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Product Description
Item #: L79223. Adobe Visual Communicator software offers hundreds of customizable graphics, music clips, and special effects to create video presentations that look like a television newscast. Visual Communicator provides a teleprompter, video creation capabilities, and an entire library of customizable graphics, effects, titles, music, and templates.When you can’t deliver your presentation in person, Visual Communicator will help you convert an entire PowerPoint s… More >>
I concede that I own VC 2 which Adobe has decided
no longer to support.
VC2 is impressive when it works and a real pain when
it doesn’t, which is much of the time. Adobe isn’t
interested in delivering workable patches for VC2 and
is mostly interested in getting “upgrade fees” out
of owners.
I have used VC in the past happily but it was always
troublesome. It makes nice-looking stuff but support
and crashing issues are bad news. It’s a serious
resource hog too. As pretty as the picture it makes
are you do in fact need to be a glutton for punishment
to be into using it.
Rating: 1 / 5
I produce videos for clients and for the web. This is a very easy to use program with lots of media included. I am running Vista Home Premium, 3.2 Core 2 Duo processor and 4 gigs of ram. The program needs a powerful computer. I have not had any crashes and it runs flawlessly.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have used this product on Windows XP with no freezing problems at all. I suspect that the freezing problems previously mentioned are due to a Vista issue. I used to have a Vista laptop and quickly got rid of it due to numerous problems. Visual Communicator allows my students to record a news show using the included teleprompter and look very professional. This program even allows for some “green-screen” effects. I am very impressed with its capabilities given that you can find the full version for about $300 (sometimes less). For that price, and for the amount of effects this program has, one would normally have to purchase quite a bit of costly equipment. This is the economic way to go if producing in a classroom! You can even up-load your projects to the web (TeacherTube)!
Rating: 4 / 5
What a waste of money! I was really excited to get this software and use it with my students, but I WILL NEVER LET THEM NEAR IT!!! Why? Because it freezes up roughly every 30-45 minutes, some of the features don’t work as expected, and it’s SO DIFFICULT to learn! This product is not intuitive or user-friendly at all. I would get so extremely frustrated using it that I can’t even imagine letting my students try. Adobe bought this product from it’s developers (Serious Magic) and tried to pass it on to the greater public way too soon – better product development PLEASE, guys!
Rating: 1 / 5
Unless you have lots of spare time to fiddle with this I don’t think it’s worth it.
Maybe when you finally figure out how to connect everything, and figure out the ENDLESS little quirks that cause it to mess up……..well, in my opinion, the ends do not justify the means. We wanted it for our school’s morning announcements.
We tried using it, but went back to just manually switching things with a switch box….so easy and so reliable. Switch box only costs $20, and we plug in live camera, DVD player, and computer (with one plug in left over!)
VC 3 did things like, shut down, freeze, change the monitor settings, cause DVD’s not to play, changed desktops. VERY FRUSTRATING and TIME CONSUMING.
“Ask Mr. Z” is a whole website set up to address problems, just reading the endless questions on the blog/forum should scare anyone away. He even suggests having to “defrag” it every day, and that it’s best if you use one computer solely for VC 3.
Rating: 1 / 5