Video editor - Zwei-Stein. Comments?

[Harvey Van Sickle]

I was looking for a freeware video editor, and this seems quite good --
http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Does anybody know any positives or negatives about this one? It
doesn't appear on any spyware databases that I've tried.

(I cleared off an instance of Alexa that AdAware found on my machine,
but it's been a week or so since I swept for stuff, so that may well
have come in on the tails of something else.)

 

[John Corliss]

I was looking for a freeware video editor, and this seems quite good --
http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Does anybody know any positives or negatives about this one? It
doesn't appear on any spyware databases that I've tried.

(I cleared off an instance of Alexa that AdAware found on my machine,

More likely the Alexa reference was in your registry and came with
Windows. That's the way it was on my machine. Removing that reference
hurt nothing on my computer.

but it's been a week or so since I swept for stuff, so that may well
have come in on the tails of something else.)

It's been around for a while. Is even listed at the Snapfiles site:

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwvideoedit.html

and I've never downloaded any spyware from them. I've got the program,
but never have needed to use it so far. Heard good things about it though.

 

[El Gee]

I was looking for a freeware video editor, and this seems quite good
-- http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Does anybody know any positives or negatives about this one? It
doesn't appear on any spyware databases that I've tried.

(I cleared off an instance of Alexa that AdAware found on my machine,
but it's been a week or so since I swept for stuff, so that may well
have come in on the tails of something else.)

Bit of a learning curve. I have not had much time to paly with it. I
am not a bit fan of the GUI. I need to make time to goof off with it
more, but work is getting a bit overwhelming

Gotta pay the bills!

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[Auntie Em]

I was looking for a freeware video editor, and this seems quite good --
http://www.thugsatbay.com/software/index.html

Does anybody know any positives or negatives about this one? It
doesn't appear on any spyware databases that I've tried.

One thing I discovered about it is that, like many software programs, they
assume that you already know everything there is to know about editing
video. I couldn't figure out how to make it work.

Em

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 12 May 2004, El Gee wrote

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Bit of a learning curve. I have not had much time to paly with
it. I am not a bit fan of the GUI. I need to make time to goof
off with it more, but work is getting a bit overwhelming

Yeah, it looks complex to me, too, but I managed to do some simple
tasks and it seems to have a lot of room for playing around.

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 14 May 2004, Auntie Em wrote

One thing I discovered about it is that, like many software
programs, they assume that you already know everything there is to
know about editing video. I couldn't figure out how to make it
work.

You're right - it's not open-the-box intuitive. I managed to do a
couple of simple tasks with it, though (even trimming a clip meant
working sort of backwards, at least to my way of thinking), so I'll
probably play around with it a bit to see what I can learn to do.

 

[Harvey Van Sickle]

On 12 May 2004, John Corliss wrote

Harvey Van Sickle wrote:

More likely the Alexa reference was in your registry and came with
Windows. That's the way it was on my machine. Removing that
reference hurt nothing on my computer.

I cleared Alexa out some time ago, but I've also recently tried-and-
deleted a couple of other new programs; god knows what it tailed in
on. Good to hear that it's not likely to be this program, though.

It's been around for a while. Is even listed at the Snapfiles
site:

http://www.webattack.com/freeware/gmm/fwvideoedit.html

and I've never downloaded any spyware from them. I've got the
program, but never have needed to use it so far. Heard good things
about it though.

Thanks; it looks worth keeping for a trial run.