video editing software

[Guest]

I have Pinnalce Studio 11, which is driving me mad. I have made some reasonable dvd's from it, but it's very temperamental. Sometimes it works, and as often as not it doesn't....

They used to have a live-chat help facility, which I tried out yesterday, but the response I recieved was simply that I don't have the latest version (it's up to Studio 14 now... i think), and their advice was pay for an upgrade. I looked into that, but the upgrade is more than the original package cost, sooooo

rather than throw any more money at a product that was never that reliable at the best of times, I'm looking into buying a new package.

Which? says that Cyberlink is one of the best, but I've never heard of it. Any one else had any experience of it?

or any other packages... around the £50-£60 mark

my conclusion with Pinnacle is that, with it being a sub-division/domestic part (?) of Avid, who do some of the most sophisticated professional software going (as far as I'm aware), they've tried to make it too good, like a half-way house to being able to make an almost professional film on your pc, and have somehow failed.

[5co77ie]

If you have access to a Mac - imovie is the best if not there's Windoze Movie Maker or personally i'd go for Sony Vegas Studio on sale at amazon here for £23.99 or the new one here for £37.99

[dakyras]

Get a torrent for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 or CS4.

[5co77ie]

Get a torrent for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 or CS4.

[dakyras]

And then download the tutorials to work out how the hell to use half of it - I've had it for years and find it too complex. I actually started on the Dazzle/Pinnacle studio 1 - and spent hours emailing them with complaints and suggestions for version 2.