Pinnacle Systems Studio DV V8 Video Editing

by Pinnacle Systems

Product Details

Product Manual [3.52mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006HYYK
• Item model number: 210100185
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #26,480 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality hardware and non-responsive customer support, January 15, 2003

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Jeffrey Hsu (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Studio DV V8 Video Editing (Electronics)

It's been about two weeks since I first received my Studio DV V8. Installation was fairly straight forward. I notice the quality of the IEEE-1394 PCI card was more on the low cost side and the IEEE-1394 6-pin/4-pin cable fit very loosely into my Sony DV. When I start the capture, computer lock-up and I have to cycle the power to get out of it.

- There are no 800 numbers for phone tech support and tech support hours are 10-7 EST M-F; which can't be utilized by me.
- I had logged this problem with them twice via web support in the last two weeks and had not heard anything from them.

(I will update the review if I ever get an answer back from them.)

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a relief, January 1, 2004

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T Cardin (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Studio DV V8 Video Editing (Electronics)

I had already ordered Pinnacle Studio DV from Dell when I started reading all of the horrible reviews. I bought the program after seeing some DVDs that my boss made of his son's football games & he said he had no problems. When it arrived I decided to try it and hope for the best & I'm glad I did. I captured about 90 minutes of video that I had shot using a Sony TRV-350. The capture process when very smoothly. Editing confused me at first (I didn't want to read the manual) but I caught on quickly and edited the video down to about 30 minutes of scenes that I wanted to burn to DVD. The rendering process did take a while: 30 to 45 minutes but when it was done my dvd drive spit out a completed dvd with the titles and transitions that I added and it looked great when I played it in by DVD player. I had no problems at all during the entire process including installation. I did follow Pinnacle's recommendations and bought a separate hard drive for capturing and I made sure no other applications were running in XP. I am very pleased with the product. I do have a new system: Dell 4600, 2.6ghz P4, 512 RAM, 40 GB internal, 80GB Western Digital firewire external hardrive (I used the card that came with Pinnacle for the firewire connection as the Dell 4600 didn' have one - the Pinnacle card comes with two connections one of which you must use for your digital camcorder). I am very pleased with this product.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Sarcastic customer service and flaky card, February 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Pinnacle Systems Studio DV V8 Video Editing (Electronics)

I tried to pair the card in this package with the new Maxtor 5000DV. The Pinnacle card toasts the Maxtor drive every time. Maxtor customer service can replicate my error and has been very helpful. Pinnacle customer service has been sarcastic, irresponsible, and completely unhelpful.

The Pinnacle software only offers minor improvements over my existing software, so I'm out [$$$] and have a worthless Pinnacle package sitting in the closet.

Don't buy from Pinnacle until they get their customer service reps up to snuff!