I suffered with Video Factory for over 20 hours so far and
at every turn, another problem. I have yet to complete a
single video. Curious if I'm the only one finding so much
wrong. Here's just a few issues:
Video FX filters unstable
Example: HSL adjust in a joke. What you see is NOT what you
get. Any attempt to apply even a slight amount of
saturation or luminance causes a ugly red tint. The most
annoying part is during preview it looks fine, so I think I
have it the way I want, but no....as soon as you start to
render, UGLY and useless...result: wasted time and efford.
Sharpness Filter-- again, just a slight amount and you ruin
the video... anything moving in the video takes on a halo
and/or becomes bady distorted.
Try to apply a filter to a range of frames selected on the
timeline. Lots of luck. The effect not only applies to the
selected frames, it gets applies to the entire video, if
you want it or not.
Dropping scenes unto the timeline: Works fine until you
reach the right margin, (the timeline fills the screen)then
you either can't drop on the scene (no room) or you are
forced to overlap far more than you want. There should be
ample blank space to the right of the timeline already
occupied or you should be able to move the entire contents
of the timeline to the left to avoid this. You can't.
Bumber!
Constant page faults and kernell 32 errors. Every damn time
I get ten minutes or so of video done, Video Factory locks
up. Odd, using a Pentium II 400, I have 128RAM and a 80 GB
hard drive most of it empty.
Markers on timeline VERY inaccurate. I meant come on,
what's the point of showing nearly every frame on the
timeline (I zoomed in) if it is still a half a dozen or
more frames off? This nasty oversight means you constantly
overlap scenes or don't include all the frames when you
select them for editing.
Video Factory for no apparent reason every so often renders
output at a width and height DIFFERENT that specified
and/or different than the source file. This drives you
nuts! Several times I've struggles to get a few minutes of
video done only to see it rendered in a a size different
that the setting are set for. Again, back to square one to
correct.
Obviously a lot of rough edges that SHOULD have been caught
in Beta or Alpha release and obviously weren't. Come on
Sonic Foundry, I know you can do better work than this!
at every turn, another problem. I have yet to complete a
single video. Curious if I'm the only one finding so much
wrong. Here's just a few issues:
Video FX filters unstable
Example: HSL adjust in a joke. What you see is NOT what you
get. Any attempt to apply even a slight amount of
saturation or luminance causes a ugly red tint. The most
annoying part is during preview it looks fine, so I think I
have it the way I want, but no....as soon as you start to
render, UGLY and useless...result: wasted time and efford.
Sharpness Filter-- again, just a slight amount and you ruin
the video... anything moving in the video takes on a halo
and/or becomes bady distorted.
Try to apply a filter to a range of frames selected on the
timeline. Lots of luck. The effect not only applies to the
selected frames, it gets applies to the entire video, if
you want it or not.
Dropping scenes unto the timeline: Works fine until you
reach the right margin, (the timeline fills the screen)then
you either can't drop on the scene (no room) or you are
forced to overlap far more than you want. There should be
ample blank space to the right of the timeline already
occupied or you should be able to move the entire contents
of the timeline to the left to avoid this. You can't.
Bumber!
Constant page faults and kernell 32 errors. Every damn time
I get ten minutes or so of video done, Video Factory locks
up. Odd, using a Pentium II 400, I have 128RAM and a 80 GB
hard drive most of it empty.
Markers on timeline VERY inaccurate. I meant come on,
what's the point of showing nearly every frame on the
timeline (I zoomed in) if it is still a half a dozen or
more frames off? This nasty oversight means you constantly
overlap scenes or don't include all the frames when you
select them for editing.
Video Factory for no apparent reason every so often renders
output at a width and height DIFFERENT that specified
and/or different than the source file. This drives you
nuts! Several times I've struggles to get a few minutes of
video done only to see it rendered in a a size different
that the setting are set for. Again, back to square one to
correct.
Obviously a lot of rough edges that SHOULD have been caught
in Beta or Alpha release and obviously weren't. Come on
Sonic Foundry, I know you can do better work than this!