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Posted by TonyP on 09/26/65 11:42
Gordon Abbot wrote:
> TonyP wrote:
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>> 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?
Oh, you can buy any product you want, but if you computer does not meet
the requirements, chances are, that it may not work. Simple. How many
computers have you serviced that have not be defragged? Reg cleaned?
Temp files removed? Me... plenty. Affects the performance of the
computer. Most people don't know how to do this. They buy a computer,
plug it in, and away they go until it slows to a crawl or ceases to boot
up. Does this make it "clearer" for you?
> 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.
IF you have been following this thread at all, you would have read my
reply concerning Studio 10. But since you seem to not have read my
reply, let me re-state it hear briefly. I did not upgrade to 10 because
of what seemed to be a lot of problems with it. It should not have been
released in it's initial and current form. OK?
> 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).
It isn't 9 at all. It's code is based upon Liquid. And yes, I too would
consider it a v1.0.
> 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.
You know not what I go through with a program. When I say it is running
well, I mean just that. Don't try to re-word my post. And don't try to
make up your own straw man to knock it down. And, again, most people
that would buy Studio aren't computer savvy. There are incompatibility
issues for people with every program. I guess you NEVER ever had Windows
crash on you. Yet, you still use it (if a PC user. I know Macs crash
too). When someone says a particular program does not work for them, you
would have to diagnose the computer to even see if it is running
properly. Then if it is, meets the program requirements, and the program
still doesn't work, well, time to move on and find something similar.
> 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.
Mind you, you only hear of the problems, very rarely of the successes.
And yes, move to something else. I went from Matrox to Pinnacle because
the Matrox didn't work for me and my "recommended" computer. Life was
great then, and, I didn't feel the need to rag Matrox about it.
>
> GA
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