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Summary: Didn't Work for Me
Review: This product has been a waste of my time. I have all the system requirements they requested, I installed the software per their specs, and every time I try to capture video the program crashes. I had an IT guy reinstall and check my system thoroughly and still no luck. I went to Pinnacle's website and wasted an hour of time going through their endless maze of forums and updates. I tried to post a question on their website that wouldn't let me log in with the user name and password THEY provided. I hope Amazon will let me return it so I can purchase a more reliable product.
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Summary: Waste of Money, Does not work!
Review: This product is a complete waste of money. I bought it to edit 3 hours of digital video from my Sony Digital 8 handycam. Editing the video was easy and the program was very powerful, but after spending about 60 hours editing video it would not compile and burn onto DVD, even though the software came with my DVD Burner! Technical support from this company was horrible, they hung up on me after about and hour of hold time, and then when I got through to them they said they would e-mail me, they sent me a generic e-mail that told me to try things I already tried. I got fed up and deleted the software, I bould ulead video studio and had to re-edit all 3 hours again, but this time it burned to the DVD flawlessly. Don't waste your money on this junk. Buy Ulead Video Studio, and save yourself 100 hours worth of grief! If you don't believe me go to pinnacle's support page and look at the forums, they have nothing but complaints.
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Summary: this product just plain sucks
Review: This program was a Christmas present from my father, who knows I am very interested in video editing.
For my birthday I got a nice little pocket camcorder, I have been using this for about a year, and I was growing tired of using Windows Movie Maker, so my dad baught me this, and no lie, this program LOOKS amazing.
Not only did a C++ error come up over half the times I used it, when I imported my video's from my camera, which CAPTURE did not let me do in the first place, there was no sound, and a message came up saying it was wrong or something, very frusterating.
Not only that, It was EXTREMELY difficult to figure out, and I read the manual front to back, so the idiot in the first post should take another shot at guessing the problem, or maybe find a job that isn't head programmer at Pinnacle.
I would give this a zero, but its only 1-5, and it deserves a
-400.
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Summary: Software does not work
Review: This software did not install properly on my XP system. I have installed dozens of other products without any problem. Only the Pinnacle Studio software did not install. I checked Pinnacle's user forum web site - it appears many customers are having the same problem trying to get this software to install.
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Summary: It would be decent software if not for the bugs...
Review: This software makes editing movies simple for the most part and has plenty of good features. However, the bugs make it nearly unusable, even when completely updated. One of the worst of these bugs is when the video and audio get out of sync. I purchased Studio 8 and upgraded to version 9 in hope of less bugs, but only got more. Right now I am pouting over the $80 I wasted and scraping up the money for a Mac.
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Summary: Works for me!
Review: Unlike the above review, I have no problems with Studio 8. I capture video, edit video and burn DVDs. I have it at home and at work, no problems either place. The majority of problems people are seeing is due to their systems being overloaded with garbage freeware, underpowered systems, low budget, off brand components with inferior drivers. This is very powerful, easy to use video editing software at consumer prices. I still have not received my copy of Studio 9, can't wait to do widescreen movies.
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Summary: Use Adobe Premiere Elements instead
Review: Where to begin...Program is extremely buggy. I was simply unable to burn a viewable DVD until the first patch. That eventually was fixed, but other issues still remain. Because of Pinnacle's back-asswards decision to not adhere to standard Windows GUI design guidelines, the program window will not display correctly on widescreen LCD displays or resolutions above 1024x768. Support is terrible and forum moderators on their site aren't much help either. They are quick to blame problems on your hardware rather than admit there is a bug in the program. They also seem to be in damage control mode as "unhappy" user posts are usually edited or deleted. Threads are often closed when posts are predominantly negative. I eventually switched to Adobe Premiere Elements and it has been smooth sailing since. Hopefully Pinnacle will do everybody a favor and go out of business soon.
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Summary: Don't buy it!
Review: While this product has great features and usability, due to major bugs in the current version, 9.0.4, it is DOA. Don't waste your money on this, or more importantly, your time learning it or trying to use it. Check out the User Forums on their website to see what is going on..... http://webboard.pinnaclesys.com/read_forums.asp?WebboardID=1&SectionID=227&lng=1 Hopefully the next version will work, since the concept of the product is a good one........
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