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Zwei-Stein Review

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"Zwei-Stein is great free video editing software, but the user interface is very technical. It is full featured, offering many different effects. It can edit up to 256 video, audio, and still image clips. There are up to 64 effects, which can be chained serially. An interesting program that's worth looking at." (DeskTop-Video-Guide)

I chose Zwei-Stein for my review on video editing software because of the features that are available on it. I have had very little experience with video editing except for You-Tube and Animoto. Since all of the software was new to me, I decided to access one that had a variety of features that would be interesting and useful.

Zwei-Stein has a reputation for being very technical and difficult to use, so the first thing I did after downloading the software was to watch the tutorial at @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNz_7a59JI and to access the tutorials provided by the software. These tutorials gave a good introduction on how to access the software and on applying a variety of effects.

Overall, I found that the software was not hard to use once I had a basic understanding of its set-up. I can run and view multiple videos in a collage effect, as well as apply multiple effects to those videos. This program runs well on my windows browser and there are various file extensions available for saving your information. These include Real Media (.RA, .RM); Video for Windows (.AVI); Wave File (.WAV); and Windows Media Format (.WMA, .WMV). I had no problem using the .WMV file extension and had a variety of options for saving data for modem, broadband, and others, including handheld devices.

Zwei-Stein is technical, and would have been very daunting if I had tried to access it without viewing the tutorials first., but I really like the features available, and will use it for myself again. To provide access to my students, a group activity will be more appropriate until they become familiar with the set-up. Many students will enjoy being able to access the variety of features available on this software, but for those students wanting more immediate results, this will be difficult to use. This software does not provide a preview feature. It is necessary to generate the final product to see the peice as a whole. You must save your project as you go so that you can re-access your work if you want to edit your final product. Overall, I do recommend this product, but it does take some experimenting and use to become comfortable with it.

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simoneistutor. (March 21, 2009).How to use zwei-stein 3.01. Retrieved on November 27, 2011 from @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXNz_7a59JI