Pinnacle Studio project upgrade (Part 2)

Well i have to admit, at this point i've invested a lot of time learning Studio.  So when i learned Studio 10 came out and that the rendering engine was based on Avid technology, i figured this was going to be good.  After all, i've been very impressed with the features of Studio, though the stability of the app and the burn quality have only been average.  i figured the Avid technology would address both of those issues.  You know it may have, but i'm not sure i'll stick around to find out.  Guess why?  My last post talked of issues when upgrading a project from Studio 8 to 9, well this one is going to talk about my issue in upgrading a Studio 9 project to 10.  i know, i know, Pinnacle wants you to finish a project in the version of Studio you started it in.  And now i know why, and i do follow their recommendation.  However there are occasions when i open an old project to get a refresher on how i did something or if i already used a song or what-not.

The issue i have with opening a Studio 9 project in 10 is... it loses the menus.  Now during the last upgrade, it messed up the color corrections, that was almost tolerable since not every video clip or even every project had color corrections, but almost all of my projects contain menus, many of them fairly elaborate.  This is horrible.

As for other issues with 10:

• Very slow to start up (much slower than 9, probably 5x).
  
• The 3rd disc won't install (i believe the support forum has a resolution for this)
• When trying to capture from a VCR it gives the error "A valid Input Signal has not be detected" (to be fair, version 9 also generates this error).  Though Windows Movie Maker and Beyond TV has no issue with this config.
  

All in all, after using 3 versions of Studio, i would probably say version 9 with the latest patches is the most satisfying version.

Am i going to stick with Pinnacle?  Not sure.  i recently got a Tivo and i need Sonic MyDVD to burn my Tivo content to DVD, so i may make the switch to the whole Sonic/Roxio suite.  If that works out, then i can get rid of both my Pinnacle and Nero products (though i have no complaints about Nero, however my last experience was that Nero and Roxio don't play well together).

Well if i do switch, you'll hear about it here.

Posted at 12:23AM Feb 09, 2007 by Robert Eister in Software  |  Comments[0]