Feature:

Pro video tools
Pinnacle Studio? Ultimate Version 12 includes professional calibre 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.

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.


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*

NOTE: Read the readme before proceeding installation