If you have the money and can get a good price, go for a quad with the very best graphics card and the 512k cache or more.  Prices are falling.  However, Voxmagna is probably spot-on that it is very difficult to note any difference between 1440x1080i and 1920x1080i native video when: shot with a consumer videocam with small ...

Also beware of confusing a G with a 6, or an I with a 1.  Best advice: write or phone Customer Support.  Forum participants have no means to confirm serial number validity, validate your purchase, or correct any mistakes.

Pinnacle has just placed Studio 12 for sale, 2-Jun-08, 12 noon US EDT.  I I'm surprised not to be the last to know.  Perhaps Pinnacle posted the changes 8AM US Pacific Time.  Strange that Wellington, NZ did not see first.  On surface, many expectations appear answered.  However, the product ads do not inlclude a link to ...

Ian Sharpe: Are there any bi's here (ie use Ulead & Pinnacle) that can help me out Any ''bi's'' here are probably the ones who use Studio to edit and Nero to burn, or perhaps Studio in conjunction with some other firm's format conversion utility.  The Ulead and Pinnacle editing products are different enough in approach, and ...

Ultimate comes with keys or codes to unlock a series of extras, usually provided in groups or types, rather than simply one single effect or another.  One also has the option to buy any number of add-ons. Marketing-wise, the alternative would be to sell Studio for one fixed price.  However, in order to make any money on them, Pinnacle ...

Another option is to wait until the standalone, full Studio 12 goes on sale.  That might be a few weeks after the upgrade gets distributed, long enough for Pinnacle to discover if  see if the guinea pigs who pay for the upgrade live or die.  Their wager is that users of prior versions are either experienced or loyal  ...

Studio 12 is to introduce ''project markers.''  Are these to be simply an editing tool, so that the user can quicky find and return to key points in a project that will be enhanced or changed in a later session, or might they also be markers in the exported video, inside chapters, so that the viewer can hop forward and backward using the ...

It is reasonable to predict that the Studio 12 system requirements will vary according to the tasks one aims to perform.  High definition editing will probably have fairly high CPU, RAM, and graphics card requirements, since Studio is likely to stick with native editing, rather than use proxies.  Multiple video tracks would also ...

Voxmagna: There's a file buried on you C drive called ''pcleDiscAPI.log'' ...  You can delete all the log files and the folder stays empty until you switch from Edit to Movie mode when a new log file and scan gets created. If you put a different disc type in the tray, the log will describe it. Might that be the simplest non-geek ...

The problem would not exist if Pinnacle would allow delivery of product upgrades by electronic download.  Except where an upgrade is vastly different from its predecessor, an upgrade need not require a huge amount of bandwidth.  This approach works for Nero. If loyal customers had sour past experience with pre-orders direct from ...