Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus - Video Editing Software [OLD VERSION]

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Last update: 12-14-2024

About this item

Advanced consumer video editing and disc authoring application
On-demand access to hundreds of professional-quality functionalities
Special video effects and more than 100 transitions; image stabilization
Audio features and effects; advanced video publishing
Intuitive interface and seamless workflow

Top reviews from the United States

B. Ellis

Pinnacle Studio 9.3 Yikes!

Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2005

To save you money and, more importantly, time, the bottom is, DO NOT BUY THIS USELESS PRODUCT.

Pinnacle states how robust this product it. I believe the execs from Pinnacle have been recruited from Enron. What a bunch of thieving liars.

Importing and editing video is well implemented.

But its ability to burn a DVD seems nonexistent.

If you can manage to coax a 20-minute project out of this crazy software package, you will discover this:

1. The Screen menu will jump you to somewhere in the middle of your video. Oops.

2. Out of sync audio will give your video the charm of a dubbed foreign film. Ciao.

3. Hours of labor will result in unburned disks, saving you costly DVD media. ($$)

4. Burned disks are pretty much an experiment that fails. Enjoy your shiny new coasters.

5. Your hard drive is competing with Verizon, it never stops working, even after the software dialogue states it has successfully burned the disk (see number 3 above).

6. Additional features (too many to list here) are sold separately. I am doubtful those features will do little more than drain my bank account.

7. This software is not even worth bootlegging.

So if you Pinnacle Eggheads are reading this. Congratulations, you conned me and got my cold hard cash. However, I have the power of the Web on my side. There are thousands of people reading this and I believe I have discouraged numerous sales.

An irate customer that is apparently not alone with this review.

Luis Hamburgh

Does the 9.4 fix this monster? NO!

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2006

I'm still laughing at the mind reader who can discern from these online reviews -- and the brief windows into folks' personalities they provide --who has, and hasn't, installed the 9.4 patch.

Condescend much?

About to get another new PC, and new video editing software, I thought I'd scan the internet for ideas on what *non-Pinnacle* software to get. After a good hour reading about Ulead, Vegas, Adobe, et al, I wound up here (no search engine's perfect, I suppose). Still somewhat bitter about all the time I lost using Pinnacle, I couldn't simply return to Google without first throwing in my 2 cents.

1. Once your project grows beyond a couple-splices-and-a-WAV level, Pinnacle Studio will crash often, despite having the 9.4 patch. And, no, it's not a hardware issue. Of course, you lose everything you've done since last saving your file (which quickly becomes second nature), and occasionally the crashed file becomes uneditable! You'll find yourself saving two and three copies of the same file, for this reason alone.

2. Rendering is unreliable. Often, the rendering will freeze, and the resultant video will be a mass of useless data.

3. Burning onto DVDs -- regardless what brand DVD you use -- usually skips and often unplayable in standard DVD players. Huge, like, five-second chunks of video skipped over, sometimes much longer.

4. The Menu Building feature of Pinnacle was written by a retard. Not that the menus themselves, once created, are poor --- they're fine. But the act itself of creating a menu involves a process more counterintuitive than breathing water, I imagine.

5. Technical support - the only thing I can recall about Pinnacle's tech reps is the time I called about audio/video sync issues, and the guy suggested he talk me through editing my registry... that's right!

Maybe I'm just remembering all the bad stuff. But, if that's the case, there's a good reason for it.

Back to Google...

Ben Jammin (Isaac)

My Story

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2005

OK, so here is my story.
I am quite good with computers and especially good at figuring out programs. I read some reviews of several programs and have currently tried Pinnacle, WinDVD, PowerDirector, and ULead Videostudio. I have to say, Pinnacle was the best. However, it sucks.
Let me explain.
Whereas ULead and PowerDirector had all kinds of neat clean-up features, the simple task of inserting transitions on a black background was not so simple. In fact, it was a pain for both. I couldn't figure out how to create menus or chapters with either of these programs. Bottom line: all the video clean-up abilities of a program can't beat out a programs efficiency. And these two programs, although nice, run well, and easy to figure out; lacked the ability to create menus, chapters, and easy transitions. So they suck.
Oh, and WinDVD just....really really sucks. I'm not even going to talk about it.
Pinnacle on the other hand, was magnificent. Change volume, create beautiful transitions, and import music with a few clicks. So simple to use and it could create fantastic menus with chapters; it was magnificent. However, it too sucks. Why? Because it's VERY VERY VERY resource demanding. It will suck your memory and processor dry. I have a 512 MB, Pentium 4 2.7 GHz processor. Still, the program crawled. I'm not talking about rendering now....that is normal for it to take a day or night depending on your computer (mine rendering for a 1 hour 40 minute video with 6 menus took ~4-6 hours.)
No, this program CRAWLS! Try to do anything, and you'll wait 5 minutes for its completion (after you've got your video over an hour that is). Now, I didn't do what the other reviewer had mentioned to overcome this by breaking it up, which isn't a bad idea. Unfortunately, to make your chapters, you have to put it all together anyway.
So I made my DVD, I then wanted to make some changes. Well, it started crawling. And mind you, it had locked up on me ~20 times. So I started saving often. Well, it locked up on me while saving. Yah....you got it, after spending 2 weeks on a two hour video...I lost EVERYTHING. So needless to say, I hate this program.
Why the 3 Stars? As you can see, I can't find any program that even comes close to the handiness or usefulness of this one. I am now trying Sony Vegas Studio. I will let you know what I discover.
Later,

UPDATE:
I tried Sony Vegas Studio and it was terrible. I decided to spend the money on Powerdirector and Powerproducer. It's ease of operation was too good to pass up. Maybe if I get a faster computer one of these days, I'll give the Pinnacle another try. However, I am still to p.o.'d about losing my entire movie.

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