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Posted by doc on 09/09/05 00:45
hey there jolly old chap (no pun intended if by chance ur not of the mature
generation as am i :o) sounds like a true satisfied customer. i'm trialing
an LE 6 version and found that it will import my studio 8 and studio 9
projects (YEAH!) and though a lot more complicated than s8 or s9, looks like
a lot more bells and whistles to please my appetite for commercials,
training videos, and demo's.
i just hear all this 'beef' about HD and HDV coming on and i just wanted to
make sure that i'm preparing my business for at least some kind of HD format
so that i can at least be near the lead of the edge :o)
one thing for sure is that at least it's still running two days after the
install. with regard to studio 9 all i've been able to do with it is
capture (unfortunately) material into native studio 9 avi format and since
having done that studio 9 has crashed continuously since july 3. i've been
on the phone with pinnacle support and upper level extended support and NO
ONE can figure out what the quirk is. it boots and if you do nothing but
just stare at the screen, it will crash within 12 to 48 seconds. if you
immediately click any thing on the screen on boot up while the hour glass
shows busy but just ignore it as if it were a cursor, then studio 9 starts
and may even let you load a project or footage and then within 3 to 21
minutes it will crash without fail. in fact, if you start up in the latter
format and just walk away and watch the screen touching nothing, it will
crash within 6 to 12 minutes on its own. it's a joke. pinnacle says i need
more puter, yet as i tell them studio 8 ran like a clock on an athlon
thunderbird 1.2 Ghz 400 fsb with 512 ram with 40 to 60 processes running.
the newest machine in august is:
pentium d dual core 3.0 ghz each with 1 mb L2 cache each 800 fsb
1 gb 4200 ddr2 @ 533 mhz ram
and this replaced an athlon 64 bit 3200+ 2.8 ghz 1600 fsb with 2 gb ram
which support said wasn't enough machine to handle studio 9 cause it was at
100% process performance
hmmmmmmm, since the ath ran the same exact way and worked, hmmmmmmm, what's
wrong with this picture?
doc
"Teeafit" <teeafit@teeafit.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1126086221.801529.157090@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Well, let's put it this way - even as I type this, my new Liquid
> Edition Pro 6 system is warming up the other side of the office.
> Having worked with Premiere when I first had my own NLE, I moved to
> Edition 4 having seen a very interesting demo of its Fast predecessor -
> what impressed me was the background rendering, compared with Premiere,
> where (in those days at least) you had to wait what SEEMED like hours
> to be able to view even a simple transition.
>
> I'd also had experience with Sony ES7 - don't go there! NLEs need to
> be designed by experienced editors, not corporate software geeks!
>
> Admittedly my first experience with Edition (v4) was not happy due to
> some unidentified glitch in the capture card. Pinnacle UK started to
> be helpful, and then suddenly went quiet on me. After 6-8 frustrating
> months I contacted the CEO of Pinnacle USA - within days my machine was
> collected and sent to a UK retailer for attention. Unfortunately (from
> their point of view, but not mine) we were now into v5, and my machine
> wasn't man enough to run it. As a result I received a free hardware
> upgrade as well as a software one, which was appreciated.
>
> It's probably true of any NLE that you quickly push it to the max and
> outstrip its capacity. Even after an upgrade to v5.5 I was beginning
> to find it got indigestion if I asked it to work on (f'rinstance) a
> 50-minute programme with much colour-corrected footage, CSO 'green
> screen' sections, and (most important) rostruming around large still
> files. The cure is to give the machine (and your own eyes and wrists)
> a break by re-booting while you go and get a coffee. At the end of a
> long session, I also deleted all the render files and let them rebuild
> ready for the next day.
>
> I'm particularly attracted to v6 because of the multi-camera
> facilities. It's also HD-ready - I don't have any plans yet to go down
> that route, but inevitably I will need to do so before long. But
> equally inevitably my old machine was too elderly (3 years??) to be
> expandable, so I've invested in a complete new machine, with the
> fastest processor, largest storage and most RAM that I could afford.
> The old machine will be passed on to a youngster starting in the
> business.
>
> The new machine arrived 3 days ago, and I started loading footage into
> it yesterday. I've not started to edit an actual timeline yet, but it
> seems to be very fast. Will I be pleased with my purchase? I very
> much hope so. When the Avid takeover (?) first became news, I was a
> bit wary of upgrading to another Pinnacle product, but I visited trade
> exhibitions and looked at the opposition before deciding. EVERY NLE
> has its good and bad points, and I decided that I would rather stick
> with the software that I was familiar with. There were also financial
> considerations, such as Avid's breakout box costing almost as much as a
> new computer. I was also assured by a retailer who I respect that he
> was confident that Avid wouldn't turn its back on the large and loyal
> Pinnacle customer base, and that even if Edition v8 (apparently v7 is
> already in Beta) becomes an Avid product in a Pinnacle shell, it would
> still be an easy transfer for established users.
>
> You get what you pay for, but I've had footage edited on my v5.5 up on
> screen at a Royal Television Society awards presentation alongside
> sequences produced at a professional broadcast studio, and you can't
> tell the difference. I'm looking forward to getting to grips with
> v6... so I'll stop typing and get on with it!
>
> GRAEME ALDOUS
> Yorkshire
>
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