Corel Digital Studio 2010 Giveaway: Win 1 of 10 Copies

[Jason Dunn]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1186000605036' target='_blank'>http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satell...t/1186000605036</a><br /><br /></div><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1254244359.usr1.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #d2d2bb;" /></p><p>It's time for another giveaway! Corel has donated 10 copies of their brand new <a href="http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1186000605036#tabview=tab0" target="_blank">Digital Studio 2010</a> software. This is a suite of digital tools that allows you to edit and organize your photos, edit and share your videos, burn and watch DVDs, and a lot more - including the ability to make photo books and calendars. The software retails for $99 so that's $990 worth of software we're giving away. A big thanks to Corel for their generosity!</p><p>Now, on to the contest: Digital Studio 2010 <a href="http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Product/1186000605036#tabview=tab2" target="_blank">has a bunch of features</a> and, the video below is a partial walk-through of some of them. In order to enter this contest, I want you to post a message telling me what feature in Digital Studio 2010 looks the most useful to you, or tell me how you'd use the software. Have a project you'd like to use it for? Or some video footage you've been meaning to edit? Tell me how you'd use the software, and I'll randomly select 10 posts as winners. That's it!</p><p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="600" height="360" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMaTTnl7Q0k&amp;ap=&fmt=18" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MMaTTnl7Q0k&amp;ap=&fmt=18"></embed></object></p><p>The contest will run until <strong>12pm GMT -7 on October the 19th</strong> - I want to ensure everyone has a chance to enter. Winners will be contacted via private message, and will have 72 hours to claim their prize, so make sure you check your forum inbox on the 19th. Better yet, subscribe to this thread and turn on instant notifications. This contest is open to anyone in the world, so I hope to see a lot of entries!</p>

[paschott]

Video editing and making DVDs. I have a ton of old footage that I need to convert into something that can be shared and just have not done so yet.

[Rob Cannon]

I would use it to make my wife happy. She is the photographer and would love something like this.

[GreatDay]

Well I could start getting pretty excited if this were actually the answer to my combined 'photo and writing' book projects. The creative project organizer speaks to me.

[mrozema]

I would get the most use out of the video editing and photo slideshow features. It's a great way to share vacation memories with family and friends.

[uzziah0]

I have several home videos on DV tabes, and I would like to get clips out of them and onto a DVD, or a few DVDs. I've made complete copies of a few tapes, but the MS software is so slow, that I've been holding off. And, now it is worse, because I have even more tapes.
Something quick and easy would be great, I have hopes for the movie making feature.

[leslietroyer]

I have a backlog of video's to pull off the digital-8 video -- so I would use it to make DVD's

LEs

[Stinger]

Easy uploading the Facebook sounds good.

[ptyork]

To me, because most all of this functionality is available in other (free) apps, the biggest draw is how well it all seems to be integrated. Also, since my wife would likely be the main user, I like how it hides (but still enables) all of the advanced photo and video editing options.

[andrew_lee]

I'd use it to organize and share my photos, and get started editing photos and making things like photo books and calendars.

[timtam]

As for me, Digital Studio 2010 is useful and looks very attractive because of the way all the features are integrated together in one package.
I would enjoy using only one application instead of multiple programs from various vendors to manage and edit the digital memories I have accumulated over the years. I will use it mostly for family pictures and videos.

[Bob Christensen]

The calendar program looks interesting since I haven't found one yet that I like. Also, the photo books; I've created some online photo books with mixed results. Maybe this one is better!

[bjctsm3]

see if this will be a nice additional to my Corel Print Shop ( my primary photo editing app).

[wererich]

OMG! What wouldn't I do with this program? I could finally get rid of all those folders I have set up for organization that really aren't organized. With all of my scrapbooking projects, I could make a DVD and send them out to family members for gifts. I could even finally put some photos onto my iPod! What a great contest. Thanks so much for the chance!:D

[cmchavez]

being able to edit dvd's and burn them to disk in Windows 7 is what I look forward to.

[firedog]

I'd use it for video editing and photo organizing.

[krom]

I would use this to finally get my 8mm camcorder home videos off tape edited and on DVD. Right now we just have them backed up unedited to VHS tape. From there I can also get them up on our WHS. Thanks for the opportunity.

[Ploobers]

I'd use it for the more scrapbooky features since I abandoned Photoshop Elements a few years ago.

[Reid Kistler]

Like the integration between photo & video organization and editing, without having to run separate apps. Non-destructive editing of photos is also a plus.

Would use the app to create DVDs containing both short video clips and still photos - and hopefully be able to do so in a Vista / Win7 environment(!).
(Current tool requires re-booting system to XP, as haven't found the Magic Touch to make it happy under Vista....)

[jazboy01]

Well i looked the features of corel Digital studio 2010 features. I like some of these features specially creating photo book, trimming video etc. I don't have any particular software for photo editing and video editing. I have 1 and half year old son at my home. I have lots of video and photos of him. But i never organized them properly. I will take this corel digital studio as an opportunity to organize them in better manner. I will make movies of my kid's photo and will take a back up on my external hard drive. The good part is that i can use trimming video to cut unnecessary part from my kid's video which i didn't realize while shooting video but latter i realized that this has also came into video which doesn't look good.

[DavidHorn]

The easy importing of AVCHD video content. It's a nightmare on any platform at the moment - iMovie destroys the quality and Movie Maker doesn't know what to do with it. I've resorted to archiving the whole SD card to protect the video.

TBH, with 8GB cards so cheap now I'm tempted to use them like tapes, and just buy new ones. Content should last indefinitely anyway. However, this app will make it a lot easier to deal with them for editing!

[oguime]

It`s nice being able to edit HD video nowadays. I wonder if it can read mp4 files from a Flip Mino HD...

[asims]

I think the photo book creation looks sweet. And if it's that simple to create one, just how easy would it be to create other projects using the templates!

[gcurrie]

Two features stand out for me - the integration of photos and videos, so that you can have a video that includes key photos (e.g in case there is no video footage for a particular scene) and the non-destructive aspect of editing.

[reconwireles]

I would take the big stack of mini DV's and finally get around to capturing and editing them... before I lose too many more of them to the kids mischief. I would also take the thousands of digital photo's I've accumulated over the years and organize and tag them.

[rombo]

I could use the Express Edit and Organizer functions to reduce the glut of 2,000 pics on my hard drive.

Rombo

[Jason Dunn]

The contest is now over, and the winners are:

Stinger, timtam, Bob Christensen, cmchavez, firedog, krom, Ploobers, jazboy01, gcurrie, rombo

Thanks to everyone for entering!