Pinnacle Studio v12 Ultimate

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate v.12
Exclusive Features
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, music - to create a Hollywood-like movie.
11 themes with +80 templates including Video Wall, Album, Seasons and more
It’s all in the Timeline. Use photos, music, and video footage from your camcorder or VCR tapes to create home movies. Pinnacle Studio accepts the most popular video formats from camcorders and digital cameras. You can even use SmartMovie - choose your video clips, theme and music, and it does all the work for you.
Give it some style - Select from an impressive collection of titles, transitions, filters and effects that you can preview. And if you outgrow those provided Pinnacle offers hundreds of effects you can add at any time.
Scorefitter® music generator - Music adds emotion to your story. 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.
Bring still photos to life - Animate your photos with close-ups or pan-and-zoom to create engaging video slideshows. Pinnacle Studio includes tools for removing red-eye, rotating and cropping images.
Keep your memories safe - Archive your video memories with Pinnacle Instant DVD Recorder. Transfer directly from tape to DVD for safe-keeping in a just few mouse-clicks.
Clean up and rejuvenate - Improve audio tracks, clean up video, enhance color, remove noise, and fix poor lighting to restore old, damaged footage – automatically.
Built-in Disc Burning - Easily create DVDs with motion menus and custom navigation for playback on DVD players. And with integrated CD and DVD authoring you can preview your work in progress with full on screen DVD controls.
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! Enjoy your movies on the go - Enjoy your movies on your Sony® PSP™, Apple® iPod®, DivX® certified Players, and even 3GP mobile phones. Save your movie’s soundtrack as an MP3. And it’s simple to export your production to Flash video as well.
Windows Vista™ Certified - Fine-tuned for smooth integration with Windows Vista.
Scalable user interface - Keeps tools at your fingertips. Adjustable windows are perfect for widescreen monitors.
System Requirements
* Windows® XP SP2 (SP3), Windows Vista™ (SP1)
* Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
* Intel Pentium HT or AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista
* Intel Core™2 Duo 2.4 GHz required for AVCHD* (2.66 GHz for AVCHD* 1920)
* 1 GB system memory recommended
* 2 GB required for AVCHD*, recommended for HD and/or Windows Vista
* DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB or higher recommended)
* 128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB or higher recommended)
* 256 MB required for HD and AVCHD*
* DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
* 2 GB of disk space
* DVD-ROM drive to install software
* Optional:
o CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
o DVD burner for creating DVD, HD-DVD and AVCHD discs on standard media*
o Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray discs*
o Sound card with surround sound output required for preview of surround sound mixes**
Capture Options
* Capture from DV, HDV and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs (requires a FireWire® port)
* Capture from analog camcorders, 8 mm, HI 8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow® compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analog (Composite or S-Video) inputs
* Import from AVCHD* camcorders (requires USB 2.0 and a UDF driver)
Output Options
* Output to DV, HDV or Digital8 tape (requires camcorder with FireWire Input port and a PC with a DV/FireWire port)
* Output to analog videotape (requires DirectShow compatible video device or video card with TV-output)
* Output to Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ formats*
Import Formats
* Video: AVCHD*, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP(MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
* Audio: MP3, MPA, WAV, AC3*
* Graphic: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF
Export Formats
* Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
* AVCHD*, Blu-ray BD*, HD-DVD*, DVD* disc with optional disc burner (incl. dual layer)
* Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
* DV, HDV, AVI, DivX*, RealVideo® 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3* files
* Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio
* Requires free product activation via Internet at the first use.
** Requires product activation via Internet at additional cost.