John,

It feels good knowing I'm not the only one who couldn't decide and bought two video editors. LOL! It's like they all do different things well. Sony is a nice one too that I did trial.

I'm feeling better after all the replies in this discussion that I don't have to worry about this as much as I was concerned that I might.

Thanks for the rendering info too. My AMD computer is not that powerful for video making and has built in graphics. I know now that's not as good as having a dedicated card but it has opencl with accelerated graphics so I suppose I could've done worse. I'm gonna do a test video on PE running on 64bit and see if it makes a difference in rendering time compared to VS6X at 32bits.

Thank you,

Josie