Question about reliability

[chains1240]

I purchases a capture card and it came with Pinnacle 9. Long story short the card works but the program has not given me one usable disk in the many hours I have put into it. All I want to do is put my vacation video on the coputer, cut out the parts that are not worth keeping and burning the final product on a DVD. Sounds simple eh? Would I be able to do that with this program? I do not need fancy special effects, just transfer video, cut, rearrange, burn. Thanks.

[Mary]

What kind of problems did you run into - in the edit stage? the burning stage? I am not sure I would have an answer but my son has used Studio 8 a lot and had good results. Before spending more money maybe someone will have an idea for you. :)

[psychosims]

Spend the money and buy Adobe Premiere Elements. It's the best product out there for the price. I know I've experimented with at least fifteen different programs. Pinnacle was one of my least favorite. Premiere is the easiest to use, with the most power for the money.

[bwolford]

Premiere worked much better than Pinnacle ever did for me. I had to upgrade memory to get to half way decent performance and there are other programs that perform better in less memory, but I think you'll find Premiere a good program.

[chains1240]

Thanks everyone. I bought the Pemier Elements and in the last 2 days I have churned out 3 videos of my vacation. It is great.