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Videoman
Member

I am using XP professional version 5.1.2600 (retail) with service pack 1 only.

The computer is an Asus P4P800 with intel 865E chipset, 800mHz Front serial bus, 2 Meg Dual DDR 400 ram
Intel Pentium 4 3.00 Ghz Processor - on todays market - its a clunker
Onboard 5.1 SoundMax audio system using SPDF out.
Sound plugs in to my old Home Theatre Marantz 5.1 digital amp via SPDF out and delivered to Mordaunt-Short AVANT 902 speakers (5)
and Webconic Sub woffer. Sounds HOT.
Asus VGP-V9480 video adaptor - 128Mb, 274 Mhz GPU
Video capture is via Pinnacle AV/DV card with break out box - analog and digital via firewire. (about 5 years old)
2 x Samsung Syncmaster 753 DFX monitor - yep- they're CRT - more old stuff (saving up for 2 x 21" wide screen LCD monitors)
2 X Segate Barracuda 120 GB 7200 hard drives. - 1 for operating system and 1 for photo's and music for projects.
2 x 250 GB Segate Barracuda Sata hard drives hi spin - 1 for caputre and 1 for projects
1 x 300 GB Fire wire removable hard drive for " Created DVD, but do not burn" projects.
1 x Asus dual layer DVD Burner
1 x Sony dual layer DVD Burner

The IDE Hard drives are together - master and slave, the optical drives are together - master and slave.

Apart from studio 9 & 10 and their associated "add ons and plug ins"
I have two other programs installed - Nero 6 OEM version for burning and AVS DVD player - has 5.1 capability so I check
the DVD on my computer system without the need to go up to the house and check it on the Theatre system.
I have a 5 metre x 3 mtr "computer lab" - as my son calls it, down in a 6mtr x 12 mtr Machinery shed that was home for 15 years!

I have three computers networked. The Video system, an Audio computer that does all my audio recording and record restorarations -
Its amazing how good you can make an old 78 r.p.m. record sound!
The third computer - which gets the most work is for business, internet and photo restoration. Unfortuately Business gets most use.

Don't know what prices are like in the States, but our stuff is about 3 years behind in availabilty and costs the earth.

Videoman

Posted 4 years ago #
Super Panasonic
Member

Wowzers!

My O/S is VISTA. It's a beautiful looking package, but of course, because it's so new, a lot of sotware is not yet compliant with it yet.

My only beef with Pinnacle 10 (now on BETA 10.8.0.4592 is that they assert that it IS Microsoft VISTA compliant, when, it seems (IMHO) that it is not. When I called Sony about Vegas Platinum, they were very pleasant, direct, and honest, saying their product was not ready for VISTA and it would be around 6 months before it is. So, even though Sony had an opportunity to get my money, they appreciated my customer satisfaction above my consumer spending. :)

Pinnacle has a new patch:

http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/S10_8_0_4592_light_InterimDownload.htm

Here's to hope. Once more into the breach.

Posted 4 years ago #
Super Panasonic
Member

http://cdn.pinnaclesys.com/SupportFiles/S10 8 10 4592 light InterimDownload.htm

Sorry about that. Hopefully I pasted the above link correctly. :-//

The patch is roughly 118 MBs in size.

Posted 4 years ago #
RickGreene
Member

Yes, I must agree with most of the other posts, Studio 10 leaves alot to be desired... I was using 9.4.3 then I purchased 10 Titanium ed. upgrade which gave me problems with installation, shutting down, etc. it promises to be very good however it simply doesen't work!!!
I have since started using Sony Vegas, hopfully there will be a patch for the 10, and will probably give Studio 11 a try.

Min. Rick

Posted 4 years ago #
moglepro
Member

The only reason I didn't return Studio 10 Titanium when I got it is because by the time I had finally installed everything and entered all of the product keys I had so much time invested that I couldn't bear the thought that it was spent in vain. I also wasn't happy that I had to install multiple updates and patches just to get it up to date. I am currently running 10.7

After that things were fine for a while. I made a few movies, converted some to iPod format, etc. The render quality was great. No major hiccups. DVD's played fine (although I didn't try making menus).

Then out of nowhere about a month ago everything I render is lossy, grainy, and pixelated. No matter what format, codec, or configuration I use, it always outputs the same lossy junk video.

I am very disappointed with Studio 10 Titanium. Did I pay a lot of cash for it? Not really (but enough). If my movies would render correctly I would be a happy camper. Infact I am between a rock and a hard place now. I have about 200 people waiting on a video that will not render correctly. I have many hours of editing invested so I don't want to run the 10.8 update and have my project files not open.

Does anyone know if the 10.8 update fixes quality loss issues?

...my rant is over.

Posted 4 years ago #
Enthusiast007
Member

Hi to everyone,

I'm using Pinnacle Studio 10 and my only problem here is when I enter the Studio Launcher and click on INSTANT DVD RECORDER.Â I do exactly what the instructions to make a video transfer to DVD but when I come to the point of clicking on Start Recording it is always giving me an error.Â Can anyone send me some information about this problem and possibly how to solve it.Â Thanks to all.

By the way I never came across any other problems when using Studio 10 Plus.Â In my opinion apart from being very easy to use it is also a very good editing software.

Regards

Posted 4 years ago #
moglepro
Member

I had Studio 10 with all the patches (up to 10.7) and it was decent when it decided not to crash. I recently uninstalled it after it corrupted a file during a reboot from crashing and completely wiped out about 30 hours worth of editing. I am going Adobe Premiere Pro all the way next time. Pinnacle products aren't worth a dime, IMO.

Posted 4 years ago #
candjvideo
Member

I have had Pinnacle since version 8. The only one I had problems with was v10. I had many of the same problems that a few have described. However, I went to 11 and now have V12 Ultimate and have had no issues at all with it. MUCH better than 10. In fact, when I had 10, I ended up going back to v9 due to the problems. But with V12, no issues. Pinnacle has an excellent product, but something went wrong with V10. Other than that , no issues at all.

Posted 2 years ago #