What our customer's say!

"This Program is Filled with Bugs", Video Factory is filled with bugs and Sonic Foundry's support will not help you with the glitches or provide a patch. You will find that you will be doing some editing and find the frame rates dropping at the edit points. And that's with a pc that has double the required power. It all starts off great until you do some real editing and then all hell breaks loose. I found that the final video output was low in quality. I suspect that that is why this software is so cheap. I found that even Ulead, which comes free with many hardware products, is much better.

"Don't Waste Your Money", I tried this product because I do a lot of video editing. It is a good idea to use multiple products as even the best products can do them all. I found this product to be outdated and simply "cheap". If you want a professional quality software, go elsewhere. Just looking at the interface you will notice how cheaply done it is. The use of pan/crop tools to place logos over designs was a bad idea. This software is not user friendly and can be confusing. I have a lot of experience with video editing and this one even confused me. The product output, the most important factor in deciding, is second-rate. I have used other software at the same price that are much better than this. If you are a beginner at video editing, stay away from this junk. If you are a pro, you're better off with any other software out there.

"Full Featured Entry-Intermediate Editing, Software not buggy", Although it appears that Amazon has discontinued stocking VideoFactory 2.0, the identical product still exists and is carried by Amazon as ScreenBlast by Sony. I have recently learned and used 3 video editing software programs and this one is by far the best and least buggy. Using the software is extremely intuitive and it helps that an excellent introduction tutorial is included. Compared to other video editing software VideoFactory 2.0 is great because it doesn't lock up on you. The software is very full featured for the price. My only complaint is the lack of ability to export MPEG 2. Although you can import MPEG2, you have to purchase an additional plug-in to export MPEG2 (at half the price of the original VideoFactory software - this seems like a high cost). This is extremely inconvenient since MPEG2 is a widely used industry standard. I still feel like it's worth purchasing this plug-in to make VideoFactory 2.0 a more complete package. VideoFactory is excellent software. My vote for best beginner-intermediate editing software.

"Great mixture of features and ease of use", I've used Adobe Premiere and Video Factory, and while Premiere might be more powerful for some applications, Video Factory was much better in the way of an audio/video editing package that was easy to use and had the features I was looking for. It even seems to outperform Premiere in rendering times, etc!

"Totally intuitive.", I poked around with a couple of other movie makers, but thank God I stumbled across this one (demo came with the Deras Flynn video book). It's completely intuitive with great interactive tutorials that hold your hand through every concievable step; in an hour I was burning VCDs of my kids snowboarding with smooth scene transitions and a music soundtrack I added as an afterthought. Maybe 5 1/2 stars.

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"So you wanna be in pictures?", Here's the best way! SonicFoundry's Video Factory is an excellent video editing tool: you get two seperate video streams (one to overlay text onto your video and even create scrolling credits!) and three separate audio streams (voice, music, and sound effects!). While they are called voice and music streams, you can put whatever you want in it. The video transitions (fading, etc) are unbelieveable! You can fade directly from one clip to another, or just fade to black. Video Factory took me approximately 15 minutes to learn the basics using their highly effective tutorials. I've already edited home movies taken on mini-VHS tape and turned a lot of funny scenes into a "best-of" my family movie. The resulting movies you can make are great for presents for relatives. And best of all, you just tell Video Factory what you plan to do with your finished movie - put it on a VHS tape, put it on the web, email it - and Video Factory will pick the optimal format to turn your movie into.

In other words - I highly recommend it!