ghostky and pawleo, i am a pinnacle 8.3, 8.6.32b, 9.3.0, 9.4 user. i experience a lot of problem with pinnacle. r u facing what i face??? sometimes it runs smooth, sometimes it hangs or crashes. and when u apply the 9.4 patch it installs properly but after u restart the version is still the same.

This post has been edited by joylay83: Jul 31 2005, 12:26 AM

thx. after many tries i finally found out why it crash... haih.. after a so long time

you cannot render the video when it is processing the preview. as in, when you add an effect to it it will be green at the timeline , then it turn light green, after that it turn back yellow. when it turn yellow only u can render the video to an avi or mpg. then it wun hang

This post has been edited by joylay83: Aug 4 2005, 11:20 PM

adobe photoshop 7.0.1 - to edit ugly looking photos
sound forge 7 - for audio plug-ins
steinberg wavelab 4 - sound editing
corel draw 11 sp1 - misc work

pinnacle 8.6.32b and pinnacle 9.3 (US version) - video stuff

since i'm working with PAL, and i can't get hold of the UK version of pinnacle, i use 2 version of pinnacle. i use pinnacle 9.3 to capture the video, then close it and open pinnacle 8.6 to add the video to the timeline and save it as a project (e.g a.stu). after that, i open a.stu in pinnacle 9.3 to work on the video. pinnacle 9.3 has more effects than 8.6. if u add the video directly to the timeline with 9.3, it will say 'pinnacle studio is not enabled for PAL'. and the funny thing is that when u update with the patch it wun update. after update its still 9.3 instdad of 9.4... and if i use 8.6 to capture video it will drop a lot of frames.

actually i am looking for a replacement for pinnacle but haven't find 1... adobe premiere is not bad but very slow. no real-time preivew.

yes you are right. there is a pal and ntsc version.. but the prob is how u know whether its the ntsc or pal version when u buy?? coz they look identical. (that's wat i heard) unless u have that kind of free time to buy and then go back and install.. then when u see it can't do pal, u go all the way back to lyp and change....

oicicic.... i dun need the card coz i using digital capture. but at the same time they say that the card makes the software more stable coz of the software is dependent on the GPU on the card. will see how.. wish i can buy the PAL without te NTSC coz i dun need it

does studio 9 plus come with mpeg2 activation? i really need that. hope it's not purchased separately

just a tip for u guys, if your comp go crazy sometimes, try use winASO to clean up your registry, and then run chkdsk on all your partitions. usually it works. if still cannot then try defrag (defrag occationally causes problems instead of fixing them). still cannot? reformat or ghost it.