Posted by RobDee on 03/18/06 17:14

"nappY Si" <nlei123@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Avid_Pinnacle_Studio_Plus_10/4852-
> 3670_16-31528139-3.html
>
> These are the first ten ZDNet reviews of Studio 10.
> Here are the subject lines:
>
> "HORRIBLE."
>
> "WORSE THAN HORRIBLE!!"
>
> "THEY SHOULD PAY US TO BE BETA TESTERS"
>
> "LET THE CUSTOMER RATINGS TELL IT LIKE IT IS."
>
> "RATED A ONE BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LOWER."
>
> "RUN AWAY, DON'T WALK."
>
> "MULTIPLE ISSUES"
>
> "WASTE OF TIME"
>
> "MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR A TOOL"
>
> "WAIT UNTIL THEY GET THE SOFTWARE CORRECTED"
>
> The best reviewer score was TWO OUT OF TEN...
> There are 51 more user opinions. I didn't read them though
> because I was in the bathroom throwing up.
>
> http://reviews-zdnet.com.com/Avid_Pinnacle_Studio_Plus_10/4852-
> 3670_16-31528139-3.html
>
> "HORRIBLE."
> User rating: Abysmal - 1 out of 10
> Could have been a lot better."
> by FatherLeimeisei (cnet member) - March 7, 2006
>
> Pros: There are no pros
> Cons: Everything pretty much.
>
> This thing is horrible. It says you need at least 512 mb of RAM,
> but you will need like 2 GB or more if you want it to run even
> slightly smoothly. But if you want to buy any version of Studio,
> buy PLUS and not the Regular version. the regular version is
> basically an advertisement for the Plus version because Regular
> doesnt let you do anything. The regular version even comes with
> a bonus dvd. After you install the DVD and eat up 3.5 gigs of
> your hard drive, you will find that EVERYTHING on it cannot be
> used unless you upgrade to plus.
>
> Well anyway, im supposed to be reviewing the plus version. This
> software is also extremely buggy. Crashing happens all the time,
> and sometimes when you hit File > Exit, it will show a message
> next time you run about how the program crashed last time you
> used it. And if the program does crash, you need to wait 5
> minutes for this one thing to gather info on your computer so
> that you can send it all into Pinnacle. Let me just say do not
> buy. If you need a video editor, buy Adobe Premiere Elements
> 2.0. Right now you can get Premiere for like 55 bucks or
> something on buy.com. Trust me it works a lot better, but let me
> suggest that with any video editing program you will probably
> want at least a Gig of RAM.
>
> *****
>
> "WORSE THAN HORRIBLE!!"
> User rating: Abysmal - 1 out of 10
> by Chyre (cnet member) - February 27, 2006
>
> Pros: Excellent way to WASTE TIME & MONEY!
> Cons: Too numerous for this space!
>
> Owned Studio 8, "upgraded" (NOT) to Studio 10. Constant Crashes
> & burns... NO, MAKE THAT WON'T BURN a useful DVD. After a new
> 150 GB computer etc. still nothing but problems. Pinnacle help
> just tells me to re-install. DID THAT 4 TIMES! My husband
> finally convinced me to read the reviews here on cnet. OKAY! I
> give up! It's not ME, it's not my computer...it's REALLY JUST
> HORRIBLE, USELESS SOFTWARE.
> Went out and bought Adobe Premiere Elements 2
> had to spend an extra $100 to add SmartSounds but should be well
> worth the money.
> After 2 years of frustration I submit this to others who may be
> realizing they will never sort out all the problems with
> Pinnacle Studio products and that perhaps it is time to move on.
>
> *****
>
> "THEY SHOULD PAY US TO BE BETA TESTERS"
> User rating: Terrible - 2 out of 10
> by sparkie001 - February 26, 2006
>
> Pros: Continuously improving interface
> Cons: Constant hangs and crashes
>
> I'm tired of being a beta tester for Pinnacle. V9 was more
> stable than 8 but now V10 is back to being a royal pain in
> the... Nice interface is more informative about what it is doing
> than previous versions. But why does a program hang when
> switching between capture-edit-make movie modes? Surely this
> happened to their testers, but they still released it? Shameful.
>
> *****
>
> "LET THE CUSTOMER RATINGS TELL IT LIKE IT IS."
> User rating: Abysmal - 1 out of 10
> by mc2zap (cnet member) - February 17, 2006
>
> Pros: The only pros I have for this product are the smiling
> faces on the box
> Cons: A complete waste of money. Don't buy it.
>
> I want to know who it was on CNET that reviewed this pile of
> garbage and gave it a 7! Like other people, I thought that CNET
> was on the ball. Somebody was asleep at the wheel on this heap
> of wasted programing. The instruction book must have been
> outsourced to some other country that speaks a different
> language other than English. I don't have any friends that I
> would even consider giving this to. When you go shopping for a
> product to help you transfer your video to a CD or DVD, keep
> walking past Pinnicle.
>
> *****
>
> "RATED A ONE BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING LOWER."
> User rating: Abysmal - 1 out of 10
> by delpi (cnet member) - February 6, 2006
>
> Pros: Feature rich on paper
> Cons: None of the features work
>
> Sent a registered letter to Avid CEO David Krall asking for a
> refund. He's the first CEO I've ever written to that didn't at
> least have the courtesy to reply. You may download or view the
> letter at www.neonrow.com/pinnacle.
>
> I tried the software on a Pentium 4 running Windows XP Pro, SP2,
> an Athlon 64 running XP Pro, SP2 and and Athlon 64 running
> Windows XP Pro 64 bit. In all cases, the software was completely
> unusable.
>
> In my thirty years in the computer business, I have never seen a
> piece of software as unstable as Pinnacle Studio 10.
>
> Think of the most unstable application you ran on Windows 98 or
> Windows ME. Whatever that was, it would be rock-solid compared
> to Studio 10.
>
> *****
>
> "RUN AWAY, DON'T WALK."
> User rating: Terrible - 2 out of 10
> by ericmechelle (cnet member) - February 2, 2006
>
>
> Pros: Plenty of options (if you pay for them AND they work)
> Cons: Unstable, slow, poor tech support, everything costs extra!
>
> I am a certified IT professional who works for a television
> production company, therefore I know something about PCs and
> video editing hardware/software. While I did not expect Pinnacle
> Studio Plus 10 to be the same caliber of the products I support
> at work, I did expect it to work. I literally spent over 50
> hours trying to get my first project (40 minutes worth of video)
> to not lock up my system (which nearly triples the recommended
> configuration). I did everything Pinnacle support recommended
> (which involved five full uninstalls/installs) and in the end
> could only get it to work half of the time. I ended up tossing
> the software and bought Power Director; have had no problems
> once I cleaned out all the remnants of Studio Plus 10. Shame on
> Avid/Pinnacle for putting such a troubled product on the market
> and shame on CNET for rating it so highly.
>
> *****
>
> "MISERABLE EXCUSE FOR A TOOL."
> User rating: Abysmal - 1 out of 10
> by mculley1375 (cnet member) - January 28, 2006
>
>
> Pros: There aren't any because this program fails to meet even
> the minimum standards of operation
> Cons: HUGE memory footprint, way too slow performance, various
> instability issues
>
> Look, this doesn't even come close. The feature set looks great,
> but it fails to live up to any of them. I spent 5-6 hours trying
> to get this product up and running and I still can't even
> playback video. Tech support is likely swamped and unable to
> help because Engineering has laid an egg. What's a tech support
> guy to do? My advice? Go back to Pinnacle Studio v8. Yes, it had
> a few issues, but you can get it to work for home video
> applications. If it doesn't meet your needs then you need to
> step up to Premiere or another more sophisticated tool.
>
> The biggest shock was that I couldn't even get playback to work!
> What!?! The second shock was a whopping 300MB memory footprint!
> That's ridiculous.
>
> Me? I'm going back to Fry's and ask for my money back!
>
> *****
>
> Pinnacle Systems is the leader in digital video broadcast and
> production solutions... LIKE FUCK!
>
> www.pineapple-cyst.com
>
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You like Pinnacle then nappY Si?
:)

X Posted as you forgot a very important UK group.

Rob

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