I think that Corel could actually turn the Pinnacle line around. Let’s hope whatever Corel does, they do it better than Avid.
#AVID PINNACLE STUDIO 17 SOFTWARE#
What is known is that some very promising software was developed, neglected and then abandoned by it’s owner. So what’s the bottom line with Avid Studio? What’s going to happen to it? Will Corel continue to sell it or ravage it’s parts for it’s own video editing software? No one knows. They sold the Pinnacle line of products, Avid Studio and their consumer line of audio products…combined…for $17 million (yes, you read that right). In 2005, Avid purchased the Pinnacle line of products for $462 million. But if you look at the reported numbers, it sure seems like Avid couldn’t get rid of these businesses fast enough. On the video side, Avid has sold their Pinnacle brand of products and Avid Studio to Corel Corp (too bad, I was hoping Sony Creative Software would have snatched Avid Studio up).Īvid also slashed their workforce by 20%.Īvid claims they regrettably did this because the consumer divisions had revenues and margins lower than the rest of their businesses (similar to what Cisco stated when they killed the Flip camera). It was announced this week that Avid has sold both it’s consumer audio and video businesses. The feedback I got from users was that they were giving up on Avid Studio due to the lack of updates and poor customer support.Īnd that leads us to the title of this post. By comparison, Avid Studio’s competitors typically release several updates during a year, including a complete version upgrade.
#AVID PINNACLE STUDIO 17 UPDATE#
In the first year+ of Avid Studio’s life, there was only one update issued.
Next there were issues with updates…or lack thereof. A lot of these people were pretty angry and some were even wanting me to contact Avid on their behalf (since they were being ignored by Avid). And almost all of the complaints were about Avid’s customer support…or lack thereof. In a nutshell, the future looked bright with Avid Studio.īut after my video review (and recommendation), I started hearing complaints from people. But as brand new, first version software those things were understandable and Avid promised that fixes would come soon. It was sometimes sluggish, sometimes froze and didn’t support all of the video codecs that it’s competitors did.
And for the price, it was hard to beat.īut like all software it had some warts too. A little over a year ago I did a review of new video editing software offered by Avid, called Avid Studio ( here’s a link to the video review).
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