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Sony ACID Pro 8

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from www.amazon.com
i download a free trial version to try and i immediately like it because vegas pro 8 is very powerful program and yes very complex to learn and will need to spent a lot of time to learn how use it.
from www.amazon.com
in addition, it is a very powerful editing tool that comes with dvd architect, very powerful as well: more famous competing products like fcp or avid xpress are at least twice as expensive.
from www.amazon.com
vegas does require a lot of computer power to run nicely.
from www.amazon.com
vegas does support dual core processors, and even video processing over a network, which i assume means you can "borrow" cpu power from other computers on your network.
from www.amazon.com
both have a lot of editing power.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy To Use, Inexpensive

2 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for POWER

Corel Paint Shop Pro X Full Version Academic License

$60.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this product, which unfortunately is pc only (not mac), has long been viewed as a very good substitute for photoshop because it is much less expensive than photoshop but is still powerful.
from www.amazon.com
one of its best assets is its power, but the simplicity with which you can use it.
from www.amazon.com
it is as well much more powerful and more robust than the photoshop elements.
from www.amazon.com
paint shop pro is easy to learn yet has the power to handle routine photo enhancement as well as more dramatic manipulation.
from www.amazon.com
paint shop pro is incredibly powerful, yet not terribly difficult to use.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Inexpensive, Full Version

3 RECOMMENDED by 4 people for POWER

Apple Aperture 1.5 MA715Z/A Full Version

$181.00 Est. at Amazon

from reviews.cnet.com
"that said, apple aperture still ranks as a very practical, powerful tool for working with digital camera raw files and can certainly bring efficiency into the life of any photographer willing to
from www.amazon.com
i use it on a 1.5 ghz g4 powerbook with 1.5 gb of ram, and it works well enough on jpeg images; but feed it a bunch of raw files from my 8 mp camera and it takes its sweet time!
from www.amazon.com
this is a powerful program with far more pros than cons.
from www.amazon.com
i bought aperture because i liked the powerful organizational and correction tools, as well as the flexibility built into the work flow.
from www.amazon.com
the only caveat is that both require powerful hardware when working with large raw files.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy To Use, Nice Quality, Full Version

4 RECOMMENDED by 5 people for POWER

Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Full Version

$61.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is very easy to use, intuitive and powerful.
from www.amazon.com
512 ram is the least power it can handle, but 1 gb ram is what you need if you want to edit hdv footage.
from www.amazon.com
my pc is a powerhouse so i know it wasn't the computer.
from www.amazon.com
it is professionally done, very compatible compared to other software packages, powerful, easy to use, and easy to understand.
from www.amazon.com
despite reading the reviews that said that it had many powerful features, i purchased premier elements (pe) expecting a fairly basic, wizard driven application.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Inexpensive, Good Quality, Full Version

5 RECOMMENDED by 7 people for POWER

Vegas Movie Studio + DVD Platinum Edition

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from N/A, www.newegg.com
since version 3, and vms platinum can be considered a prosumer nle.vegas is so easy to learn and so powerful, even vms platinum can do some incredible 3d compositing not possible in consumer stuff.
from www.amazon.com
ok, this can't compete with my adobe premiere pro 2 when it comes to editing power.
from www.amazon.com
it is very powerful and allows a lot of manual control if you want it.
from Max, www.newegg.com
very powerful piece of software.
from N/A, www.newegg.com
you need patience.you need power and memory to edit hd video with this.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Excellent Performance

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium Upgrade Version

$489.00 Est. at Amazon

from lt.dell.com
it does everything from ocr to putting power points on the web.
from www.amazon.com
the program is much more stable, flexible, and powerful than i found golive to be.
from www.amazon.com
powerful tools that will assist any web or graphics designer.
from www.amazon.com
especially acrobat on a mac - perhaps i am just not a pdf power user since just using mac's built in pdf creation ability works just fine for me.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy Installation, Good Quality, Upgrade Version

Apple Logic Studio

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from www.amazon.com
logic tho is difficult to learn in that it has some much capability and power.
from www.amazon.com
logic has always been a powerful tool, but now its learning curve has gone way down and the new interface is very slick and extremely intuitive.
from www.amazon.com
i am a 15-year veteran of using daw and midi software, and this new version of logic pro (in the logic studio bundle) blows away everything i have used in terms of power, ease-of-use, and sound.
from www.amazon.com
now that's power.
from www.amazon.com
i didn't have any previous experience with either macs or music and have found the software a very powerful but deep tool to use.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy Installation, Nice Quality

Adobe Photoshop CS3 10 Full Version

$386.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the two main drawbacks to elements are that it lacks some of the more powerful tools unique to cs3 and that some methods of achieving the same results will take more time.
from www.amazon.com
very powerful, and effective way to edit all kinds of digital photography.
from www.amazon.com
there are plenty of products that are good enough for casual use, but nothing matches photoshop for raw power.
from www.newegg.com
pros: better interface, loads faster, more tools/editing capabilities, easier to learn and use, much more powerful.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Inexpensive, Full Version

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection Full Version

$1,749.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
adobe cs3 is the most powerful seamlessly integrated creative suite ever.
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you will need books and additional tutorials to learn all the powerful features of the program...many of which i still do not know since my main use has been limited to a couple of the more common

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy Installation, Easy To Use, Full Version

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Upgrade Version

$149.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.pricegrabber.com
cyberlink powerdirector 4 is easier to, and arguably better to use that adobe photoshop cs2 for video projects in the low-to-mid range of complexity, but overall adobe photoshop cs2 is the best video
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i've done it both ways -- and i've developed a fondness for my powermac dual 2.7.
from www.amazon.com
i am not a power user but elements 2 was too limiting so i upgraded to cs2.
from RudyKlanseck, www.pricegrabber.com
it works well with microsoft office 2003 powerpoint.
from www.amazon.com
if at all a more powerful image manipulator is needed, why not go for the gimp?

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Positives: Has Many Features, Inexpensive, Easy To Use, Upgrade Version

MICROSOFT- XBOX/ZUNE HPA-00010

$240.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it syncs when you don't want it, sucks cpu power, and refuses to let you sync it with windows media player.
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the battery on the 2gb is shot and i now have to always leave it connected to power in order to use it.
from www.amazon.com
battery life is ok...depending on what you are doing...for music, it'll last you a while, but for movies, i was only able to watch 1 1/2 movies before it powered off.
from www.amazon.com
there are reviews that claim the zune has abysmal battery life...it does if you do not shut it off completely (pressing the play/pause button puts the device in "sleep mode" using some power when not
from www.amazon.com
i tend to skip around, and it must be that each time the screen is turned on, it uses quite a bit more power.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Nice Quality, Interface: USB

Adobe Audition 3

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it's quick, fast, and powerful!
from Kast, www.newegg.com
pros: amazing price considering the power and features cons: needs some patching before it runs well with vista x64.

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Positives: Inexpensive

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 Full Version

$42.00 Est. at Amazon

from shopping.yahoo.com
very powerful editing cons: the "pro" effects need to have basic knowledge of ps.
from www.thenerds.net
look at this product as a car with just the basics (ie, power windows and a generic radio w
from www.amazon.com
3 would run fine on two powerbooks with the same flavor of tiger, but not on the quicksilver (???).
from www.amazon.com
i would really like to harness the power of it.
from www.amazon.com
for "the rest of us" who don't really need all the power of photoshop, this is a great product.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Nice Quality, Full Version

Adobe Premiere Pro V1.5 Full Version

$260.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
it is easy to use and can be quite powerful, but the problem is if you are using anything other then windows xp it won't even install.
from www.amazon.com
it is an extremely powerful application that can handle a wide variety of video editing tasks.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Has Many Features, Inexpensive, Full Version

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Premium Edition Full Version

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Edition Full Version for PC

$547.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i'm not going to attempt to give an extensive review because i'm not a power user.
from www.amazon.com
very powerful, and effective way to edit all kinds of digital photography.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Great Performance, Easy To Use, Full Version

Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 9 Full Version

$318.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.pcmag.com
"more power and features than any other web editor, but daunting to nonprofessionals and less elegant than microsoft's expression web."
from www.amazon.com
powerful, nicely laid out, and fairly intuitive, but i wish it had a manual.
from www.amazon.com
and dreamweaver has so many other helpful, powerful features.

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Positives: Has Many Features, Easy To Use, Easy Installation, Full Version

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Full Version

$890.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
i've been using it for a while and still basically a novice, so that should give you an idea of how powerful it is.
from www.amazon.com
also, i recommend that you take advantage of the powerful camera raw interface.
from www.amazon.com
photoshop is a little tough to use, but extremely powerful for photo manipulation.
from www.amazon.com
an incredibly powerful tool, obviously, and adobe bridge is pretty useful too.
from www.amazon.com
all these programs are incredibly powerful tools that can support an entire career if one puts in the time and effort to become a true expert user.

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Positives: Easy To Use, Inexpensive, Has Many Features, Full Version

Pinnacle Studio 9 Full Version

$18.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
the program doesn't have the power and controls of adobe premiere, but premiere is aimed at professional videographers and lists at $699.
from www.shopping.com
pros: rock solid, powerful, good manual
from petergaryr, www.shopping.com
pros: has some powerful video editing tools.
from www.amazon.com
even if you have the latest, fastest, powerhouse pc (fast and very big hard drive, usb 2, tons of ram) which you will definitely need, it takes studio about 4-5 hours just to convert per 1 hour of

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Positives: Great Performance, Full Version, Features: Video Editing, Platform: PC,PC

Digi Pro Tools M-Powered 7 Upgrade Version

Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered 7 Upgrade Version for PC, Mac

$268.00 Est. at Amazon

from lt.dell.com
this is one powerful set of tools!
from www.amazon.com
m-powered is damn near the exact same except with m-powered you can use a more affordable audio interface rather than being stuck with having to by a $400 m-box.
from www.amazon.com
so, i bought protools m-powered with a m-audio firewire 410.
from www.amazon.com
additionally, it only uses rtas plug-ins, and while synthogy irovy says it installed the rtas plug-in, m-powered can't find it.
from www.amazon.com
i am sure that m-powered pro tools is a very good product from the rave reviews i see on the internet - it would have to be considering the number of hoops you have to jump through to get started

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Positives: Inexpensive, Upgrade Version, Platform: PC, Mac, Required CPU Class (Mac): PowerPC G4

Coreldraw Graphics Suite 12 Full Version

$367.00 Est. at Amazon

from www.amazon.com
this is powerful, first-class software.
from www.amazon.com
adobe products maybe powerful, but compare to what i got from corel, they cannot justify their unreasonable price tags.
from www.amazon.com
yes they all have powerful features but for me, corel draw has been the vector based graphic program that i like and count on.
from www.amazon.com
maybe it was with the transfer of power at the company, who knows.
from www.amazon.com
during all those years when micrografx designer ruled the engineering graphics world, corel languished as a primitive, stubborn, uninspired drawing (i can't bring myself to call those versions

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Positives: Easy To Use, Inexpensive, Good Design, Full Version

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