Honestech Rapid Video Blogger – Review

I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing Rapid Video Blogger from Honestech over the past couple of weeks and I have to say I was a little surprised at what I found, or I think I should say what I didn’t find.

Honestech Video Blogger is supposed to be a quick way to upload video and pictures to the web for easy access.   Now this is right up our alley since we of course run this blog.  Normally I start reviews with the What is it question right.  Well I couldn’t exactly figure that out until after I had installed the application and tried to use it.  I was under the assumption Rapid Video Blogger was going to enable me to produce video and pictures I could easily upload to my FTP server and embed into this blog.  Much to my surprise that’s not what this software is for.  Now I can start the review

What is it? 

Rapid Video Blogger  is not a blogging tool at all it’s more of a video production tool that can be used to create interesting video or photo slide shows and projects that can be played back on your computer, burned to a DVD or other portable media in various popular video formats.  Ok that’s the good part about the product.

How does it work

Rapid Video Blogger is not the best video and picture processing software I’ve run into as of late.  The instructions are confusing and getting video imported and into a project was  very cumbersome.  I actually spent about an hour attempting to upload video then photos via the interface and get them to work with the templates provided.  Unfortunately I couldn’t get either to work.

Should I buy it? 

I can’t say I think you should buy this one.  I think if there was a video tutorial on their website or a better written guide that actually walks you through the steps of creating the media you want would have been helpful.  I also have a problem with the name of the product because I think it’s playing on the popularity of blogs in hopes that people will purchase it.  I ended up being disappointed with Rapid Video Blogger and though I think it has some really great potential if they make the guide more understandable. This product get the “Rotten Banana”