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| PLATFORM: | Windows 95 |
| CATEGORY: | Electronics |
| MANUFACTURER: | Pinnacle Systems |
| FEATURES: | Gives you command of your own professional-style video editing studio, Make videotapes, Send video e-mail, Put video on a Web page, Add video to a PowerPoint presentation |
| TYPE: | Graphics Cards, Video Cards |
| MEDIA: | Electronics |
| MPN: | 151-20-300-0 |
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| UPC: | 613570300007 |
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Customer Reviews of Pinnacle Systems Studio 400
Great Deal I think this is a great product for the price that you pay. I have been using it for a while and I am very happy with it.
Excellent software, TERRIBLE hardware
Pinnacle Systems makes some of the best editing software in the industry, but this product is seriously lacking in hardware capabilities. The maximum capture resolution is 160x120, although you can resize it to 320x240 (but with no increase in resolution). Also, the process to create a tape is ridiculously hard. You can ONLY use a LANC, Panasonic 5-Pin, or Infrared Camcorder. Unlike most systems, Studio 400 doesn't even support a regular VCR. (You need a LANC or 5-Pin VCR, only common in Europe!) You need to hook up the source camcorder, a VCR, the Studio Mixer, your PC, and the SmartCable. Even with delay testing, the final tapes look [terrible]. They are choppy and often have mistakes. Also, it takes several hours to make a 20 minute tape on most camcorders. Even worse, this system worked on my old system (Win98 1st Edition), but failed to work on my new system (Win ME), an office computer (Win 98 2nd Edition, and a friend's computer (Win 2000). Finally, you don't even get everything you need in the box- I needed to purchase 2 RCA mini-patch cables, and if you have a Panasonic camcorder you need to mail-order for a converter. After spending hours working on my US History project, Studio 400 DIDN'T WORK! I ended up having to create a fuzzy 160x120 file and recording that fullscreen....
Had this product for several years
This is a good and bad product. My main problem is the same as that of the previous reviewer...namely that the sync capacity is awfully wonky. I had it working on my old computer, but when I reinstalled it on the new I can't get it to operate properly and have tried to get help, without success, from their help division. They made prompt suggestions, but it didn't fix the problem. What is frustrating is that they helped the same glitch on my old computer, but can't this time. So the transitions are very much off, so you don't want to use it for spot on editing.