In October 2012 we took a survey of our customers. We are sharing some of the information here:
There were 248 respondents to the survey.
Here are the number of people who said they are using various HandyAvi features:
Astronomy........................ 82
Create time-lapse videos
from non-time-lapse videos........68
Crop videos.......................19
Join movie files..................31
Make video from JPEG files........72
Meteor Capture....................70
Motion Detection.................115
Movie Editing.....................27
Movie viewing.....................14
Scan a file for meteors...........37
Scan a file for motion............32
Select video frames...............42
Stack astronomical images.........43
Surveillance......................74
Telescope control.................19
Time-Lapse Photography...........205
Here are the number of people who found our software using various methods:
Google:..........................162
Bing:..............................2
Yahoo:............................12
FaceBook:..........................0
Sky&Telescope Magazine Ad:.........4
Astronomy Magazine Ad:.............2
Shareware site:....................8
Recommended by a friend:..........25
Other:............................33
Here are the number of people who thought we should break HandyAvi into separate products:
Yes.............46
No.............190
No vote.........12