Why I buy this one ?
- Complete, powerful, and easy-to-use home video-editing software
- Combine and enhance videos and photos; intuitive user interface
- Easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly
- Add titles, transitions, music, and special effects like pan-and-zoom
- Export movies with 1 click; preserve and share on DVD and the Web

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What our customer's say!

"Just don't even think about buying this. EVER.", Pinnacle is known to have crappy products. All of the studio products are glitchy, and have countless bugs. just type in pinnacle studio 10.5 in google. You will see that almost every one who bought this piece of crap hates it. It made me so frustrated I bought a new computer, more ram, a video card. all useless in pinnacle. Get Adobe premiere elements 3, not this.

"Great concept, abominable implementation", I knew about all the warts going into the purchase. I had worked with a friend on his version 9. He said there was a long learning curve to really learn how to use it to its fullest capability. I bought it because it was a cheap way to get into converting my 8mm camcorder movies to DVD. Their USB capture device (MovieBox, sold separately) takes my 2-hour 8mm tape (VHS or any other analog input using composite/RCA jack connections) and loads it up to a 5 gb file. (approximate size; you can see this will quickly fill up your hard drive.) The software will take that file and parse it into scenes (VERY slow) or you can tell it to create chapters every xxx seconds (VERY FAST). The MovieBox hardware and software is flawless (I have version 8). I've never had a problem with it. Set it, start it, go to bed or cut the grass and it does its thing. (Your camcorder will be on 'play' so a two hour movie takes 2 hours to import.) After the import you use Pinnacle Studio 10 to create the DVD movie.

Pinnacle Studio is a completely different animal from MovieBox. I don't mind not knowing how to use all the nice features, but this product is really a nightmare. I started with 512 meg of memory and an 80 gig hard drive. The program would thrash and thrash, hard drive lit up constantly. I learned to let it take the input file and work on it overnight. Once it had 'processed' it, the response was better. Later on I upgraded to 2.5 gig of memory. It didn't help much. It's doing more in memory than before, but the end result is about the same. It has to process the input file for quite some time before your response time improves.

It crashes or freezes the computer without warning. Even with XP you have to reboot to reclaim memory. When the software is restarted it asks if you want to continue, using the backup it takes automatically. It creates a rendering file, that unless you specifically tell it to start from scratch, will continue to use it. The result is that it will either crash or something else will happen, like the sound will be out of sync with the video. The free upgrade to 10.7 stabilizes the product, but if you are running Internet Explorer 7 you will have to download a small patch before the install will run to completion. There are several 3rd party software programs that get installed along with the Pinnacle product. Some are needed and some are just 'teasers' that you need to upgrade to if you want to remove a visible logo.

During rendering the software liberally sprinkles files all over your hard drive. Some of this can be reclaimed using the built in 'purge' process, but some of the files are buried deep inside the shared profile folder. Your hard drive begins to 'shrink'. You can be working and then suddenly the software will just freeze. Sometimes it will be doing something for up to 10 minutes, then go on like nothing happened. Other times I've let it sit for over an hour and it is still frozen. I use Task Manager and kill it, reboot the PC and restart Pinnacle Studio. It asks me if I want to continue what I was doing and I may go the rest of the day without any problems.

The good news is that this software is capable of making some truely remarkable DVDs. You can move chapters around, add transitions and titles, menus and many many other special effects. The more you work with it the more you learn and the better it gets. I have created movies with multiple menus (multiple travel shows with chapter selection menus etc. You can add voice over commentary, add music, create animated menus and many other things. There is a generous supply of all types of chapter transitions and menus.

I have learned to deal with the frustrations and how to avoid some of the problems. I'd like for them to fix all of these irritations. If they did, I think they would corner the market. They really need to get their hands around the quality control issue.

1 star for a poor product, 1 star for its potential to be a great one. Don't buy this unless you need a computer hobby and have a LOT of patience.


"Would rate it lower than 1 if I could.", WORST... SOFTWARE... EVER! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR TIME LIKE MYSELF AND SO MANY OTHER POOR SOULS DID! Read the reviews, cnet also. Go to the Pinnacle Support User Forum Site (pinnaclesys dot com) and read the countless people who can't get it to work.

This software just doesn't work, end of story. You will be more upset about your time wasted than your money, buy anything but this. Render error, render error, render error... you will have nightmares about crashes and render errors, no wait, they are real. The only person who should buy this is the smart lawyer who is going to start the class action lawsuit against Pinnacle for selling us something that is not even beta quality, it is pure crapware, try to make anything longer than 20 minutes with transitions and it does not work, period.

"Terrible product & Customer Service!", Actually -> 0 Stars! - I bought this item hoping to transfer all my old VHS tapes to DVD, I could not even get it to load on my computer and it's NEW! It froze up many many times. I tried customer service..... quite a joke, they asked if my product was registered...... What!? I could not even get that far. So much for the help, no more of my email's were answered :(
The only reason I bought this item was because I knew how to use studio 8 (which will not work for DVD+ burners) already, so I hoped I would be one of the lucky one's it worked for...very stupid of me. I just bought Adobe and it works beautiful but I spent a LOT more than I wanted too after 2 products.

"Completely Frustrating", I've been using this program at work for over a year. It is a extremely frustrating program to use as it always crashes, is very buggy and all the extras are locked. I've had numerous gray hairs and heartache from using this program. I wouldn't even use it if it was free. Stay away from it at all costs!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Pinnacle has bad customer service", If you are upgrading from an earlier version to this one I would suggest NOT. Unless you want to purchase the transitions that you had in the previous version that will not work in the new version.

I purchased Studio 9 before then decided I'd upgrade to Version 10. After nearly completing my first production, I realized one of my transitions folders was missing (one that I had intended to use). I contacted Pinnacle Support, it is like they don't read what I am saying. I sent screen shots as well, but they continued to tell me the same thing over and over again. Telling me what to do to make the transitions work. I am pretty computer savvy, so this is not OE (operator error). After numerous emails I contacted their live chat support, where they tell me that some transitions I had in 9 will not work in 10. Funny that the other emails were telling me how to make it work and nothing about them not working. I feel like I downgraded, I spent $90 for a downgrade to something that doesn't have the same things that my previous version has. I would suggest you do not purchase this, much less anything from Pinnacle, unless you know 100% that you will never need to talk to their customer service for anything.

So I can purchase the effects that I had if I want them to work in my new software. That sounds right... NOT.

"not worth it", This software took forever to download and once I got it installed, it wasn't two minutes before it starting locking up my computer. Some additional surprises you get once inside the product box and program; you find in the license agreement that you must pay extra to use some of the more special features although the features are already in the program, but not usable until you pay additional monies. Another ugly surprise is you only get one free customer support phone call but you still have to pay the long distance minutes. You need more help? It'll cost you long distance plus additional $25.00 charge per call. I wouldn't call that customer support, I'd call it customer gouge. Don't think the additional money is worth the initial investment. Will go elsewhere for a better product.

"Buyer Beware", I bought Pinnacle Studio version 8 three years ago...then I upgraded to version 9...then I upgraded to version 10. With each purcha$e I hoped that Pinnacle was fixing all the bugs in their product. Apparently, they have just kept feeding the beast.

Pros: When you create a finished product, you may have a wonderful DVD of little before seen family movies. You may succeed in creating a family treasure sure to make everyone cry with joy. Keep your movies short and simple and you will be happy (if you get the program to run). Another plus is the numerous free patches between major releases.

The cons: You will need a serious PC to use this product. 1GB RAM required (even though the box says 512MB). A 2+ Ghz CPU will be needed. Creating the product is exhausting. It is slow to load. It is buggy. It crashes. Lots of features that you see require an additional purchase.

Not for the faint hearted.