on orders over $99. Ends 12/15/09 Ok this one may possibly have been extended until Jan 11th 2010. They haven’t been real clear on which version they are talking about so try this coupon code anyway and see what happens!

SANTAVS (all caps)

Adobe Premiere Elements 8 and Photoshop Elements 8

Roxio Creator 2010

Roxio Creator 2010

Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio Discounts

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Well it’s good news and bad news today so lets start with the good news.

DivX announced that they have finally released a version of their excellent DivX Pro encoding software for Mac users. DivX is probably one of the best compression codecs on the market today providing amazing quality from tiny file sizes.

Here’s how they have cheerfully presented it:

“Spring is here and in full swing and with it, we have launched our newest product offering, DivX 7 for Mac. With HD Playback, Gesture Controls, superior AAC, and Support for DivX video creation, DivX 7 for Mac has everything you need to create and play high quality DivX videos.”

And now news from the dark side:

Corel Announces Workforce Reductions

Corel have announced a reduction worldwide in their workforce citing the current economic downturn as the reason why.

Personally I think that’s bollocks (rubbish for those of you unfamiliar with the term bollocks!).

In their annual report to investors last year they blamed many of their products “reaching the end of their life cycle” as a cause for their financial woes. I think more to the point they have failed utterly to develop their products in response to consumer needs to keep them fresh and marketable.

Speaking of marketing… well they just don’t really.

I am sure the takeover of Intervideo last year was a move by Corel to get a hold of some fresh product via the Ulead range of video editing tools and software but then they promptly dumped Media Studio Pro and Cool 3D which were two wonderful programs.

Since then they have been picking over the carcass of Media Studio Pro and incorporating the the pieces into VideoStudio resulting in VideoStudio Pro X2 but unless they get the concept of product development through their heads they will fade from view there as well.

In its current incarnation VideoStudio Pro X2 can hold its own amongst the likes of Cyberlink Power Director, Adobe Premier Elements and Pinnacle Studio et al but this is a competitive market of the quick and the dead. Compare Corel’s sluggish motion on a number of fronts with the all out “balls to the wall” attitude of Magix at the moment.

Magix have come out with all guns blazing with a very, very good consumer level video editing suite in Magix Movie Edit Pro 15 as well as a top end “prosumer” suite called Video Pro X which is clearly aimed at the serious enthusiast.

As an example of Corel’s slow descent into unconsciousness let’s take a look at their “user to user” forums. The old Ulead forum was a hive of activity back in the day but since Corel have taken over it has become a graveyard by comparison. Over 9 months ago problems with the software the board was running on were being reported… and reported… and reported with Corel all the while sitting on their corporate hands doing nothing.

It is hard to comprehend an act of greater business stupidity than to allow one of the most powerful selling points of your premier software to sink slowly into the swamp for the sake of a server upgrade and a $100 software update! Yet that seems to be the case here.

Time will tell as to whether Corel can get their act together or whether VideoStudio goes the way of a few other good programs that fell into their clutches!

Just spotted this press press release from Avid Technology the makers of Pinnacle Studio and the very…very! upmarket Avid range of pro video editing software and tools.

Remember, it is a press release so read through the cheesy language! It seems to indicate that the software will only handle .mov files but I haven’t had a chance to check it out for myself.

“Free software makes it easier to create and share entertaining videos on the Web

Tewksbury, Mass, April 14, 2009 – Avid Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) today unveiled VideoSpin® 2.0 – an ideal solution for consumers with no video editing experience who want to quickly and effortlessly share their entertaining videos on the Web. Currently available for free download at www.videospin.com, version 2.0 supports the popular QuickTime® (.mov) file format, providing users with even greater flexibility in how they import videos for editing.

Based on the award-winning Pinnacle Studio™ software, ranked the #1 consumer video editing solution in the U.S. and in major European countries1, VideoSpin has attracted more than 1.5 million users since its initial launch last year. Consumers praise the VideoSpin software for its simplicity in allowing them to quickly create fun videos and share them with friends and family, via email or the Web.

Unlike many other free video editing software packages, VideoSpin does not require users to connect to the Web to create videos.  Users can simply download the application once and edit their work offline. Further, the VideoSpin software doesn’t impose any file size limitations – an important consideration for consumers editing longer videos or videos taken on higher-resolution devices.

VideoSpin 2.0 offers the following enhancements:

* Support for QuickTime file import – now digital still camera and video camera owners can easily import QuickTime files and create compelling movies and slideshows;

* Fit-to-Fill Timeline – with a simple click of a mouse, users can automatically remove the black bars that occasionally appear on videos and photos that do not conform to the timeline aspect ratios;

* Added widescreen support for uploading videos to YouTube;

* Improved overall performance that results in faster editing response times; and

* A streamlined registration process for quicker download

Availability

VideoSpin 2.0 is designed for use with Windows XP and Vista, and is now available for download at no cost. To download VideoSpin or learn more about the supported formats, visit: www.videospin.com.”

Well that sounds rather brilliant as you would expect from a press release! I would be interested to hear from anyone who has taken it for a… wait for it…spin! Hawhaw! get it? VideoSpin… take it for a spin… ah forget it!