I'm not going to claim Power Director is perfect.
It needs two things to make it perfect for blog-videos IMHO:
a) Better audio handling in the 'trim' tool - I want to see the audio and hear it when I move the scrubber.
b) A dynamic range compressor on the Audio track. The 'normalize track' tool works great but it's conservative with the level, I want a bit more volume.
a) No way to match the audio levels across all the clips. Audio mixing is a lot of manual work in PP.
b) No way to remove a clip from the timeline and have it close the gap automatically. WTF?!! Similarly for inserting/replacing clips. You're screwed if you want make changes in the middle of the timeline.
Trading one consumer software for another isn't going to help. If you want pro rendering times, you need pro software - and a set up to match. I've said it already. And yes, as mentioned...let me highlight this....every piece of editing software has it upside and down sides. As a professional editor, I've edited on Media 100's, Avid, Premiere, Sony Vegas Pro, Xpress, Xpress DV. Heck I started in tape to tape. My first "edit" was on a set of sony 3/4" Umatic VTRs. One of the traps is, that if you get use to one piece of software, and then try to move to the other, your knee jerk reaction will be "Why is the heck can't I do XYZ that I use to be able to do so easily!!!" You quickly get over it, and learn the "real" way of doing things. In the end it's much better.
A few things.
- "normalizing" audio is like using a hammer on top of someone's head to say hello. A graphic compressor/limiter is much better.
- I'm not a huge fan of premiere pro - but the latest version is awesome - and it's only like $30 a month. And it's not hard at all to learn. If you can learn eagle cad, PP is super easy.
- yes even PP has fit to fill, over wright, JKL trimming, and most importantly, 3 point editing (3 point editing is where you supply 3 of 4 parts, IN, OUT of both the source and record - it'll calculate the other.) (My guess is that almost no-one in this thread even knows what JKL trimming is.)
- 4K for a talking head video?
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Yea, enjoy those render times.
Things we learned in this tread: Someone is having fun building a PC and learning about the world of video. And he likes to re-encode his encodes.