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October 8, 2008

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Exclusive Feature

New--Pro video tools
Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 includes professional caliber tools for complete control of your productions.

Boris Graffiti--title & graphic animation
The most innovative titling tools in the industry are now at your fingertips. Easily craft sophisticated title animations including type on text, text on a path, jitter and randomization. Create 3D text with bump maps and reflections. An expansive Style Palette and the Boris Library Browser provide fast access to hundreds of preset effects and styles.

Magic Bullet Looks--Pro film styles
Whatever the location, the look of your footage sets the mood. Now you can define the style of your video or film, regardless of on-set conditions, with powerful imaging tools. Choose from more than a hundred Look presets, all neatly organized into 10 categories, to help set the mood for everything from a wedding to a film festival winner.

proDAD VitaScene--lighting, glows & more
Now you can achieve sophisticated effects and transitions that contribute greatly to the style and mood of your project: light rays, color matching, artistic film styles, and much more. Now it's easy to add those subtle details that give you professional looking results.

BONUS:
Green Sheet (approx. 5.95 ft x 5.58 ft) included in retail box version of Studio Ultimate version 12. Essential for creating high quality Chroma Key effects.

Complete HD Workflow

Your Story--Now in Dazzling HD
Pinnacle Studio Plus works natively with HDV and AVCHD footage. Native HD support means you'll get the same pristine quality from your original source all the way to final output--without transcoding and in real-time. You can even combine projects that mix standard and high definition video and photos for a final result in full HD resolution

Built-in HD Disc Burning
Burn your Hollywood-style movies on DVD and HD DVD format discs on standard DVD media. Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus. Or make AVCHD format discs on standard DVDs to play on Blu-ray players.

New--Pinnacle Montage:
Watch your memories come alive

Enjoy multi-track power without the complexity
Thanks to fantastic pre-built templates designed by professional producers and artists, Pinnacle Montage automatically generates all the necessary titles, effects and animations.
Create multi-layer effects
Access to Picture-in-Picture, Chroma Key or A/B editing with two video tracks at the tip of your fingers.
Mix your media together
Use all your media--photos, video, and music--to create a Hollywood-style movie.
11 themes with +80 templates including Video Wall, Album, Seasons and more

Additional Features

It's all in the Timeline.
With its sleek, scalable interface, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 represents a stunning leap forward in workflow refinement and ease of use. Directly import your digital videos, photos and audio from a wide range of devices including DV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders, and digital still cameras. Automatic scene detection and clip creation gets your project off to a great start. You'll be editing your movie, fast!

Optimized for performance
Unleash the power of your computer. This means a faster, smoother experience while you work and in your final output.

Real-time multi-track editing
Create advanced effects like Chroma Key, graphics overlay and Picture-in-Picture (PIP).

Key frame-able 2D/3D motion graphics
Pick from hundreds of effects and transitions, and preview them in full quality, even in HD. If you ever need even more creative variety, add to your effects library with just a few simple clicks.

Scorefitter music generator
Automatically generate a rich soundtrack to match the length of your movie; now with 40+ source tracks that feature more choice, higher fidelity and increased accuracy.

New--Web publishing simplified
What fun is capturing your memories if you don't share them? In just One-Click share your movies with the world on popular web sites like YouTube and Yahoo! Video

New--Refined audio editing
New digital controls and monitors to add a dimension in sound to your movie.

Clean up and rejuvenate
Improve audio tracks, clean up video, enhance color, remove noise, and fix poor lighting to restore old, damaged footage--automatically.

New--Even more ways to share
Output movies to Sony PSP, Apple iPod, DivX certified players and even 3GP mobile phones. Export to Flash video too.

Built-in HD Disc Burning
Burn DVD, HD DVD and AVCHD format discs on standard DVD media. Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus.

Scalable user interface
Keeps tools at your fingertips. Adjustable windows are perfect for widescreen monitors.

Product Description
Make your home movies look great without having to learn a difficult editing program. Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 lets you take advantage of the latest HD video technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD. Its Montage theme based editing, designed by professional producers and artists, puts incredible creative power at your fingertips. Simply drag and drop your video and stills to preview your show - and watch your content come alive complete with Hollywood style multi-layered effects, animated graphics, titles and Hi-Fi audio. Edit and polish to your heart's content with the sleek interface. When you are finished, archive your video memories, publish them on YouTube or enjoy on DVDs and portable devices. Includes professional tools for titling, color correction, lighting and special effects, plus a green screen backdrop.

Windows XP with SP2 / Vista (32 bit Vista recommended) Intel Pentium / AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz recommended) Intel Pentium HT / AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Vista Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher needed for AVCHD editing 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) 1 GB needed for HD and/or Vista (2 GB recommended) 1.5 GB needed for AVCHD (2 GB required on Vista) DirectX 9 or higher graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended) 128 MB needed on Vista (256 MB ATI Radeon9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) 256 MB needed for HD & AVCHD editing (ATI Radeon 9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card 1 GB of disk space to install & 3+ GB for bonus content DVD-ROM drive to install

Customer Reviews: Read 36 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

A must for the casual user October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

After installing the software and spending the first ten minutes to view their video primer on using the software, it already looked like this package would be a great addition to every household that has tons of videos stored all over their hard drives at home with nothing to do with them.

I was in this category ever since I bought my Sanyo Xacti camera. Its great to be able to take video and easily transfer the files to the computer, but then I had the issue of being able to compose them into a compilation. With Pinnacle Studios Ultimate, it fills my needs; the ultimate version includes support for mp4 (which my sanyo records in). I'm not sure if both the standard and plus versions include this but it was definitely something that I needed. I haven't had the chance to create a DVD yet, but its nice to also be able to create VCD's (a format that is not all that popular here as it is overseas, but to my knowledge many DVD players support). Since CDR's are so cheap now, you can make many copies of short clips or home movies (less then 30 minutes for SVCD that is a little higher quality then standard VCD that should be comparable to a VHS tape if memory serves me) in this format instead of having to use a DVD-R.

The ultimate edition also includes a disc full of plug ins which is very nice to have. The package also includes a green screen so that you can superimpose whatever is recorded in front of it onto something else. I haven't tried this yet, but it looks interesting and should make for some fun video.

I haven't had very much time to use the software but it seems very intuitive and very flexible. Out of the box it has lots of extras that allows most people to create something that is presentable and with interest. I'm not a professional in the field, but I would venture to guess that unless you need "professional" features, this should do the job.

Overall i think this is a good package that I would recommend for most users, but a must for the casual user.

5 out of 5 stars

Powerful yet easy to use October 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I've used a number of video editing software over the years, from the lightweight editors included in Roxio's Easy Media Creator and Nero 7, to the fully-featured Adobe Premiere. Lately, I had been using Ulead Video Studio, which was a nice compromise between Premiere (too hardcore and overkill for 99% of us) and Roxio's suite (too bloated and not enough features). After trying Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12, I will probably not go back to any of those programs. Studio Ultimate strikes the right balance between full-featured and user-friendly, which is very important for those of us who are not professional video editors. Creating a DVD is easy and quick, and I have yet to encounter a single hiccup with the software. There are tons of features and effect plug-ins, probably more than I'd ever need, but they are included and easy to use. The interface is simple and attractive, and rendering speed faster than in other software (though this greatly depends on your processor speed and amount of RAM). Overall, I'd highly recommend this software- for the price, I haven't found a better video creation/editing tool.

4 out of 5 stars

Wheres the sound? October 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Been using this software for years. This is an amazing program. Been having problems sinse version 11. 40% of my dvds have no sound and have to be done again. On 2 different computers 1 vista 64 and 1 windows XP. So Iam assuming its not my computers fault. Besides that it is easy to use and amazing what you can do to your home videos even if you dont know much. Hopefully they will have a patch soon to fix the sound problem.

4 out of 5 stars

The most stable Studio version I've used September 30, 2008
I've been using Studio software from Pinnacle for years. I've always gotten decent results, but version 12 is, so far, the best.

With past versions of Studio, I've had problems with unrecognized CD/DVD drives, crashing, etc. With Studio 12, I've had no problems, which is great. But there are still some things about the interface that lead me to rate this package as a four instead of a five. For instance, after laying out a series of audio, video, still, and background music clips, I occasionally found myself wanting to insert space across all of the media while keeping the existing clips in sync. I couldn't find a way to do that. It was the only frustation I encountered in my projects.

This "ultimate" version provides a good set of menus, transitions, etc. It's possible to make professional looking video productions and output them to CD/DVD, even in HD format. I've tried a few other packages but always return to Pinnacle's Studio products.

4 out of 5 stars

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 Got me Over The Initial Hurdles September 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Though a seasoned network engineer I am a beginner in the world of DVD and Video editing, so I was thrilled to give it a go after being totally stumped by the other competing products in the past.

Therefore, my focus on this review will be towards it's success in getting me over the initial learning curve and intimidation factors.

There are a lot of goings on in this video program and some very advanced add-ons like Boris Graffiti for titling, proDAD, Magic Bullet Looks Studio, VitaSAcene, for special video effects, and Smart Sound for music and sound effects. Like I said, I'm new to this aspect of application so I'll have to assume that it's good stuff.

More to the point, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate has succeeded where others have failed for me in that I can now do some editing on family videos and such.

It's fun and approachable. I would definitely recommend this to beginners. I simply am not qualified as to how it works for any advanced or professional editing scenarios (though it's hard to imagine it wouldn't hold its own).

Make no mistake...there is a learning curve here but thanks to Pinnacle for finally getting me past the intimidation factor and on my way to video editing which, though time consuming is now getting to be fun.