Hi everyone!
I just signed up after reading the forum the last few weeks. I tried Studio 400 quite a few years back and after tons of frustration swore I'd never buy another Pinnacle product! I then went on to edit with Premiere 2.0 and had good success. But then after buying an HD camcorder a couple of years ago (Sony HDR-HC3) my editing came to a halt! After frustrating experiences trying to capture/edit my HDV footage with Premiere, I tried Sony Vegas. Still had problems so I tried Canopus Edius and found out I needed to spend another $1000 to buy their capture card to use the HD features! Then a few weeks ago I thought I'd try Premiere Elements 4.0. The capture went fine but I was disappointed to find out Premiere didn't support scene detection. And when applying transitions it would do a freeze-frame on the second clip when using a cross dissolve. After fixing all my transitions I then discovered that my audio was way out of sync and from the Adobe forums it appears that Elements just doesn't work well with mpeg files!
SO! I picked up Studio 11 and even though there are a few quirks and downright bugs it has been working like a champ on my HD projects! Who would have thought I'd dump Premiere Pro, Vegas Pro and Canopus Edius to use Pinnacle Studio! Man! I sure could have saved a lot of money! Anyway, the forums have been a great help and if Pinnacle fixes some of my key gripes (volume handles, transition brightness fault, making AVCHD discs) I'll really be a happy camper!