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This is not your typical video editor for the PC market. The handling of MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 standards is superb. It is the perfect replacement for Windows Joke Maker and those typical video editors that are either too professional, bloated and difficult to use or too less full-featured and don't support all the common video formats. For import, MPEG Video Wizard DVD supports AVI, MPEG-1/DAT, MPEG-2/VOB, MP4 container!, WMV/ASF, RealMedia (RM/RMVB), Flash Video (FLV), QuickTime (MOV) and maybe other formats too (you only need the necessary DirectShow decoders installed-ffdshow is enough). For audio too, it supports MPEG Audio, Dolby AC3, WMA, MP3 etc. Directly trimming VCD and DVD files with frame accurate precision is possible without messing up the file's GOP. Smart encoding is supported for MPEG1/2, you can create your own export templates, it also supports exporting to AVI (Video for Windows), QuickTime (MOV) and MP4 (Normal, iPod/PSP compatible with AAC audio!). The H.264 encoding implementation is fast and decent. All exports I've done are clean, fast and usually don't fail, the video files produced are standard compatible (not like most video editing apps where the output file's header or something is broken, improperly written). The MPEG Multiplexing/Demultiplexing function is very easy to fix any GOP and AV sync errors. Lots of filters/effects are available as well as plenty of 2D and 3D transitions. A cool feature for adding default fade ins/fade outs exists which does smart rendering at only the beginning and end when exporting. The title editor is decent too with nice motion effects.
The input window supports is responsive when browsing through the video file, scrubbing is supported. Batch processing of videos is also supported!
A few features as of version 4.0.4 are lacking such as trimming AVI files (VirtualDub can do this), trimming WMV (Windows Media File Editor can do this) and trimming/smart rendering MP4/MPEG-4/H.264. WMV export is also sorely missed. The DVD authoring feature is quite basic, you can do basic templates but not polished fancy video menus, however creating chapters and titles separately is very well implemented. Quite a lot of attention is given to minor details in this app, is stable if you only install ffdshow and don't overload your system with codec packs resulting in codec hell. Overall, the current best *consumer-level* video editor IMHO for Windows, easy to use, quite full-featured, performance and format support is simply great! Also, it doesn't support AVCHD yet, let alone AVCHD smart rendering.
The best is the customizable and flexible rightly done export options with usually crash-proof clean and fast media file exports. Unlike most video editors on the market which require special addins for Dolby AC3, MPEG-4, H.264 and sometimes even MPEG-2, this app has it all out of the box. |
