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Reviewed by: terl
01-23-04
Duration of ownership:
Strengths: NONE
Weaknesses:You can not accurately cut, strip, make, paste, or do anything with this software
Overall Evaluation: I have yet to make a movie from any one of a number of home recorded VHS tapes, virtually ever time I try I get an error, there is nothing I can do to fix I have spent HOURS trying, customer support SUCKS they do not answer the questions only provide links that do not tell you anything, I WOULD NOT RECCOMEND THIS SOFTWARE at any pricce including FREE, it is EXTREMELY and I repeat EXTREMELY SLOW in everything it does. DISAPPOINTED -- By the way I got the software bundled with an I/O Drive that is distributed by the same people and when it installs - it installs as a GENERIC Drive???? Go figure, I gues they can not get anything right. MY Recommendation is DON'T!! DO IT !!!
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Reviewed by: hnowang
01-16-04
Duration of ownership:
4
Months
Strengths: Has all the features necessary, i.e., capture from DV camcorder, titles, transitions, trimming, burn to disc, etc.
Weaknesses:Crashes, slow, lack of features.
Overall Evaluation: The software crashes way too often. Have to save with every little thing done because of how much it crashes. The program window goes off the screen on my widescreen laptop, so have to change my screen resolution to get it to come back. One assumes the program will be smart enough to stay on the screen no matter what screen resolution is used. While there are a good number of transitions, most of them have to be purchased separately or else you are penalized with a watermark. Competing software vendors just give you the transitions for free, so I do not consider Pinnacle to give their customers good value for their money. Rendering takes forever, and you start all over if the software decides to crash after you have waited forever. My system has 512 MB RAM and a Pentium M 1.4 GHz processor. While this is not the fastest PC around, the Pentium M 1.4 GHz processor is comparable to a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz processor, so the slow rendering is disappointing. Used to run it on a system with Pentium III 1 GHz, so blamed my PC and not the software. Now it's time to blame the software for slow performance and not my PC.
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Reviewed by: paulsch
12-12-03
Duration of ownership:
2
Months
Strengths: Some not many.
Weaknesses:Allot, support, audio, and so on.
Overall Evaluation: Started out ok then after about a week of editing it happend. I lost my audio and when I try to redue the audio it captures it from cd then shows an error and shuts down. Cant seem to find a fix support stinks. I guess they advertise well get your money and run. Wish I never bought it but I still have a customer waiting for his product. Wish I read the reviews before I purchased it. Put some of the money into support instead of your fat butt in your big house.
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Reviewed by: rms59
11-10-03
Duration of ownership:
99
Days
Strengths: The alluring packaging it comes in
Weaknesses:Speed, frustration
Overall Evaluation: I had this program for some time before finally using it. Out of 12 trys to get a 57mb mpeg, it locked up 8 times. I finally got it by making smaller captures, then combining them. It is painfully slow.The lockups occur when you stop the capture. Then everything freezes and you lose it all.I will never recommend this product to anyone
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Reviewed by: mauvelez
10-24-03
Duration of ownership:
1
Years
Strengths: Everything in one software, from capture to edit then to tape,dvd,minidv, vdcd or computer file, super cheap for an excellent tool
Weaknesses:If you want to do video in your computer and you don't want to expend big money, you have to learn how to configure your computer, the software and hardware depend on it. This is not Office or Pacman.
Overall Evaluation: I been working with the software for long time with ups and downs, and in general once you set your computer properly and update the software, it works fantastic, but if you don't know how and you don't want to learn, you better go in other direction, because multimedia in general, requieres some technical knowleage, but the pay back it's great, at least for me. You won't learn in two hours the first time could take you a day to get something, if you need something fast, there is a video software inside windows OS.
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