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Well, this is sort of a double post, but after using the tool a while I feel that my original post was a bit biased. It is absolutely true that your source media must be 720x480 or the associate PAL resolution. If is isn't, the tool assumes your souces has missing pixels and creates a distorted video with wide black bars on each side. Once you get around this limitation though, this video editor is top rate IMHO. All of the actually editing features are easy to use and the tool provides a good depth of functionality and flexibility for editing. This is easily the best tool of its type I've used (winproducer, video studio). I've yet to have it crash while editing or exporting (importing is not as robust). Its output supports most compressed formats but does not allow AVI to be exported. Its MPEG generation parameters are tunable (though your stuck with either full DVD, SVCD or VCD resolutions) and the results are very good quality. If you want, you can author your project and write it to DVD with this tool.
IMHO this is a tool that could have been a "run-away" great video editor for the consumer market if it had supported more than one input project resolution, and supported AVI output and more MPEG resultions. Its a shame that they did this since the inner workings are so great and extensive. (I've converted 352x480 footage to 720x480 just so I could use the tool. The results are excellent, with very little if any quality loss; though it still pains me to do this.) |
