Posted by Danne on 11/16/05 19:37

Hi

In my case the program was installed on a new computer (Dual core 3GHz
with 2G dual buss 533 MHz memory) and it was slow in some cases.
Canopus Lets edits uses about 5-10% cpu power when editing on the same
computer. But this was not the problem. The problem was the stability
and not working functions and at last, trashing both program and work.
Even with a higher stress level I would not pay a full price for a
product to become a beta tester. I think it is better to spend the
time on editing the work and not reporting and finding out what the
problem are with the tools or how to work around them. There exists
other software, so you can select one depending on what you want to
do. In you case I think you already have found your solution, version
9+.

Best Regards
Danne

"Donald Link" <linkd@mindspring.com> skrev i meddelandet
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>I have tried quite a few programs for video production from the most
> expensive to the cheapest. Most have pros and cons, from high cost
> to
> limited functions. Thru the whole deal I have used Pinnacle Studio
> from version 7 to 9 plus with a few purchased add on from Pinnacle.
> It
> has been a rough road in video editing to the final DVD projects.
> Most
> of my projects have been my 3 grandkids so it was worth all the
> effort. I think we are blessed to be able to produce actual movies
> footage that they will be able to show their kids and grandkids. I
> have found that version 9 plus was stableto the extreme with almost
> no major problems, and have done the best work with it.
>
> I have always been a strong supporter of Pinnacle for their efforts
> to
> produce a program that the average person could actually produce
> very
> professional videos. I have a AMD 2800 with 1 gig ram and two very
> big hard drives with a fast dvd burner. An ATI 9200 graphic card
> with
> 256 ram and a good sound system and a big 21 inch monitor all
> running
> XP PRO. Never have I had a problem with the hardware other than the
> normal long rendering times that are expected.
>
> Being the brave soul that I am I decided to upgrade to version 10
> Plus
> with the multimedia. The price was right, especially with all the
> extra including a 10 dollar gift certificate. I consider myself
> very
> astute when it comes to solving problems and have a world of
> patience,
> so off to the races with version 10. After a couple of problems
> with
> installations which took a few hours of going to the pinnacle web
> site
> and forum the programs got installed and all the activation of add
> on
> programs things looked like it would be a breeze. Boy was I wrong.
> As soon as I fired up the program it tells me that my video and
> sound
> card are under powered and get the latest drivers from the web site
> which I already had installed. So now I can only used video
> emulation
> and may have trouble with smooth video. Still, I can live with
> that
> so onward and upwards and full steam ahead with capturing a AVI
> video
> from my sony MiniDV camera with not a problem.
>
> Now I am ready to edit the movie and things still look good and
> added
> it to the time line and it play perfect. Adding title and
> transitions
> worked out fine. That is as far as I got. It was impossible to add
> menus and chapters because all I got was a blank menu when it played
> with colored lines where the menu should be. For the heck of it I
> tried to render the video and burn it and all I got was either a
> black
> screen and one time a real colorful pink video. Also I rendered it
> with no titles or nothing except the actual video and it still would
> only render to a solid color for the whole video.
>
> I had shot footage for the local karate kids club so I was getting a
> little pissed since I had uninstalled version 9 prior to installing
> 10
> so it was back to the drawing board and uninstalled 10, searched the
> hard drive for all references, cleaned out my registery of all
> references and reinstalled version 9 Plus and am back to being a
> happy
> camper and finished the projects without a hitch. In fact my video
> card and sound card are happy with version 9 plus.
>
> I think version 10 has a lot of potentials and may it will work with
> extremly fast processor and higher end video and sound card, but it
> really looks not quite ready for Beta testing yet. I am still
> willing
> to wait and see, but unless you are willing to test it out without
> being frustrated and do not have a high stress level then please use
> it and work the bugs out for the rest of us.
>
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:15:44 GMT, "Danne" <NoSpam@FakeEMail.Nowhere>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"PhantomFlyer" <adam.boffa@sympatico.ca> skrev i meddelandet
>>news:1130874211.553625.133340@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> Excellent, now you can find something that works well. Let me know
>>> what
>>> you find. I'm in need of some new software.
>>
>>Have now tested some different programs and the choise remains
>>between
>>two products
>>
>>Canoputs Lets Edit (Impressing real real time. Some good tools for
>>audio and video effects)
>>Or
>>Premiere Elements (Have to spend more time to find a way to speed up
>>the work, Lets Edit is easier here)
>>
>>After testing different program I have learned a bit more about the
>>subject and I'm realy happy to have been able to returned Pinnacle.
>>
>>Danne
>>

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