VSDC Free Video EditorReviews of videosoftdev.com

Making a simple slide show was a nightmare - I'm an editor and just couldn't make it happen on this software. Find some other program, don't waste your time.

This video editor gives way too many features and option, turning simple tasks into rocket science. Then it holds your project hostage. Under the free use, when you start using premium features and try to export your project, then, and only then does it all of a sudden tell you that you have used premium features, and have to buy the program before it lets you export and use your project. Too complicated and misleading.

It's plain bad, just a waist of time

Here we go again. 1 short video recorded on a bridge camera. 1 small section removed. Cannot export in usable format as "you have used hardware acceleration" (I have no idea what that means) & need to buy the PRO version. I downloaded VSDC FREE video editor to do this simple video edit & am absolutely not encouraged to buy it because of this catch 22 - if it had worked, that might well have been different.

Don't buy this software, because you don't get a refund if it doens't work on your pc or laptop; I sent several messages to the support team but they didn't solve my problem and they didn't provide a refund; According to their terms of use, section 3, the refund is provided in the following cases: - Incidental purchase of the Product’s license twice. In this case one payment shall be refunded - The Product has serious technical problems, and no solution has been found within 30 days.” As you see, the second line is what I've experienced; they should give me a full refund within 30 days but they didn't, in fact, they didn't reply to any of my mails after this message with their terms of use. I will take legal action and make a complaint to the local police office! I don't suggest you to buy this software because the after sales is crap!

Seriously, if you want to avoid a headache then steer clear of this. Installing the free version was simple but like all free versions they dangle you the carrot and then push you to upgrade to access the full program. However, upgrading is anything but straightforward. I purchased it on a Friday and instead of getting an immediate download I have to wait for them to send an email with their acceptance and download instructions. Why? With the Activation key I now go to the simple add in registration box and put in the registration key. It doesn't work. I get file activation error. I download again, uninstall, download etc and it does not work. Finally support get back to my email sent over the weekend at 14:04 pm on Monday with instructions to turn off my firewall, re-install as administrator and follow their link for the new download. The link they sent returns a 404 Error. Pretty frustrated now and sticking with this re-install, with the firewall off I manage to get Activation and my new screen now shows Pro version installed. I close it down and re open it only to find it has reverted to the free version and the activation code does not work again. Support now ask me to go through the process of re-installation again at 15:29 and I reply explaining that their activation does not work. Suffice to say I get no further reply that day. So 4 days after purchase here I am with no VSDC up and running. VSDC need to smarten up their act if they want to sell this software. Life is too short for lousy systems and poor support. People move on. With this software you will lose the will to live. I have moved on and bought splashed out on a well known brand name. It installed immediately and I was up and running in no time. It is worth spending the extra money rather than waste time messing around with software like this.