Hi
It's true that NCH Photostage can be used to create very simple videos as it will accept both clips and still images but it is primarily conceived to be a slideshow creator and it will do a really excellent job of this . If you are familiar with VideoPad then you can imagine the difficulty you would have working in just the Storyboard mode when you want to create a fully featured video. . The layout is similar of course, but Photostage , with its single track can't really compare to Videopad when it comes to actual video creation. Of course Videopad can be used to create a slideshow, but one might consider that a bit of overkill. It will work (and I have used it in this way many times) but at the end of the day one is for one thing and the other is for something else. You can knock a nail in with a sledgehammer !
Try them both .
Nat