Posted by mmaker on 11/29/05 16:13

Newbury wrote:
> How can you blame Pinnacle for your drive crashing and reboots?

Mmm, let's see? HD editing in Avid is pretty much flawless. HD
compositing in Digital Fusion is pretty much flawless. DV editing in
Premiere, provided I don't use Pinnacle drivers, is pretty much
flawless.

Run Liquid Edition and either my PC will spontaneously reboot or it
will trash the hard drive after I exit and restart the PC.

Does the term 'cause and effect' mean anything to you?

> I can tell
> you right now that you have totally unrelated problems

Ah, I didn't realise that you were from the psychic PC support hotline.

> and to think that it
> is the fault of Pinnacle in ridiculous.

Of course. The fact that my PC is almost 100% reliable when doing
anything else, whereas just starting Edition, editing for a few minutes
and rebooting is enough to trash the hard disk, is irrelevant. It MUST
be the PC, it can't possibly be the Pinnacle software, even though
Pinnacle have a years-long history of releasing software that causes
crashes and spontaneous reboots (e.g. DC30+ drivers, DV300 drivers,
Pro-One drivers).

And you wonder why people don't take you seriously?

> Ten years is a long time to use
> software that is buggy.

Unfortunately Pinnacle kept buying up all the other PC video editing
companies: I'm glad Avid have bought them now, they might actually
enforce some quality control on Pinnacle's software.

Mark

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