Class hardware, weak software

I want to begin by saying that I did not buy this camcorder from Amazon, however, believe that it is important that potential buyers will be better informed about the performance of this product. I film for many years with camcorders, especially during our holiday trips. The films are between 1 hour - 3 hours and transitions and effects could with camcorders that record with cassettes are inserted in each case by pressing a button. The film was so after returning from the trip as good as done. Because my Panasonic had however now reached an age> 10 years, I decided after careful research for the Sony HDR-PJ620. Holding the camera, from the technical resources, including everything it promises. The excellent image stabilization is particularly worth mentioning. I also knew that you created during filming many more or less long files, which ultimately will result in a continuous film. You can easily connect the camcorder to a TV and watch without effect all these film clips strung together. However, this is little clearly. Now Sony offers an Highlights Movie Maker as part of the camera's internal software that lets you combine files and it also can insert specific transitions. That sounded good at first in advertising, but ultimately means only the creation of a few minutes long Filmchens out how. Anyway by the software selected film sequences, which one should probably share with family and friends This function is not opening up to me and is for vacation filmmakers, like myself, completely useless. For video editing, Sony therefore the program PlayMemories available, what I have loaded me immediately from the corresponding web site. However, I realized that one can thus combine the movies though, this however without the possibility to insert transitions, which is essential for any video editing program. Therefore my next note, I have found before buying this product anywhere: In order to process as vacation movies reasonably, you need a powerful PC, a suitable video editing program and knowledge in video editing. This must be clear to any potential buyer. Therefore, the product gets on the hardware side of me 5 star and 1 star by software. That makes an average of 3 stars.