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I have been using this software for a few days intensively. As a software engineer myself, I have been formulating a number of ideas on what is going wrong in the background, and a large number of things do go wrong. For all intensive purposes, the software looks great at the front end interface, it didn't take me long to learn my way around the system and produce a full blown dvd project, with all sorts of filters, effects etc. Then I tried to render it. The rendering engine is pure garbage, it is slow, it falls over if you as much as sneeze at it while it is working, and the final result, if you get lucky, and you really need to get lucky to get a result, has a very high probability of missing frames, sections that skip, dropped sound, etc. I then went back to basics and looked at each section in detail, the capturing is hit and miss as far as audio/video sync is concerned, any fuzz on the input video will throw the audio sync. The editing is very good and only crashed once or twice, though there seems to be a problem with setting up chapter menus on dvd's that I'm currently discussing with Pinnacle support, of which, as noted by someone else on this forum, the suggestion to uninstall and re-install the software has already been put foreward. Given the number of crashes that the normal filters cause, I'd be very surprised if Pinnacle actually sell the unlock key for any of their extra filters ( that I'd love to loose visually on my menu's ). To sum up, I have to say that the software looks very good, which is why I bought it. I find it hard to believe that this is version 9 of a piece of software with this many bugs in. If all the many bugs were fixed, the software would be an excellent tool for video editing and dvd manufacturing. |
