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O.T. Filmora
I'm new to video editing and was wondering if anyone has used Filmora? Also, is this link OK to use for downloads? https://www.wondershare.net/ad/video...ArCaEALw _wcB Thanks, Robert |
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O.T. Filmora
Boy you weren't kidding,..!@!! I have to re-read all
of this a few times... *L* it sure is an eye opener,.. I just wanted to play around a bit and see if I liked it or not or if I could do anything? but seems too involved for me. Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
Boy you weren't kidding,..!@!! I have to re-read all of this a few times... *L* it sure is an eye opener,.. I just wanted to play around a bit and see if I liked it or not or if I could do anything? but seems too involved for me. Robert It's not involved particularly, but it does take a degree of "trust" in Wondershare as a company. It's up to each person to decide, based on track record, what their level of trust should be. How many times was their trust taken advantage of, and so on. There's nothing wrong with using a stub installer. If I was interested in this product, I'd run the stub installer inside a virtual machine, to provide some insulation. Then see what the component parts are, scan them, and so on. Until I was satisfied there weren't signs of adware or worse. I've tested enough free video editing products, to not expect miracles. I downloaded the Red 4K tool, for converting Red video (that's a kind of camera) to regular video format. The tool looks like a video editor, with a timeline and so on. Well, the exported video output looked horrible. A five dollar webcam looks nicer. There is no greater testimonial, than a tool made by the camera company, that cannot make good output. To get me excited about video editing now, I would need to hear of a *stupendous* product. And that's why I didn't preview Filmora. I have pretty low expectations for video editors. I expect the commercial ones that cost $100 or so, probably aren't that bad, especially if other people are using them. Paul |
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O.T. Filmora
Shadow wrote:
If it helps, I've monitored a Wondershare install. It installs all kinds of crap on your computer, which are completely unrelated to the program's function, including in my case browser "helpers" and a stack of adware in the *program files*\*common files* folder. Deleting them made no difference at all to the main program's functions. I'm referring to a registered product (not filmora in my case, but from the same company), not a trial, downloaded directly from their server. They also spam your inbox, and when you click on the "unsubscribe" button you go to a page that says your email is not registered, so no can do. An alternative is the AMS software. It's enough for most people's needs and quite cheap. (link to full version available on request) In any case, if the OP is the kind that drinks caustic soda for breakfast and shoots himself in the foot at night, just for the fun of it, the "secret" download URL for the filmora installer is: http://download.wondershare.com/cbs_...ra_full846.exe That will always get the latest version. (7.8.9.1 ATM), which is about 156MB. Paul, if you want to look inside, try InnoExtractor, a graphical interface to innounp. http://www.havysoft.cl/ Free/Shareware. Also available from Softpedia. I'd advise the Softpedia download. Author has been known for bundling adware in the version on his site. Softpedia version is clean. []'s What a shame. And it looked so clean, too :-) https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/26...bfdf5f/details Maybe later, it'll be time for some fun. Paul |
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O.T. Filmora
On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 06:29:33 -0500, Paul
wrote: Shadow wrote: If it helps, I've monitored a Wondershare install. It installs all kinds of crap on your computer, which are completely unrelated to the program's function, including in my case browser "helpers" and a stack of adware in the *program files*\*common files* folder. Deleting them made no difference at all to the main program's functions. I'm referring to a registered product (not filmora in my case, but from the same company), not a trial, downloaded directly from their server. They also spam your inbox, and when you click on the "unsubscribe" button you go to a page that says your email is not registered, so no can do. An alternative is the AMS software. It's enough for most people's needs and quite cheap. (link to full version available on request) In any case, if the OP is the kind that drinks caustic soda for breakfast and shoots himself in the foot at night, just for the fun of it, the "secret" download URL for the filmora installer is: http://download.wondershare.com/cbs_...ra_full846.exe That will always get the latest version. (7.8.9.1 ATM), which is about 156MB. Paul, if you want to look inside, try InnoExtractor, a graphical interface to innounp. http://www.havysoft.cl/ Free/Shareware. Also available from Softpedia. I'd advise the Softpedia download. Author has been known for bundling adware in the version on his site. Softpedia version is clean. []'s What a shame. And it looked so clean, too :-) https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/26...bfdf5f/details SHA256: 26060f0974358516a0c8de70233e3d57101c632f7eed20e569 5c3859a7bfdf5f File name: filmora_full2810.exe Detection ratio: 0 / 61 Analysis date: 2018-01-05 02:00:03 UTC ( 1 week, 1 day ago ) Maybe later, it'll be time for some fun. Weird. It installed a service AND messed with system files and my browser. I tried one of their video softwares a couple of years ago. You might not be able to get it to spy on you in a VM. It has a detection routine. As to InnoExtractor, both the homepage and Softpedia's are identical and clean. The author used to bundle it with fusion. https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/6...18fa/analysis/ []'s -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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