Pinnacle Studio MovieBox Ultimate
by Pinnacle Systems
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Customer Review: A good buy!
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought the studio Ultimate package fro BestBuy Boston 2 weeks ago. I was hesitant to buy because of the mixed reviews on the Net. This is my experience:
The pinnacle software installed easily. The only minor glitch is the registration of the sound soap add-on (Part of the Ultimate package) which had to be repeated 3 times.
The software interface is intuitive, very powerful and easy to work with.
The hardware capture module is nice. It is miles ahead of the Dazzle. Quality of capture is very good. Frame dropping is minimal (~85 frames =3 sec dropped in a bad quality 2 hrs VHS tape).
All in all a very good product .
Customer Review: great way to get rid of the VCR
Summary: 4 Stars
I was making movies in a few min, after the software was installed. Of course you can make them fancy with menues and music, but i have too many to do. Pretty basic thing to use.Customer Review: What version of Studio does this come with?
Summary: 3 Stars
Is this package with Studio 11 or Studio 12? in the product details it says discontinued by manufacturer.Customer Review: Studio Moviebox Ultimate USB2 Pro
Summary: 2 Stars
Studio Moviebox Ultimate USB2 Pro Effects & Greenscreen
Bought this to replace an ATI video/encoder card.
The Pinnacle hardware/software combination drops frames when encoding analog video.
My computer more than meets all the minimum requirements. All extraneous processes are shutoff when I was using this (Anti virus, firewall, network etc.)
Interestingly, when I use the hardware encoder in combination with Roxio's Easy Media Creator software the analog video encoding works fine with no dropped frames. So I am using that combination of Pinnacle's hardware and Roxio's software for the encoding.
I have not used the Studio software (for other than encoding - which it does not do well), looks pretty capable for editing but I will have to update this review when I start doing editing.
Customer Review: JMiffle
Summary: 1 Stars
I just wanted to download a couple dozen VHS tapes before they degraded any further. My last version of Adobe Premiere with a break out box for capturing analog video is 6 years old on a six year old machine - it barely boots anymore much less video editing. Anyway this product seemed like the easy affordable way to go.
I should have read the reviews more carefully!
DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT!
I installed this on a fairly new, fast, loaded Vista machine and it worked right away on my first tape.
I then spend some time downloading a bunch of DV tape from an old camera, which is also preparing to expire.
I was using a separate dedicated 2TB external hard drive hooked up to ESATA - its just as fast as an internal drive.
When I got back to my VHS tapes Pinnacle would no longer capture analog video from my VCR. I tried everything, changing drives, reinstalling with and without current patches, changing USB ports, yelling, etc
Nothing worked, still dropping 1000s of frames and out of sync audio.
What worked once now makes my machine very unstable, customer support was a complete waste of time as seems to be common with Pinnacle.
I finally gave up and purchased a canopus ADVC 110 and Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 (I have a Sony camcorder HDR-SR11 - Great Camera!). If only I could get back that week of my life a wasted with