Pinnacle Studio 8

Pinnacle Studio is easy to use but you have to pay to get the key for transitions and effects, for every option that come standard wiht other video editig softwares and included in the price you pay, this one wants money, they realy suck money out of consumers. I bought studio 9 and then I discontinued using it.

Easy to use. Not much of an upgrade from 7 however still a very valuable piece of software for me, brilliant Editing Software. Well recommend, I would actually prefer 7 as it didn't crash anywhere as near as 8 and 8 has lots of patches.

This product needs serious re-engineering. I must confess, that I am now trying out Adobe Premier, and even though I find pinnacle Studio 8 more user friendly I am thinking of switching permanently because I feel cheated by Pinnacle Studio 8, because after giving up several times and then rebuilding my system, service packs, and hardware specs I am always presented with new bugs and no end to the glitches and problems. So all in all, conceptually it is awesome but its a poorly built software which needs to be re engineered to rid it of the bugs it posseses. If this is not done it is pretty much a useless software which will not handle any major projects.

Pinnacle Studio 8 has to be the worst piece of software I have ever worked with. It came with the DV Movie box (which is very good) and I've spent many hours getting very frustrated and wasting dozens of DVD-R's. I moved on to DVD-RW's, but it still manages to make 4 out of 5 discs redundant. There are many glitches with the whole process of making a disc and the glitches never appear to happen at the same place, so it becomes impossible to put it right the next time you try.

I have only managed to produce 2 working DVD's in the whole year I've had the product. I will now be looking for another product, but, it will definitely not be Pinnacle.

I would not recommend this product

I have bought this software with Pinnacle Movie BOX (The hardware for video capture) because I had to change in digital format my old VHS of my family.

The hardware is good. The software (pinnacle 8, 9 and upgrades) is the worst software on the market !! I spent hours and hours, days and days of my time on projects and I had a big stress because this software is full of bugs!

I have thought that the problem was my computer. I changed RAM, video cards, XP edition and Service packs...nothing of good!

The worse thing was that the software crashed randomly, not always in the same point!! I found this forum and now I have the perfect confirm that this software is a true mountain of garbage !! I will never buy anything from Pinnacle again. Don't waste your time with pinnacle 8 and 9!

Pinnacle Studio 8 is the biggest piece of garbage on the market. Spend the money for a better video editor, because all the time you will WASTE using Studio 8 will cost you more than a good piece of software would, not to mention the stress you will have from spending hours and hours on a project only to spend DAYS trying to burn it to DVD without success. After hours of rendering, the program will sometimes just hang at random spots and you will have to start again from scrath. Sometimes, it will finish rendering, and then it will "fail to compile" and you will have to start from scratch. Or, sometimes it will give an "incorrect media type" error for no reason, and the only way to clear the error is to, you guessed it, start from scratch. THEN, they have the gall to try to get you to pay to upgrade features that are supposedly included, as well as to fix "some of the bugs" - why should I PAY THEM to fix SOME OF THE BUGS - they messed it up, fix it for me for FREE. Not to mention, I have seen reviews that the bugs are just as bad with the upgrades. I will never buy anything from Pinnacle again.

Pinnacle Studio 8 is the worst video creation and editing software I have ever used from a stability point of view. When trying to edit a 40 min video it crashes every 3 - 4 mins. It's useless.

I'm just grateful I live in Thailand where I can buy Studio 9 or Premiere Pro or anything for that matter for $2!!!

Pinnacle Studio 8 makes creating movies of your videos and still images very easy to create. Many transitions to choose from, many titles and menus, and the whole process is very easy to pick up.

Unfortunately, there are so many bugs, it is hard to recommend it. I continue to use it because of its flexibility and all its features. I try to work around the bugs. Hopefully, Studio 9 will clean up the bugs.