Posted by KChad on 11/19/05 00:27

Donald Link wrote:
> 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
> >

Thanks Don for the post. I had money in hand ready to buy.

I, like you, have been a Studio 7,8 & 9 user and really haven't had too
many issues with Studio 9. I was looking forward to this next release.
I was really hoping it would fix some of the small things and add some
new functionality.

I'll wait for 11.

KChad

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