Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12

Manufacturer: Pinnacle Systems
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List Price: $129.99
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Product Description

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 lets you take advantage of the latest HD video editing technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD. All new Pinnacle Montage theme based editing--designed by professional producers and artists--puts incredible creative power at your fingertips. Simply drag and drop your video clips and still images to preview your movie--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 new video editing interface. When you are finished, archive your video memories, publish them on YouTube, or enjoy them on DVDs and portable devices.

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 includes professional software tools for titling, color correction, lighting and special effects, plus a green screen backdrop.

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 lets you take advantage of the latest HD video editing technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD.

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.

Watch your memories come alive with Pinnacle Montage.

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

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 Details

Take control of your videos with professional strength editing tools
Capture, edit and burn: The complete native HD solution
Define the style of your video or film, regardless of on-set conditions, with powerful imaging tools
Share and archive your creations on DVD, YouTube, and more
Includes: Boris Graffiti, Red Giant Magic Bullet Looks, proDAD VitaScene

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Customer Reviews

Riddled with bugs and problems - DO NOT BUY

Review Date: July 16, 2010

Reviewer: Agent019, TheGamingLife.Net

I just picked this up since it was only 40 dollars and I must say that even at 40 dollars I feel cheated. There is a huge list of bugs and issues with this version that I cannot stress to stay away from.

First of all the amount of bugs is intolerable. Mixing effects and transitions is virtually impossible. Slowing down a clip to half speed only changes the clip out with another clip. The product will NOT upload videos to YouTube and the picture quality is no where near what HD is. This may be an easy and cheap solution, but the frustration and hair loss is not worth it.

Secondly there is no support. The help with this program is just a huge circle that solves nothing and answers even less. While it is easy to use there are better alternatives out there to this program. I would recommend Sony Vegas or even some higher end video editing software like Final Cut Pro. Even Windows Movie Maker leaves this program in the dust. If you need something cheap use that until you can save up enough money to purchase better offerings.

Thirdly is that they price gauge you. They give you a substandard product that does what Windows Movie Maker at the basic does and then offers you to upgrade each portion for around $99.99. The truth is that this is a substandard product and Pinnacle should be ashamed at their work here.

Just remember, it may be 38.95 but you get what you pay for.

Buyer Beware

Review Date: July 2, 2010

Reviewer: Richard H,,

I purchased Pinnacle version 12 because I was satisfied with the trial version, don't be fooled as I was. After several hours and numerous installs and uninstalls I finally gave up. This is a good definition for bait and switch, and I will not ever try pinnacle products again. The customer support is weak, having me try things I had already tried.I will be trying to get my money back through amazon.com or my credit card company. I also discovered too late that the code keys expire after two years and in order to get it to work you must repurchase, not an ethical way to treat customers. I would give it zero stars if that option was available.

Can't recommend...

Review Date: May 27, 2010

Reviewer: Marshall Carter, Irmo, SC United States

I can't recommend Pinnacle Studio 12. I installed this on one of my PC's running Vista Home Premium (32 bit) that had a high-end Radeon HD video card, well past the minimum specs listed, but it just doesn't work well for me at all. It's not a beastly PC, but I can run most games at a fairly good clip, but this software often freezes and hangs and when it does work well enough for me to get a DVD out of it, that DVD has sound drops and sync issues. Rendering is painfully slow (it might be done once you're done sleeping) and some features (menus for instance) just don't work on the actual disk the way they are set-up in program.

I'm trying to be fair here, so in its defense, installation went reasonably smoothly and the program setup was more intuitive than I was expecting it to be, but that's really not much to go on when I simply can't use the program to do what it's designed to do. I guess it did come with the cool greenscreen backdrop. That was a surprise and sadly about the only useful thing in the box. It might be more useful with a more powerful PC, though I doubt it from some of the other feedback I've read.

WHY WOULD YOU BUY TONS OF PROBLEMS

Review Date: May 13, 2010

Reviewer: M. Warnecke, South Atlantic

I started with Pinnacle 8 Studio, which had a terrible memory management, such as: program is ending abrupt, music is gone or titles.... all because of software problems. Because I needed something to make videos, I later bought version 10, thinking that Pinnacle has fixed the memory problem in the meantime. Not at all, actually I could not find out why I paid another 140 bucks for this crap. Because of version 10, I needed to fix my computer twice and than went back to version 8. OK here is the thing, if you have a video is probably 2 or 3 minutes, it might work. I needed the video with titles, photos with transition and music for about 10 to 12 minutes. Just forget it, don't even consider to look at it.
Pinnacle has good ideas and has all the features you need, that's why you are enthusiastic, but still, the program is technically absolutely incapable. It's also not possible to burn a DVD in high quality without any mistakes or even have a break up while burning. On top, Pinnacle software screwed up my computer twice. If you can't fix your computer by yourself, Pinnacle is the sudden death of your PC. Hands off folks, look elsewhere.

Good but not perfect

Review Date: February 9, 2010

Reviewer: Chris Church, Chicago, IL

I have used Studio 12 Ultimate to produce videos for two theater performances. I mixed multiple camera angles and audio sources. The software is powerful with many special effects and features. It allows two video and four audio tracks to be mixed easily.

The projects that I produced used HD AVCHD files as the input and I was able to produce both DVD and Blu Ray disks. However on the DVD copies, there were numerous places that the sound inexplicable dropped out. This would happen several times in an hour. If the DVD was played in a PC the sound was solid, the only problem was with DVD players. I tried many different approaches to eliminate this including mixing the sound to a wav file and using that as my single sound feed but nothing worked.

After Christmas I purchased Studio 14 and have tried re-rendering the problematic projects from 12 and the problem is gone. Apparently there's a problem with 12 that hasn't been resolved but is corrected in 14. I wrote the tech support, told them of my experience and if they intended to put out a patch for Studio 12 and got this reply:

"So the issue has been resolved in Studio 14. Regarding your question about a patch for Studio 12, the only patch available is Studio 12.1. We do not have full information if a patch will still be created on this version. "

Not exactly helpful customer service. So my advice is that if you're going to use a HD source and burn to DVD, get version 14 or another product.

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