So, NCH Videopad. Verdict not good, because it kills our CPU and that's not all. We here have a project and we have an engineer. The job should have taken a couple of hours; we have been editing videos for a long time. We need just a two minute video, so you wouldn't expect it to be a big deal. We used one of the office Laptops; Intel i3-3110M CPU @ 2.40GHz with 8GB RAM. The SATA II 1TB harddrive is more than capable. Our Windows 10 machine has no issues at all.
We downloaded Videopad and paid for it, otherwise we'd be stuck with a useless limited copy. If you want, you can have the serial number.
If our PC had any problems, our engineer would have fixed it. RAM is an important factor, but not for a simple little two minute video.
For editing a little video without a lot of complicated composition: our Laptop is perfectly fine. However, Videopad has the
CPU burning at 100%, and needs about an hour to get on top of a few little jpegs and short clips for a video lasting
a couple of minutes. Two hours later and the timeline won't play because Videopad simply cannot cope with easy little jobs.
This was a wasted purchase. As far as I can see, Videopad is no use to us. We also installed a free working copy of another video editor, just in case, and it worked perfectly. There was no lag, none of that Videopad "building preview" and long waits, nor was there any temporary loss of sound.
Our CPU never went above 80% at any time. There is no damage risk nor fire risk with that one.
As any customer should expect when using a respectable machine for easy tasks, the other software worked right out of the box,
while Videopad can't even play the timeline. The software version is not relevant; when a customer pays money they expect a
product that does what it's supposed to do. In our short experience, Videopad fails the test that it has to be fit for purpose. Game over.
Now you experts may say that Videopad works perfectly for you. There is not much ypu can teach us. I say that it might work if
you spend enough time, maybe hours, maybe days or weeks, tinkering with your machine and trying a myriad workarounds.
It does not work right out of the box and we can't waste hours, days, waiting and messing with software that can't do the job.
Really guys, Videopad is a nightmare and it's hard to understand why it is sold as a functioning video editor at all.