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| Pinnacle Systems Studio 9 - Video Editing | 
 enlarge | From: Pinnacle Systems
Category: Software
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $8.00
You Save: $91.99 (92%)
New (1) Used (4) from $6.95
Avg. Customer Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 2291
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 2
MPN: PIBK9
UPC: 613570211211
EAN: 0613570211211
ASIN: B0001AU6I0
Release Date: January 29, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 You need to disable all your background applications February 1, 2006
I was hesitant after reading all the negative reviews here and elsewhere, but the price was right, so I gave it a shot. I suppose My PC might be better equipped than a lot of people's (P4 3+ ghz, 2 gig of ram, 2 HD totalling abou 360 gig) but I'm pretty sure most of the problems people have are because they haven't disabled all their background applications. Just go into your tray, and shut off your virus protection and everything else you see down there while you're rendering and burning. And turn off your screensaver too. That's all there is to it. As long as you've downloaded the patches and your hardware is powerful enough, you should have no problems.
This program isn't perfect; it has frozen up on me a few times, but that seems to happen with all windows based apps at one time or another. The most annyoing thing, though, is that the software COULD do so much more, but every time you see a cool effect or a cool menu, you realize it is locked and will cost you $20 to unlock. It seems like you'd have to spend over $200 to unlock everything. But most of that stuff is gimmicky stuff that you don't really need anyway.
I bought this to turn home video mini-dv tapes into watchable DVD's. While the process itself is fairly time consuming, the software is easy to use. People are always very impressed with my results. Everybody who owns a mini-dv camcorder with a firewire out port should own this software.
 I Agree With The Majority --- IT DON'T WORK January 17, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I bought this in the spring of 2005 and looked at it but did really use it until recently. As has been stated everything about this product is great until you actually try to make a DVD and then NOTHING! It renders for hours and finally fails. I've been trying every which way I could think of and really ended up here trying to find yet another "tip" on the internet to get this thing to work.
Real rating would be... about a minus 10! January 13, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Oh my Gosh, what trouble this software is! However, I am relieved that 'it's not me.' I first purchased this because of the Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80 that came with the software. My problem, no firewire on my PC to capture my precious famly videos. So I figured this was perfect - WRONG! I found the software amazing intially, it was beautiful and easy to use. Wonderful transitions, the works! So I kept fooling with it, and trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. I thought it was my PC so I borrowed a friend's more powerful one - didn't help. I spent countless hours (and I do mean countless) working on a project. I even tried to take out the moving video and just use slideshow pictures. Then I resorted to no audio, then no transitions. This thing just DOES NOT work properly. And... yes, I have downloaded all the available patches! ARGHHHHH! Very, very fustrating, and its a shame too, because I was willing to put in the time and stay with the product (even moving on to Studio 10). Thank goodness for Amazon's customers' reviews. I have read all the very same problems and opinions. Now I know it's not me. I can relax and move on to something else, and leave this aweful experience behind!
Tricky but worth it December 24, 2005
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am amazed at all the negative reviews this product has been given. I write this review just hours after buying it and the results are absolutely spectacular. I had bought another card before but it was a disaster. Although the conversion was good, its software simply refused to recognise video shot in 16:9 mode. So I had to buy another one. And I bought this.
The basic mistake people seem to be making is in using the software that comes with the card. There is better software available in the market. Use NERO. It is far superior and much easier to use. Which is what I did. I converted my one hour video of following a Tigress and her cub in a forest in India into a digital video and I wish I could show that video to the reviewers here at Amazon. There was no loss of quality whatsoever and the conversion was simply superb. It did take time - but only as long as it would take to play the video. I managed to record all of it in an hour.
So this product is highly recommended. I didn't like the Software that came with it. Most video capture cards come with crap software. Unfortunately, you just have to get used to that sad fact. But use a good video editing software like NERO with the hardware and the results will be spectacular.
Very Bad December 22, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm having the same issues eaveryone else here is having.
I have a Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive space free.
Don't waste your time with this software.
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