Nero as an NLE?!?!?!

filmy wrote on 7/22/2003, 12:44 AM
Well the new version of Aheads Nero is coming out this week...and CNet did a review...and this struck me as something very interesting:

"Nero Vision Express 2.0, unlike its difficult-to-use and underpowered predecessor, is one of the most competent movie-authoring programs we've seen, rivaling Pinnacle Studio 8.0 in capabilities and beating it handily in performance. The program supports motion menu buttons (small snippets of movies that play within the scene-selection button), and even the background of your menu screen can be a movie. Like other apps in the suite, however, Vision Express relies solely on a step-by-step, wizard-style interface, which quickly becomes tedious and constricting when you've learned what you're doing. For example, you can't preview your creation except by advancing screen by screen to the preview pane. We'd like to see some shortcuts here and there."

It sounds more like a DVD authoring proggie but the part about "...rivaling Pinnacle Studio 8.0 in capabilities and beating it handily in performance." makes me wonder what else is does. Guess we have to wait until July 25 to find out becase the Nero/Ahead sites have been very silent on the whole thing.

Comments

snicholshms wrote on 7/22/2003, 1:42 AM
Yea, Nero and some other "burning" programs have decided to "be all things to all people". It just makes for more crap in an NLE's registry.
mikkie wrote on 7/22/2003, 8:36 AM
Might not be good for the vast majority of folks here - directly that is - but anything that promotes more folks using video and/or creating DVDs can be a very good thing. More features for lower prices re: anything related comes to mind, as does greater support in anything from keyboards to OSes. Besides, the more crappy stuff there is out there, the more your skills shine.
farss wrote on 7/22/2003, 9:33 AM
Problem with more crappy things out there is so much of the public is happy with crappy.
You charge them a fair price to do a good job and they come back with "but the kid next door will do it for..".
Not knocking the kid next door, ONE day he might be better at it than all of us but when price bar keeps getting lowered it ultimately hurts everyone.
I'll admit there can be an upside to it, I'd reckon half the population still doesn't realise you make DVDs cheaply, so the more production there is of it, it kind of advertises itself that way and in turn does generate more demand. The ones who seem to get hurt the most are the ones at the middle strata of an industry, usually with SMEs as clients.