Review by mayfayre

I tried to install this on my new Windows laptop running Win 8.1.1 64-bit with an Intel i7 processor, plenty of HD space, plenty of RAM. The installation program ran for about an hour and then an alert came up saying that the program had stopped working. I okayed out of that and then two windows came up with numerical codes. A final window came up saying that the installation had not finished and nothing on my computer was changed.

However, on my desktop was a Pinnacle Studio icon and when I clicked on it, the program started to run. Given the option where to check for media files, I just allowed the public folders because I knew that there wasn’t much on there. It recognized the only movie I had there, so I clicked on it to open it. The screen went black, then it went white, and then the program shut down and my desktop reappeared.

I checked File Explorer and saw that there was 2+GB of data in a Pinnacle folder under Program Files (x86). Apparently a failed installation didn’t result in the removal of the files it previously installed. Also, it was curious that on a 64-bit computer the default installation was in Program Files (x86) instead of Program Files.

So for whatever reason, this program will not work successfully on my computer, and I’m not going to waste anymore hours trying to get it work. I can’t review any of the features included with it. I would prefer to give it a zero star review since I can’t get it to work in my situation, but that option isn’t available to me so I felt that a two-star rating was the fairest. I used Revo Uninstaller to remove all of its bits and pieces.