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

Minimun Requirement for Pinnacle studio 12 plus & ultimate

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.

Minimum 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 or higher required for 1440x1080 AVCHD editing
  Intel® Core™2 Quad 2.66 GHz or higher required for 1920x1080 AVCHD editing
• 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 for Plug-ins (for Magic Bullet Looks: Pixelshader 2 required, Intel GMA integrated graphics not supported; for VitaScene with HD: 512MB 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
  
• 3 GB of disk space
  
• DVD-ROM drive to install software
  
• Optional:
  - CD burner for creating VideCDs or Super VideCDs (S-VCDs)
  - DVD burner for creating DVD, HD-DVD and AVCHD discs on standard media*
  - Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray discs*
  - 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-Vide) 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 videdevice or videcard 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

• VideCD (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*, RealVide® 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3* files
  Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel audi*