Advantages: cheap, fair quality images, easy to use Disadvantages: needs a good sound card, some capture problems
The Pinnacle DC10+ is a good few years old now but I thought I'd review it in case anyone was still using analogue video equipment and was looking for something to help them edit their videos. Units regularly turn up on eBay so they should be fairly easy to find if you think it's the device for you. On with the review!
Whilst most people have moved over to digital video using either Digital8 or DV, some camcorder users are still more than happy with their Hi8, Video8 and even (shudder) VHS-C machines. The digital users have the luxury of Firewire and its ease of use when capturing and re-recording edited footage. However, the analogue users have to look to slightly more complex hardware to do the job.
The PinnacleStudio DC10+ consists of a PCI card and editing software. The card installs effortlessly as does the software. The card ...
Advantages: worth is price, good results to the end movies Disadvantages: Hard to install and to operarate.
I bought the PinnacleStudio MovieBoard, Installed it my computer, had allot of problem with compatibility and had to run forth and backwards to dealer until it was fixed.
After that inconvenience and when it worked, it was pretty complicated and not very user friendly, I'm considered a good computer wizard and it took me some time to understand how to operate it.
But in the end when I learned, it gave very good results, it more or less worth is price and is recommended, but take your time to learn deeply first the user manual and all other relevant documents.
Otherwise you will suffer the same hell I had in my first day's after purchasing the PinnacleStudio MovieBoard, but as I said it's Satisfactory product and the end Movies are in very high results. ...
Advantages: reasonably priced, polite customer support Disadvantages: careless setup of drivers, very lousy laptop speakers!!
bought a studio 15 laptop...it was upgraded version so took them about 3 weeks to deliver
The bluetooth and BluRay drives weren't working properly...after many emails and fiddling around with laptop's screws and reformatting following email instructions then I got a call to sort out the bluray...it was finally sorted.
These were little probs that didn't bother me too much so I wasn't chasing Dell up daily, it did get sorted about 4 months later (after date of purchase). I think the laptop should have been tested and setup with updated drivers then I wouldn't have had this hassle and bad experience with an otherwise glitch free (so far...a year later!) system!!
Overall the customer service department were polite and did their best to be helpful.
I was asked to fill out a survery later so maybe they've improved their system ...
Studio version 10 is the most friendly, complete and powerful home video editing solution available today. Studio combines the legendary ease of its intuitive three-step movie creation process with the power to quickly and reliably capture all of your precious memories from photos, videos and audio from all popular consumer electronic devices. Next, Studio intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects, like Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and beyond. Studio 500-PCI adds an easy to install internal PCI card for capturing and outputting from and to analog video cameras and VCR's.
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