Review by Robert Moore

This is a new program for me, but it has pretty quickly become my favorite movie editor. I am not an expert at movie editing. In fact, I have 50 or 60 hours of video that I have taken with my phone or GoPro but have not put together for sharing with others. Part of the problem has been the rather rudimentary editing programs that have been dispensed with cameras or computers that I have purchased. Movie Edit Pro is both fuller featured than the afterthought programs and more intuitive. Even though it was a completely new program to me I was able to make a DVD full of videos of my dog complete with navigation. There are a lot more feature that I haven’t begun to explore. There is an online manual that you can download that is nearly 400 pages long, which hints at just how much there is to learn before you have mastered this.

The one thing I would like to change is the installation options. This package came with only the option to install via a DVD player. I do not, however, own an external DVD player, so I have no way to get this onto my laptop, which is the computer that I use most of the time. I will probably get an external DVD drive in the near future, but it is frustrating not to have options. Movie Edit Pro is hardly the only software developer that limits you to only one installation option. Companies make it possible for the user to install the program on more than one computer, but that assumes that every computer has the same capabilities as every other. I would really like to master this program, but that is not going to happen so long as I have to do all of my editing on the computer I use less than the others.