Originally posted by RobG You'd need to ask Sony. The software requires that a specific version of Quicktime be installed. I am aware of the issues surrounding that.
This should be grounds for stopping the use of this Sony product, IMO.
Quote: Cool. As I mentioned earlier, I can't justify the price of the pro level Adobe products (a 12 month subscription for Premiere and After Effects is AUD$686). I may try a demo version of Premiere Elements just to see if the rendering is better than the other software I've got, because AUD$145 for a license (as opposed to subscription) is bearable. Anyway, as I mentioned above, simply playing the raw video shows softness which isn't going to get better after editing. Thanks for the info!
I can't justify the Adobe prices either ! I hate subscriptions of any kind.
You should give the Cyberlink software a try. There are free trial versions available on their site. It may not be as full-featured as Vegas Movie studio (which I also tried, but gave up on), but it's a lot easier, IMO. Also renders way faster, especially if you have an nVidia GPU or a Skylake CPU that supports Quicksync.
PowerDirector is definitely going to cost you less than $100 . They ship upgrades every year, but you don't have to use them.
One feature I really like in PD is the automatic synchronization of multiple video or audio clips by audio analysis. Works great, and I'll never have to manually align video & audio clip tracks again. I always record my audio separately, as in-camera audio is never good enough for me.
AFAIK, most other consumer video editing software still cannot do this.