I purchased a Pinnacle Video Transfer (PVT). I already had a copy of Pinnacle Studio 10, assuming I would be able to read the PVT created files in and edit them into custom sequences for my children. I had a little trouble setting up (formatting a 1 TB external Hard drive into FAT32 format) but was able to resolve them. I went on to transfer many hours of VHSC tapes to the external hard drive to preserver our family videos without having to use my computer. It works well.

My problem comes in that Pinnacle 10 (now unsupported) will not read the MP4 file format (created using H.264). My computer is milimeters short (1.73 Ghz laptop) of being able to run the current Pinnacle 12 product (requires 1.8 Ghz).

Is there any video conversion software that would convert the H.264 MP4 (which plays fine in my Windows Media Player) into another format that Pinnacle Studio 10 will support (i.e. MPEG 2)? Maybe Pinnacle 11 has lower PC requirements and would work too as it appears they made a fix to read the PVT MP4 files in that version.

I hate to think I also have to upgrade my computer. Thanks for any ideas.