That’s where Pinnacle’s 262 page printed manual comes in. There is nothing intuitive about editing video on a computer, no matter what the marketers tell you. That is not to say that the program is intuitive. click the yellow folder icon to set the capture location) to be useful. The 'Diskometer' and settings screens are simple and follow enough of Windows’ conventions (e.g. For example, by simply hooking up your camcorder and hitting the record button in Studio (which is intuitively placed on a virtual camcorder), the application will automatically capture video and break it up into scenes and put them in an album. Complete novices will have no trouble with fundamental tasks such as capture, storyboard editing and output to DVD, even if they aren’t quite sure what really is happening. Overall, Studio 9 has a wonderful user interface that, although more complex, is even better than iMovie. NOTE: This review is based on the 9.1.2 patch, which is a 48MB download. We ran the newest version through its paces on a half a dozen machines, old and new, to see how it performed. Unless something went tragically wrong during the last development cycle, Studio 9 should be the best one yet. Each new version has added new features and has become easier to use. One of our favorite applications for video editing on a Windows computer is Pinnacle Studio.
