Shot Tracer Pro 4+

Worst app you'll ever use, but it's the only one out there

I've never reveiewed any product or app before, but I was so compelled by how poorly Shot Tracer Pro works that I had to write this. Shot Tracer Pro is not even beta level. It is full of bugs and odd, random behavior. When it actually works, it is fine, but that is maybe 50% of the time, and that might be generous. It also takes 10-15 minutes to export a simple 30 second clip. The longer the clip, the longer it takes, and therefor it changes how I actually shot my videos and how I create. This app is a malignant. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but they charge $15 a month to use it. It should be a free app. The only reason it still exists is because there are no other apps available that do this type of thing. If Adobe or anyone competent wanted to create a tracer app, something that follows a moving object in a video, they would put these guys out of business literally overnight, and they could charge more for it than $15. (Hint, hint.)

Making My Job Difficult

Manual shot tracking frame by frame does not work any more... I must use spline to have it be consistent. And even then i cannot trace a shot outside the boundary of the video like i could before with the spline. This application also crashes all the time, even more than the update before. It is really doubling the time of my production because i do about 40-60 tracers per video for a client. And not to mention auto shot detection only works 4% of the time out of a sample of over 600 shot traces. Please fix this. You have a lot of potential money you are missing out on, and i'm losing money using your software. You guys have no idea you could corner this market.

Developer Response ,

please email us support@visual-vertigo.com so we can help you in person.

TERRIBLE - Won't even open anymore

Worked OK for a few weeks (with occasional crashes). Now, it crashes EVERY time I try to open it. The opening screen shows "0%" loaded for a few seconds, then dissappears and I get a crash log saying that the "Java2D Queue Flusher" crashed. No idea what that means. Tried reinstalling, tried upgrading my operating system (on Mac). Nothing I do can get it to open successfully. Would be a great app if it actually ran. I'll be asking for a refund if they are not able to resolve this issue.

Developer Response ,

please update to the latest version or Send us an email: support@visual-vertigo.com and we will send you a different updated version that does not have the problem.