Review by Carol T.

So I was pretty excited to try this version of Pinnacle (the last version I have is 17). There are a few new features (actually more for me since I haven’t updated in a while) like stop motion animation capabilities and motion tracking.

However, this one seems more buggy than I remember the last version to be when I installed it. First, I had to completely uninstall 17 (I thought I could just update but you have to start fresh) before installing this. Its a large program and took a LONG time to install. Especially since I had to retry a few times due to error messages that even now are inexplicable to me. Anyway, I finally installed it in full with all the extra stuff. I installed this on a Sony Vaio with a fast processor so there shouldnt have been so many problems.

The program itself is VERY slow and there are so many issues with syncing, playing a video either didn’t play at all or was delayed and there is no preview. For the life of me I cant get that preview window to function. Maybe there was a problem with the installation so I am (gasp) going to uninstall it and then reinstall it to see if that will fix it.

At that point, if I cant get this up and running, Ill just reinstall 17. I really don’t understand how they can be selling this product for $100 (at the time of this review) for something that is so buggy and so frustrating to get up and running.

I really cant recommend this at this time.