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PINNACLE STUDIO 12 ULTIMATE
Editorial Review:
PINNACLE STUDIO 12 ULTIMATE
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Hopelessly bug-ridden - AGAIN Typical Pinnacle fare unfortunately - more fool me. Ridden with bugs - at first it seems great, until you actually need to do anything such as change the speed of a clip or render to AVI. Mine will not do either, even with the latest patch applied. I had a mainstream setup as well - motherboard, CPU, soundcard, DVD writer - everything except the power supply is mainstream componentry, selected with the sole intention of making it the most low-risk option I could. What a waste of time. No doubt... more info
Pinnacle Studio 12 works - eventually Out of the box, and installed on a top spec computer running Vista, there were some immediate problems - clips were freezing and rendering was not working well. The advice from the handbook was to check for updated drivers for everything - including a search for patches on Pinnacle's website. This was done and multi-megabyte upgrades were downloaded. Windows update did not find any new drivers for the graphics card - but on Nvidia's website there was a new driver. Pinnacle posted a patch in October - some... more info
Very good for home editing If you are looking for a cheap product for professional home editing this is your choice, for more professional I'd not recommend this. For me it does the job. Though while I gain more skills I'll move on to Sony Vegas or Final Cut. Some effects are useless because they look so crappy, but some of the color correction and other picture manipulation work really well.
Unstable platform I bought Pinnacle Ultimate 12 because I had used Pinnacle before - in the 1990's - and had some success with it, albeit, then, the edition I was using was fraught with stability problems. Later, I realised most of these were to do with lack of computer power. Recalling this, I opted for a brand new computer with 4 g RAM, high speed Hz processor with 420 g HD, and presumed the newer version would have improved, that this level of power would make the thing work. Oh dear. Ultimate 12 loads with a wobble to... more info
