Pinnacle Studio 9

[KailuaKid]

I trying to run Pinnacle Studio 9 however after a few minutes of editing a Video it freezes. I have a desktop PC with XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2 and a Pentium 4 2.0 Ghz with 1 Gig of RAM and a Nvidia GeForce video card Ti4400 with 128Mb Ram. Do I need more RAM or better video card to fun Pinnnacle Studio 9 ? Is Studio 9 that huge ? or memory hog ? Why is it freezing up ? Thanks for your help.

[thecoalman]

Nope you have plenty of RAM and a video card isn't going to make any difference. Have you tried Pinnacles website for the latest patches?

[BobK]

> Why is it freezing up ?

Probably because it's a piece of crap program that works very well for about 10% of the people that try it.

[KailuaKid]

> Why is it freezing up ?

Probably because it's a piece of crap program that works very well for about 10% of the people that try it.

Then what is a very good program for capturing and editing Home Video ?

[thecoalman]

I'd look for patches first for studio 9 since you already have it, or try ulead's Video Studio. Free 30 day trial www.ulead.com

[KailuaKid]

I'd look for patches first for studio 9 since you already have it, or try ulead's Video Studio. Free 30 day trial www.ulead.com

I ran Studio 9 Patch 9.1.2 and it still freezes when editing.

[thecoalman]

Well try Ulead Video Studio then, it seems to be the general consensus around here that Pinnacle Studio<anything> is crap. I used it only a few times (ST8). First three times I tried it, it promplty crashed. My first big adventure into the video editing world

I really don't know what else to tell you, it's a free trial for Ulead' Studio. If it works then it's a issue with studio 9. You could try the pinnacle boards too.

.....too many studio's in this paragraph

[edDV]

I'd look for patches first for studio 9 since you already have it, or try ulead's Video Studio. Free 30 day trial www.ulead.com

I ran Studio 9 Patch 9.1.2 and it still freezes when editing.

There may be a local problem to your computer. What are you doing when it crashes? Is it happening at the same operation? Try Pinnacles forum ...
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/studio9/s9Support.asp?doclink=/studio9/s9.html&templ=65
(hmm ... coming soon)

Then try the Studio 8 forum and ask there
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support/products/info/default.asp?ProductID=454&langue_id=7

Pinnacle has a history of new products being unstable and many patches. Studio 8 was good after 8.12.

[BobK]

> Then what is a very good program for capturing and editing Home Video

I used to use Studio 8 to capture- at the time I had no choice since my capture card was a Pinnacle DC10 card and nothing else would capture with it.

For editing almost anything I've tried works better than Studio- I mostly use TMPGEnc DVD Author and now TMPGEnc Mpeg Editor. I've also used Womble mpeg editor and DVD-Lab. They all work very well.

[thecoalman]

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/studio9/s9Support.asp?doclink=/studio9/s9.html&templ=65
(hmm ... coming soon)
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Yea and there's probably a mile long cheese line waiting to get in. How can you possibly launch a product and not have online support set up. Are they that incompetent that they can't set up at least a forum.

[Bob W]

Amazing Studio 9 locks up the computer the same way Studio 8 does.

[Redd]

Probably because it's a piece of crap program that works very well for about 10% of the people that try it.

Com'on Bob...tell us how you reallly feel

I know there was a problem with nVidia and open gl in Pinnacle Hollywood FX and Studio 9. Are you by chance using open gl? Pinnacle did recommend replacing the open gl.dll

ftp://ftp.pinnaclesys.de/driver/pc/Studio9/HFXfix/OpenGL.dll