Pinnacle Systems Studio DV V8 Video Editing

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Product Details

Product Manual [3.52mb PDF]

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within 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.com Sales Rank: #17,492 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description

Introducing Pinnacle Studio version 8: the total video-editing solution for your desktop or laptop PC. Simply capture your video footage and then use the professional editing features like scene transitions, title effects, and fast/slow motion to create compelling movies. After you've edited your video, you can output to tape or burn your movies to a CD or DVD that will play on most living room DVD players.Studio version 8 makes editing movies on your PC or laptop easier than ever. Pinnacle Studio software allows you to drag-and-drop your captured video footage onto the editing timeline and assemble a movie in mere minutes. Then add professional 3D scene transitions, some background music, a couple of title effects, and get ready to show the world your finished masterpiece. Share your special moments with family and friends on DVD! With Studio version 8, you can burn a disc with your CD or DVD burner that will play in most set-top DVD players. Plus, there are advanced authoring features that allow you to create multiple linked menus, motion menus, and motion buttons. Now you can turn hours of home video into Hollywood-style movies on CD/DVD that no one will want to miss. Pinnacle Studio DV version 8 includes Studio version 8 software and a 1394/FireWire capture card for owners of digital video camcorders.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor quality hardware and non-responsive customer support, January 16, 2003

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

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

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

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 15 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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!