Why I buy this one ?
- PC-based, consumer video editing system--make more dynamic home movies
- SmartMovie automated video editing and integrated Video CD and DVD creation
- Experience a stunning array of video editing features
- Add titles, transitions, sound effects, and background music
- Add powerful one-touch video and audio restoration tools

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What our customer's say!

"Feature rich but very flakey", Love the features and user interface for this program, but it's full of bugs that lockup and ultimately prevented me from rendering a move that I had put a lot of work into. You would be wise to look at other packages.

"Worst Software ever!!!!", Don't be stupid like me and waste your time with Pinnacle. If there was ever a worse piece of software, I have yet to find it. If you like enjoy a two-day rendering process, lock-ups every few minutes, and unknown errors, this is for you, otherwise look elsewhere...I wish I had.

I only rated it a 1 because there is no "0"

"Lots of Features, Tons of Bugs", Do not buy. I used it for several years; loved the features, hated the crashing and bugs. When it worked it was great. When it didn't you wanted to burn your computer. I "upgraded" to Studio 10 when it came out, and it was much much worse. Two stars for Studio 9, Zero stars for Studio 10. I switched to Sony Vegas Movie Studio 6.0 - very stable, hard to learn to use, but once you get there, it's a great program. Not for the novice though.

"Worse than a temperamental racehorse!", This is stunning software and I have wowed my family and friends with true movies that don't bore them. But this is only WHEN it works! It bombs out, needs patches all over its body and unless you disable everything and install software on separate drive, it winds down to nothing. Studio also lies - they recommend Althlon processor, but anyone who has worked with this says it needs Intel and nothing else! Thanks. Its favourite trick is to edit, save, burn dvd movies, and then refuse to make movie once a fresh edit has been completed. I've tried 25 times with three different movies. No go! Bought Ver 10 - thought this will sort it out. Loaded it - would not recognise previously made movies (came up in strange colours) and then told me to fetch a patch! Imagine buying a new car and then being phoned by the garage to say come in because the car needs to be patched! These software designers need to learn some manners!

"Waste of Money!!!", I own this software and it is worse than Windows Movie Maker. They give you a bunch of lame samples to use and then spam you to upgrade to use the ones you thought you were getting. I was very mad when this first happened because I felt ripped off, and I still do. I have made a couple movies using Windows Movie Maker and it was much better than this $100 POS software. It freezes the computer quite often and it is hard to navigate the various tools you need to make a good video.

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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 spent 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!

"Tricky but worth it", I am amazed at all the negative reviews this product has been given. I write this review just hours after buying it and the results are absolutely spectacular. I had bought another card before but it was a disaster. Although the conversion was good, its software simply refused to recognise video shot in 16:9 mode. So I had to buy another one. And I bought this.

The basic mistake people seem to be making is in using the software that comes with the card. There is better software available in the market. Use NERO. It is far superior and much easier to use. Which is what I did. I converted my one hour video of following a Tigress and her cub in a forest in India into a digital video and I wish I could show that video to the reviewers here at Amazon. There was no loss of quality whatsoever and the conversion was simply superb. It did take time - but only as long as it would take to play the video. I managed to record all of it in an hour.

So this product is highly recommended. I didn't like the Software that came with it. Most video capture cards come with crap software. Unfortunately, you just have to get used to that sad fact. But use a good video editing software like NERO with the hardware and the results will be spectacular.

"Very Bad", I'm having the same issues eaveryone else here is having.

I have a Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB hard drive space free.

Don't waste your time with this software.

"Recommended hardware requirements too low", For some reason the program works for me. I have a P4 (3Ghz) with 1GB of RAM. Available HD space is about 40 GB. I made a 75-minute video with added transitions and sound and burned it to a DVD, it took about 3.5 hrs. to complete. The computer ran very slow during this process. Tech support said the software must complete the "rendering" process twice before it will burn to a disc. Personally, I think the minimum hardware requirement is a fast P4 with 1GB of RAM and lots of room on the HD, anything less may lock up the computer. I also downloaded the latest patches. The program will still lock up my computer at times... Steve



"Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus", I like my Pinnacle but it can be frustrating at times. I just had to learn some patience and take it slow. Let it do it's thing before you move on clicking away. I got lucky when my computer had a meltdown and I lost everything. I had a DVD of some of my work to see how it looked on the TV. It was only 11 minutes long and had several video clips with music and some transitions. I imported it from my file menu and used it as I continued working on my project. I re-rendered this project and it rendered very fast since all the parts of the this segment had already been pre-rendered. This gave me the idea to make my full movies with several DVD's like "Acts" in a play. I make a few minutes of my show with all the bells and whistles i want and then render that segment on a DVD R/W and do this until my show is finished. My Dad's Vietnam documentary was broke up into 6 different DVD's. I then import all of them and drag and drop them into my timeline and render the entire movie on one single DVD. If any small glitches exist i fix them but keep that to a dull roar! the whole idea is to keep the overall work load down to a minimum - like re-tracking some music or adding a transition etc... and then I render the entire project. My first disk on the documentary is 59 minutes long with lots of music, tons of video i took on my panasonic mini DV with a lot of transitions and effects. Since all of the segments of my disk were all PRE-RENDERED the whole project rendered very fast and did not CRASH!!! and this has worked on other projects for me as well. I have a Sony Vaio computer with Windows XP Home Edition Ver. 2002 with a Pentium 4 CPU 3.06 GHz - 1 Gig of RAM and 200 GB of Drive D space.I hope this helps others on their projects and good luck movie making.