As a result, on my system, a four-year-old dual-Xeon workstation with 8GB of RAM, a high-end graphics card, a RAID setup, and Windows 7 64-bit, VideoStudio Pro X5 was very slow to produce HTML 5 packages. Furthermore, as of now, you must rely on software rendering to produce WebM files, because no hardware acceleration yet exists. Instead, VideoStudio Pro X5 produces a mini website with lengthy CSS files, so if you want to customize the look or add elements, you’ll either have to modify the VideoStudio Pro X5-generated files to suit your needs or try to dig out pieces of the source code in those files and then copy the code to your existing pages.įor HTML 5 output, VideoStudio Pro X5 produces both H.264 and WebM video files so that it can accommodate all browsers producing two files, however, means additional rendering time. Due to ongoing bickering over patents, no single video format enjoys support in all browsers, so if you want to accommodate all of your website visitors, you must output video in multiple formats and use multiple HTML 5 source tags to instruct browsers to look for a format that they can play.Ĭorel says that you can open the resulting HTML 5 file in any Web-authoring application, and that’s true–but it’s not like you’re getting a chunk of YouTube embed code that you can simply drop into an existing Web page. Firefox and Opera support Ogg Theora and WebM.
For example, Chrome and the standard Android browser support Ogg Theora and Google’s (and YouTube’s) own WebM video format, while Internet Explorer and Safari support only the H.264 video format. Meanwhile, all of the latest browser versions recognize HTML 5 code, but they don’t all play the same video formats.
All of the major desktop Internet browsers (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Opera, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) are compatible with Adobe Flash video content, but significantly Safari on the iPhone and iPad is not. To make your videos play on a Web page–as well as on smartphones and tablets–you can upload them to YouTube and use its embed code, or you can host them on your own server. But you’ll need a computer with one of the latest CPUs to produce cutting-edge video. VideoStudio Pro X5 ($80 as of April 30, 2012) is a video-editing application capable of handling everything from start to finish, supplying all that you need to produce videos that you can host, and that play in any HTML 5-compliant browser. With its latest version of VideoStudio Pro, Corel is aiming to crack the Web video production nut.