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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:
 Recommended hardware requirements too low November 30, 2005
For some reason the program works for me. I have a P4 (3Ghz) with 1GB of RAM. Available HD space is about 40 GB. I made a 75-minute video with added transitions and sound and burned it to a DVD, it took about 3.5 hrs. to complete. The computer ran very slow during this process. Tech support said the software must complete the "rendering" process twice before it will burn to a disc. Personally, I think the minimum hardware requirement is a fast P4 with 1GB of RAM and lots of room on the HD, anything less may lock up the computer. I also downloaded the latest patches. The program will still lock up my computer at times... Steve
 Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus November 26, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I like my Pinnacle but it can be frustrating at times. I just had to learn some patience and take it slow. Let it do it's thing before you move on clicking away. I got lucky when my computer had a meltdown and I lost everything. I had a DVD of some of my work to see how it looked on the TV. It was only 11 minutes long and had several video clips with music and some transitions. I imported it from my file menu and used it as I continued working on my project. I re-rendered this project and it rendered very fast since all the parts of the this segment had already been pre-rendered. This gave me the idea to make my full movies with several DVD's like "Acts" in a play. I make a few minutes of my show with all the bells and whistles i want and then render that segment on a DVD R/W and do this until my show is finished. My Dad's Vietnam documentary was broke up into 6 different DVD's. I then import all of them and drag and drop them into my timeline and render the entire movie on one single DVD. If any small glitches exist i fix them but keep that to a dull roar! the whole idea is to keep the overall work load down to a minimum - like re-tracking some music or adding a transition etc... and then I render the entire project. My first disk on the documentary is 59 minutes long with lots of music, tons of video i took on my panasonic mini DV with a lot of transitions and effects. Since all of the segments of my disk were all PRE-RENDERED the whole project rendered very fast and did not CRASH!!! and this has worked on other projects for me as well. I have a Sony Vaio computer with Windows XP Home Edition Ver. 2002 with a Pentium 4 CPU 3.06 GHz - 1 Gig of RAM and 200 GB of Drive D space.I hope this helps others on their projects and good luck movie making.
 Like the EASE of USE but ... October 16, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I give this program 1 star because:
- Additional purchases of keys to unlock for more features are required. Ex. to use 5.1 audio channel you will need to pay $10.00.
- Rendering process takes helly long time to finish and freeze your computer all the time.
- The video capture frees the computer and stops after capturing 45 min as well (due to technical prolems with Window).
- Burn the disc image to my hardrive but when I burn it to my DVD, the project always stop at 85%. I went back to edit and redo for more than 3 times and still cannot make it work.
- The website sells the program for users who want to upgrade to the new version (v.10) more expensive than the Amazon website sells.
Goodbye, Pinnacle... September 24, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've had it. I have been trying to use Pinnacle Studio since v7 over the past couple years. I have upgraded, patched it, bought add-on effects, but the software continues to get worse.
In earlier versions, the problem was rendering. In the latest version, the problem is capturing.
I am NOT trying to do anything fancy. Most of the time, I just want to capture a DV movie and then burn it to DVD. The other project was creating a photo album on CD with music and transitions. In the two-three years I have been working with Pinnacle, I have been able to complete only a couple projects and they were EXTREMELY frustrating experiences. So, why have I stuck with Pinnacle so long... because it takes me months to even consider a new video project after completing one, by that time Pinnacle has a new release and I then "try it again".
Well, no more! After the latest upgrade, now simple capturing doesn't work. I can capture the video using MS Movie Maker and Roxio without a problem, but Pinnacle won't accept those AVI files. However, with Pinnacle capture, it CONSTANTLY stops capturing, claiming the "aspect ratio changed from 16:9 to 4:3" even though the whole thing is one aspect ratio.
I am going to give the Sony Vegas software a try and if that doesn't do it, then I am going to buy a Macintosh.
Goodbye Pinnacle and good riddance.
Do not purchase this software! September 20, 2005
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I was new to video editing and needed something that was easy to use for some simple videos I wanted to edit. I wanted something on a consumer level and chose Pinnacle Studio 9. For my first DVD everything seemed to work fine, no real problems anywhere. I was satisfied.
It wasn't until my second project that I realized how terrible this software really is. Something as easy as inserting really is not. Think how easy it is to insert some text in the middle of a paragraph in a word processing program. You put the cursor where you want it to go and insert your text, pushing what is after the cursor forward.
When I go to "insert" a clip in my project, it simply doesn't. It completely discombobulates everything. It merges and I don't want it to, things get erased where it shouldn't, and don't even think of trying to finely tune text titles to your clips.
After several hours of working around my problems, I finally get my project done. My machine specifications include a 2.5Ghz process, 1GB of RAM, and GeForce4 video card. Rendering a two hour movie takes about 7 hours, so I leave the computer on over night for it to do its thing. I wake up the next morning to see that the software freezes at 95% completion. A quick look at the Pinnacle forum support page I realize that this program is notorious for freezing during its rendering process. I did everthing that I could to fix my problem, nothing. Several days and several more burn to disc attempts, nothing. The only thing that is left for me is to complete start the project over. 15 hours of my life I won't be getting back.
With that said, I am done with this program. I do not recommend it to anyone. If I could give this program a zero star, I would. I hear Sony's Vegas Movie Studio is worth a look.
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