Pinnacle DV Studio 8 $20 at CUSA

[ParatoOptimal]

Pinnacle DV Studio 8 Firewire $20, regular $70?

I didn't see this in COMPUSA's Sunday flyer.
I noticed it at their B&M.

 

[Strych9]

Where?

 

[aphex]

Unfortunately, i left my mind-reading hat at work today.... Care to share the store?

 

[Goosemaster]

BTW, Pinnacle Software if sometimes iffy. Studio 8 has been, for the most part a great program, except for its tendancy to crash. I jsut bought studi9 upgrade, so I'll you how that is once I get it.

I have heard GREAT things about Ulead's DVD movie Maker.


BTW Pinnacle Studio 8 DOES NOT DOES NOT DOES NOT..I REPEAT DOES NOT SUPPORT 16x9 :|:|:|

 

[oldfart]

Good deal. The FW card and cable are worth the $20 alone. Studio 9 supports 16 x 9. S8 is pretty decent as well.

 

[ParatoOptimal]

can I use this as a firewire card for uses other than for use with Pinnacle's software?

Thanks

 

[oldfart]

Yes.

 

[huesmann]

I've always heard that Pinnacle's s/w sucks, but their h/w is supposed to be good. Except that drivers are s/w...

 

[oldfart]

Pinnacle Studio is actually pretty good. I've had version 7, 8, 9. Very powerful yet easy to use editing features. My only gripe is it is kind of slow in the rendering. $20 is a steal.

 

[John P]

As posted in my earlier thread- Video Explosion Deluxe is also $9.95 after (2) MIR's at CUSA also.

I have used Studio 8 extensively and it looks like VED will be a good compliment to Studio. The main thing VED does that Studio doesn't is "Pan and Zoom" of stills. And it also appears that VED does Picture in Picture since it has 2 video tracks, I have read about the PIP feature but have not played with it yet.

VED is made by Sonic Foundry - it is a little brother to the more expensive but fully featured Vegas Video.

You could buy both and use the Pinnacle Studio 8 manual front cover for the competitors rebate for VED.

 

[TTM77]

I'm ok with the rendering. But last software I bought from Pinnacle, my DVD had problem. It doesn't do what I saw on the computer. Everything play nicely on the computer. But when I burn to the DVD, and VCD and all the other format that I was able to do with the software but they all have problem. The DVD it crashes. The VCD work but every beginning of the clip it freezes there for like 1min or so. 1min is just too long to wait. I don't rem if I had the option to cut that time but if I had the option I probably already tried it with zero delay. Also with the VCD, some parts it lost the sound anf freezes. When it was rendering, I left it alone and didn't do anything. I accually go do something else.

Anyway, the bottom line is it's a big disappointment for me. The original playes fine on the PC but the VCD it have the same problem even on the PC. There was another format SVCD but I never could get that to even start. Anyway, I gonna wait maybe until next year and hopefully someone come out with an accual working software.

 

[John P]

TTM77,

Home burnt VCD/SVCD/DVD's can be tempermental depending on what you burn it with (software and hardware) and what you play it on and even what brand media you use.

Just use Pinnacle Studio to render your project as a DV-AVI file and then use a different program to burn the DVD if you are having problems. I prefer to use Pinnacle Expression myself. I have also used Sonic My-DVD. Some DVD players will play a DVD burnt with Sonic and not Expression and vice versa. I distribute DVD's to the parents on my kids sports teams and have had a 90% or so success rate with Pinnacle Expression - only a few parents have not been able to play them on their home DVD players.

You could try both Studio and VED. You can create an AVI with one and enhance it with features of the other and burn your completed DVD using either program. I believe VED uses a simple version of Sonic My-DVD to burn.

 

[Tiembo]

Picked up this deal when they had it on version 7. Never used the software, but the card and cable are nice. The card has both a 6-pin "socket" and a 4-pin header internally - hopefully it's the same for the version 8 card.

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: John P.
TTM77,

Home burnt VCD/SVCD/DVD's can be tempermental depending on what you burn it with (software and hardware) and what you play it on and even what brand media you use.

Just use Pinnacle Studio to render your project as a DV-AVI file and then use a different program to burn the DVD if you are having problems. I prefer to use Pinnacle Expression myself. I have also used Sonic My-DVD. Some DVD players will play a DVD burnt with Sonic and not Expression and vice versa. I distribute DVD's to the parents on my kids sports teams and have had a 90% or so success rate with Pinnacle Expression - only a few parents have not been able to play them on their home DVD players.

You could try both Studio and VED. You can create an AVI with one and enhance it with features of the other and burn your completed DVD using either program. I believe VED uses a simple version of Sonic My-DVD to burn.

I dont use Pinnacle to burn the disk either. I use it for capture/edit and author to DVD or WMV format. I burn the DVD with Nero. I dont make VCD/SVCD any longer since getting the DVD-R drive. Whan I was making them, I used TMPGEnc.

 

[TTM77]

Thanks. I'll give it another shot with burning with different software. Probably Nero.

And the one I have is Pinnacle Express and I think also DV.

 

[ww4397]

Originally posted by: John P.
As posted in my earlier thread- Video Explosion Deluxe is also $9.95 after (2) MIR's at CUSA also.


The main thing VED does that Studio doesn't is "Pan and Zoom" of stills...

Are you sure VED does this? I can't find any mention of it on the VED site. Maybe I just can't find it?

 

[John P]

Are you sure VED does this? I can't find any mention of it on the VED site. Maybe I just can't find it?

I couldn't find it either when I was researching the topic a few weeks ago. As mentioned in my other thread I have used the function a bunch in the Sonic Foundry Video Factory 2.0 demo. I installed VED and took a gander at it last night. It is the exact same program, interface, colors, etc... as Video Factory and is made by the same company, Sonic Foundry. I did verify the Pan and Zoom function is there for stills.

 

[ww4397]

Hey John P.,

Thanks for the reply. The ability to "pan and zoom" still photos makes this worthwhile for me!

 

[firebob78]

great find. awesome deal.

 

[Gibson486]

Pinnacle software is good (very powerful, but easy to use), but unstable. The many hours i spent on my high school project made me want to break everything!

 

[John P]

Pinnacle software is good (very powerful, but easy to use), but unstable. The many hours i spent on my high school project made me want to break everything!

One hint to make Pinnacle Studio much easier to work with; don't add your 3D transitions (the type that come with Hollywood FX Plus) until you are done editing your video. Just use plain fades and cut and paste the 3D ones in when you have a completed video. The more 3D transitions you use the more bogged down the program becomes - and it gets to be a real pain in the arse. I had a 45 minute video I made for my kids school - it would take almost 2 minutes for my computer to process every time I made a slight change to the video. This is on an Athlon XP 2500+ (OC to 2800+) and 1GB RAM. Gawd, what a pain that was.

I don't know of any other inexpensive programs that have the cool 3D transitions that works better than Studio though. Wish I did....

 

[EXman]

nice find