Review by Maxwell Edison

Disclaimer: I’m not a video-editing expert by any means, and I wasn’t looking for something to rival Final Cut. I just needed a piece of software that would allow me to edit video snippets into a professional package for pub quizzes I put together weekly. I also wanted a decent DVD maker that wouldn’t choke on mysterious codecs. To that end, I needed something simple and reliable. I didn’t need the bells and whistles some might. For my purposes, this app works very well.

It has more of a learning curve than I expected. It has more features than less expensive editing apps I’ve tried so the interface is more complicated than I needed. But I think most users will like the app’s extended functionality. I do wish the instructional booklet were more user-friendly. I had to go online to troubleshoot most of the time.

That being said, once I got my editing method down the app was great for what I needed. The resulting videos are high in quality. The sound features and the transition filters in particular add a professional sheen to my work. And the app outputs and/or converts my video files to many different formats pretty cleanly.

If you’ve got some v-editing experience under your belt, you’ll probably jump right in. In general, I really like Corel apps and I haven’t been too disappointed with this one.