If Edition 5 is any indication of my future with pinnacle products I’ll put it in the closet, and carry on with vegas 4, which reliably and consistently delivers more than it promises. Edition 5’s workflow is better in theory, but runs amuck with bugs and unexpected glitches in the trenches. I suspect Vegas will have multiple timelines soon and beat these prima donna editing programs hands down. Edition promises edit heaven but delivers bugs, spin, marketing and frustration. With Sonic Foundry my issues have been registration and all their products trying to share plug-ins, never reliability, compatibility or performance. Vegas works everyday, every time, something windows cant do. Edition works sometimes, after a reboot, maybe itll work fine, maybe itll work partially, maybe not at all. Pinnacle has managed to take a partially buggy program from Fast Video and turn it into wholly buggy program. Then I think I’ll maybe fire up Adobe premiere 6.5 and my DV500, and I think…CRASH !…unexpected and sudden and much to often. Then im back to Vegas…I think to myself.…A pleasant time….fun…creativity….projects done weeks ahead of deadline. No embarrassing lockups or glitches in front of clients. After my current film is finished, (which I regretfully started on edition 4.5) Pinnacle Edition 4.5 and 5 will find a well deserved retirement home in my closet. I cant wait to test drive and trash avid dv. Bet its as clumsy and tempermental as edition, only costing much more.
Edition 5 vs. Vegas 4
stevengotts
wrote on 6/12/2003, 10:13 PM