Pinnacle Studio AV/DV Deluxe V.9 w/ Hollywood FX Plus

reliability, story

24% of reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

I bought this software on the recommendation of a coworker. I have spent hours trying to get it to do anything useful, with no success whatsoever. I cannot understand how to import video from a file into the program. Nothing works. If anyone would...

Pinnacle's Studio is garbage! It is 90% spam and 10% video "Capturer". You can't even import movies from your hard drive to edit them! That is ridiculous! Updating is a nightmare. For instance, I just went to "activate" the product for update/upgrades...

I bought the product thinking I can do some editing, titles etc., and make the home videos look more professional. Was I wrong ? Every step of the way was a nightmare. The software hangs a lot, when it works i.e., after 8 or 10 hours, the product is...

The best feature of this program is that you can actually work with individual frames. I record from my TiVo to my computer using this program. It allows me to totally clip out any commercials, it's pretty easy to do. The downside is that it does...

I think this program would work great if I had a better computer. Please don't waste your time using this unless you have at least 2 gigs of RAM, a fast processor, and a decent video card. Otherwise, you are going to be very, very frustrated.

Boy, oh boy...WHAT a dissappointment I've had with Studio 9.1 and 10. 10 especially! It takes FOREVER to load, and CONSTANTLY crashes. It's so bad I uninstalled it and went back to 9.1. The first couple of DVD's I made (with 9.1) had me on cloud 9. I...

The full install of the Pinnacle Studio 9 software crashed two of our top-of-the-line computers every time we tried to install it, necessitating nightmarish uninstallation procedures and re-installation with just the barebones "Compact Install". And...

While others seem to have a lot of issues with this software I have not. It is easy to use, has a good set of features, and in general is stable on my XPSP2 Intel box. My major gripe is the very slow rendering speeds. Even rendering a low bandwidth WMV...

I received a version with a video camera. I paid for an upgrade and regret it. I have had nothing but problems, and I substantially exceed the minimum system requirements. Capturing drops frames and I often have to capture in light version of Ulead...