Here's a tip you'd easily miss. Buy the very latest greatest digital camcorder and then put it in the cupboard for a few years while computers become fast enough, and the software gets good enough to edit digital video. Be sure to do this on a PC rather than a Mac because this ensures a level of usuability we're looking for. Better still buy a Sony Camcorder in the MicroMV format range, open the box, find the recommendation and information on where to buy Pinnacle Studio 7 DV Editing software and of course buy it. You should then discover that Pinnacle have a facinating marketing dept that lets it's imagination rip with their product's capabilities. Were you into using up time, you may experience massive disappointment to find it worked - but that's not the case. Next email tech support and wait for no answer. Wait and do nothing for a year till Studio 8 is released and now works with Sony's MicroMV. Get this and pass the time with error messages that say 'Capture error'. Puzzle further, peruse tech support to find that it didn't work on release. Nexr realise why the person on the box shot is smiling. She got Pinnacle to refund her money and got herself a life and an Apple Imac. I use a PC and must therefore cheer myself up with food.
Update
Sony need to take the blame for inventing this format in the first place. The Sony (Memory Stick) Company is known for inventing things that connect only to Sony. To be fair it was brave of Pinnacle to try to build a bridge between the format and the rest of the world. There's hope as today Pinnacle's US Product Manager agreed that there had been a delay in the compatibility with Sony MicroMV and it is being rectified right now.offers this statement to explain things: "While MicroMV support was planned for the initial release of Studio 8, unforeseen difficulties were encountered in supporting this new format. We are working closely with Sony to resolve these difficulties, and a free Studio 8.3 update with full MicroMV support should be available on the 15th September.".
The patch didn't arrive. As Pinnacle's webboard shows us, setting a date does not make things happen.
Pic: You'd really smile if you got your money back
Update
Sony need to take the blame for inventing this format in the first place. The Sony (Memory Stick) Company is known for inventing things that connect only to Sony. To be fair it was brave of Pinnacle to try to build a bridge between the format and the rest of the world. There's hope as today Pinnacle's US Product Manager agreed that there had been a delay in the compatibility with Sony MicroMV and it is being rectified right now.offers this statement to explain things: "While MicroMV support was planned for the initial release of Studio 8, unforeseen difficulties were encountered in supporting this new format. We are working closely with Sony to resolve these difficulties, and a free Studio 8.3 update with full MicroMV support should be available on the 15th September.".
The patch didn't arrive. As Pinnacle's webboard shows us, setting a date does not make things happen.
Pic: You'd really smile if you got your money back
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