Why I buy this one ?
- Experience your movies on DVDs, the Web and more
- Quickly import and organize photos and video from a wide range of devices
- Create multi-layer effects like Picture-in-Picture, Chroma Key or A/B editing with two video tracks
- Automatically create background music to fit the length of your movie
- Select from hundreds of real-time, key-frame-able 2D and 3D effects and transitions to give your movie polish and style

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What our customer's say!

"Drivers Programmed to Stop Functioning After Two Years", Pinnacle's Serial Numbers and Activation Keys expire after two years.

This applies to all Pinnacle software, not just software downloaded online. Activation Keys bought online AND Serial Numbers for software bought in retail stores only work for two years.

It's in the fine print - which you can't even see until you rip open the box (thereby forfeiting your right to a refund) and click the "Yes, I Agree" button during installation.

If you have to reinstall the program (or any part of it) two years and a day after buying it, you will have to completely repurchase the software.

What's especially fishy about Pinnacle is how it will suddenly start crashing at 2 years after initial installation. My video drivers stopped working at a point, I'd later realize, coincident with the 2 year anniversary of my having installed the Pinnacle software.

In trying to fix the suspiciously-timed program crash I was mystified to learn that a number clearly printed on a CD sleeve was suddenly "Not a Valid Serial Number." The Activation Keys I'd bought online, and had on file, were suddenly incorrect.

I contacted Pinnacle, who informed me of the two year statement in the agreement. Here is an excerpt from their email:

"The reason you are not able to obtain a redownload of your purchase is
that the Extended Download Service was not purchased with your download
and the time to purchase this service has expired. Unfortunately, this
means that in order to obtain the product, you will need to repurchase
it."

Keep in mind - I was asking Pinnacle for no software. All I needed was a Serial Number and Activation Keys, because the Serial Number printed on the CD sleeve itself, and the Activation Keys I'd received two years earlier no longer worked.

Just something you might want to keep in mind before buying Pinnacle software.

"Good editor, bad file conversion", This program has a good editor for HD video. However, the file managment of this software going cfrom the camera to the computer, and file conversion from DVI to Window Media Player video is terrible. A ten minute video may take 30 minutes to upload. A file conversion from DVI to Window Media Player video can take hours. Very difficlt to be prodcutive with this software with HD video.

"This product came a long way", I've had several versions of this program and I'll tell you, having computer technical skills is a plus. However this version seems to be a lot more stable than the previous ones, the program is easy to learn but there is one problem I am currently working with, if I burn directly to a DVD, the finished product has no sound. I want to attempt a reinstall but I'm afraid to. My work around is to burn first to a video folder, then I use ImgBurn (a shareware) to burn the DVD, but other than that it's fast and easy.
My system: Asus Cosshair, AMD 64X2 Dual 6000, 4G ram
I'm not sure about jumping to version 12 I'm thinking more adobe if a reinstall doesn't work whenever I get around to it. . . nuf said.


Review update 8 Aug 2008
I brought the LG GGW-H20L Super Multi Blue - Blu-ray Disc Burner / HD DVD-ROM Drive w/ Lightscribe and it came with a blue ray/HD testing software for your computer to see if it's up to standard to play blue ray and according to the test, remarkably blue playing does require quite a bit of computing power including good processer, memory, graphic card and monitor. The graphic output along with the computer monitor also should have the new HDMI interface and for commercial movies should also support HDCP (High bandwidth Digital Content Protection) as some movies may not be viewable without it.
But the good news is I have burnt a few single and double layer disks onto the new BD for testing purposes and they burnt with sound without reinstalling Pinnacle 11. Pinnacle I found is also keeping up with the changes including vista and BD support (ver. 12). My future budget planes are now leaning more toward Pinnacle ver. 12 as I slowly migrate toward HD burning.



"Beware", Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! Beware! I can't say it enough.

This is the first review I have ever posted, because I need to warn everyone not to buy this.

Only buy this product if you want crashes, frustration, to reinstall your entire system, poor customer support, and to waste a lot of time, lose a lot of work.

I have spent over a week of work time trying to get this to work, as a solo business owner this has cost me a lot, in both time and money, trying to produce a DVD for students.

Pinnacle should not be allowed to sell this product, and they should be embarressed to do so.

It won't even uninstall properly, after running all the uninstall programs, (inculding one you have to download) it leaves 43.5MB of files and data on your pc. Hah! try and delete those if you can!

"Unable to run application even though meets requirements", I cannot recommend this product to anyone who has Windows XP. My system meets all requirements specified. For the past 4 weeks I have been trying to get Pinnacle Support to help me just to get this application to run. I get the message that my display adapter cannot be used for 3D display and when I press ok on this message, I get an Application Error window. When I press ok, the application itself disappears. I checked for the latest Graphics Display driver and I have the latest and I have installed the latest patch by Pinnacle with no positive results. I have even disabled the Virus and Security Software and that has not helped. I basically have wasted the $80.00 that I paid for this application.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Buyer Beware", I have had Pinnacle Studio plus Titanium Edition installed on my computer for a while now. I have a stack of media piling up because this software will not perform even the most basic functions. You know... play a video. It continually freezes and stops responding requiring a Ctrl+Alt+Del to get out of it.

My system is built for video and photo editing. 3.4GHz Pentium4 2GB DDR2 RAM and NVIDIA 6600 graphics accelerator with 256MB dedicated video RAM. Even with Studio locked up, I can bring up other software that will run perfectly, so it is definitely their problem.

I have been in contact with their technical support staff (who don't seem to understand English very well) and they keep telling me to try the same old stuff. Reboot, reinstall, reboot again. They insist that you try it all before they will tell you to install some other piece of non-functioning software by these jokers. Usually after about 4 hours of help chat, they tell you that their shift is over and you will get an email. This will be the last you hear from them.

To put it mildly, Pinnacle makes Microsoft software seem pleasant and enjoyable to deal with. At least Microsoft wants your software to work until the make it obsolete in a year. Pinnacle is, by far, the worst software I have EVER tried to use.

The feature set of this software is extremely attractive, and if any of it actually worked, I would love it. My sessions typically play about 10 seconds of video then the picture freezes and it is done. In over a year, I have successfully created about 30 minutes of video output.

Your money is better spent anywhere else! Please, for the love of all that is good in life, let these folks go out of business.

I would have produced a great video review, but, alas, my $120.00 video software suite won't even play video much less edit it for upload

"Pinnacle Studio Plus v. 11 - nothing but problems :-(", We've had nothing but problems with this program. We bought a brand new computer which met all the specs required and suggested for this Pinnacle program, and still nothing works as it should. Customer support simply tells us to check the FAQ online every time we email in a question, and on the phone no one is ever able to come up with a solution to the MANY MANY bugs the program has.
The capabilities of the program itself are phenomenal...if only it would work right! THe picture-in-picture, transitions, menus, they're all great! But we have gone through about 25 DVD's now trying to get our movies to burn. But every time we get one problem fixed, there's a new reason our movie doesn't turn out. Everything from DVD's with only video no audio, to chapters that don't start in the right places, chapters where the entire first half is missing, the list is endless. We've burned only one successful movie, and every other time, it's a new problem or bug. Don't waste your hours of work creating a DVD with this program. Research some different ones as I'm now doing.

"Wow - Pinnacle Studio FINALLY Works", I purchased Pinnacle Studio 8 a while back, upgraded to Pinnacle Studio 9,and now I've tried Pinnacle 11. I've always been impressed with the video effects in 8 and 9 but the crashes were HORRIBLE and frequent to the point that I pretty much gave up on it. Pinnacle 11 I took a chance on and it is very stable. Now maybe it's the fact that I'm running it on Windows Vista, with an AMD dual CPU with 2 gb of ram but in any event it's stable and does what I want to do. It's crashed only once in the past 2 months I've used it. I'm using it only to capture but the capture is good - straight to mpeg2 with no lost frames. I'm not doing a whole lot of fancy editing yet but it is capable of that. Anyway the crashes have finally been resolved (at least on my system). Thank you FINALLY Pinnacle!!

"Studio 11 Plus", Easy to use and faster than previous versions. Program installs quickly but the bonus addon features disc took about an hour. I have used version 8 and 9, this version is quicker both to work with and render.

"Have problems with Ultimate 11 Plugins", Studio plus 11 by it's self it ok, but add Ulimate 11 plugins to it. Headache time. Is Prodad asking for new graphics card. Intel graphic cards won't run Prodad plugins....