Quote: "Took a look and for $69 it seems like a good solution for the features you get. Still avisynth can do all that but it's free.
Looking forward to your review."
It seems pretty good so far. Apart from Windows Update shutting down my PC mid installation, thus causing me an hour of installation corruption recovery, things have gone pretty smooth.
It could handle the large files easily. It makes lo-fi versions for the editing process, which speeds things up a lot. Impressed with that. Rendering a 10 minute HD video took 11 minutes, so I was pretty much watching it in realtime as it rendered. Impressed with that too.
The interface is fairly straight forward if you've done any editing before, and overall it seemed reliable. I did return to my PC after lunch to find it had blue screened and rebooted. Not sure if PowerDirector was the culprit, as I normally use my XP partition, not this Win7 one, though I'm using this for editing so I can use my 8GB ram (no HD loading went on at all, which is good!).
I had a quick play with the effects and there seemed fairly easy to use. There's a lot too it, like particle effects and things, which seemed a bit overkill for a boring biking video, so I'll play with them another day. It's currently uploading the video I rendered straight to YouTube, which is a good feature too, so it's in the ideal format.
It has a built in audio editor, so you can click edit audio on any clip, and it exports it as a WAV then opens it in it's own audio editor. As someone who does a lot of audio work, it's truly woeful, so I'll use my own editor in future, but the fact it exports the sound to a WAV then reimports it when you close the editor means I can easily edit it in an external program.
There are loads of other features I've not tried yet, but the main things: reliability, speed and ease of use seem to be there, so I would recommend it.
