What to do when everything goes wrong and we no longer know what to do ... In a scenario like this, in many cases, we may have to rely on the knowledge and good will of the mebers of a video forum. We must do some tests to determine the causes of the problems! It may necessary to detail the steps one by one, and isolate the step which causes concern, and finally find the offending step (usually a certain scene is a problem for Studio).

The process is explained in this tip and trick. It shows you how to provide the information needed on the forums to help you indicate which step created the trouble or gave you a problem.

Preferred Studio's music format is .WAV so it is strongly advised to convert your music CD's to WAV files (CD Rip) instead using directly the Studio CD Import function. This can be achieved with the famous CDEx. This Tips & Tricks will explain how to proceed so there is no more need to insert CD's after deleting Auxiliary Files (as Studio needs to recreate the related Auxiliary Files), useful instant access to any music, and no risk crash related issues.

Understanding your graphic card for Video Editing

IrfanView Thumbnails : tutorial to learn how to use the software for batch conversion. It is possible to convert, rename, resize or crop a batch of images. Quality of all these operations are very good with IrfanView. In addition, this software is free ! This freeware is often used with Pinnacle Studio to resize images and have them conform to the 4:3 format - "768x576" BMP extension.