Subj : Re: Pinnacle Studio and WinDV freeze up after long idle period, can't To : All From : ctcboater@sbcglobal.net Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 07:14 pm Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!mx0 4.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POS TED!not-for-mail From: Bob CP Newsgroups: rec.video.desktop,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support,microsoft.public. windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Pinnacle Studio and WinDV freeze up after long idle period, can't even end with Task Manager Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:16:18 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <03f9b08a-85b4-4d98-a3e7-82d88d7b79d0@u6g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> <9mg1l65rluoopvu19uonb9ft3dbisvtl2o@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cvasI+TezYYi7JjvfeD4TA"; logging-data="22893"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/+8bcaROjr5fF9ecVjJHx8ZNDXMSzD0i4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:rue0x1jqEE95VGSwYqohFLjKcw8= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org rec.video.desktop:5194 microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:28337 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:89612 On 2/8/2011 4:47 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:33:22 GMT, GMAN wrote: > >> No, the slowdown sounds more like the "Intel Speedstep technology" kicking in >> >> http://www.intel.com/support/processors/sb/cs-028855.htm >> >> >> The crashing is due to the fact that Pinnacle 9 and just about every other >> version of Pinnacle has been buggy as hell. >> >> They are already at 14 with 15 comeing shortly. > > I agree, in a sense: I gave up on Pinnacle somewhere around version 8, > so I can't report from any direct experience with later versions - and I > like it that way :-) > For me, Pinnacle became more-or-less usable around V9.5. It seems like there is no Beta testing except by people who actually buy the product, so it takes about 9 months for them to get something stable... I'm using Sony Vegas now, with about 1% of the crashes. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .