Posted by Newbury on 11/29/05 23:07

mmaker@my-deja.com wrote:
> 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

You sound like a total fool. Mr. perfect computer where everything is
tiptop except everything from Pinnacle screws up your HDD. You need a
hotline alright.

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