PreviousTuesday 25 May 2004, 1:24 AM
Studio 9 Does Not Deliver
I used Studio 8 and thought that many of its problems would have been fixed in Studio 9.
I managed to cut a small file VCD successfully using Studio 9 without too many headaches.
This minor success drove me to attempt a much larger project. This has created more problems than it has been worth.
Studio is too buggy to use without creating great frustration. Studio 9 often hangs requiring restarts. Studio 9 often drops audio wav file play and often does not always play imported AVI files. For the latter problem, I have found closing Studio 9 and reopening it causes this issue to go away until the next time.
Too much time is spent on discovering workarounds for problems which should not be included in the software.
Support responds with what seems to be canned answers to your specific problem. Ultimately this leads to a reinstall of the product. When I uninstalled, ran regdelete, installed again (plus the 9.0.8 patch) and opened the existing studio file, many of the titles were changed in font and font sizes.
But none of the issues which caused me to reinstall were fixed.
The audio from CDs have been swapped with other audio from CDs elsewhere in the .stu file.
All these problems occur with or without the Pinnacle support designated background tasks running or shutdown, with the product reinstalled with all the recommnded latest drivers.
Performance on a 2.7GHz machine with 512MB of RAM is a disappointment. Studio 9 often consumes much of the available CPU.
It seems you need a dedicated machine running nothuing else.
I've had so many problems that I cannot even recount them all. Studio 9 is without a doubt the most promising piece of software never to live up to its potential I have ever worked with.
It just does not deliver on its promise.
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