Cheap Pinnacle Systems Studio 9 - Video Editing (Software) (Windows 2000, Windows XP) Price

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Customer Reviews of Pinnacle Systems Studio 9 - Video Editing

You need to disable all your background applications
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. <
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>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. <
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>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.

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I Agree With The Majority --- IT DON'T WORK
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.

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Real rating would be... about a minus 10!
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 spend 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!