Pinnacle Studio 8 to canopus 2 express

[DokSoul]

I own and like studio 8 for it's editing capablities. However I'd like to find out if it will frameserve to Canopus express. I believe in using express I can improve on the rendering time and quality. I plan to use mpeg 2, 2-pass, VBR to render DV I shoot. I will then author the output to DVD with my TDA. In using express, if it does frameserve, I believe that I use the AVI tab in studio, pick express as the encoder, and then pick options to set parameters for express. Does anyone have experience with using these two programs together?

[DokSoul]

Found answer to my own question thanks to Satish post on his Debugmode.com forums website. In reply to question on frameserving from Studio 9 (so I'm sure this applies to Studio 8): "No, pinnacle Studio does not have a public SDK to use for developing plugins like a frameserver." That is, you cannot frameserve from Studio 8/9. You'll have to output an avi and pull into Canopus.