Open X8 go to Help Messages I see two offers one for 10% and the other 40%, but there should be a 85% offer?
I looked at the Help Messages and there are two offers: 15 percent off and 40 percent off. Both are for Ultimate and both cost $59.99. That's not a bad price, but I'm hoping to stumble across the $15 offer.
I'm still hoping to get the $15 pop-up for x9 -- now that I know it's out there, I'm too cheap to pay the $60 upgrade offer.
So I turned to Blackmagic Design's free Davinci Resolve 12.5, which is really quite powerful software. I have a four-minute 4K video to edit, so I sat down today with Davinci Resolve. Result: I can do simple cuts-only editing and even have a separate audio-only track (Davinci Resolve supports only WAV audio, and will not even show that MP3 or other compressed files exist). I did about 1/3 or my project and decided to do a test render. Davinci Resolve can render to many formats, but MP4 and AVCHD are two that it does not support.
Okay, I said, I will render it as a QuickTime file with MPEG4 encoding (that's one of the choices). I did that and ended up with a file encoded at 265 Mbps that will not play smoothly on my very fast computer. Okay, I said again, I will check the settings for QuickTime using H.264 encoding. Ah ha! That does not support 4K video... which is, of course, what I have. Davinci Resolve 12.5 will use H.264 to render to 1,920 x 1,080 at the highest resolution.
So if I want to edit 4K with Davinci Resolve, I have to render it with very wide bandwidth professional encoding. I have no problem doing that when working on a high-end commercial project, but it's like putting tractor tires on a lawn mower for the purposes of creating a video for YouTube.
And I still get no love from VS x8.5 -- it crashes constantly, although it is slightly worse when I have video files in an overlay track. I have actually completed three or four projects on it, but consider myself lucky with those.
I'm gonna have to stick a crowbar in my wallet and get the upgrade to x9.
