Lately I'm starting to wonder if maybe I'm overrelying on VideoPad for my Video Projects, how so you might ask? Well...
A. Over this past year or so I have been using VideoPad to make Retro-Themed Voice Acting Fancast Videos for certain Video Games. (Retro-Themed meaning so I can use folks who are dead now but were alive & well when the game came out.) I made video series; like these...
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnsu5X1_D-yAQEqzEAOpzlv21
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnss2nRhrcPVkE2s337cNfFHQ
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnsuLxhUjcryMqVa61UFkD8cq
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLl0yJw2nDnstIkWVaFY2S-1lJ5zqP9WWW
In which I do like on how I can use the "Add Picture" feature in the regular Text screens. But I do wish it was easier to resize the pictures since any picture that is over 100x100 in measurements ends up being too large to fit on the screen. (In which I would have to make the Character pics very small in order to not be enlarged too much in VideoPad.) However I am starting to wonder if maybe PhotoStage Slideshow Producer would be a better fit for these types of videos in the future.
B. In the past I have tried to make little Video Productions that are styled in a Visual Novel way. What do I mean you ask? Well take a look here for example...
https://youtu.be/S5QP9Jch4fk
And I have done this for other projects such as Crazy Plot Twist Theater: Street Fighter and One Piece: Who Will Save Robin from Aokiji? and the like. Where I would make these still image panels from PhotoPad in which I would traditionally use a patchwork of a bunch of character portraits and such. (But I am open to the possibility of using programs like for 2D Models like Kisekae which is what I did here. Or to potentially use 3D Models from programs like VRoid and XNALara.) In which I would take these panels from PhotoPad and dub in the soundtrack at VideoPad. In which I did recently think of the idea of making the panels via Videopad. In which I could make the story panels like the ones here at...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/634470/chapters/1148170
And add in the typewritten text underneath so it would appear to be more like a actual Visual Novel. But the only problem is that in VideoPad while there is a "Typewriter" text function but it does not have a "Add Picture" feature with it. So tell me could Express Animate Software be a better fit here? Namely so I can make these story panels but be able to add in animated text underneath? I admit I'm not very good at drawing with a computer mouse in which my previous efforts were... so-so at best, would that be a problem? Can I be able to use things like Character Sprites/Portraits and/or 2D or 3D Character models on a background and add text in underneath or no?
I guess to make a long story short, would these programs be a bit more helpful to me? Or should I just stick with VideoPad for all of my Video Projects?