Why does Studio 8 hate me

[harvest moon]

Can someone help me, after treating myself with a nice new Sony pc8 and Pinnacle Studio 8 for Christmas Im now ready to trash studio in the River Thames and sell the Sony for a bottle of Jack Daniels just to calm me down.

Have spent almost 2 days getting Pinnacle Studio 8 all set up and have now spent another 2 days trying to work the thing.
Everything I seem to do I have problems with error messages popping up.

Sometimes I can capture and edit a simple 10 second film, other times I get error message, Then when I am successful in capturing, I move to the next stage, (Make Movie), where I try most of the options, only to be greeted with error message, normally after waiting a long time for the rendering to finish.

So is there an answer or am I doom to just hunting around for fixs and reading help pages.

I was looking forward to buying this for Christmas and impressing the family with amazing editing skills, but at the moment I feel not only have I wasted my money but 4 days of Christmas too.

All help would be appreciated
Michael


Motherboard = Ali Aladdin GA-5AX Super 7 Mainboard.
CD-Rom = LG CD Rom CDR 8520B
Hard Drive = 40GB IDE
Graphics Card = SIS6326 AGP Graphics Accelerater
Soundcard = SC 4000 PCI Sound Card
Memory = 320MB DIMM
IEEE1394 = Pinnacle
Operating System = Windows 98 SE

[musher70]

what the hell is a ali motherboard?
what is a graphic accelerator?

studio8 doesnt work on my p4 2.4g system
with a gainward golden sample 128 ultra xp
with mushkin 512 ddr 2100 cl2 stick
got a 120 wdjb
on a asus p4b533

[Jester700]

Don't feel bad - it's not just you. Studio 8 hates a lot of people...

One thing's for sure - your mobo is pretty long in the tooth for a video editing system. Running an AMD K6 series CPU? I would spring another $150 for new mobo & cpu. You may also need new memory, depending on the new one you choose & whether your old DIMM was PC66 or PC100. Either way, that's another $50 well spent to get some PC2100 RAM and the bandwidth it brings.