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(More customer reviews)Both the laser gun and Jedi light saber effects are stunning when you see them at work and there are a fair amount of tutorials on the web to get you started. My biggest complaint is about the user interface. 3D graphic and video design programs are notorious for proprietary, hard-to-understand interfaces, and EffectsLab Pro is true to that form. The timeline ribbon at the bottom of the screen can have a half a dozen or more parameter slots for each effect you use in your movie. But the relationship between them is never really explained. With several of those being critical to how an effect appears, it's really easy to make a mistake that messes things up badly enough that you've got to start over. You'd expect tool buttons and menu items to be grouped by a common function they share, but this is not always the case. The preview image size control is an example of this, tucked far away in the upper right of the program's main window.
It supports a decent amount of movie formats but unfortunately MP4 isn't one of them. This introduces an extra step if you want to work with MPEG 4 files. I use QuickTime Pro to convert to .MOV and no problems importing those.
The software has been fairly stable though it does have the occasional annoyance of locking up completely after you've saved a project and tried to exit. I haven't lost any work because of this, but having to use Force > Quit from the OSX system menu just to shut down the program, isn't really the user experience I'd hoped for.
For the money, this is not a bad buy. It's capable of effects that rival anything I've seen in blockbuster sci fi movies. The user interface could really use a good rethinking though.
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