Simple HD video capture & making a movie
I am after recommendations.
I've got a Sony HD camcorder and have been using Pinnacle Studio 10. It works but was incredibly buggy.
Then I lost the XP partition and bought v11 in the hope that it crashes less often.
It works but all output video (all formats) are covered in horizontal lines...
Pinnacle's moron support tells me to update the video drivers, which I have done and even reinstalled XP.
Then went back to v10 and it does the same thing too!
Unfortunately I cannot revert to the exact previous config because XP itself has been updated.
Pinnacle complains the video card has insufficient memory to use its acceleration features and says it is rendering with GPU acceleration OFF. It seems to do it just fine. The video card has 128MB - ATI Radeon 9800XT.
I am sending back v11 for a refund, but wonder what else is there I could try which is SIMPLE to use, for making very basic movies.
A year or so ago I tried Liquid 7 and found it complicated but most importantly totally failed to make it work - the output had sound but no video, despite a lot of unofficial support from the L7 user community.