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Summary: No good for DVD
Review: After reading so many great reviews about this product, I bought it. I have used MGI, ArcSoft, Windows MovieMaker 2, and others. I was very happy with the ease of use and powerful editing features. In fact, bang for the buck, this is the best package I've seen. It includes excellent tutorials, and a really slick interface. Once you get a feel for the layout, it is very easy to use and allows you to edit video, video overlay, add music, sound efffects, etc.... That being said, if you are planning to burn DVDs, get something different! The MPEG 2 output format was apparently an after thought, added to the package, and it produces very poor output.
It appears that the software was designed to output video CD quality, and the DVD ((MPEG 2)output was added later. Either the frame speed does not match the industry standard, or the rendering software is very poor. In either case, the software is useless if you plan to burn DVD. Any motion in your DVD has a trailing effect, making it appear out of focus (almost like a stobe effect). I used the same video clips with MGI, ArcSoft and WMM 2 and got beautiful results when I burned a DVD. Its too bad, because as far as editing, this program wins handsdown!
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Summary: Amazing program, the most powerful I've ever used.
Review: First off, this is a great program, I don't know what I would do without it. It is so easy to trim video to exactly what you want, and the preview window usually renders in real time to show you almost exactly how the finished product will look. VED accepts almost any kind of video file and can render to just about any other format. Unfortunately, the included separate DVD writing software is crap, however, I can render to very nice MPEG 2 video and then use software like Pinnacle Studio (Much better for DVD than editing) to turn the edited video into a great looking DVD in no time. As for the included content, it's really not very impressive, but I use my own music and sound effects collection anyway, and some of the included stock footage is pretty good. I was thrilled that version 1.5 added a third video track as well as chromakeying (AKA Green/Blue screen). Some features I would love to see in future releases include reverse video and audio, rendering to different aspect ratios, and high resolution rendering (maximum now is 800x600). Still, VED is an awesome program and I wouldn't trade it for anything else I've ever used. Good job Nova!
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Summary: Not what I thought it was
Review: I bought this product to edit (mainly) MPEG-II and Real Media files. It does neither.
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Summary: Great Program
Review: I had tried 3 different programs (including 2 Ulead programs) for editing videos before I bought this one. This has been the easiest to learn and understand. It's easy for me to transfer my DV movies straight to the computer and put them on VCD. I can adjust the sound, create overlays, add sounds, music, titles, and several effects; it's endless. I've also made some slide shows from photos that were scanned in. The best part is that once you create the movies/videos, you can save them in just about any format--this is great because anyone can watch the video without having to buy the software.I can't judge the quality of the DVD writing experience, as I have yet to create a DVD with the Video Explosion.
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Summary: This is the one to get
Review: I tried and returned every other video editing program before I found this beauty. Its very easy to use, very powerful, and Nova actually provides customer support....In one day, I made three beautiful VCD's with several audio tracks, titles, effects etc. etc. If I can do that, believe me folks, you can too. Not sure how it works with DVD's as we don't have a burner. But VCDs play in most DVD players (ours at least) and the quality is pretty good. All I know is this: Every other program I tried on Windows XP had some huge frustration, hangup, or unexplained procedure that should have been simple (eg burning to disc) but was instead a nightmare. (Maybe its XP) This package was a breeze.
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Summary: This is the one to get
Review: I tried and returned every other video editing program before I found this beauty. Its very easy to use, very powerful, and Nova actually provides customer support....In one day, I made three beautiful VCD's with several audio tracks, titles, effects etc. etc. If I can do that, believe me folks, you can too. Not sure how it works with DVD's as we don't have a burner. But VCDs play in most DVD players (ours at least) and the quality is pretty good. All I know is this: Every other program I tried on Windows XP had some huge frustration, hangup, or unexplained procedure that should have been simple (eg burning to disc) but was instead a nightmare. (Maybe its XP) This package was a breeze.
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Summary: Another video editor with A/V sync problem
Review: I was hoping to get a video editor that does not have A/V sync problem that seems to plague all other video editors including Video Deluxe 2.0 and Pinnacle Studio 8.x. Unfortunately, this one has the same A/V sync issue if the video being rendored has lots of motion and scene transition. If the video has lots of transitions, the audio and video will lose sync and many video frames will be dropped (this is during the rendering phase which is NOT done in real time). This makes the software useless for me.
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Summary: Very flexible product, easy to use!
Review: I'm currently (slowly but surely) working on transforming over 100 hours of analog tape to digital format. It does take a long time to render videos from analog to mpeg format, but for my purposes, it works wonderfully! This is the product I've been waiting for since I realized that watching hours of video where nothing happens just to see a couple of good parts is not fun for anyone. It's very easy to cut out digital clips, easily and accurately, and set them to background music, add sound effects or video effects, or even clean up video. I had a bad habit of taking video in lower light conditions than I should have, but this product even helps clean up errors like that. I haven't used the full range of features yet, but so far the only problem I've encountered is that sometimes the effects that render in the final product are much more extreme than what shows in the preview. For example, I increased the saturation on a segment of video, to make the colors appear more vibrant, but when I rendered the video to mpeg, the final product was more than just vibrant, the colors were pretty much neon and different than the original (blue lips, etc.). But, overall, I would definitely recommend this product!
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Summary: flexible and easy to use
Review: I've been using this product for about a month now, and found it to be an amazing piece of software. It is very easy to learn, and has so many options you can do just about anything to your movie that you can think of to do. It makes editing a movie a snap. The only oddity is in DVD rendering, where I had the best results using the 'medium' setting for MPEG2, rather than the 'better' setting. If you want a powerful video editing package that is also easy to learn and use, this is the one.
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Summary: flexible and easy to use
Review: I've been using this product for about a month now, and found it to be an amazing piece of software. It is very easy to learn, and has so many options you can do just about anything to your movie that you can think of to do. It makes editing a movie a snap. The only oddity is in DVD rendering, where I had the best results using the 'medium' setting for MPEG2, rather than the 'better' setting. If you want a powerful video editing package that is also easy to learn and use, this is the one.
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