
I immediately downloaded and tried it and was blown away with the features.

I was almost ready to pay the money for Pinnacle when I heard about Black Magic Design’s DaVinci Resolve from the SMR Podcast. I found a few but nothing that really impressed me much. I decided to hold off and look for a open source solution. I regularly use three different computers depending on where I am at, which meant that I was going to buy three copies. The only thing that held me back was the licensing, which only allowed one install on one computer. So I did a little searching and found there is a replacement coming called (I think) Microsoft Story but it is in beta now and I needed something that was ready to go right now.Īfter trying a few commercial programs like Pinnacle and Coral Visual Studio I decided on the Pinnacle program and almost made the purchase. And even though I was able to find the setup files from my prior computer it would no longer install on the version of Windows 10 I was running.

However in January of 2017 Microsoft removed the download link from the site so after a clean install of a PC I was unable to download it. Since the edits were relatively small the built in Windows Movie Maker (Window Live Essentials) was always good enough for our needs. The edits mostly consisted of trimming off bits and pieces of the video as well as adding intros etc. In the last few years, from time to time, I have been asked to edit some videos for my employer.
