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Summary: The best bang for your buck
Review: I've recorded my sister's weeding and as a surprise I wanted to edit her video with sound and effects. Never having done such thing, I went to a local software retailer to find a product to get me started. Pinnacle Studio was the solution. I got the video capture hardware and the editing software bundle for [ a reasonable price] bucks! It was so easy... I watched their video tutorial and 15 minutes later I was editing. When I gave my sister and her new husband the tape they thought I've spent HUNDREDS of dollars for a professional to edit the video. They were thrilled with the results and they said it was the best gift they had gotten...I never told them how much I really spent! :)
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Summary: Great Editing Software
Review: I've worked in the broadcast industry for years, and I was quite impressed with this particular software. I've had no problems with its performance. I found it very user friendly, and One could go wild using the transitional effects. I was very happy with what all it was capable of doing, especially for the price.
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Summary: Great home movie making tool
Review: If you have a relatively new PC running on Windows XP...you will love Studio 7. In less than one week, I went from knowing nothing about creating finished home movies...with a ton of DV video just sitting around...to creating 3 nicely finished movies. This software is both simple and powerful with advanced editing features.
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Summary: PLEASE! Do not waste your time & money!!
Review: It simply can't be worst!..It claims a lot of features but non of them works...The software has a lot of SERIOUS problems...too much to mention...The best way to describe is "it just doesn't work!.....
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: Never try this stupid product. You'll thank me in the end. Rendering is so poor even the tech support.
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Summary: Known bugs....no support
Review: Oh it looks good right up the point you begin to edit a long film, then the trouble begins. Fades cause sound to disappear, then you lose sound all across the film. There a loads of folks talking about this on the Pinnacle boards, but no confirmation from them that there is a fix or that the problem exists. And, guess what, once this bug strikes your rendering blows up. I am seeing the same issues with 8 on the boards. Support is a distant rumour. Great interface, poor execution of basic functionality. Sorry I wasted my time.
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Summary: Polished software with all the "bells and whistles"
Review: Okay, this is the first REAL video editing software I've used. Till now I've only played around with the free software that came with windows XP and the free software that came with my Belkin firewire PCI card. The polished interface of the timeline view is beautiful. It's intuitive to work with, but the 284 page booklet that comes with the software is a very valuable resource. Output is to either DV tape (unlike a previous reviewer, I had no problems creating a tape), AVI files or MPEG files. To make a DVD, you'll need Pinnacle Express.
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Summary: Stay Away!
Review: Slick advertising, pretty interface...but that is it. I upgraded from previous DV version to escape multiple usability problems, but found them ALL still at home in Version 7. (Now reading the same about Version 8.) Problems are too numerous to mention, but well documented on Pinnacle's own user discussion boards. I gave it a heck of a try, including upgrading to a very fast and well-equipped PC platform. Run as fast as you can away from this dog. Spend a few more bucks and get something that works!
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Summary: Stay Away!
Review: Slick advertising, pretty interface...but that is it. I upgraded from previous DV version to escape multiple usability problems, but found them ALL still at home in Version 7. (Now reading the same about Version 8.) Problems are too numerous to mention, but well documented on Pinnacle's own user discussion boards. I gave it a heck of a try, including upgrading to a very fast and well-equipped PC platform. Run as fast as you can away from this dog. Spend a few more bucks and get something that works!
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Summary: This product is not what it's advertised to be..
Review: Studio 7 allows you to import video, edit it etc. only if the input is .avi file. It cannot edit MPEG files, where as Ulead VideoStudio is able to do this. The MAKE MOVIE option will let you create files in DV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. But the quality of MPEG-1 and Mpeg-2 is so horrible that it's better not to say anything. I finally ended up using the .avi file generated by Studio 7 and converted this to MPEG using TMPGEnc with a quality far superior to that of Studio 7. Another problem with Studio7 is that when I tried to burn a VCD/SVCD using VCDEasy (free software), the MPEG file generated by Studio7 had many blocks that were to be re-aligned. This resulted in a bloated MPEG image. I was not looking for CD burning capabilities in this software. But I hoped for reasonably good MPEG creation, which seems to be totally missing. If this is only an editing software that outputs a .avi file, Pinnacle Systems should be forthright about this in their advertisements and stop misleading people. Bottom line is the MPEG (both 1&2)are of poor quality, they are not compatible with generic VCD/SVCD creating software. The MPEG files MAY ONLY BE compatible with Pinnacle Express, which seems to be another way of selling a different product. Look for some thing else if you need MPEG creation.
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