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Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Plus Pinnacle Studio 10.0

Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Plus Pinnacle Studio 10.0
From: Microsoft Software
Category: Software

List Price: $99.95
Buy Used: $84.99
You Save: $14.96 (15%)



Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars 8 reviews
Sales Rank: 4691

Format: Cd
Platform: Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1.4

MPN: G46656
Model: C6Q-00002
UPC: 882224074834
EAN: 0882224074834
ASIN: B000AYKTAM

Release Date: October 17, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: hi have serial number

Features:
  • Digital Image Suite Library helps you quickly organize and safekeep your photos.
  • Protect and preserve your memories using state-of-the-art archival technology in the Digital Image Library to archive photos easily.
  • The Suite Editor contains fast Auto Fixes and powerful correction tools, so you can easily enhance your images.
  • SmartMovie one button movie making and hundreds of 2D & 3D transitions and effects.
  • Capture video from multiple digital or analog sources with one button transfer to DVD complete with menus.

Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
- Marketing Information: Get powerful digital photography tools and perfect your shots - whether youandquot;re a beginner or a pro. New, easy-to-use features help you organize, creatively enhance and share your pictures with the world. As your passion for great photography grows, Microsoft Digital Image Suite gives you exactly what you need to bring your vision to life. Product Information - Software Sub Type: Graphics/Designing - Software Name: Microsoft Digital Image Suite PLUS - Complete Product - Features and Benefits: HierarchicalKeywords and Labels: provide customizable stacked tags that consumers can use to organize, view and find their images the way they like, whether thatandquot;s finding all the photos of a family vacation or a particular picture of someone special. Hover Thumbnail: enlarges thumbnail images whenever a mouse hovers above them, making it easy to view the image, along with important details such as date taken, file type and size, resolution and assigned Labels. Video support: offers consumers the option to view and organize their videos in the same place as their photos. They can easily assign a 5-Star Rating, add Keywords and captions, or mark videos with customizable Flags representing a variety of actions such as For Review or To Share. Black and White Effects: unleash the artist within, making it a snap to transform color photos into stunning, contrast-rich, black-and-white images by choosing from a variety of preset filters. Consume


Customer Reviews:   Read 3 more reviews...

3 out of 5 stars MS Digital Imaging Suite '06 Review   September 9, 2007
P. L. Keire (Loveland, CO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I like the software. It has excellent features that make editing still photos very easy that one sees only in more costly software. However, I understand that Microsoft is dumping this program and they will no longer support it in the near future. But that is the Microsoft way.......
The Pinnacle Studio 10 program, which is used for editing video, has some issues. It is huge, eating up valuable hard drive space! There are plug-ins that you have to purchase to really make it worthwhile. These are costly when you start adding them up. It seems to crash alot. I know my pc is stable and runs well, so I believe it is the Pinnacle software causing the headaches.
All in all, I like both software programs, however, Pinnacle has dollar signs where their eyeballs should be....I give the software a guarded 'thumbs up', but would suggest that the user get an external hard drive to store the temp files and the saved projects. I did that, and it makes life easier when using this software.



2 out of 5 stars Pinnacle Studio 10   February 26, 2007
Marilyn Woronick (Meriden CT)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I installed the Microsoft Suite 2006 and then the Pinnacle Studio 10.
The pinnacle Studio 10 caused my computer to crash. I then had to replaced EVERYTHING on my computer. I lost all my photos.



4 out of 5 stars Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006   January 9, 2007
A Mother's Touch Photos (King George, VA United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful

The Suite is user-friendly. The photographs have a high quality professional appearance. Could use more framing options but definitely worth the money.


1 out of 5 stars A few BEWARES   January 1, 2007
Anthony Brady (Syracuse, NY, USA)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful

I bought the software ( Digital Image Suite 2006 ) before I bought my camera - to be ready to process the pictures I was going to take.
A BIG MISTAKE.

I bought a Canon 30D camera and record my images in RAW format (*.CR2).
UNFORTUNATELY, not all Canon .CR2 RAW files are the same. So, even though the software says you can edit .CR2 RAW images, it depends on which camera made the image.

Here is complaint number two -
If you use Microsoft's Customer Service/Technical Support you will be routed to India - and they will just give you an answer that is vaguely related to your problem.

After emailing several times and getting nowhere you will find out that you can't write to their Washington state headquarters unless you have the name of someone in the address.

So, basically, Microsoft is the largest technical software company in the world with the worst customer service and no American technical support.

Now, for the final complaint. There is no link or method to get updates or upgrades for this program! So, if I want to use a Microsoft software package to edit my photo images then I will have to buy a new software package - isn't that wonderful.



2 out of 5 stars Get the Microsoft DIS; avoid Pinnacle at all costs   October 22, 2006
Luis Hamburgh (Washington, D.C.)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

Digital Image Suite is a fine program; it's built atop the MS Picture It! platform, which was great in design but in places clumsy and buggy in its earliest incarnations, and has nearly as many features as the higher-end, tutorial-intensive programs (think: Adobe or even Corel). If the MS DIS were by itself in this package, I'd highly recommend it.

However, half of what you're paying for here is Pinnacle Studio. And Pinnacle is notoriously buggy - regardless what version you use - and brings down the total rating for this overpriced bundle by more than half.

Pinnacle's products work fine when you initially install them. However, the moment you install *anything* afterwards, Pinnacle freaks out. And the later along you are (and therefore, the more registry changes other programs have performed on your PC), the more unreliable Pinnacle's software is.

This phenomenon is not restricted to Pinnacle Studio 10.0. It has happened to thousands (Google it) of customers, in every single manifestation of their video editing software, for years.

Bottom line: get the MC DIS. But don't be suckered into this "bargain" - it certainly is not. Avoid Pinnacle at all costs.

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