CodeBetter.Com
CodeBetter.Com
RSS 2.0 via Feedburner
           Do you Twitter? Follow us @CodeBetter

Steve Hebert's Development Blog

Steve's Blog - From .Net to dotMath and everything in between.

worst. program. ever.

Last night, I grabbed my video camera and hooked it up to my pc to create a DVD of some home movies.

I haven't done this in a while, so I dusted off my copy of Pinnacle Studio 9, installed all the patches and started working.  This program just randomly crashes - sometimes with errors, sometimes it just disappears.  The product is not usable for more than 5-10 minutes at a time. 

After doing some checking, I found that Studio 9 has a reputation around the web.  It's interesting because people who review it give it good marks for features - even I like the interface, the organization and the features.  But the crashes are so pervasive that I cannot believe they've been having the same problems for 2 years with this product.  

I see they are coming out with version 10, but given they have never fixed the errors in 9, I won't consider the product for another year.

I have never seen a product so buggy - I can't believe they ever released it.



Comments

Dennis van der Stelt said:

It isn't. Trust Me. Read the subject of Steve again.

EVER!!!

It's quite user friendly but you just can't work with it. No idea what other package to use now though. Premier is much harder to learn and work with.

Reminds me of the time of that 3D rendering package. Forgot the name. But it had checks everywhere in the program, to see if it was cracked. A lot of crackers out there, none of them got all checks. So you would do these scenes, planes flying by thought the logo of your name with all kinds of stuff. And suddenly all wireframes/meshes/everything would just garble up. You could really throw away the scene/movie. Or go back to a previous saved state. But without auto-save and the geekness of doing this at 4AM, would make you forget once in a while ;-)
# November 9, 2005 2:18 AM

shebert said:

Great point Dennis - I sure hope Pinnacle never makes a rootkit. The system will never run.

If they could get past their crashing issues, I'll be the program's biggest fan.
# November 9, 2005 4:59 PM
Check out Devlicio.us!

Our Sponsors

Free Tech Publications