Top 10 Tech Web Tips

Upgrading Pinnacle Studio to Version 12

This evening I am working on upgrading my preferred video editing software Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 11 to Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12.  Despite the flaky and very long name, the software works well for me.

Kind of….

I have to throw out the caveat that I use Pinnacle all the time and it is a huge improvement over working with the free software Windows Movie Maker, which is kind of like saying that working with any given word processor is better than working with Notepad.

Seriously, I have definitely gotten much more out of Pinnacle 11 than I paid for, but the software in the version 11 did tend to crash and hang a lot.  Especially, when I started the program up, it would often hang as it loaded files into run.

Fortunately, I never lost any work from a software crash, so it wasn’t something I curse terribly much.  However, as I move from version 11 to version 12, I am seriously hoping that the crashes and hangs will end and that version 12 will be a much more stable and reliable program.

I definitely can not complain about the price, which is relatively cheap - under $100 and comes with many features that definitely can save a person a great deal of time if they do a lot of video editing.  These days I am doing a lot of video editing and therefore, paying another $100 for the upgrade will very likely pay for itself within a week if not within the first day.

One thing I should mention, if you are not upgrading yourself, I do highly recommend getting the Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Movie Box version on your first buy.  It may cost you an extra $5 - $15, but it comes with a video adapter device and a green screen kit.  If you are the type of person that prefers to download a program as opposed to go to a store or even order through Amazon, this may crimp your style a bit, but the extras that come with this out of the box are probably worth the hassle and the $5 - 15 bucks even though you may forego the best buy possible online.