Posted by Donald Link on 12/26/92 11:32

Actually I think 10 has a lot of virtues but I also think the hardware
requirements, especially with the video cards to be a major problem
with it. I had a 9200se ATI video card on the computer that I tried
to install 10 Plus on and from reading and from personal experience
this version of the ATI card was noted as causing a lot of problems. I
upgraded to a 9550 ATI with 256 memory and I think in the near future
I will try 10 plus again and see what happens. Mabey the sound card
will have to upgraded also. Not sure at this stage. Before I do that
I will make sure I install the updated version of 9.4 plus on a second
computer also with a 9200 card and make sure it is working so as not
to interupt any video I want to produce. Pinnacle has not made it
very clear on just what the requirements of video and sound cards that
will not work. It may be that they really did not know since version
10 has not been out enough to know. Just wished they would have a
larger group or mabey even a group to beta the software rather the
retail users having to. I expect by the time 11 comes out 10 will be
rather stable.

On 18 Nov 2005 16:27:34 -0800, "KChad" <kormanis@comcast.net> wrote:

>
>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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