Goldeneagle wrote:
...their attempt to exempt themselves from public responsibility turns me off...don’t do serious and time consuming projects on it. Be sure to read the statements on their website before buying this product...
I can't agree with Goldeneagle's harsh judgments.
To begin with, VideoPad is the best thing out there for anything resembling a reasonable price. Of course it simply blows Windows Movie Maker out of the water. There are some things about WAX that I like better, but WAX crashes frequently for me, and VideoPad doesn't.
And, critically, VideoPad has a learning curve that a mere mortal, a non-superGeek, can struggle though. Along with some very good online instruction videos, and several (some not so good) on YouTube.
And by the way I've seen VideoPad at both NewEgg and Amazon for $40--though I don't know what the upgrade situation might be.
More to the point, I think the most important item is the keyword: free.
For crying out loud, guys! I can't imagine how many hundreds--thousands?--of hours it takes to make a thing like this. Or how much skill, since this is not shadetree mechanic work.
And after all that the NCH guys essentially say, "Here ya go, take it, don't pay me unless you want to."
We ought to be parading around singing hosannas to their collective name.
I have this image of NCH as a small bunch of superGeeks, probably all with doctorates in computer science, who don't want to put up with Bill Gates so they head off in another direction. But superGeeks don't suffer fools gladly, and of course to them, in computer terms, everybody is a fool.
Well, if they won't suffer me, then it falls to me to suffer them. It's either that or they add a customer service department. Which, as will all things, the customers pay for (how else?), so the price doubles or triples.
I'm not accusing anybody of being perfect. For one thing, I, too, kinda wish somebody would make up their mind about price (I vote for $40). And also firm up the update policy, which is incomprehensibly vague as stated. These maybe-yes-maybe-no-sometimes policies don't inspire customer confidence.
But it's not reasonable to expect a plumber or an electrician to be a people person, and the same with superGeeks. If they wanted to earn a living with chitchat they'd have been insurance salesmen in the first place.
So I say the glass is half full. After who knows how much hard work they hand me the thing thing on a silver platter, so all I can think of to say is wow, thanks guys!
