I think I read in another post that a patch should be released next month that will address that very issue. Read down a ways. It should be easy to find. __________________________________
CORNBLOSSOM

Thanks Jamie, I had a quick look but could not find the post. I can wait another month for the patch, it's just I am getting tired of all these work-arounds I have to do to get PD to work properly. I hope the patch also includes the 2gig memory problem in 32 bit systems.

Cheers

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At some point, someone is going to remember that, at least in the United States, there can be penalties for products that do not perform as advertised beyond just losing customers.

Its hugely disappointing. I've been an advocate for this product because I thought they would close the gap between potential and actual performance of the feature set.

If these were cars all of us had purchased and a solution was to run them on two cylinders instead of 4, 6, or 8, our eyes would probably get very large and it would be obvious that's not an acceptable solution, particularly in absence of any acknowledged 'plan' from the vendor.

Since I'm in a particularly tactless mood at the moment, I will admit I have basically ceased using the product until a major patch is released as I have had my fill of disappointments.

I don't have the core i7 issue, but I want the product to be in a state of working most of the time with occasional issues rather than occasionally working.

There, I said it. Win8 64-bit Pro Retail
Intel i7-4770
16GB DDR3 1600 8-8-8-24
MSI Z87-G45 Motherboard
ASUS GTX 660 Direct CU II OC 2GB GPU
1 TB RAID 1 (mirrored) Drive Array
Several scratch drives for video, TMP, pagefile.

OTW -

Of course you're right. Despite your "tactless mood", your post is very eloquently put. The are many PD advocates who share your frustration and disappointment on these issues.

Interesting car analogy Over here (and I guess in the US), Holden has devloped a V8 that runs on 4 cylinders when the going is easy. Pretty cool technology - but you're right - it doesn't help PD and i7.

Cheers - Tony
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One bright ray of sunlight. PD8 will import 1920x1080 files from the Canon T1i and 7D where Pinnacle Studio 12.1 will not support those.

Once imported on a quad core machine PD8 cannot play them smoothly on the timeline but will render (produce) one or a few clips to 1920x1080 AVC H.264 files which either program will now edit and play somewhat smoothly on the timeline, PD8 will then produce edited content to various file formats but I've had no luck so far figuring out disk menus.

But to make a disk I can edit the AVC files in other software, burn disks with menus, and finish out projects.