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Summary: A buggy vesion 2.0
Review: I have made some nice DVDs using Showbiz 2.0, but man was it frustrating. Examples: It does not tell you until burn time that your 1 hour 25 minute video won't fit on a 2-hour disk. There is no "undo" when typing titles. Try to get from the authoring screen to the EDIT screen and the button is greyed out; it takes 1 or 2 pointless clicks to get it to appear. It won't capture until video is present, so you have to rewind your source to get the beginning, then edit out the rewind. With the HP device it was bundled with, it arbitrarily quits in the middle of capture. Hope you folks can point me to something better for my next purchase.
Rating:
Summary: A buggy vesion 2.0
Review: I have made some nice DVDs using Showbiz 2.0, but man was it frustrating. Examples: It does not tell you until burn time that your 1 hour 25 minute video won't fit on a 2-hour disk. There is no "undo" when typing titles. Try to get from the authoring screen to the EDIT screen and the button is greyed out; it takes 1 or 2 pointless clicks to get it to appear. It won't capture until video is present, so you have to rewind your source to get the beginning, then edit out the rewind. With the HP device it was bundled with, it arbitrarily quits in the middle of capture. Hope you folks can point me to something better for my next purchase.
Rating:
Summary: A buggy vesion 2.0
Review: I have made some nice DVDs using Showbiz 2.0, but man was it frustrating. Examples: It does not tell you until burn time that your 1 hour 25 minute video won't fit on a 2-hour disk. There is no "undo" when typing titles. Try to get from the authoring screen to the EDIT screen and the button is greyed out; it takes 1 or 2 pointless clicks to get it to appear. It won't capture until video is present, so you have to rewind your source to get the beginning, then edit out the rewind. With the HP device it was bundled with, it arbitrarily quits in the middle of capture. Hope you folks can point me to something better for my next purchase.
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Summary: What a disapointment
Review: I spent hours putting together a video and slideshow of a friend's wedding in ShowBiz by Arcsoft. The presentation ran perfectly in the preview mode and I was very impressed with the interface and ease of use. The bad news is that I could NOT burn the program onto a DVD, I wasted hours and hours on this software believing that the problem was on my system or a mistake in the configuration of the file. I would not even consider this software marginally useful due to it's inability to output to a DVD. I checked the Arcsoft website and no mention of the above problem was listed although there is a new 2.0 version available. I will leave it up to someone else to beta the new version, my search for functional video editing software will continue... stay tuned.
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Summary: Won't burn DVDs
Review: I too spent a great deal of time working on a project and then found that the system crashed every time I tried to burn a DVD. The editing portion itself is good for anyone starting out doing their own video editing, but if you ever hope to transfer it to DVD then don't bother with this product. Mine came bundled with my HP 200i but won't work at all with this DVD burner. Repeated attempts to get technical help from Arcsoft has just been met with silence on their end - perhaps they too are in the dark as to the problems with this product...
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Summary: Won't burn DVDs
Review: I too spent a great deal of time working on a project and then found that the system crashed every time I tried to burn a DVD. The editing portion itself is good for anyone starting out doing their own video editing, but if you ever hope to transfer it to DVD then don't bother with this product. Mine came bundled with my HP 200i but won't work at all with this DVD burner. Repeated attempts to get technical help from Arcsoft has just been met with silence on their end - perhaps they too are in the dark as to the problems with this product...
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Summary: No problems with Showbiz!
Review: I'm not sure what everyone else's problem is, but I have found Showbiz to be flawless. The software came bundled with my HP dvd300e. I've created a number of DVDs - edited the scenes, added transitions, added audio files, etc. I make the movie file, send it off to my HP and in less than 20 minutes I have my DVD. I have never experienced any of the problems listed in the other reviews.
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Summary: Crash Master
Review: Nice interface, but crashes every time with the HP DVD writer. very disappointing.
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Summary: Might Work by Version 20
Review: Odd...it's very human-friendly, but very computer unfriendly...Software is usually the other way around, isn't it? OK, the UI is fine and I'm able to put together a running video no problem. But, like the other users have complained, it often tweaked my OS (OK, I'm still on Windows 98', but it should work anyway) and absolutely REFUSED to burn DVDs. Like one of the other users here, I was mortified to discover this after spending hours putting together a presentation...and simply had nothing to show for it at the end of the day. Best to look elsewhere.
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Summary: The worst!
Review: ShowBiz is a study in frustration! I only regret that I can't rate it less than 1 star. The program specializes in computer crashes. It simply will not efficiently allow you to create a project, load and edit it, then burn it out to DVD. Along this fairly straight forward route you will encounter repeated error messages including Windows telling you that it needs to shut down ShowBiz because it has created errors. I re-installed the software and even borrowed a second program -- all to no avail. ShowBiz simply will not perform. I gave up and switched to ULead Video Studio 7 and have had NO trouble since. Don't waste your time, effort and frustration on this dog.
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