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Bad NEWS, DO NOT BUY ANYTHING BY PINNALCE
ACTAUL RATEING IS -***** (thats MINUS 5 stars) <
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>TWO times dealing with Pinnacle, and I feel I need a lawyer to take them to court. They KNOWINGLY sell DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS! AND DECEIVE CLIENTS WILLFULLY!!! <
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> They wrote a program and it's got too many bugs to fix so they make it look as if they are fixing bugs and that there is only a few minor ones, but there ARE NOT VERY MANY COMPANIES AND PROGRAMS OUT THERE THAT HAVE AS MANY BAD COSTOMER REVIEWS POSTED ALL OVER THE INTERNET>>>> DO A SEARCH FOR "BOYCOTT PINNACLE" or "WARNINGS ABOUT PINNACLE STUDIO" or any other similar input to google or what ever, on all the sites your going to find the same sort of thing, but one page I did find which must have been a paid page by pinnacle, said they think "the bugs must be confined user spacific" claiming they had no problem at all, BS, not user spacific if it's rates 90 out 100 user coments on thousands of sites as BAD NEWS!!!!! I think I know the company they used to work at, there was some other graphics software out for win3 and it had tons of problems too, like unable to reinstall, crashing and hanging, crashing windows so bad a reformatting was needed... <
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> I just remembered, there seems to be a connection to that old one and Canon and this new one and Canon, not in documentation as being connected but the software was bundled in with the same lies, full working version of xxxxxxx, then you install it and find bugs and also find its a limited use version if you want any of the feathures you thought you were getting you had pay EXTRA THROUGH THE NOSE FOR MORE GARBAGE.... <
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>What do you call a company like this?¿?

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Bugs? There Are a Few Tricks if Studio Hangs
First off, I'm about to buy Studio 9 Media Suite after having used both Studio 7 and Studio 8. My experience is that all of them are buggy, but in some respects that is not surprising given the impressive capabilities of the product. Other editors don't come close to the performance. I'm not saying the program is perfect, but I learned painfully how Studio can hang; here's how I worked around it. <
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>I was the parent support to a group of high schoolers putting together a sports team video almost three years ago. The final version ran 32 minutes and 4.7 GB, with about ten different music tracks, about 30 video clips, and almost 300 pictures, all with special effects, titles, etc. The end product was really impressive, but the project wouldn't render. Parents had paid their money. Kids were getting ready to go away to college. I knew that Studio 7 wouldn't handle anything bigger than 4.0 GB, so I had to splice two projects onto the master (seamless with a digital camcorder). <
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> But first I had to get it to render. On the Pinnacle web site I read someone's comment about hanging often being due to heavily edited projects - you know, adding and cutting a frame here or a frame there to get the perfect transition? So here's what I did. I printed out the storyboard/timeline data as an Excel file. It gave me all of the clips, all of the start and stop times, all of the transitions - everything I needed to to reconstruct the project. I then went back to the raw files and carefully edited them one time, using the storyboard data, and inserting them into two new projects for the two project segments. Disclaimer - downloading and printing the storyboard data was not obvious in Studio 7; I have suggested this to Pinnacle as a desirable feature but couldn't tell you if it's happened. <
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>The entire thing then rendered perfectly on a system running an Athlon 900 MHz CPU, 384 MB RAM, a Radeon 7500 video card, and 120 GB HDD space. A project like that will stress ANY system and may take hours to render, but it will work. I recommend no multitasking or background processes while rendering. I think I even disconnected my ethernet cable and shut down the antivirus and firewall. <
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>Pinnacle Studio is very much like a British sports car - incredibly finicky, but incredible performance when it's right.

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Would be good if it worked!
My review is for the full version 9, not the upgrade, but they should be the same. I had so many problems with version 8, but I made the mistake of hoping version 9 would be better. WRONG.
The good: Pinnacle Studio is packed with features and is quite easy to use.
The bad: It's JUNK. Full of bugs even with the latest updates. It's slow too. STAY AWAY from this product!