I agree. I prefer the way Pixabay handles them, grouped at the top or along the bottom of an image page. I like seeing all the paid results together and they are often related to what I'm looking for, that's a plus.
I wouldn't mind them being in the results as much if there were a few rows of images then a row of paid images then more rows of results.
I find that trying to filter out the paid from and free is distracting. Hard to focus on what you're seeing if there are visual stop signs every handful of images. Others may have no problem with the layout. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have been using Comodo Program Manager for years. It automatically monitors installs and also gives you a option to backup the program you are uninstalling if it has monitored the install. I lets you choose additional leftovers after the uninstall is complete. I always chouse all and have never had a problem,
Hi, talen, sure it does. But in this review only uninstallers that have the feature of cleaning leftover files after uninstallation will be included. Otherwise uninstalling from Windows programs and features would suffice.
This is just a workspace, not the actual review, so will be updating the actual review later on.
Indeed looks useful having all this in one place. But have you tested any of the conversions ? For instance PDF to Word can produce strange results in some hands.
I don't think it's browser specific, but I do think there's something in the coding in some browsers that prevents it from functioning. I just tested it in Waterfox current and classic and Iridium and it doesn't work. I don't have Opera installed. It works in Vivaldi, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Chrome.
I tested some image and some text conversions. I converted a 16 page PDF file to DOCX with no issues. I agree that PDF to Word conversions aren't usually handled well.
File Converter (https://file-converter.org/) may have fewer converting options (there are quite a few though), but doesn't need an Internet connection, doesn't have file size limits, and is comfortably available from the right-click menu. As a long time satisfied user, I definitely endorse this program.
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I'm slightly confused by how this actually works, despite having tested it out. If someone sends me unwanted mail to my real email address, how does this block it? How will I know what has been sent?
It doesn't block email to your real address, it provides an anonymous email address that you can share with anyone, send from, and reply from. To work, you have to send something using the Mailmask email/alias you created when you signed up. You can add as many email addresses as you like.
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sanctuary - a secure synchronous lightweight chatroom with zero logging and total transience:
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Thanks for the heads up, I changed the link. It was working yesterday, but the betanews browser tab read https. The tab has the article title today. The link resolved to a search error page in Firefox today..
Yes it is working correct now for me (also in Firefox).
I did forget to mention that when I hovered over your previous link, it appeared to show the correct link, but took me to the other site.
Funny you got an error page and I got the other site.
Well, all done now.
Thanks
It's absolutely amazing to me that there are so many people willing to poison each other and/or cause them to believe they have protection from a deadly illness, while having none. 135 companies!
This year, for the first time in more than half a century of existing, I really despair. This species is reaping EXACTLY what it has sown.
I needed a quick free email address recently. Only one of the list of providers above didn't demand my phone number at the time of registration.
There is no way in hell I'm giving my phone number to my email provider. More and more, we're giving up our right to anonymity. OK they get our IPs, they browser fingerprint us etc. They can ID us. But it's the principle.
So I resist any service, such as quora, The Conversation and others, that try to gather real world identty info. Next they'll be demanding passports and driver's licences, like FB, the axis of online evil.
I would prefer they have an email account creation option. I rarely give my email address out, I use temporary email addresses. This article is one and there are great services in the comments.
Mikogo is good for screen sharing and online conferencing. Alternatively, you may try tools like on premise R-HUB web video conferencing servers for all your online conferencing needs. It works on all platforms viz Windows, MAC, Android, iOS etc.
AM-Deadlink is useless.
I'm fine with the fact that it won't change bookmarks in a browser, since that could screw things up, but it won't even edit a CSV file. That makes it useless. It tells you if you have duplicates or dead links, but then you have to use something else to do anything about it.
LibreOffice is certainly an outstanding piece of programming work, by hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
However, I don't use it, because it's still missing some basic things. For instance: when I'm using Writer in a 30 page document and want to go to the next page, the Page Down key should get me there. In LibreOffice, it shows part of the current page and part of the next page.
When I go back and forth several pages, I am lost, having no idea where I am. In Microsoft Word, Page Down means exactly that. Simple is good.
The comments in the LibreOffice forum defending the current system are not helpful. Things like "it's a word processor" -- meaning it's not a page processor, so don't expect it to display pages. This feature has been requested for many years, but it's clearly not important to the folks in charge.
After upgrading LibreOffice 6.4.6 to 7.0.0 last week, it was disappointing to find that graphics of documents in the recently-opend pane of Writer were no longer displayed, and that the color pallet had become darker (the two most obvious differences that I encountered).
Since the updated compatibility is not a current benefit for my own needs, I rolled back to 6.4.6 (requiring uninstalling 7.0.0).
No harm, no foul - but I do hope that those two relatively minor issues are addressed in a future update ('guess I'll have to make a post in their thread).
Otherwise, L.O. remains an awesome application (particularly for a Windows user for whom the last version of MS Office that was even merely acceptable was 7).
Yep there are things that don't work well or work the way they do in Office. Bugs don't get fixed for quite some time. Features take a long time to be implemented. When you have a volunteer staff things don't get done on the same time schedule that paid software enjoys. I put in many hours a week here and still don't have enough time to get things done that need doing, either here or in my personal life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I've been using LibreOffice since Jan 2020 and was pretty satisfied until version 7. I downloaded it into a 6 month old ASUS Vivo Book S15 8GB RAM Windows 10 2004, but it would not install. It seemed to destroy some windows files as well which caused me to have to do a clean install of Win 10. I then re-installed LibreOffice version 6.4 which works fine. I am not planning on retrying version 7 any time soon, unless I try it in sandbox for testing first.
That's not a good experience with the new version, I'm sorry it gave you so much trouble. I've had issues with 6.4 where it took over some file associations but that's an easy fix.
This program was cool years ago when there were not so many choices. These days the free versions of Easeus TODO backup, Macrium Reflect Free or even Mini Tool Shadow Maker Free are way better options for WIndows 10.
It is great, it looks great, so it seems at least.
What is less clear is the main issue: the architecture!. What needs to be installed on PC and on tablet? How communication happened...After extensive search/read/guess...I suspect that both your PC and tablet exchange information via an AirDroid "central service" and it is not clear at all how the information exchanged is secured if at all.....
It is a pity this (marginal issue?) is not clearly mentioned in the description: maybe this is "obvious" for most, not for me....
This is another topic where I'm happy to be educated, for my ignorance about the world outside my little shell...
This seems to be a case of "Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's worth doing." I'm having trouble imagining a situation where I would want to zip or unzip files over the internet. Converting PDF files to Word or Excel? Definitely a need for doing that online; the only software which does that well is very expensive to own. But Zip software tools are free to download, and are powerful. Why go elsewhere?
Thanks for your msg Jojo, I appreciate ! It is true that the added information states that encryption is used till Airdroid central service, so that nobody on internet can have access to exchanged data between your devices (PC, tablet) and Airdroid central service. This said, according to me (if I understood things correctly) one issue remains: the program at Airdroid has access to non-encrypted information, since being at the end of two SSL sessions, it has to swap / copy info from one encrypted session to the other.
Relax-and-Recover is a setup-and-forget Linux bare metal disaster recovery solution. It is easy to set up and requires no maintenance so there is no excuse for not using it:
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I can recommend you https://chordchord.com/. This tool help you with building chord progressions. It will help you get some more skills and improve musical compositions as well as suggest you some sweet chord sequences to make music. Basically that's how I learned progressions myself. I'm more hands-on learner so this website worked pretty well for me.
Hi!
This is a great list,It must have taken lot of time to gather such information.I would love if you consider https://iconscout.com/categories/vr/photos for the next time you create something like this.
Thanks in advance!
The posted link redirects to https://ultradefrag.net/en/index.shtml which is for a paid product. The author stopped developing the last free version (7.14) and from version 8 and up is not free.
The posted link needs to be changed to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/
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This is currently my go to video editor, but only because of problems using NCH VideoPad.
Initial impression: it looks familiar with a timeline and a project area to drop clips etc.
The main problem is that it doesn't work like other similar-looking editors. If you have a video on the timeline and want to drop another in front of it, it "overwrites" rather than pushing the existing clip up the timeline. So you end up having to Google how to do the basics and watch a few tutorial videos to do anything. It's a frustrating learning curve, if only the user interface worked like all the others!
Having mastered it, it does a lot.
Some of the other oddities compared to other video editors:
* You don't need to put all the clips, photos etc into the project area and then drag to the timeline. They can be opened, previewed and dragged directly to the timeline
* You can produce an output video directly from the project area (known as a playlist) without using the timeline at all
* Deleting from the timeline by default doesn't close the gap - this has actually turned out to be useful, but not how other editors work. It is easy to close the gap later or there is a setting to control this (but does that setting do something else undesirable, I haven't found out)
* Creating consistent looking titles requires a bit of effort as by default the font size is as large as will fit the text in the text box resulting in different size titles for different pieces of text. This can be fixed but it takes experimentation to get the size of text looking good, it would be nice if the defaults looked good out of the box.
Overall it's not quite as polished as some but is better than a lot of open source.
It's one of the few pieces of software that uses my laptop's AMD Radeon graphics - it gets used for the video preview in the upper part of the screen (the video you see when you press play in the editor). It doesn't get used for final video file rendering however.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did not experience any stability issues.
This would be my go to video editor if it weren't for problems exporting the finished video, sometimes. When I initiated the export process, sometimes it would finish very quickly - appear in the completed videos list but it would produce a very small useless output file, less than 1kbyte. It looks like a bug. When I hit this problem I couldn't find any workaround to make it export properly: tried other output formats and various small tweaks to no avail.
So having put in several hours effort editing a video and then finding it won't export is a major problem even if it works the rest of the time.
It's a shame as this is a very accomplished piece of software. It works fairly intuitively, very familiar to someone who's used other video editing software.
I do still like its stabilize - subjectively on my videos it was marginally better than the stabilize in Shotcut which is my go to video editor (and VirtualDub which I also tested). VideoPad lets you Stabilize from the project area and it produces a stabilized video file directly from there without using the problematic export function.
I suspect that VideoPad's titles are better than Shotcut's but I had already given up with VideoPad before I had a chance to try them.
Apart from not exporting video files properly, here are my other criticisms of VideoPad:
* In most video editors, there is a timecode representing the cursor position on the timeline in the form: "hh:mm:ss:frame_num". The last number goes 0-29 or 0-24 depending on the frame rate. In VideoPad the last 3 digits are milliseconds rather than frame number. Takes a bit of getting used to.
* When adding a video to the project area, it can take a while "indexing video". Then there's a grey/blue progress line and high CPU usage, presumably while it creates a temporary preview file.
* It also uses green progress lines on the edited video in the final timeline probably to show how far it's got in creating a preview of the edited timeline. Again that can take a while to go all green. CPU usage is high while it's doing this.
* I installed the free version and confirmed on each startup that I was using it for personal use. After a couple of weeks it told me the trial was coming to an end soon. Then it told me some features would be disabled unless I purchased it. Finally I'm back to confirming on each startup that I'm using it for personal use. I don't know which, if any, features have been disabled. I was never informed I was using a trial version when I first installed it or subsequently. I don't mind if the free version is limited but it would be nice to know what the limitations are. I can still use multiple video tracks in this "trial expired" free version.
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I agree. I prefer the way Pixabay handles them, grouped at the top or along the bottom of an image page. I like seeing all the paid results together and they are often related to what I'm looking for, that's a plus.
I wouldn't mind them being in the results as much if there were a few rows of images then a row of paid images then more rows of results.
I find that trying to filter out the paid from and free is distracting. Hard to focus on what you're seeing if there are visual stop signs every handful of images. Others may have no problem with the layout. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I have been using Comodo Program Manager for years. It automatically monitors installs and also gives you a option to backup the program you are uninstalling if it has monitored the install. I lets you choose additional leftovers after the uninstall is complete. I always chouse all and have never had a problem,
Hi, talen, sure it does. But in this review only uninstallers that have the feature of cleaning leftover files after uninstallation will be included. Otherwise uninstalling from Windows programs and features would suffice.
This is just a workspace, not the actual review, so will be updating the actual review later on.
Tested it, brilliant application. However it's more suited to power users, nevertheless it's the most advanced power uninstaller I've seen.
Do let me know if any links/games aren't working in this category or no longer freeware. It's been some time I've checked out these games.
The searching is a bit quirky too.
But thanks ... it is a worthwhile site
Hey guys just wanted to let you know this is the current link for the program. https://www.lego.com/en-us/ldd
They no longer release updates. So the version listed is the final one.
Indeed looks useful having all this in one place. But have you tested any of the conversions ? For instance PDF to Word can produce strange results in some hands.
Is this coverrter browser specific because I've tried to convert a few SWF files unsuccessfully using both Waterfox and Opera.
I don't think it's browser specific, but I do think there's something in the coding in some browsers that prevents it from functioning. I just tested it in Waterfox current and classic and Iridium and it doesn't work. I don't have Opera installed. It works in Vivaldi, Brave, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Chrome.
I tested some image and some text conversions. I converted a 16 page PDF file to DOCX with no issues. I agree that PDF to Word conversions aren't usually handled well.
I hadn't run into search issues. I searched 4 different words, not an extensive search.
File Converter (https://file-converter.org/) may have fewer converting options (there are quite a few though), but doesn't need an Internet connection, doesn't have file size limits, and is comfortably available from the right-click menu. As a long time satisfied user, I definitely endorse this program.
Many thanks - helpful. Will try it.
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I hadn't seen that one, it installs so you don't have to be online, and a right click option is great. :)
I have yet to try this, but it looks to be a terrific find. Thanks and well done Rhiannon.
Another terrific service is http://www.e4ward.com/
Gmail lets you forward emails to another email address. You set that up in settings. The thing to keep in mind when you reply to a forwarded address, you are sending from that forwarded address and will reveal your email address. If I want to reply to a forwarded email, I go into that Gmail account that was forwarded and reply from there.
I'm slightly confused by how this actually works, despite having tested it out. If someone sends me unwanted mail to my real email address, how does this block it? How will I know what has been sent?
I'm glad you like it, thank you.
Thanks, that looks like a good one.
Interesting, thank you. I hadn't seen that.
Thanks, that is a good feature of Gmail. I've used it.
It doesn't block email to your real address, it provides an anonymous email address that you can share with anyone, send from, and reply from. To work, you have to send something using the Mailmask email/alias you created when you signed up. You can add as many email addresses as you like.
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Thanks for this!
Opera does not have this but has instead an extension called
Redirect Bypasser
which seems similar though not identical.
You're welcome. It's saved quite a bit of time on my slow internet connection.
Just set this up and tested it. Looks like an excellent service. Thanks
You're very welcome, I'm glad you like it.
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Your link leads me to homeimprovement.com.
It took me a bit to see the difference between your link and the actual link - your link has "http://https.com" before the beta news link:
https://betanews.com/2020/08/05/libreoffice-7/ - real link
http://www.https.com//betanews.com/2020/08/05/libreoffice-7/ - your link
Thanks for the heads up, I changed the link. It was working yesterday, but the betanews browser tab read https. The tab has the article title today. The link resolved to a search error page in Firefox today..
Yes it is working correct now for me (also in Firefox).
I did forget to mention that when I hovered over your previous link, it appeared to show the correct link, but took me to the other site.
Funny you got an error page and I got the other site.
Well, all done now.
Thanks
I've used e4ward for years and loved it. I'll give this one a go also. Thanks Rhiannon.
It's absolutely amazing to me that there are so many people willing to poison each other and/or cause them to believe they have protection from a deadly illness, while having none. 135 companies!
This year, for the first time in more than half a century of existing, I really despair. This species is reaping EXACTLY what it has sown.
You're so welcome. :)
Thanks Panzer, I'll add it to my list. :)
Hmm... Only Mexican products are listed. What are the odds ?
And the rest of the world are saints.
...but the radio stations look nice, and thanks for the article.
I really dislike that there's no email signup.
I needed a quick free email address recently. Only one of the list of providers above didn't demand my phone number at the time of registration.
There is no way in hell I'm giving my phone number to my email provider. More and more, we're giving up our right to anonymity. OK they get our IPs, they browser fingerprint us etc. They can ID us. But it's the principle.
So I resist any service, such as quora, The Conversation and others, that try to gather real world identty info. Next they'll be demanding passports and driver's licences, like FB, the axis of online evil.
I would prefer they have an email account creation option. I rarely give my email address out, I use temporary email addresses. This article is one and there are great services in the comments.
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It's almost impossible to navigate and find what I want. I want Greek folk music, but all I can find is current rock.
Mikogo is good for screen sharing and online conferencing. Alternatively, you may try tools like on premise R-HUB web video conferencing servers for all your online conferencing needs. It works on all platforms viz Windows, MAC, Android, iOS etc.
AM-Deadlink is useless.
I'm fine with the fact that it won't change bookmarks in a browser, since that could screw things up, but it won't even edit a CSV file. That makes it useless. It tells you if you have duplicates or dead links, but then you have to use something else to do anything about it.
THANKS!! This might be what I've been looking for, for a long time.
You're very welcome. This release is a nice improvement.
LibreOffice is certainly an outstanding piece of programming work, by hundreds of dedicated volunteers.
However, I don't use it, because it's still missing some basic things. For instance: when I'm using Writer in a 30 page document and want to go to the next page, the Page Down key should get me there. In LibreOffice, it shows part of the current page and part of the next page.
When I go back and forth several pages, I am lost, having no idea where I am. In Microsoft Word, Page Down means exactly that. Simple is good.
The comments in the LibreOffice forum defending the current system are not helpful. Things like "it's a word processor" -- meaning it's not a page processor, so don't expect it to display pages. This feature has been requested for many years, but it's clearly not important to the folks in charge.
After upgrading LibreOffice 6.4.6 to 7.0.0 last week, it was disappointing to find that graphics of documents in the recently-opend pane of Writer were no longer displayed, and that the color pallet had become darker (the two most obvious differences that I encountered).
Since the updated compatibility is not a current benefit for my own needs, I rolled back to 6.4.6 (requiring uninstalling 7.0.0).
No harm, no foul - but I do hope that those two relatively minor issues are addressed in a future update ('guess I'll have to make a post in their thread).
Otherwise, L.O. remains an awesome application (particularly for a Windows user for whom the last version of MS Office that was even merely acceptable was 7).
If there's a radio station that plays the music you want, you can ask them if they can add it.
Yep there are things that don't work well or work the way they do in Office. Bugs don't get fixed for quite some time. Features take a long time to be implemented. When you have a volunteer staff things don't get done on the same time schedule that paid software enjoys. I put in many hours a week here and still don't have enough time to get things done that need doing, either here or in my personal life. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Oh definitely go with what version works best for you. There's some software I won't upgrade for the same reasons - functionality changes.
I've been using LibreOffice since Jan 2020 and was pretty satisfied until version 7. I downloaded it into a 6 month old ASUS Vivo Book S15 8GB RAM Windows 10 2004, but it would not install. It seemed to destroy some windows files as well which caused me to have to do a clean install of Win 10. I then re-installed LibreOffice version 6.4 which works fine. I am not planning on retrying version 7 any time soon, unless I try it in sandbox for testing first.
That's not a good experience with the new version, I'm sorry it gave you so much trouble. I've had issues with 6.4 where it took over some file associations but that's an easy fix.
This program was cool years ago when there were not so many choices. These days the free versions of Easeus TODO backup, Macrium Reflect Free or even Mini Tool Shadow Maker Free are way better options for WIndows 10.
It is great, it looks great, so it seems at least.
What is less clear is the main issue: the architecture!. What needs to be installed on PC and on tablet? How communication happened...After extensive search/read/guess...I suspect that both your PC and tablet exchange information via an AirDroid "central service" and it is not clear at all how the information exchanged is secured if at all.....
It is a pity this (marginal issue?) is not clearly mentioned in the description: maybe this is "obvious" for most, not for me....
Thank you! :)
I've got too damn many fonts already
This is another topic where I'm happy to be educated, for my ignorance about the world outside my little shell...
This seems to be a case of "Just because it's possible, doesn't mean it's worth doing." I'm having trouble imagining a situation where I would want to zip or unzip files over the internet. Converting PDF files to Word or Excel? Definitely a need for doing that online; the only software which does that well is very expensive to own. But Zip software tools are free to download, and are powerful. Why go elsewhere?
Personally, I needed to unzip a file and I had no access to a device that had or could download and install an unzipping program. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for your msg Jojo, I appreciate ! It is true that the added information states that encryption is used till Airdroid central service, so that nobody on internet can have access to exchanged data between your devices (PC, tablet) and Airdroid central service. This said, according to me (if I understood things correctly) one issue remains: the program at Airdroid has access to non-encrypted information, since being at the end of two SSL sessions, it has to swap / copy info from one encrypted session to the other.
I can recommend you https://chordchord.com/. This tool help you with building chord progressions. It will help you get some more skills and improve musical compositions as well as suggest you some sweet chord sequences to make music. Basically that's how I learned progressions myself. I'm more hands-on learner so this website worked pretty well for me.
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What a great find, and very handy too. Thanks Rhiannon.
Have you tried random numbers on Google search?
Try a number like "245 new cases" to check out the results.
I'm glad you like it. :)
I haven't, I rarely use Google Search. Reverse image search is all I use it for. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Google search is never my default.
But, this random number search with "new cases" in same line is quite original.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out.
Hi!
This is a great list,It must have taken lot of time to gather such information.I would love if you consider https://iconscout.com/categories/vr/photos for the next time you create something like this.
Thanks in advance!
The posted link redirects to https://ultradefrag.net/en/index.shtml which is for a paid product. The author stopped developing the last free version (7.14) and from version 8 and up is not free.
The posted link needs to be changed to: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ultradefrag/
Thanks for this. Worked well for me
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This is currently my go to video editor, but only because of problems using NCH VideoPad.
Initial impression: it looks familiar with a timeline and a project area to drop clips etc.
The main problem is that it doesn't work like other similar-looking editors. If you have a video on the timeline and want to drop another in front of it, it "overwrites" rather than pushing the existing clip up the timeline. So you end up having to Google how to do the basics and watch a few tutorial videos to do anything. It's a frustrating learning curve, if only the user interface worked like all the others!
Having mastered it, it does a lot.
Some of the other oddities compared to other video editors:
* You don't need to put all the clips, photos etc into the project area and then drag to the timeline. They can be opened, previewed and dragged directly to the timeline
* You can produce an output video directly from the project area (known as a playlist) without using the timeline at all
* Deleting from the timeline by default doesn't close the gap - this has actually turned out to be useful, but not how other editors work. It is easy to close the gap later or there is a setting to control this (but does that setting do something else undesirable, I haven't found out)
* Creating consistent looking titles requires a bit of effort as by default the font size is as large as will fit the text in the text box resulting in different size titles for different pieces of text. This can be fixed but it takes experimentation to get the size of text looking good, it would be nice if the defaults looked good out of the box.
Overall it's not quite as polished as some but is better than a lot of open source.
It's one of the few pieces of software that uses my laptop's AMD Radeon graphics - it gets used for the video preview in the upper part of the screen (the video you see when you press play in the editor). It doesn't get used for final video file rendering however.
I used the free version of VideoPad for home use and it never prevented me from exporting video saying it was a paid feature. I did not experience any stability issues.
This would be my go to video editor if it weren't for problems exporting the finished video, sometimes. When I initiated the export process, sometimes it would finish very quickly - appear in the completed videos list but it would produce a very small useless output file, less than 1kbyte. It looks like a bug. When I hit this problem I couldn't find any workaround to make it export properly: tried other output formats and various small tweaks to no avail.
So having put in several hours effort editing a video and then finding it won't export is a major problem even if it works the rest of the time.
It's a shame as this is a very accomplished piece of software. It works fairly intuitively, very familiar to someone who's used other video editing software.
I do still like its stabilize - subjectively on my videos it was marginally better than the stabilize in Shotcut which is my go to video editor (and VirtualDub which I also tested). VideoPad lets you Stabilize from the project area and it produces a stabilized video file directly from there without using the problematic export function.
I suspect that VideoPad's titles are better than Shotcut's but I had already given up with VideoPad before I had a chance to try them.
Apart from not exporting video files properly, here are my other criticisms of VideoPad:
* In most video editors, there is a timecode representing the cursor position on the timeline in the form: "hh:mm:ss:frame_num". The last number goes 0-29 or 0-24 depending on the frame rate. In VideoPad the last 3 digits are milliseconds rather than frame number. Takes a bit of getting used to.
* When adding a video to the project area, it can take a while "indexing video". Then there's a grey/blue progress line and high CPU usage, presumably while it creates a temporary preview file.
* It also uses green progress lines on the edited video in the final timeline probably to show how far it's got in creating a preview of the edited timeline. Again that can take a while to go all green. CPU usage is high while it's doing this.
* I installed the free version and confirmed on each startup that I was using it for personal use. After a couple of weeks it told me the trial was coming to an end soon. Then it told me some features would be disabled unless I purchased it. Finally I'm back to confirming on each startup that I'm using it for personal use. I don't know which, if any, features have been disabled. I was never informed I was using a trial version when I first installed it or subsequently. I don't mind if the free version is limited but it would be nice to know what the limitations are. I can still use multiple video tracks in this "trial expired" free version.
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