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... doesn't appear to be for povvers.
I recently purchased it and find it nothing but frustrating. The following
is either a product review or a call for help.
1) When I want to insert BMP's, I have to drag-select the whole list of
bitmaps instead of merely selecting the first in a series, such as
my_animation001.bmp.
2) When I drag these bitmaps up into the video area, they end up taking up
like a whole second of output time, instead of a "frame".
3) It's too easy to hit a button in the application accidentally and end up
on a web page where one is harangued to pay for silly things, like backdrop
images.
4) When I exported my movie, it was 46 MB whereas it should have been 0.44MB
or less. Playing the generated MPG-1 movie crashes Windows Media Player
with an error message about a missing DLL.
The target customer is apparently a dummy wishing to manipulate home movies.
The bummer is that in the store, the feature list of this product was
indistinguishable from that of the latest Roxio offering, which I assumed
may have been a replacement for MainActor. (I was pissed at Roxio but more
pissed at Screenblast now if not Sony)....
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Greg M. Johnson <gregj;-)565### [at] aol com> wrote:
> 1) When I want to insert BMP's, I have to drag-select the whole list of
> bitmaps instead of merely selecting the first in a series, such as
> my_animation001.bmp.
Probably irrelevant to your problem, but in case you didn't know...
Drag-selecting is not the only (and sometimes even not the best) way
of selecting several files. In some file listings (typically in the
open-dialog) it can be difficult to select a range of files with
a rectangular selection (because of the way the file names are arranged
in the list).
A more versatile way of selecting several files is to click on the
last file and then shift-click on the first file (this selects all
the files in that range regardless of how they are arranged in the
list). (Note that this last-first order is important.)
Also multiple-selecting random files can be done by ctrl-clicking
on them.
(You probably knew this, but I have seen some windows-people not knowing
this, so I thought this could be a helpful tip.)
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