Videopad

Videopad. The cause of many, many headaches during the past two months and since the first time I downloaded it on my laptop. For weeks I tried grappling with insufficient features and demo-versions that didn’t let me move on to the next actualization, all in vain. It’s slow, there’s not a proper downloadable version on the Internet, any version you download it’s temporary and will be obsolete in days, and even though I was about to fall for the usual lie they tell you about buying the actual software in order to get better features and decent outcomes, I simply was – am – unwilling to waste time and money on something that has already been proven to be utterly useless. Nevertheless, duty called and I couldn’t quit the project without it affecting my final grade on Computing, so I coped. Adding to my previous analysis of the programme, after having used up at least ten different demo-versions, I could not longer export any project at all from Videopad owing to the restrictions of these versions, and that has been my major problem for the past weeks. All my work, lost forever. My efforts, forgotten. I had to give everything up and go instead for a cheap, easy, quick project that I was only going to be able to work on at school. So here I am, angrily writing in my desk, completely aware of the damage Videopad has caused, and finally resigned to the fact that this time, in spite of the many hours I invested on my first projects that were likely to turn out perfect, everything I’ve done and spent time on will not be reflected on my grades. So, no, I am not content with this software. I have worked with it for months and the results were poor, slow, and not what I wanted them to be. Whenever I exported something, it came out much slower, with the different tracks and clips mixed up at times I had not programmed them to. After saving more than three times in a session, it closed up and warned me I had no more try-outs in the demo-version and had to buy the professional one if I wanted to continue working. Then, no, I do not want to. It may be useful if you find a good version, decent, at least, considerably inefficient, though, but it is something. If I had nothing else to go on, of course I would have to choose it. But given that my interest on video edition can be repressed for the moment, I’ll simply wait for a better, free, video software that responds correctly and doesn’t leave me hanging when I really need it to work at its best.