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I have used Studio 7...Crapware. I have used Studio 8...Crapware. I am now using Studio 9.04...Cra...Wait a minute! This time it's working! No crashes?! Beautiful output?!
Yes. Here is my story: I just about gave up on the Studio series because of its buggy performance. Since I have become quite skilled at banging my head against the wall, I thought I'll give it one more try. When I attempted to install the upgrade version of Studio 9 it kept telling me that it was unsuccessful in uninstalling my previous version. I tried everything to remove the last remnants of Studio 8 to no avail. It clearly had some left over remnants in the registry that I could not remove. When I contacted Pinnacle Support, the geniuses there told me I should upgrade my video card! What a bunch a dummies!
I decided to bite the bullet and do what I have never done before; a clean install of my operating system, which was WinXP SP1. Because all my data files were on a second hard drive, and I only had a few programs on the C drive, I went ahead and did the reinstall. It really wasn't too painful. When I then tried to install Studio 9, it said to put the CD of the old version in the CD reader to confirm I owned a copy...so don't loose that old CD! After that, the installation went smoothly. I then loaded an existing video file I had and began editing and putting in transitions, a menu, and chapters all the while expecting everything to come crashing down any second. It didn't! I created an image file with Studio, which went rather quickly. I then burned the image file to a DVD using Nero 6 Recode 2. That went quickly as well. The result was great.
Clearly, the reinstall was what did the trick. That is the only way to get rid of all the extraneouos drivers and other code and garbage that may be interferring with a program such as Studio that demands a high use of the computer's resources. What I like best about Studio is that you can adjust the volume of just about any section of video. This was particularly important to me because my camcorder picks up a lot of wind noise. The dedicated wind reduction feature of Studio 9 works but it imparts a muffled, fake sound to the audio that I didn't like.
With my luck, the program will start crashing left and right as soon as I finish these comments but until then I'm a happy user of Studio 9.
P.S. Be sure download the patch that brings it up to ver. 9.04, especially if you have a Sony DRU 510 DVD writer. |
