When installing this software, make sure you delete ALL other anti-virus software. I forgot to do that and ran into problems. Works with Windows 8 fine.

Got it in the mail…no CD version…just the Key Code. Installed on my three computers. Totally easy. For less than $31 for three computers…totally worth it. I also run Adblock Plus. So no pesky ads and other crap coming through. Never EVER had an issue with this software. One time I tried McAffee…totally slowed down everything. Terrible.

I have used several non-linear video / film editing systems for both Mac and PC. Sony has always provided a great low-cost product that has lots of features and is fairly easy to learn. This one has a bit of a learning curve with some of the tools not being in places that I am used to in packages such as Final Cut Pro 6 -7 and Adobe Premiere (CS5 -6 Suite) packages.

Over the past 15 years, I have really loved Power DVD product. It was perfect for doing what I wanted it to do, when I wanted it to do it. This latest version changed the file associations on the PC I installed it on and did not give me the choice to opt out. I had to uninstall the program, then reinstall another DVD player of choice. The 10 GB of cloud space is very generous, but it does not make up for the monumental pain in the @$$ that the program caused on installation.

First of all, I use a great many non linear editing packages for digital film. I cut my teeth on Final Cut Pro 7, I have used Avid and Adobe Premier (CS5). I have also used some off the shelf- consumer oriented packages. I will say that Cyberlinks Power Director 10 is ok for what it is. Having been spoiled with the prosumer packages, it made Power Director 10 seem somewhat counterintuitive for me.

I have been a Paintshop Pro user for nearly 18 years and have used it almost exclusively, even though I am also fairly proficient with Photoshop. I have to confess, I was pretty nervous about giving up my old JASC Version of PSP (PSP 7) I am happy to say that it Corel has been very true to the old program and added some improvements. There are cool ways to do colour corrections and enhancing photos that I had not used before in earlier JASC versions of PSP.

It really took a great deal for Corel to pry my fingernails off my old version of PSP (PSP 7, when it was still being produced by JASC). PSP has long been regarded as the poor man’s photoshop and back in the mid 90’s, the program was free. Registered copies where you could purchase plug-ins that were also inexpensive. Because I never liked Corel Draw, I had some very serious reservations about how well Corel would do after acquiring the product from JASC.

COREL ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO is a digital movie editing software program which is easy to use. In addition to my personal use to product review it, by himself my twelve year old taught himself to use it to make YouTube videos from recordings of him playing video games and made title pages and subtitles. We wanted to use this product to create short movies for fun and to edit family home videos for better viewing experiences (cut out the garbage and to summarize).

At the time I received this product to review in 2011 I didn’t quite understand what it was. We had just moved long distance and left all our old TVs behind since the moving company refused to move them. The new TVs we purchased in 2011 (Vizio) had apps on them. What that means is on the TV there is a menu to select that allows you to use an Amazon or YouTube or Netflix and other apps to access online content on your TV.

I ordered WinZip 17 to compress files for storage, mainly video files. We also need it to unzip files that people send us via email. We also plan to use it to encrypt files. WinZip 17 was simple to install. We immediately began using it without reading any instructions. The file compression speed is fast although even with our year old computer it hogs the system while compressing, meaning, you can’t do much else with the computer when it is compressing.