REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE MANUALS
REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE INSTALL
REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE SOFTWARE

It looks significantly different from last yearвЂ™s Pinnacle Studio 15, though it still has lots of help tools and tooltips, and Corel includes 2 hours of video instruction on the DVD it comes on. I even found вЂњAvidвЂќ references in several places throughout the application. This novice-focused application continues PinnacleвЂ™s (and its few remaining competitorsвЂ™) approach of packing in as many new features as possible, but it still wonвЂ™t satisfy everyoneвЂ™s needs.Д«ut is this actually Studio 16? Not exactly itвЂ™s really version 2 of Avid Studio, a slightly higher-end application that Avid introduced last year.

That did the trick, and eventually, after many bad words were uttered and a couple of reboots, it was finally actually installed, activated and was ready to run.Just two months after CorelвЂ™s acquisition of Pinnacle Systems from Avid Technology comes the release of the latest version of PinnacleвЂ™s video-editing software, Studio 16 Ultimate ($130 as of September 4, 2012). After a number of aborted attempts - wherein Studio Ultimate resolutely told us we had no Net connection even when we did - we got angry and did a complete (and slow) reinstall. Studio's buggy activation gave us no reason to suddenly start loving it. We're not great fans of online activation, especially for products such as Studio Ultimate that don't necessarily revolve around online functionality. Finally, after what amounted to a number of hours trying, we were able to get everything installed and we fired up Studio Ultimate to give it a spin.ДЄt that point, it jumped in and demanded that we activate it online. Our second attempt took around 10 minutes to process the first disc, and that worked fine, but then it crashed on the 'bonus' DVD, so we started all over again. On our first attempt, it took around 30 minutes to install, and then it crashed. We installed it on a Windows Vista Ultimate machine (the outside of the box proudly proclaims that it works with Vista) that was well above the recommended specification. Installation of Studio Ultimate was a rather tortuous affair.

Remember, it's all fun and games until somebody posts it up to YouTube. We suspect that the inclusion of the sheet will lead to many Studio Ultimate users experimenting with dodgy special effects and overlays. Lastly, and not all that incongruously, there's a large green sheet, for compositing special effects into your movies.

REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE MANUALS

There's a moderately chunky Studio manual, which is also a break from recent traditions, which have seen annoying PDF manuals becoming de rigueur.

REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE INSTALL

For a start, you get not one, but four discs - three install discs and an update disc for the third DVD. That's right - there's actually more in the box than just a CD or two and lots of (presumably very expensive) air.

REVIEW PINNACLE STUDIO 17 ULTIMATE SOFTWARE

Pinnacle's broken from a very longstanding tradition in big box software products. We were in for a shock when we opened the Studio Ultimate 11 box.

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