Please excuse this is huge post...
asik1 wrote:Nate, "Contemporary Video Editing Look" in plain words is what one can make his video's to look like and how much "pain" or "clicks" he needs to make in order to achieve it.
Just look at some of the programs on your TV/YT and see what Contemporary Video's looks like. then open your VS2018 and replicate.
** I'm sorry to disagree with you that Adorage is "a pro level" plug in. in 1997 maybe but not today. I removed it long ago.
Adorage isn't the only plug-in distributed with VideoStudio Ultimate. Nice tactic, though. I listed every plug-in distributed with the VideoStudio Ultimate. Many of them are use by professionals. Title Studio, Titler Pro, Graffiti, Some of the NewBlue Plug-Ins (ColorFast is better than any grading tools in Filmora, by leaps and bounds), etc.
Contemporary looks current and modern - these are incredibly subjective terms de facto. You were referring to Filmora as a product when you described it as contemporary, not the output that the editor gets out of it. There is nothing stopping you from getting the same output out of VideoStudio. In fact, as a package, it is far more flexible in achieving what you want - creatively - than Filmora is out-of-the-box. What it gives you increases your creative freedom, not the other way around.
I think you are completely ignorant of what "contemporary" actually means, acting as if your opinion on the aesthehtic of a creator's product is the benchmark for what is acceptable (like a photographer scoffing at another's personal style), and completely clueless on how these products compare vs. each other - probably because you have barely used either of the for anything but trivial tasks.
If you want professional tooling that gives "contemporary" results (whatever you think that word means), than upgrade your ancient PC so that you can run something aimed at that market, like DaVinci Resolve 15. There's a free version that is 90% of what Studio offers.
Top YT creators are not using Filmora. Most of the big channels are using software like Premiere Pro CC, Final Cut Pro X, and DaVinci Resolve. Most TV shows are edited on Avid Media Composer. That's $1,299 or $19.99/mo., and you'll be buying some of the same plug-ins that are distributed with VideoStudio at dirt cheap prices because professionals use some of them. Or do you want to use Avid's awful Titler for your Motion Graphics?
A good word of advice is to stop worrying about what other people use, and actually spend your time creating content. The tool (i.e. VideoStudio) isn't your limitation. You are. Too many people are too busy "researching solutions" and "trying out things." A year passes, and they've barely accomplished anything of worth in any of this software.
I actually use lower end editors like VideoSttudio and PowerDirector for my Social Media content (YouTube and Social Media Sites). NLEs like Resolve are overbearing for smaller projects - too much management overhead, often slower, and completely lacking in optimization for the type of media that I tend to use in those projects i.e. iPhone video that completely chokes their performance (or forces you to waste tons of time transcoding/optimizing media or creating proxies).
I own VideoStudio, VEGAS Movie Studio, VEGAS Pro, Resolve Studio, Final Cut Pro X, iMovie, and PowerDirector; and have used others.
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Consumer Video Editors are mouse-driven. This has always been the case. Use VideoStudio, PowerDirector, Movie Edit Pro, iMovie, and a number of others. They are not designed for professional editors overly oncerned with efficiency who want to learn and use keybinds for everything. They all take tons of clicks to get things done. Many of them offload tasks integrated into other NLE's timelines to completely separate windows in the lower end editoros (Consumer/Prosumer packages). If you are overly concerned with the amount of clicks it takes you to get things done, then VideooStudio was a bad choice. There is a choice that is more appropriate for this type of user: VEGAS Movie Studio. It's basically 90% of VEGAS Pro, and can be operated efficiently primarily with the keyboard; allowing you to avoid clicking around as much.
I took your comment to be referring largely to look and feel, since you used the term look; which has nothing to do with how the software operates "mechanically," so to speak.
There is nothing about Filmora that is fundamentally superior to VideoStudio, aside from the fact that it is a newer product and therefore was able to be easily designed with a certain cute UI/UX - due to not having to deal with the huge development costs involved in completely revamping an existing product.
Avid Media Composer looks like software from the 1980s, but that isn't stopping editors from using it... because a software is a lot more than it's look and feel. It's still the best collaborative NLE in the world. The fact that Final Cut Pro X has a more "Contemporary Video Editing Look" doesn't matter because teams that need to collaborate would fine it almost unworkable compared to Avid.
It's not about looking cute. It's about being capable enough to get the job done, while giving you more creative opportunities to grow and move forwards.
And frankly, most people here don't care about VEGAS, Filmora, or any other editor. It's a VideoStudio forum, and I say this as someone who has been guilty of doing exactly what I've pointed out in this thread (not with that specific product).
It's disingenuous to people who are here to help. This is not a "feedback thread," where such discussions would be significantly more "on topic," provided a decent explanation of the matter was given (not just misused words). No one here is editing for TV, and most YT content is terrible... so you'd have to get a lot more specific than that...
P.S. There are professionals still using NLEs revisions older than the version of Adorage distributed with VideoStudio. Doesn't seem to hurt them! Adorage didn't exist in 1997. It was first released, IIRC, in 1999. The version used in products like VideoStudio and PowerDirector was released in ~2015; and you've probably never used it beyond opening it up and looking at the user interface (since you seem to put a lot of stock in "how does it look."). All of proDAD's products look ugly; even market leaders like Mercalli Stabilizer look awful in terms of UI. But that has nothing to do with their power and usefulness to today's editors. They're still in business for a reason. I think you'll find that as you go up in power, especially into the Pro Market... developers become a little less concerned with looking cute and more concerned with delivering the necessary functionality and power to compete in their target markets.
Selling pretty UIs only works better in the consumer market, where customers often choose what "looks best [to them]" and don't know how to properly evaluate these types of products. And I'm not sure I'd say VideoStudio doesn't "look good" enough. That is not a problem most users (on this forum, or otherwise) have with this NLE. I also struggle to say that Filmora looks better... from what I can see. It seems to have largely the same layout, with a less functional base user experience. And a huge toolbar between the preview window/library and timeline that wastes massive amounts of pixels... with basically the same Timeline Philosophy.
