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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.
Videopad - and only Videopad - raises my CPU temperature to dangerous levels
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Thank you for your reply. You seem to be disputing our post without good cause and also telling us we're all wrong here. We purchased Videopad and we spoke plainly. The version is fairly recent; if you wish, you can have the serial number. Our machine is perfectly capable of running video projects and we have no problems with the (free) alternative, which we are using instead. Sorry, Videopad does not work very well for us at all. And for the record, when our copy of Videopad is marketed as a Pro video editor -: it should be able to master and render a simple two minute video, regardless. Unfortunately it cannot, and the implications of that, are clear. We don't have time to upload for you, and in any case the business in question should not be shared with anyone. I'm rather surprised you asked. If you have no more to add, we'll get on with our late evening here.
Thank you.