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Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12

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From: Pinnacle Systems
Category: Software

List Price: ~~$205.10~~
Buy New: $114.98
You Save: $90.12 (44%)

New (31) Used (2) from $114.98

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

45 reviews
Sales Rank: 359

Format: Cd-rom
Platform: No Operating System
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Ultimate
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 9.4 x 2.9

MPN: 8210-10060-61
Model: 82101006061
UPC: 613570223245
EAN: 0613570223245
ASIN: B001AMSZSQ

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	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

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.

Customer Reviews: Read 40 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent buy November 19, 2008
I've just used Studio Ultimate Version 12 to capture and edit 55 hours of home video, stretching back more than 50 years on a PC running Windows Vista. I was easily able to navigate through 220 GB of data to create a memorable and professional looking montage video with music, menus, sound and video effects, and awesome transitions. My friends are amazed at the final product. The format is very user friendly and intuitive. If you are familiar with other common programs, such as PhotoShop and/ or PowerPoint, you will find that to complete most tasks, you automatically have a sense of how to do it, even without reading the documentation. I highly recommend this software.

1 out of 5 stars

Buyer Beware November 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

I have been attempting to use the Pinnacle Studio products since 2004 with little or no success. After much frustration we contacted Pinnacle last summer. They told us to update our software, we did. Then they gave us specifications on a computer, operationing system and video card, we did that. Now 5 months later, we still cannot get it to operate effectively or effectiently. The technical support, if they can be called that, are only able to offer assisstance from a written text. Even though I got the Ultimate package, I still am missing vital portions of the program. Now they say the program files are corrupted. How did they get corrupted, well when I downloaded Pinnacle's latest patch. Do not be swayed with all Pinnacle's glitzy add ons, they do little good if they do not work. I spend more time trying to get it to work than I do producing DVDs. I hightly recommend looking elsewhere for you video editing software.

5 out of 5 stars

Very Robust Feature Set - A Great Value November 2, 2008
THE COMPETITION: I downloaded several evaluation copies of various video editing programs for Windows. Most were limited and buggy. 2nd best to this is Adobe Premier assuming you have 20-15 vision for the tiny text user interface and infinite patience for slow start ups.

STUDIO ULTIMATE 12: There is a lot of bad history out there and rightfully so, so let me give you the quick take on it. Version 10 was a buggy nightmare and version 11 was the fix. Ergo, version 12 is what 11 should have been if 10 had not been such a filthy miserable pig of bad coding.

My sympathies to 10 users. Get over it and get 12. They finally got it right this time. The new standard feature set in Ultimate 12 is so robust, you can do things you never imagined. I got this version and bought the title extreme add-on so I could do vector graphic CGI. I'm happy.

The company is also doing free online video seminars and they are really helpful. Pinnacle's efforts to educate their users on how to use their product to its full advantage is a big plus.

2 out of 5 stars

Crashes constantly October 14, 2008
I bought version 11 that says Vista ready on the box
(which crashes constantly in Vista) so I stupidly gave them ANOTHER $125 for version 12, which crashes only half a much as 11.

The easist editor to use BUT KEEPS CRASHING DURING EDIT.
Don't use it with Vista.

5 out of 5 stars

Hollywood, here we come October 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Because of the following, it should get 4 1/2 stars but Amazon doesn't have that choice. So I have to decide whether these points are worth losing one star. I've gone back and forth and after using the software for a few weeks I have decided that it is a 5 star product.

Well, this is a very powerful video editing software system. The user manual is 320 pages long and the getting started video is about two hours long. That should tell you this is not software for the casual video editor. So you should set aside a couple of evenings to get aquainted with just what you have in the way of editing tools here.

Next, there are a number of plug-ins that will add to the ultimate price of the product unless you purchase the Studio Plus or Ultimate versions.
If you are never going to need them, the basic software should do the trick. These are for additional Fonts, additional video themes, additional video effects, etc. Many of them are included in the Studio Plus and Ultimate versions like Embossing, Blur, Old Film, Hollywood FX 3D transitions, Stain Glass, Earthquake, Rotate, Water Drop, Water, Wave, etc. I can see why they would do this since some of those plug-ins are never going to be used by the average video editor.

Finally, the resources needed to run this software. One hour of video takes up over 12 GB of Hard drive space and you will need a pretty healthy processor and a lot of real memory if you want to get your project done in your lifetime. These items need to be understood before you buy this software. Pinnacle does recommend that you dedicate a Hard Drive for their use since it is drive intensive and will affect all other computer work if mixed on a drive with other systems. While I haven't given it a drive to itself, I have put it in a space little used on a drive separate from my operating system. This has minimized the impact upon my system a good deal.

Now for the positives. I was not expecting an editor with the depth and breadth of this package. There is not much you can't do with this software that Hollywood editors do with movies from changing panning to correcting red-eye, correcting camcorder jiggles from hand held videos, Panning and Zooming, green screen, etc. A full line of features like those you would expect from a still picture editor, cuts and melts of many varieties, full menu capabilities that will keep you busy for as long as you want to spend on your project.

There is the ability to make your videos look like old time movies complete with Black and White to scratches on the film. Charlie Chaplin lives again!

It uses a Timeline editor and you are able to mix video with still pictures with a wide variety of fades and cuts from scene to scene. You can Pan and Scan, Pan and Zoom as well as perform Picture In Picture. There are a wide variety of sound features from voiceovers to sound effects.

One reviewing agency reviewed the 14 top video editing systems and they judged Pinnacle to be 3rd.
I question their judgment since the ultimate goal of any editor is to produce usable output.
Of 15 output formats that they listed Pinnacle produced 13, with only QuickTime and Electronic Greeting Cards not supported. The 1st and 2nd place products only supported 11 output formats. Neither of them could output Blu-Ray or AVCHD. With Blu-Ray becoming the most popular new DVD format, how could editors that don't create Blu-Ray DVD's be ranked ahead of Pinnacle?

One of the other two also can't output DivX CD either! The supposed 1st place editor can't even output e-mail videos!
The 2nd place editor can't import hi-definition videos!

So based on the major reasons for having a video editor, I can't see Pinnacle being 3rd, but 1st instead. The biggest knock those reviewers had was for ease of use.
Well, if you have an editor that can do so many things, it will not be as easy to use. Having so many capabilities, as well as two track editing, will automatically make the software more complex to use. But with extensive documentation (which a 320 page instruction manual gives it) and a detailed instruction video (which the two hours provided by Pinnacle also gives it) you should be able to overcome that problem. Add to that a large user forum and live chat, which Pinnacle has and neither of the other two do, and you should be able to overcome just about any problem you run into.

If you are into serious video editing, this is the editor you need if you want quality output in the most modern formats available.