The worst video product I ever bought.

[Muppet Meat]

The worst video product I ever bought. It skipped frames over and over and I wanted to rip my hair out.

[The village idiot]

I like where this thread is going, but will not participate because it will start a flame war with others (as it has in the past). Good luck, brave soul.

[johns0]

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=915314&highlight=#915314
Still upset since your last post about it?

[Redd]

This is not a flame, just facts.

I use Studio 9, but I capture analog with a Canopus ADVC-100 and DV with an Adaptec 4300 firewire card. I prefer to go straight firewire without a go between when capturing DV. I use Scenalyzer for capture, both analog and DV. I did have some problems with Studio 8, but resolved them. I've had no problems with Studio 9. Between the two I've created about 150 DVD's complete with Menu/s, transitions, HFX transitions, titles...both static and scrolling, used both wav files and mp3 files. All Studio 9's plug-ins have worked well, as well as all third party plug-ins including the VirtualDub plug-ins. All rendering, compiling, and burning have been done using Studio 8, and now Studio 9.

[Muppet Meat]

I like where this thread is going, but will not participate because it will start a flame war with others (as it has in the past). Good luck, brave soul.

Thank you for your participation, lol
Im still pissed off about this product and I couldnt help but re-warn others. If you dont like that I warn others then go order this product yourself and prove me wrong.

[vhelp]

Hi guys

hehe.. just to throw more mud (maybe) into the thread.
I just purchased the Pinnacles "Studio AV/DV" card.

The reason to my madness method for getting this card
is a simple one. As you all know (from my past complaints
and recommend) my previous experince w/ my DC10+ card's output
quality is ZERO Line Noise. There is simply no Noise in this
card. But this card does have a major limitation. Its max
capture resolution for NTSC sources is only 640 pixels.
But still.., I admire its clean source. So, while shopping
around my favoriate store, I bumped into this Studio AV/DV
card. I started to thinking, "hay, maybe this card doesn't
have any Line Noise either - - couldn't hurt to try" So, I
picked it up - I can always return it if it proves Line Noise.
.
So, I guess I "tune in to my final results" will have to do
for now :P
Please, be quite.., no Noise please.. .. .

Another reason why I picked it up, (if it works well, I'll add
it to my capture card collection) is because it does not have
a Hardware DV codec. Yeah! Its stickly a DV transport, using
the Firewire mechanism. It saves to whatever codec you tell it to,
wrapped inside the DV container.. so-to-speak.

Now, again I tell you, if this card passes w/ no Line Noise, I'll
be happy and have a new toy to try out my many projects that were
plauged w/ Line Noise. And, I can finally do my Star Wars Laserdisc
set w/ no noise and w/ any codec I choose (other than DV) yeah!
Oh, by the way, FWIW.., I'm U/L'ing a Star Wars sample clip from my
Winfast card, case you'd like to see what this card can deliver ( after my
tweaks and skillful/cunning'ness hehe.. ) See the Star Wars Convers...
thread.

-vhelp

[awhitney]

I don't think I have ever experienced any line noise from like over 10 capture cards I have used in the past. I use good quality cables, thats probably why.

[manco]

Well, the worst thing I didn't buy but was stuck with troubleshooting was the Mac version of the Pinnacle DC30+.

It never did work up to expectations. There were always little problems popping up (dropped frames, endless sync issues). I needed to use work-arounds on top of work-arounds just to get any basic work done.

I also had an old Matrox Marvel G200TV, which was a bear to get a clean capture with until I discovered AVI_IO. Not to mention the MV hack needed to get around the false MV detection on noisy tapes.

Ah, the good old days of analog capture and hardware MJPEG encoders...

[dun4cheap]

This is definately a tough subject here. I have used Studio since version 8 when my ATI AIW 7500 came with se. Since, I have upgraded to HFX plus, pro, Studio 9 and as soon as the AC3 plugin is available I will get that. I have used many different editors such as Mydvd, Arcsoft Showbiz, Ulead Media Studio, Ulead Video Studio v.4,5,6,7 and 8, Premiere and Vegas Video, Sony Movie Blaster (VV Lite). I have not had a try at Magix Movie Edit yet, while it looks interesting I just know it will not compete with Studio 9 DVD menu creation abilities, HFX abilities and the unlimited possibilites with plugins. Albeit it has bugs but all the editors that I have listed above have their problems. Some worse than others. Now as far a hardware goes, I would recommend staying away from pinnacle hardware for one main reason. NO COMPATABLE WDM drivers. So basically its all propriatary and I don't like that flexibility. I personally use my DV camcorder for video along with my ADS Pyro AV Link, which is currently being updated by ADS and Lastly my ATI AIW 9000 as a last resort. However, I am going to start looking closely at the new ATI HiDefinition TV Card that was just released. I may look to pick up a usb2 or firewire version of it. But until then I agree with staying away from pinnacles hardware. The Software on the other hand, its all in the eye of the beholder as to what they choose.