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| ![Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 11 [OLD VERSION]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51lS188AAVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Pinnacle Systems
Category: Software
List Price: $129.99
Buy New: $89.88
You Save: $40.11 (31%)
New (7) Used (4) from $69.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  103 reviews
Sales Rank: 1299
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.9 x 3
MPN: 8210-10056-51
Model: 82101005651
UPC: 613570221296
EAN: 0613570221296
ASIN: B000PS6QY6
Release Date: May 10, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new in sealed box!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Horrible Product - Stay away from this product February 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased Studio 9 and it worked fine on an xp os. I use this maybe twice a year to make a highlight video for my daughter basketball team. Therefore I don't have time to spend 1000+ hours trying to learn all the unique workarounds this product has.
First of all their tests on Vista were on one specially designed system. Studio 11 Ultimate will not work on a VISTA laptop. You will end up pulling your hair out. You probably can use it on a laptop if you shut down most of the services running and do not use it with any other programs. It doesn't like to share.
Do not use this product on the internet except to register but also because this product does not like to work with any AV programs. It will crash and burn.
Second, their support staff is from India and no one there can speak English to do any thing more than to frustrate and discourage you.
Third back up everything before you load this on your computer as it has a tendency to destroy things. You may have to reinstall this package several times to get it to work properly.
Fourth make sure you have a recovery disk handy as you will probably need it to recover your operating system (VISTA and some XP).
Fifth Ulead Photoimpact has a product that looks similar and they have a free product download. If you only do this as a hobby and rarely use it don't waste your time and money.
My experience with this product has been horrible in the past. However, when it works and if you've got the time to go through all the different trials this may be the product for you. I don't think they have tested this product enough and the programmer apparently do not listen to the folks who do use it and make changes to the application that have no bearing on anything helpful.
Worst Product Ever... February 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is probably the worst product I have ever purchased...in any category. I tried to make a simple slide show--something that both Microsoft's Powerpoint and Photo Story (which you can download for free) do better. I've made the same slide show 3 times now, and each time, the file has somehow erased itself from my computer.
The best part though...they tease you with all these bells and whistles--tons of features and cool things you can do. But almost none of it comes with the product's original purchase. You need to buy all the additional features, most starting at $9.99 and up.
Even better now...I'm finding it impossible to return the program and get a refund. And their support center...gives you the first call free but charges you for every call after.
I would not recommend this product.
 Great editor, but..... February 21, 2008
I would have given Studio 11 Ultimate five stars except for its instability in rendering AVCHD videos; it keeps hanging during the render process. Furthermore, there is an occasional video/voice sync problem. Pinnacle support is good in responding to help questions depending upon the agent's competence. Unfortunately, they couldn't solve the AVCHD problem even though my XP SP2 PC far exceeds Studio 11's requirements. Because the editor has many great features and is very intuitive and easy to use, I didn't want to give up on it. I finally figured out a work-around that seems to work great (so far). It's a two-step process: [1] render each unaltered project video scene to a hi-def mpeg-2 file [2] assemble these mpeg-2 files into your project and then do your normal editing. It's very important that you NOT first alter (edit) the AVCHD files for step [1]; render them exactly as they came out of the camcorder. Editing with mpeg-2 files is quite stable and rendering is about 3-4 times faster compared to working with AVCHD files. A further note: some of the transitions do not work with ATI Radeon cards; use an nVidia GeForce card instead.
Even if Pinnacle does finally fix the AVCHD problem, I would still convert the scenes to mpeg-2 because rendering is so much faster that way.
Studio 11 Upgraders Beware February 20, 2008
Existing Studio users be very careful! I bought this as an upgrade to my version 9 software. However on installing it didn't work with existing Smartcapture files and on searching all over the place I found a one liner on the read me file saying Smartcapture is not supported. However this is not mentioned anywhere else, no mention at all of this in the whole manual, on the help or their web site - just try searching with Smartcapture and see what you get! Given that Smartcapture was one of their major sales features to remove ALL backward compatability in this way is unbelievable. If you have no files captured in Smartcapture it doesn't matter particularly but if like me you have 70+ video files from the last 25 years, all captured, split into sections and documented using Smartcapture then this is a real problem. Firstly they should make this clear in the marketing material so you don't waste your money on an upgrade like I did, secondly surely something as fundamental as this should be clear in the online help and in the manual. Then to make it worse I contacted Pinnacle support who wasted hours of my time with failed implementation instructions of different types (the product didn't work properly apart from the Smartcapture issue) until the technician, after another specific query on Smartcapture replied that he had just found out it wasn't supported. But my original mail asked this question and the first response was it is fixed in the 11.1.1 patch. I don't think he even read my original support request and just assumed that any problems would be fixed in the patch.
 Studio 11 Ultimate February 16, 2008
There are less problems in this package than in previous releases. The program still quits on occasion but not as often as the previous versions. It is still the easiest video editing program to use. You have to remember to do things in a specific order, ie, do not add music until end.
I haven't tried to download HD yet so cannot comment about that at this time. Transitions are smooth, but was unable to unlock the free transitions. When I try, it hangs up the program. Haven't called customer service about that yet. They still haven't got all the kinks out but compared to 8 and 9, it is much better.
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