Why I buy this one ?
- Comprehensive and easy-to-use home video editing software
- Quickly adds spectacular effects, transitions, titles and music to videos in high definition
- Image stabilization feature and color correction tool helps you enhance video quality
- Create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly without copying your files to your PC
- Imports videos from non-encrypted DVDs for added enhancement and re-mastering

What our customer's say!

"Terrible. Pinnacle lost control of their prodoct.", I purchased Pinnacle's Dazzle DVC90 and Studio Plus 10. I am using a 6 month old computer with the latest XP updates, Intel Core 2 2.14 GHz processor, 2 GB memory, and a raid drive.

It took me 2 days of installs, uninstalls, updates, etc. to even get the capture to work. Plus I got lucky and discovered that my final problem was the volume control on the source camcorder. Turn the volume off.

As a computer professional and as someone who has authored installations with Installshield I had some advatanges. I could see all of the problems being created by Pinnacles lousy install programmers. There uninstalls basicly do almost no cleanup. I had to run Registry cleaners and even Microsoft's Windows Installer Cleanup Utility repeatedly. I had to search for and delete dozens of Pinnacle files. I ran there registry deletes, my registry cleanups, there multiple patches, etc., etc. Over and over again.

I did finally capture video and edit video. Life was looking up.

Yet on my fourth day I have yet to burn a DVD. Hangs. Does it even finish rendering? Can't tell! No software feedback. No action log. And once it hangs you have to re-boot. No idea on this yet. But each time I try takes over an hour and uses up about 30 GB of disk for one 3.99 GB DVD write. And where is the documentation describing the various temp files and what can be deleted after a failed DVD burn?

Enough. I could go on and on. Why should I say more? If you are not convinced to look elsewhere ...


"the worst software product I've ever seen", This is the worst quality software product I've seen in my life and I am a software developer. All the developers for this product should be fired and damned from development for the rest of their lives.

"this is great.", I am a junior in college majoring in Multimedia Design and I use this program all the time. I even use it for fun to make my own videos. It works with my camera even though my camera is a little old.

"Not to beat a dead horse", Not to beat a dead horse, but I hate this product too for all the reasons already stated.

"Do not buy it for dvd", Pinnacle 10 is great for capturing and making a great computer file. Making a dvd should be done using software made for processing the huge amounts of memory necessary for dvd making. Even some of the best dvd making software can be difficult to use. Maybe making vhs tapes are better. They are easier to use and cheaper. Also- video on Pinnacle is for Pinnacle captured files only- trying any others is asking for trouble. And many found trouble, reading some of the reviews here. Maybe better to consider the negative reviews on this product as by people who tried
video files done by other programs- should have never done it and then would not be complaining now.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Do Your Research!", How I wish I had read more reviews on this product before purchasing it and spending HOURS trying to make it work!

I never did get a complete video project out of it....it kept hanging up over and over every time I tried to make a movie after hours of editing.

I'll do my research next time! Any suggestions on what I can replace it with after I throw it in the trash will be much appreciated! Maybe Adobe Premium Elements 3???

"Doesn't do anything", I got this software as a present so I thought it might be OK. but when I got it it hardly did anything. There are only 2 tracks of video so if you want to do anything fancy forget it. The summery says that it is simple to use. Yeah, a little too simple. I say, don't waste your money on this piece of expensive junk, buy something that really works like Adobe Premiere Pro.

"If you own a gun ***", If you own a gun, sharp or blunt object, or are near sports equipment such as a baseball bat, DO NOT BUY THIS!!! You could hurt yourself! This program could drive you crazy!

I do not usually write reviews but I do read them and appreciate people taking the time to provide their opinions and insight into experiences with products they have used or are using. But, with this product, I can't help but warn potential buyers.

I owned and used Studio 6. It was slow but worked for basic Video CD and DVD creation. Some tasks - such as building a DVD index - are so slow that I often had to check to see if the program was locked up. I kept it updated in hopes of improved performance. Simple editing and building an index can take hours - mostly idle time on my part! Burn time was also long but didn't require my presence so I would let it run overnight while I slept. I like all the features but won't live long enough to complete tasks necessary for building a decent DVD using Studio.

A few months ago I bought Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 10. I figured that they should have improved response time by now. Besides I have upgraded my Video PC from an 800 M processor w/400 M Ram to a 3.6 G processor w/1 G Ram, Faster drives, Etc. Also, on this machine, I have shut down all unnecessary system and program processes such that machine booting and most applications run very quickly. Well, Version 10 takes forever to do simple tasks like allowing me to build a video index! Actually, if anything, it is slower than version 6. And on a machine that is much faster. It can be OK, but slooowwww for witting a simple non-indexed movie but that is barley using its features. It's so slow you'll swear that you have encountered a bug! I'm not even sure that any new features have been added since Version 6. Programs such as NERO and Moviemaker are cheaper and better suited for simple applications. They come free with cameras as well.

Perhaps Version 15 or 20 or 25 or ... will be more responsive!


"Garbage product", It is worth trashing only. Absolutely a big piece of ****. Lots of errors and keeps closing midstream. I garbaged it and purchased Nero.

"You have to work hard to make a product this awful! ...and I do mean AWFUL!", Don't waste your money or your time. I have a Pentium Dual Core @ 3.0 Ghz and 1 Gb RAM. Due to Pinnacle's horrible stability issues, 95% of your time is spent trying to figure out what went wrong and only 5% doing any editing. If you do manage to get to a point where you're actually burning a movie to DVD, you hold your breath the whole time, praying that it won't lock up this time. That process alone can take more than an hour, even for a short presentation. So, if it locks up, you have to wait at least another hour or more while it re-renders everything. A 10 minute project can take days to finish because it locks up so frequently. I have, literally, never been able to use Pinnacle without something going wrong...NEVER. What a waste! Shame on Pinnacle (now Avid) for releasing such an awful, bug-ridden piece of software. Patches don't fix the problems, just creates more to deal with. Tech support is awful. I was so excited to start editing but am now so disappointed. I will never buy another editing program from them again. I have no confidence whatsoever. I'd like to meet the team that designed (uhh..hastily and incompetently threw together) this program. Are the programmers really that bad?? Wow..time for some personnel changes.