Pinnacle Studio 8.0 Video Editing with CD/DVD Authoring Software

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Average Rating: Rating: - Sorry I bought this product after reading these reviews Yes, I bought Studio 8 because PC Mag said it was great and the only reason I didn't give it 1 star is that it could and may be great, but it's not there yet. I'm running a Pentium 4, 1.7mHz, 512M RDRAM, WinXP and a storyline of more than 15-20 minutes brings the system to a crawl, I leave the room and hope that rendering will be complete when I return. I've had problems using the CD burn software to make VCD's; have to make the MPEG then make the VCD using Roxio. I was planning on purchasing a DVD burner, but unless there is some reasonably priced software that can handle a 2-hour movie it is pointless. I've used all the suggestions in the manual to try and get the program to run better with no success. The lite version that came with my firewire card (MGI Video Wave) runs much better than this program and I probably should have bought the full version of that program. For the price, this program is feature rich, but unless you're more successful in getting this program to run faster, be prepared to spend long hours in front of your computer waiting for the hour glass to turn into an arrow. Rating: - Lots of features and easy to use I had never used video editing software before, and read a lot of reviews, both user and "expert" before settling for Pinnacle Studio Version 8. Curiously, the 10 digit serial number was printed backwards and it took a while to figure that out. Also it was on the CD sleeve, not on the back of the book where the on screen instructions told me to locate it. After installing (a breeze) I watched the tutorial video and then made a couple of test movies. One on fresh video footage from my Samsung mini DV camcorder, the other was a compilation of AVI video clips my folks back in Old England have e-mailed to me and I have been saving them on my hard drive. Both movies were easy to compile and fun to do. I easily added transition effects between scenes and titles, trimmed some scenes and then rendered the whole thing. I found rendering was slow, as many other reviewers have pointed out, but that was my only complaint. I made one test movie on a CD using MPEG2 which played fine on my DVD player. The other was a compilation of 20 and 30 second AVI movie clips, which was also very easy to put together and played perfectly on my (older) DVD player. Movies can also be made in streaming fashion to display on a web site or in formats suitable for e-mailing. The many formats available is definitley one of its strong points. This software was pretty easy to use, with nice features allowing a complete amateur like me to impress the hell out of my friends at first try! I accomplished all of this without any prior experience with video editing software so I give my full approval. Rating: - Be careful - Studio 8 might not work After successfully using versions 6 and 7 of this program, I bought Studio 8 but was severely disappointed. One of the primary features, the title program, will not work. I tried every tip Pinnacle's tech help suggested, but none solved the problem. Pinnacle's response was, in effect, "it's your fault." Before you buy the program, make sure you can return it for a refund if not satisfied.

Pinnacle Studio 8.0 Video Editing with CD/DVD Authoring Software

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