mcperry:On my 16:10 widescreen monitor I can get 48 clips maximum using S14.   With S11 I could get a lot more clips - cannot remember the exact number though.   In Studio 11 I can get 96 clips showing on the storyboard - double what S14 can show! The album and preview areas resize themselves much better in S11 than S14 - ...

With my mini-DV camera connected and selected as the IMPORT FROM device, there is no movement on the audio level bar. Perhaps your device behaves differently.    [click to view image]

Do your audio meters to the right of the preview bounce up and down without any imput? When are you seeing this happen?

In previous versions of Studio - at least as far back as S8 - there were CAPTURE options in SETUP.   With S14's new IMPORT function this has all changed - for the worse. If I wish to edit a file which is already on my computer, such as a file recorded from TV -  I double click the file in the Album and scene detection automatically ...

On my 16:10 widescreen monitor I can get 48 clips maximum using S14.   With S11 I could get a lot more clips - cannot remember the exact number though. So much screen space is wasted by the GUI.   Each of the 3 component windows of the GUI should be resizeable to suit each users needs and monitor.

patndave: mcperry: I just downloaded the User Manual for S14 - only 427 pages On page 304 is the following: Using SmartSound® If you have installed songs in SmartSound format onyour computer, these too will be available for use in theBackground music tool. To switch between yourScoreFitter and SmartSound song collections, make ...

I just downloaded the User Manual for S14 - only 427 pages On page 304 is the following: Using SmartSound® If you have installed songs in SmartSound format onyour computer, these too will be available for use in theBackground music tool. To switch between yourScoreFitter and SmartSound song collections, make theappropriate choice on the Source ...

So Smartsound claim that they wil not be amending the Studio plugin, but does that really stop Pinnacle from creating the plugin for S14? Or  is it a copyright or other legal issue? Maybe Pinnacle does not have the expertize to write the plugin.    The ball seems to fully back in Pinnacle's court, so what can you do for us, your ...

And yet another.... In the AUDIO mixer  box  there is a drop-down option allowing Stereo, Surround and Dialog selections. The default is ALWAYS stereo. The drop-down list should remember the ''last used'' option, or preferably add a new option for this in Video and Audio Preferences in Setup.

bri2000: Sorry for the long delay. Studio 12 has some cool attributes that help outweigh the bugs. When using TMPGEnc (I now use 4.0Xpress, but it sounds like you are using 2.5) use the VBR 2 Pass method. What this does is analyzes the video and then finds where a higher bitrate is necessary. You can choose your average bitrate which acts ...