A friendly EXTREMELY experienced group of Moderators and users willing to do their best to help, and are NOT on Pinnacle’s payroll (although they should be for all the problem solving they do).īTW, I do not work for Pinnacle or Corel, but have been using Pinnacle since 2000 starting with the DV500 w/Premiere 6, and have used every version (except Pro One) since then. So, before thinking of paying, come there first. A lot of the ideas put forth there make their way into Tech Support. IF someone has a problem, my suggestion is to go to the Pinnacle User Forum FIRST for help. You will mainly hear from them, not the ones editing happily. Go to any editing software forum (and I mean any) and see people with problems. This brings me to the stability and other issues people have posted above. Not upside down as with other consumer editors. placed over the video is how it should be. In addition, the Smartsound plugin with SonicFire Pro V6 is the best out there for a consumer editor.Įditing where an “overlay” is just that, like titles, etc. Then there are all the NewBlue FX plugins, zillions of Pinnacle transitions, and all the keyframing flexibility to the hundreds of Effects makes this a compelling piece of software. The new Picture in Picture and Cropping Tool are a “about time” feature. Track Transparency, new Audio Keyframing. Motion Tracking is a “version 1”, just as Multicam was with PS19. PS20 has introduced some compelling features (as posted in the post topic) along with enhancements that really aid in editing. PS19 built on it although several issues arose with people who owned Nvidia cards and with the last patch, which introduced issues with Speed control. PS18 was their first fully 64bit version. PS17 initially had tremendous issues which were fixed with several patches. They killed legacy Studio, kept Avid Studio which they renamed PS16. Avid was hurting financially and sold off Pinnacle to Corel in 2012, who owned VideoStudio Pro, which Pinnacle Studio was a direct competitor. Liquid users (I was one) were disappointed in it because it lacked a lot of the features that made Liquid a compelling choice in editing. Avid eventually killed Liquid (a direct Media Composer editor originally from FAST) and started development on Avid Studio, a replacement for Liquid.

First, Avid bought Pinnacle 2005 around the time when Studio 10 and Edition were available.

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