Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12

List Price: $209.24 Discount Price: $124.99

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

Customer Reviews:

All you'll need for home movie productions [Posted on 2008-09-24]
I was a big fan of Showbiz DVD 2, but when I had the opportunity to work with Studio Ultimate, I thought I'd give it a try.

It is very easy and intuitive. Don't let the manual scare you. It's got a lot of great effects, transitions and even comes with a green screen for you to add some backgrounds to you videos. It supports layering so you can use the green screen to put a different background to your actor, or whatever foreground you wish to have.

It also comes with the ability to mix audio.

It supports and creates many formats such as AVI, MPG, MOV and others. It is pretty comprehensive. The transistions that you can use are really nice. Very fluid, doesn't make the picture "choppy" during the effect, like others have.

The best part is that is supports video and analog signals, so you can take all of your old VHS tapes, or in my case, non-digital video camera, and capture it and edit to your liking.

I highly recommend this product as it will make your movie making a whole lot easier than some of the other products.

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12 Got me Over The Initial Hurdles [Posted on 2008-09-27]
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.

The most stable Studio version I've used [Posted on 2008-09-30]
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.

Wheres the sound? [Posted on 2008-10-01]
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.

Powerful yet easy to use [Posted on 2008-10-02]
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.

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