VideoPad vs PhotoStage Pro

[Marya]

Is anyone using NCH's PhotoStage?  I have bought it and been using it to make videos from my photos, videos & music.  Am very happy with it.  It PhotoStage similar to VideoPad?  Differences?  Is it better?  Is VideoStage ONLY for videos or can you put in photos & videos (like in PhotoStage)?  Thanks so much for your help.

[borate]

Videopad is a video editor that accepts images, video files, sound files, etc.  It's for those who want to create Hollywood productions on a budget.

https://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

Photostage is a slideshow creator.  https://www.nchsoftware.com/slideshow/index.html

[Nationalsolo]

Hi

It's  true that NCH Photostage can be used to create very simple videos as it will accept both clips and still images but it is primarily conceived to be  a slideshow creator and it will do a really excellent job of this .  If you are familiar with VideoPad then you can imagine the difficulty you would have  working in just the Storyboard mode when you want to create a fully featured video. . The layout is similar  of course, but Photostage , with its single track can't really compare to Videopad when it comes to actual video creation.  Of course  Videopad can be used to create a slideshow, but one might consider that a bit of overkill. It will work (and I have used it in this way many times) but at the end of the day one is for one thing and the other is for something else. You can knock a nail in with a sledgehammer !

Try them both .

Nat