Customer Reviews

VideoWave 7 Professional

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1 star:		(11)

 

 

I have been doing video editing for about 6 years now. I have tryed shareware, freeware and retail video editors of all shapes and sizes. I am use to jumping between 3-4 diffrent editors to get all the effects, transitions and video color/brightness adjustments I need. Then I tryed ViedoWave 7 pro. This sucker has it all. I can adjust the color/brightness and contrast of each individual video clip. Remove sound from clips or add my owen naration and music. Make pans and zooms on still images. And this version has more FUN transitions to play with.

You will deffinitly need a Pentium 3 (i would recomend a Pentium 4) processor with at leatst 512 of RAM to run this puppy. It takes alot of power... but for a low priced video editor it HAS ALOT OF POWER.

not sure what the other guys issue was, but compaired to Pinnicle studio which crashed all the time and Ulead this product is great.

michelle
family music video maker
computer geek :o)~

I have used the old Version Videowave 5. I made several productions with it and burned them on to a DVD. There were some problems, but not many, and the DVD's worked. I upgraded to Videowave 7 thinking it would work just as well.

Well, Videowave 7 has many nice features, and in some ways is easer to use than Videowave 5. However, the program is loaded with bugs or bad code. It just does not work correctly. Support for this program is worthless.

So, save your time and $$ and buy something else.

I don't get all this moaning and complaining about this product. I installed it with no problems and found it extremely easy to use. I have Windows XP on a Athlon 2Ghz. One would have to be completely computer-illiterate not to pick up this software and be able to use it with ease. It even comes with a DVD burning tool,DVD playing software, DVD label creator and a video capture tool. It has nice touches, like a lot of effects and transitions and it's even possible to do some color correction of brightness/contrast/RGB. It also has two modes: Timeline and Storyboard, and it's very easy to add/edit video and audio and setup chapter on the DVD builder tool. Don't get me wrong, it's not a professional tool (and for that alone I took 1 star off because the name of the product is misleading), but obviously aimed at the home video market, like birthdays and holiday videos. I feel it's the most complete product within this price range and I'm really happy with it.

Videowave 7 is an extremly difficult program to use.

The company appears to be deceptive in its marketing by leading a customer to believe that they can be contacted by e-mail with help questions. When a question is sent to the company they send back a form response to look at there website.

The program that is supposed to help you learn is beyond difficult. It makes no sense and tells very little.

They also pretend to have a video training program that comes to assist the customer. This tells almost nothing and just stops.

I was going to contact the company but I am sure they are well aware. How could they not be? Someone that they know must have tried to use the program.

Their success in sales may have more to do with customers thinking that they alone are having such a difficult time.

If you would like an experience in frustration have fun.

David Morris, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing

I purchased videowave 7 pro and the cd will not even install (out of the retail box) ... get a 'isl7.tmp error' on multiple drives / different PC's, after rebooting, etc.. trying to get ahold of their customer-no-service is a real joke! Even the required 'ask Roxanne' doesn't offer this product in the REQUIRED product selection which you MUST CHOOSE ONE. I only wish I'd read these reviews before purchasing.

I had earlier versions of this program. This version has many more features than the earlier version and is extrememly easy to use. I was even able to make one full video and burn it to DVD. However, on my second attempt to make a video I ran into the audio sync problem. This is when you play video but the audio is either ahead or behind the video. When I play the video clips that I have captured in the preview screen and on my computer they are fine. The audio and the video are in perfect sync. However, when they are added to the storyline the audio is off. I have been on the help website and there are thousands of people that have had this same problem. The solutions that people are posting are extreme. I am not willing to rework my computer so that this program will work on it, especially since the program worked fine last week and now it is now working. My system is great, the problem is the software, not my computer. I am going to try Adode's Premiere video editing software. I have heard good things about it from the other people having trouble on the Videowave forums.

Trust me, don't waste your money and time learing to use a program only to have it stop working!

Call me old fashioned but when I purchase a product, I expect it to work. And when it doesn't, I want the support from the company. If you have the option, buy another product and save yourself 50 bucks.
My problems began with what seemed to be a small item.
After registering my product, i was unable to access the technical support. The "ask Rox" was useless and so were the chat rooms. after paying 35 more dollars to talk to a real person, i still dont have the answers i'm looking for.
Oh, and, by the way. The technical support person "lori" was snippy, curt and downright condescending.

Working with videos is supposed to be fun. After 2 months of negative reinforcements, this whole story has been a fiasco.

The program seemed to work fine for a while, but the more I used it, I began having problems with the program not responding. The more I used it, the more this problem occurred, and now I am not able to even open a file with it, while several other similar programs I have (not made by roxio) work just fine. Uninstalls, and reinstalls do not help. Whatsmore, the support from roxio, works as well as the program, which is not at all. The program is absolutely useless to me, and roxio could care less. Buyer BEWARE!

I thought this was a dream program, and it woked well for about a year. But for the last two videos I have shot, the audio has been anywhere between 2 and 4 seconds out of sync with the video. Extremely frustrating, and I have not made any progree fixing it. I'd buy something else.

I bought this software because it was cheap and the "box" showed all these features that i needed! Plus, it said that if help is needed, you will get it. HOWEVER, once i started using the software, i noticed it had lotts of bugs and it took for ever to make a DVD. THE BIGGEST PROBLEM I HAD WAS THAT THE SOUND AND VIDEO DID'NT GO. For example, i videotaped my brothers football game and the sound of the play STARTED BEFORE THE PLAY ITSELF. I went to support for roxio and there help sucked! I would not buy this....AT ALL. Spend your money on something better even if you have to pay $40 more dollars!

I suggest: Power Director 4 =$80 or Adobe Premeire Elements = $100