Pinnacle Studio 8.0 Video Editing With CD/DVD Authoring [OLD VERSION]

To begin with, I absolutely love this program....if it would only work for what I want to do. It captures my video/audio from an analog source quite well for analog. After editing I was able to output back to tape with outstanding quality. I agree it is slow, but if you have a newer computer (over 2 Ghz) it doesn't run that bad. BUT if you want to create DVD's, I would not recommend this program. I like all the options you get with the menus, you can basically create them any way you want along with rearanging the buttons to anywhere on the screen (a feature I cannot find in any other program), but somewhere during the rendering process the audio falls about 30 seconds behind the video, leaving you with a bad DVD. I have tried maybe 10 programs now, none of which work the way I want, so maybe its just a problem I'm having but its a brand new computer so I don't think so. Technical Support is a little slow over e-mail, but they do help you out. Everything they suggested didn't work and I noticed that after my last response my case got marked "Unresolved" and I never got a response. My guess - they don't know either. If you want to give this program a try - go ahead, but be aware it may not work.

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.

Just like everything out of Texas Talks big but cant back up the words. Just a bragart

Enthusiasts What a crummy program.

I recently bought Adobe Premiere Edition and found it to be a much better program.

Also they don't nickel dime you to death for add-ons that are necessary to run the program. They have a novel idea they include it in the program. Wow they don't piss off the customer. They actually want to increase there customer base.

There program doesn't freeze for no reason. There program doesn't slow down when you put more than 10 minutes of video into it and change your audio around for no reason. UNIC Idea isnt it they seem to understand what the customer wants.

Renee Chevalier=20

A very dissatisfied customer that used Pinnacle 7 - 9 -10 and couldn't make it do much of anything because it kept freezing. and slowing down.it is by far the worst program I have ever used. I am so sorry I wasted my money on it. So much money lost I could have bought 4 Adobe programs saved a ton of time and money still. What a fool I have been. So I will spread the word so others don't make my mistake