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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Review of Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard 12 Ultimate (PC)

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...

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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...

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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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Price Check On Pinnacle in UK

Advantages: easy to install and set up, easy to use and learn
Disadvantages: nore that I can think of at present

...PRICE CHECK Pinnacles main distributor is Jessops, but beware they charge UK£199.00 and COMET are charging UK£170.00, quite a difference. Now the rest When I bought my Sony Digital Video Camera I wanted to get the best possible DV Capture card for the money. On checking Pinnacles Web Site I was amazed at the array of cards on offer and the fact that pinnacle were involved with major productions and I have since seen their name in Movie credits. With this in mind I decided to get a Pinnacle card. My only concern was that I needed Analogue as well as digital output as my video recorder did not have a dv input. Pinnacles card WITH analogue output was UK£100 more expensive that their DV output only model, but needs must and I bought it. The outside of the box didn't say that there was a fire-wire included and so I...

bevboys 10.07.2001 · Read review
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Review of Pinnacle Studio DV

Sky Plus is a Plus

Advantages: Record, rewind, series link
Disadvantages: Expensive, bad customer service

...If you love TV then you probably love your Sky + box and if you haven't already got one you really really need to get one. For me this box is definitely a Plus with one little Minus but I will get to that later. Sky + is a personal video recorder that allows the user to record, pause and instantly rewind live TV. It works in conjunction with a Sky television subscription. It was launched in September 2001 and in February 2008 Sky announced that over 3 million households now have a Sky + box. Sky + is such a benefit to have. You access all the features of the recorder through your Sky + remote. Recording - Sky + allows you to record any programme that you like. It is very simple to do. You do not have to set any timers or set up any video tapes, etc, the show is saved as hardware on the Sky box. Basically you search through...

Spottydog11 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sky + (Plus)

Reach for the Sky ( Plus of course)

Advantages: We watch what we want when we want
Disadvantages: None for me

... SKY PLUS Move over sliced bread, there's a new kid on the block! From now on I will describe things that are good,as the best thing since Sky Plus! I'm of an age to have been around for the first of the Ferguson video players (as so wonderfully described by the brilliant Peter Kay). There was no remote control- you had to walk over to the machine to do all the recordings, and the amount of times we settled down to watch a film my better (?!?) half had recorded only to find a recording of something completely different. My goodness didn't we think we were something, with our mock leather video covers that held recordings of Corrie and the likes! But know videos and video recorders are a thing of the past and will soon be appearing on the Antiques Roadshow. The advent of recording onto DVD seemed to...

oldchem 28.10.2009 · Read review
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