I downloaded and installed it on my 3-year old WindowsXPHome system that is not particularly powerful.
It ran fine, and imported some MP4 clips from my Xacti HD1010, the import was very fast. I was able to put a few clips on the time line. Playback was smooth, but the timeline control stick was a little flaky. The transcribe feature was turned off. No obvious transitions or effects. Cutting clips and deleting segments was a little flaky. It took about 15 minutes to output 2 min. to a file with H264 codec in an AVI container. This was the only output format choice. The avi file played fine in VLC, it would not import into MicroSoft Movie Maker 2.1. Verdict: needs a lot more work to be useful. I am still trying to find a no-cost editor/low-cost that will take my Xacti mp4 files directly and edit them. Currently the "workflow" of converting files to edit in Windows MM is too time consuming. I just tried Womble MPEG Video Wizard, which work fine but it costs $100. Premiere Elements 2.0 came with the camera, but that program simply does not run on my computer in a stable fashion--PE acts like it wants me to spend $10-15k for a new computer and five or six hard drives for its various needs. I could get a $100 plug in for PE that deshake the Xacti's very shaky video, but PE is too demanding for my simple computer. Any recommendations, other than getting a camera with better stabilization? (Which one?) --John www.HistoricHomeWorks.com
