Review by James Beswick

If you’re editing a real movie, you’re most likely using an Avid box or you’ve spent many years mastering Adobe’s crazily-complicated-but-powerful Premiere - this software isn’t for you. On the other end of the scale, if you have endless video clips from phones, Flips and everything else with a camera that you want to piece together into something meaningful, this is a significant step up from Windows Movie Maker.

This performs reasonably well on an average desktop computer with a decent graphics card and whatever crashing problems it’s famous for seem to have been fixed in this version. The tutorials help shorten the learning curve and I was well into editing my first masterpiece in about 30 minutes - a few days later I felt extremely proficient with the user interface.

Video editing is a taxing operation for even powerful computers, so be prepared to upgrade your hardware if you want to produce longer films with more complex set ups. The more video you need to create, the slower the processing. Overall, this is a feature-rich editing suite that fills the void between ‘free’ and Adobe and for the price should fits most users needs perfectly well.