I've been using VideoPad for a number of years now and while I have some frustrations with it, I still rely on it.
But recently I decided to use VP as more than my editing software. I decided to use it as my go-to video recording software. That was a learning curve for sure, and I have made some suggestions to the programmers about the file saving and naming issues with the actual recording interface.
My biggest concern is that in the midst of making a series of short - 5 to 7 minute - recordings, several glitches appeared, and I ended up deleting what I thought was a perfectly good