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Posted by Gordon Abbot on 03/14/06 13:23
TonyP wrote:
> Gordon Abbot wrote:
>> My friend, who bought 10.5 finally got it to load, but it will not
>> capture his video. He has worked with Studio 9 at school which is why
>> he bought 10.5, so he is an experience Pinnacle user. But 10.5 has
>> been a disaster. He needs to get a video made soon, so shifted to
>> Elements.
>
>
> So I guess that 9 worked ok at the school.
>
>> I cannot believe posts by Pinnacle defenders whose solution is to
>> reformat your drive to make it work. Just plain arrogance. I have
>> never had to reformat my drive for any software (except an OS) and
>> that is with win 3.1, 98, 98se and XP. If that is what is required to
>> use a Pinnacle product, then do not buy it.
>
>
> I've done it when trying to get a Matrox product to work, but to no
> avail. No big deal. I had an extra hard drive to do it. But with a
> program like Studio, it does seem to be "overkill" to get a budget
> product to work. But then, you don't know what he had on his system that
> could have caused problems with the program.
> Most people that would buy Studio aren't necessarily the most computer
> *savvy* people out there as far as maintaining their computers.
>
Thanks for clearing it up. So do not buy Pinnacle products if you are
not computer savvy, a definition set by who? Pinnacle?
The problem is, when I googled 10.5 to find out what issues there were
with it, the posts, both by reviewers and users were uniformly bad. One
reviewer of a computer mag liked it but could only get it to work on one
of three computers. Obviously, he was only 1/3rd computer savvy.
As far as using 9 at school, from what I have read on the net, 10.5 is
not a simple upgrade of 9, but 9 stripped down and re-written, so it is
actually version 1 (beta, from the problems so far).
You are one data point. It is nice that you did go through things that I
and many others, deem unacceptable for a program to make it work.
Especially, as you say, "Most people that would buy Studio aren't
necessarily the most computer *savvy* people out there as far as
maintaining their computers". So the program is not the right one for
the people it is designed for. If it is designed only for computer savvy
people, that does limit its use, since most of those would recognize it
as an inferior product.
Just that fact, that you had to do so much to make it work, takes it out
of the computer savvy world and into the world where you check the name
of the company and stay away from their products. Especially when there
are so many excellent programs that do just as well, are easy to use
and, most of all, are stable.
GA
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