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I deal with Avid Symphonies at work. The program uses specific hardware and software and a system costs about $ 40,000 without the external storage. It runs most of the time. But there are restrictions on what other programs are allowed on the machine (including Virus Scan) as well as updates to the OS. Even at that, we had one that started corrupting itself for no particular reason. It may be that a program can't be written that will work flawlessly on every piece of PC hardware, every operating system with every installed program on the market. I have had Studio 7 and 8 for a few years now. Early on, I couldn't make the program run at all because I had an A-sound audio card. It ran better on one mother board than another one. It has real issues with the via chipset, as do a lot of multimedia programs. I now have a Dell 4550 with the Intel 875 chipset and 512 meg of memory with a Verbatim DVD writer and I have had only one problem in the past year and a half and that was easily averted. And, as far as looking at the Pinnacle discussion forums, no one posts there unless there is a problem Reading the forum posts one would see that most of the posts would be answered if the poster would just read the manual. The users group there is very willing to help but most of the dispirited posters won't even fill in their profile. It speaks to the honesty of Pinnacle that they don't censor the flaming messages. I like the program. It works very well for me. I can capture, edit and burn. It would be great to hear from others who have installed and used multiple entry level editing programs to see which ones worked best for them. |
