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I must be one of the lucky ones. 3.0 works pretty darn good for me. I've compared it with Vegas and MovieFactory. Didn't like moviefactory at all, so most of my test compared Vegas to Powerdirector 3.0. Quality wise, I can't really tell the difference (I've burned many DVD-RWs of the same footage from my camcorder and played on home theater system). However from a learning curve, I was able to use anything in powerdirector without having to go to the manual. Vegas has many more bells and whistles but I found it fairly hard to make it do what I wanted it to do unless I read the manual (and even then I couldn't get it to do some things). If I was going to make this my #1 hobby, I'd probably stick with Vegas. Since I'm not, I guess I'll purchase the full version of 3.0 (I'm using the trial right now).
Now for the bad. I've already purchased Powerdirector 2.55. It crashes whenever I manipulate an AVI file (3.0 doesn't have this problem). Back and forth with customer service without any luck...they've asked me to try lots of things without success. Hope I don't have problems later with 3.0 because I don't have a lot of faith in their customer service.
BTW, why is powerdirector under DVD Authoring instead of Advanced Video Editing? |
