Pinnacle DC10+ Video capture and editing

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 Pinnacle Studio DC10+ consists of a PCI card and editing software. The card installs effortlessly as does the software. The card...

ilaskey 03.05.2007 · Read review
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My experience with Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard

Advantages: worth is price, good results to the end movies
Disadvantages: Hard to install and to operarate.

...I bought the Pinnacle Studio 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 Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard, but as I said it's Satisfactory product and the end Movies are in very high results....

infoben 04.04.2009 · Read review
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Lights! Camera! Action!

Advantages: Easy to use, good results
Disadvantages: Can be prone to crashing

...Ok...so you've bought the camera, you've filmed your Nan falling over on holiday...now you want to edit the footage to amuse friends and families and perhaps to cash in on a well known TV show...But how do you do it? One way would be to invest you pennies in a piece of software called Pinnacle Studio Plus 10... Pinnacle have been producing video editing software for donkeys years now and are one the leading companies in the field. The "Studio" line of video editing software is one of their core products and has been brought bang up to date with Studio Plus 10. Just like previous Studio products, this offers an easy "What you see is what you get" interface which allows even the most foolhardy or inexperienced user (and I am both) to create fairly professional looking projects. The software is certainly user friendly...

dancelikeabear 30.11.2006 · Read review
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Review of Pinnacle Studio Plus 10 Complete package

You've been framed

Advantages: Digital Video In/Out, Analogue out, easy to install, user friendly software, excellent support site
Disadvantages: No Analogue Out

..., and then connect the analogue out cables to your video machine using either s-video or composite. Once you are happy with this, install the supplied drivers and software (supplied with Pinnacle Studio 7) and away you go. Having installed this card in my mother-in-laws PC, I was impressed with the software installation, as it is very easy for the uninitiated, loading all the relevant drivers. It is recommended that you have a high-end system for video editing (900Mhz plus, 7200RPM hard disk as big as possible and loads of memory). Software The video software that is supplied is Pinnacle's Studio 7 which has been winning quite a few rave reviews from PC magazines due to it's ease of use, coupled with extensive feature set. When you load the software there are three tabs at the top of your screen - Capture,Edit and Make Movie. The tabs are...

cjkace 17.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Pinnacle Studio DV Plus

The Wii Fit Plus is an excellent add on, and great fun!

Advantages: fun, good for you, multiplayer
Disadvantages: none really

...the Training plus and My Wii Fit Plus. Firstly the Training plus section this has 15 new games that work on your body and your mind. Perfect 10 - where you have to use your hips to bump the numbers around you to add to 10, sounds easier then it is trust me, great fun with mind and body. Cycling- You use the balance board to step on and move forward, and the Wii remote for the staring, once you have tried this a few times you can cycle round the island collecting the the 13 flags on your way before making it back to the start line. Rhythm Kung Fu - This is great fun using the balance board, remote and numchuck to copy what the other people are doing behind you, whilst keeping in time to the music. Driving Range- In all honesty i found this my most difficult but then I am no good at golf in reality either, you use the remote as a club and have...

sashysach 09.11.2009 (10.11.2009) · Read review
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Dell Studio 15

Advantages: Adequate features, upgrade options available
Disadvantages: Bluetooth Headset not Available

...better graphics card in ur laptop or PC also. But this model of laptop only provide traditional Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100, and also they do not have any upgradation for this. So that if we consider as a graphics card it does not provide better graphics. But my main target always remain graphics card? Now a days every application and games require more graphics memory so that this laptop fail to provide better graphics. Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo Processor T8100.is 2.1 GHz, 3MB L2 Cache, and front side bus is 800 MHz FSB 3GB(2x1024MB) Dual-channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM 8X max DVD+/-RW Drive with DVD+R double layer write capability 8-in-1 Memory card reader 8-in-1 Memory card reader Intel® High Definition Audio 2.0 Internal 10/100 Fast Ethernet Integrated stereo speakers • Network Card...

ak.naved 10.10.2008 · Read review
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Nivea Hand Age Defying Q10 Plus - heals dry hands overnight

Advantages: Really moisturises hands; smells nice; heals and soothes chapped skin
Disadvantages: Doesn't absorb completely

...I suffer from dry skin on my hands, which is exacerbated by cold weather and harsh hand-washes. It's unpleasant to have rough, cracked hands - it feels very sore, looks dreadful, and means that it's less easy to have hygienically clean hands (microbes can hide in the cracks and rough skin, apparently). Someone recommended a Tesco's own Q10 hand cream to me. I don't have a Tesco locally, so when I noticed a Nivea Q10 product for sale in Sainsburys priced at £3.19, I thought I'd try it. I needed a new hand cream, and although I'm not sure I need the anti-aging properties yet, I thought it couldn't do any harm. The packaging is the usual tube-type container, with a flip top lid. When I got home, the flip-top lid was damaged, but this could have been my fault rather than a design flaw. I tried the hand cream overnight, because I find it...

Sacheverell 04.11.2009 · Read review
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Dell Studio 540MT

Advantages: Quiet, Good looking
Disadvantages: Button under the dvd draw

...After weeks of searching the internet for a new computer, I finally settled for the Dell Studio 540. I have owned this computer for a little over two months now, and have to say, that I am quite pleased with it?s performance. When it was delivered it was well packed, and all the glossy parts of the base unit were covered with protected covering, which takes a few moments to peel off. Everything was pre-installed so I didn?t need to use the enclosed windows vista operating disc, or drivers. Once I plugged it in, the first thing I noticed was how quite it was compared to my old pc, the first few seconds it?s just a wee bit loud, but even that is still quieter than my old pc, but it soon settles down to just a whisper. If there are any gripes with this pc then it as to be the button that is pressed to open the dvd tray. Opening the tray is...

BlueSapphire 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Samsung NC10 Review

Advantages: Good battery life, nice screen, near enough a full size keyboard
Disadvantages: small-ish trackpad

...I recieved this netbook for christmas and all i can say is 'wow'! My background with computers is vast having built many and installed multiple operating systems on each, however i have never owned a laptop. Therefore i was a little dubious about some of the things such as keyboard size, processing power and battery life. I was looking for a laptop which is very small in physical size while packing a punch so it could still carry out multiple tasks. Buying a full size (15.4") laptop seemed a bit pointlesss as i have two tower pc's which are my main machines, so this was just to be about casual surfing/ reading emails/ browsing while on the move. The Samsung NC10 is in my view one of the very best netbooks out there, the keyboard is just shy of being full size so no cramped typing (this review was written on it) Combine this...

MRob909 02.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Samsung NC10

Samsung NC10 Netbook

Advantages: Lots of connectivity - Big keyboard - excellent screen - Good spec
Disadvantages: bad sleeve to store netbook - battery life not that long - small touchpad

...I managed to pick up this netbook for £299 which is oustanding value - from play.com. The netbook is very light and can fit almost anywhere - it is very easy to carry around - you can set up anywhere and very easily connect to the internet where available. The netbook looks very stylish and everything is laid out well. The keyboard is the biggest i have ever seen on a netbook - its almost full size which is a bonus as I have a lot of typing to do. One disadvantage of this is that the mousepad has been made very small which is a nuisance - you do get used to it but it is not ideal. The specs for this netbook are impressive I mean a massive 160GB hard drive, a 10.2 inch screen. 1 GB of RAM and a 1.6GHZ intel atom processor. This spec allows the netbook to operate very fastly - the whole 6 months I have had this netbook - it has...

jameweights 05.01.2009 · Read review
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