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Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus

Jan 11, 2006 9:31PM PST

Has anyone used this? Does anyone own this? I saw this on CNET's TechSpecials in my email last night and it looks pretty decent. Am considering purchasing it and was just wondering if anyone might have an opinion or two on this product. Thanks!

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See if there is a demo ?
Jan 11, 2006 11:42PM PST

Ulead.com has downloadable working demos.

Decide by trying.

Bob

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Try this one
Jan 23, 2006 11:31PM PST

Try cyberlink's "POWER DIRECTOR 5." I have both and Power Director is much better. You can download a 30 full version free trial from the "cyberlink" web sight.

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Nero
Jan 24, 2006 1:12AM PST

I have used Pinnacle 8 Studio Plus and upgraded to 9 Studio Plus. It is a good program, rather complicated to use but it certainly has the ability to produce professional quality results.

I recently purchased an upgraded PC with Media center 2005. My problem is editing and authoring DVDs. MS Media center records TV programs in a DVR-MS format which is not currently supported by Pinnacle Studio. I researched the WEB forums and reviews, and called several vendors. As a result I got lots of conflicting answers, but I found that Nero Version 7 includes a program "Nero Vision Express 3" that is capable of importing, editing, and transcoding these DVR-MS files to MPEG for butning to DVD.

While Nero Vision works well for me, it is very "lite" on features and functions compared to Pinnacle. And Pinnacle seems to be much slower in rendering the final output for burning to DVD than Nero. For now I'll keep using Nero in hopes that Pinnacle gets up to speed with handling Media Center file formats.

To summarize, I prefer Pinnacle over Nero because of the extras they provide, but I won't spend the cash to upgrade past Studio Plus 9 until they can handle my needs.

Hope this helps,
John