Pinnacle’s Studio 11 Plus

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/review/2007/05/24/Pinnacle-Studio-Plus-version-11/p1' target='_blank'>http://www.trustedreviews.com/software/review/2007/05/24/Pinnacle-Studio-Plus-version-11/p1</a><br /><br /></div><i>"There are three applications vying for the home video editing crown: Adobe’s Premiere Elements, Corel’s Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus and the subject of this review, Pinnacle’s Studio 11 Plus. Now owned by Avid, a major player in professional video editing on both the hardware and software sides, Pinnacle has gleaned some of the code from more expensive Avid applications in putting together this new version."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/cgg-pinaclestudioplus-05252007.jpg" /><br /><br />TrustedReviews has a quick overview of this piece of software up on their site and recommend it based on their review. If your in the market for a reasonably priced and well-rounded video editing package, be sure to check it out.

[randalllewis]

I have used Studio since version 7 came with a computer I bought (one of the few times the shovelware on a new PC was worth something). I bought version 9 when it came out and had troubles galore. Patch after patch was needed but because I was familiar with the program I kept using it, just learing new habits such as saving my work every 5 minutes before the inevitable crash wiped everything out. I thought 9 had to be an aberation, so I bought 10 when it came out. Studio 10 was awful. Pinnacle managed to add incredible slowness to version 9's instability. They released a version 10.5 almost immediately it was so bad. I guess this fix did work for many people but not for me. I actually went back to version 9 which while unstable, at least didn't take forever to do everything.

I want to see lots of input from users about Version 11 before I even consider giving it a try.

[Jason Dunn]

I gave up on Pinnacle Studio a couple of years ago - it was just too unstable, too flaky, too prone to crashing. Adobe Premiere Elements is a good pick now.