Movie Makers?

[Head Guru]

Any one dabble in Digital Film Production?

 

I have a small project, looking for some input on it.

 

Thanks!

[SteveW]

Pinnacle Studio 8 was free with my TV tuner card. I like it and have seen positive comments about Studio from others. I think it is now at version 12, though currently 10, 11, 12 all appear to be available. This is their website: http://www.pinnaclesys.com. I thought they had a free trial available, but I don't see one.

 

Windows Movie Maker isn't too bad, either. You might already have a free version of it on your PC.

[FarmerTodd]

Pinnacle Studio 8 was free with my TV tuner card. I like it and have seen positive comments about Studio from others. I think it is now at version 12, though currently 10, 11, 12 all appear to be available. This is their website: http://www.pinnaclesys.com. I thought they had a free trial available, but I don't see one.

 

Windows Movie Maker isn't too bad, either. You might already have a free version of it on your PC.

 

I actually have and use Pinnacle Studio 10 and curse a blue streak every time I use it. It has some huge problems with memory management or something because it will just crash out of the blue and I have a clean, mean machine. It is pretty easy to use though.

 

If you are beyond deciding what program to use, I have done a lot of videos editing so may offer some help...?

[FarmerTodd]

Any one dabble in Digital Film Production?

 

Of course, I wouldn't call any of my videos "Film Productions"...

[SteveW]

I actually have and use Pinnacle Studio 10 and curse a blue streak every time I use it. It has some huge problems with memory management or something because it will just crash out of the blue and I have a clean, mean machine. It is pretty easy to use though.

I am both surprised and not surprised by that.

 

Not surprised because that's how I felt about the "PCTV Deluxe" hardware tuner and software package in 2004, which crashed constantly. A year or more later, they released rewritten drivers which solved the crashes in their TV viewing application and with Studio 8's TV capture functions.

 

Surprised because you'd think that after more than 4 years they'd have the drivers and any other programming issues ironed out. And because for me Studio 8 has been stable since the driver upgrade, though admittedly I don't use any of its features besides cutting down and transcoding video.

 

Why any company would keep releasing new and fancier versions of a program without first getting one core version of it completely stable is beyond me, but they're not alone in that.