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Summary: Absolutely Useless
Review: I bought Studio 8 about 3 months ago. In that time it has been one headache after another. This product does not work as described. The technical support is clueless and each upgrade only causes more problems while not really fixing the existing problems. If it worked the way it was advertised it would be a great piece of software. However, if you even get it to work at all you are lucky. If you work to get around one problem you will only encounter another down the line. Even during editing the program will frequently just lock. I do not know how they are getting away with selling this. They should be forced to give everyone refunds. This is truly the most flawed and buggy piece of software I have ever witnessed.
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Summary: Worst Software I Ever Owned
Review: It's too bad I only have 1,000 words to describe how awful this product is. There are bugs everywhere, in every aspect of editing and rendering. Even with he latest Sony DV camcorder, a PC system that far exceeds requirements and all patches applied it hits you with debilitating bugs that make it literally impossible to finish the project. Titles dissapear or randonly re-appear in section 5 minutes later. Sound cuts out, sometimes for music tracks, sometimes f/x tracks, sometimes cam-audio, sometimes altogether (and this is a neat trick) sometimes every OTHER scene! Rendering "error messages" give you no clue even where it failed! Transitions mangle the sound and not even in the spot where the transition is. The "high-end" effects are even flakier (although some are vendor supplied). Tech support is awful (sometimes no response at all) and their "solutions" like re-installation actually made it worse! At this point I can't even launch it any more after fresh installs and am left with a half-finished project and can't continue at all. This product is sub-beta, even sub-alpha. Please, someone start a class-action suit so I can sign on as a co-plaintiff! It should be illegal to release software this horrible. P.S. I've developed software and know the difficulties but this piece of junk is inexcusable.
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Summary: Unreliable product
Review: This product seems to have a great feature set - the only problem is, it does not work! It freezes even on a simple 5-minute clip with no effects and transitions - and that is on a pretty powerful computer with 1GB RAM and 2GHz processor. After spending countless hours troubleshooting, I have just decided to give up on the product. In over 1 year of owning this product, I havent been able to produce even a single working movie clip out of this.My advice: Do not take this product even if it was offered for free!
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Summary: it works, but you need patience, and no life at all.
Review: I bought a VERY high end Gateway computer, specifically for video editing, and what program came with it?....you guessed it, Studio 8....well, being a begginer, I was up for a challenge, and I just couldn't get this program to work, AT ALL...turns out, that for the first couple months of owning this program, it was WORTHLESS!...it wasn't until the "free upgrade" was available that this program would work (It wasn't me at all)...yeah, that's great, pay [money], and wait three months for it to work properley?...I don't think so! So, anyway, I learned everything on the program, and I would say i'm pretty experienced now....but with 99% of the projects, you (or I at least I do) will encounter some type of freak error that will occur for an "Unknown" reason....Studio shuts down automatically, causing you to loose your work, even with "autosave" Hours and Hours are wasted using this software, but I continue to use it because #1. I paid for it already, and it can't go back #2. I have learned almost everything about the software, and #3. Eventually, every project I make can be burned to a DVD....just not on the first try. If I get the error, I know certain tricks to have it work the second time...but as I stated, you need patience, because this product could drive you CRAZY! I could go on forever about the program flaws...but let me leave it at this, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone...I'm sure there are many reliable products out there with the same great features...and they probably work each and every time!. Also, forget Tech support...that's a complete joke! They might as well not even have a phone number, because you'll never get a hold of ANYONE!
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Summary: Not all that bad
Review: I think it's a pretty fair program, but then my needs aren't too great -- just stringing together a few clips along with transitions and titles. If I was going to do serious editing, I certainly wouldn't buy an inexpensive program like this to do it. It does crash fairly often but I just work around that by saving frequently, something that should be done anyway. I've found it easy to use and have been pleased with my results. I think it's really a quite capable program for the price.
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Summary: Don't expect it to work
Review: I purchased a PC equipped specifically to produce video from home video tapes (Hi-8) and a MiniDV camcorder. I have been through version 7 and all the way to 8.5. It crashes all the time, and only once in 10 tries will it burn a DVD. I am sick of spending 6 hours of computer time to render a DV, and then have this junky software say "disc burning failed with unknown error." 6 hours of work down the toilet. Pinnacle support is essentially non-esistent. I submitted questions early, and got vague, useless answers from somebody in India, I think. Recently, Pinnacle simply doesn't answer at all. Pinnacle should change their name to Nadir. And stop selling stuff that simply doesn't work. They make Microsoft look like good guys. I'm buying a new Apple G5, and I intend to never look back.
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Summary: Don't buy this program
Review: They should sell a program with less features and is more reliable than having the public work out their bugs for them. How are they able to get away with selling junk?
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Summary: It needs upgrade
Review: I have to download upgrade software from Pinnacle website to make it work correctly. It takes long long long time to load the video sequence, edit a movie, add various transitions. Sometime I was wondering it was crash and no response at all (my notebook is 2,66G and 512M RAM).
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Summary: One word: BUGGY!!
Review: Wish I could give this zero stars. If you're working on a movie longer than 3 minutes, stay away from this software and you'll save yourself hours of frustration and anguish. Although this software is very user friendly and easy to install, it has to be the most poorly developed and tested [material] I've ever used. Examples? Titler buggy: when trying to edit a title/overlay, the first one you create remains in the buffer and if you accidentally click OK, you've overwritten your title. Voice-over: couldn't get it to work w/ my Yamaha drivers (I've got a new Toshiba Tecra) and Studio disabled the microphone each time I hit record. Sound: somehow soundtrack info must've gotten scrambled when I was *almost finished* w/ the project, and I had to recreate the entire soundtrack!! Auxiliary files: watch out, as these default to your profile (MS Documents), and if you try to move them OUT of it, your titles/photos will disappear...(long story). Throw in a few system lock ups and you get the picture. Rendering, amazingly, worked the best (go figure), after about 2 tries. BTW, my system exceeded the system req. so this was not an issue. Wish I had bought something better; purchase only if you feel lucky and have nothing better to do than mess w/ this.
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Summary: ...
Review: Underneath all this fancy packaging, is a satanic soul reaver that will suck the very essence of time itself right out from under you. example - I spent 7 HOURS capturing and editing a FOUR MINUTE video, and just as I was about to save it to my computer, Studio 8.5 decided it had to shut down, and it deleted all of my work without saving jack. The few times I did actualy get a couple of things burned onto DVD, the picture was pixalated that it looked like I downloaded them off the...net. Anyone who gives this ...a good review is either working for Pinnacle, or they are working for the Devil (maybe both). I do not jest.
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