Comments on: No more Pinnacle http://www.geekrant.org/2009/02/23/no-more-pinnacle/ Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:44:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://www.geekrant.org/2009/02/23/no-more-pinnacle/comment-page-1/#comment-7805 Anonymous Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:29:25 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/?p=1190#comment-7805 You could probably buy a used Sony Digital-8 camcorder for not much money. It will have an analogue input and Firewire, so you can use it to digitise video and audio in real time and feed them straight into your computer. That's what I do and it's a flawless, foolproof practice (on a Mac - dunno how well it would go in Windows but it should be technically possible, though it probably means you're stuck with Pinnacle software). You could probably buy a used Sony Digital-8 camcorder for not much money. It will have an analogue input and Firewire, so you can use it to digitise video and audio in real time and feed them straight into your computer. That’s what I do and it’s a flawless, foolproof practice (on a Mac – dunno how well it would go in Windows but it should be technically possible, though it probably means you’re stuck with Pinnacle software).

]]> By: daniel http://www.geekrant.org/2009/02/23/no-more-pinnacle/comment-page-1/#comment-7804 daniel Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:24:53 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/?p=1190#comment-7804 Yeah. I just find it astounding that some vendors can write such inefficient software, apparently believing that that's what people want. Yeah. I just find it astounding that some vendors can write such inefficient software, apparently believing that that’s what people want.

]]> By: Jon Jermey http://www.geekrant.org/2009/02/23/no-more-pinnacle/comment-page-1/#comment-7803 Jon Jermey Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:50:10 +0000 http://www.geekrant.org/?p=1190#comment-7803 I bought Roxio Media Centre a few years back on a magazine recommendation -- probably APC, though it might have been PC User. They neglected to say that the application took more than half an hour to install and over a minute to start up every time I wanted to use it. For the life of me I couldn't see what bizarre super-powers it was supposed to have which made it take longer to load than, say, Photoshop. One would think a little thing like being i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y s-l-o-w would rate a mention in a computer magazine review. Of course, Roxio DID advertise in the magazines... I bought Roxio Media Centre a few years back on a magazine recommendation — probably APC, though it might have been PC User. They neglected to say that the application took more than half an hour to install and over a minute to start up every time I wanted to use it. For the life of me I couldn’t see what bizarre super-powers it was supposed to have which made it take longer to load than, say, Photoshop. One would think a little thing like being i-n-c-r-e-d-i-b-l-y s-l-o-w would rate a mention in a computer magazine review.

Of course, Roxio DID advertise in the magazines…

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