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"Mike Kujbida" <kujfam-misleadingspam@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:c5i3qm$1v56u$1@ID-113661.news.uni-berlin.de...
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> Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> > I bought Let's Edit at the recommendation of a video professional in
> > my area who uses Canopus products extensively and swears by them,
> > and I was very disappointed when the very first time I used it, I
> > captured video from my camcorder, told it to save to AVI, and
> > had the program crash. I wrote to Canopus support in the UK
> > (I'm in Europe) and they pretended that this was news to them,
> > despite people on their forum regarding it as a well-known problem.
> > I de-installed LE and resolved to seek a refund.
> >
> > I then tried installing and using the alternative products I had
> > available:
> > Ulead Video Studio that was bundled with a FireWire PCMCIA card
> > and Pinnacle Studio 8 that was bundled with my DVD burner. Both
> > are far more stable and user friendly than LE, but neither of them
> > have features like chroma-keying which are of interest to me. If any
> > of you have a suggestion for an alternative full-featured but
> > reasonably
> > priced tool to replace LE, I'm all ears.
>
>
> Depends what you consider reasonably priced. Have you looked at Sony's
> Vegas? It's got a very full set of features, including chroma-keyer and
> much much more. You can download a trial to play with if you want.
I don't think the price is unreasonable - I pay that much for pro audio
software products from time to tome - but it *is* roughly four times
more expensive than Let's Edit. I'll keep it in mind, though.