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Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12
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Our Price: $59.99
List Price: $99.99
Your Save: $ 40.00 ( 40% )
Sales Rank: #172 (lower is better)
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Pinnacle Systems
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Brand: Pinnacle Systems
EAN: 0613570223115
Format: CD-ROM
Manufacturer: Pinnacle Systems
Model: 82101006021
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 7.81 x 2.09 x 9.43
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Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12 Features
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- Take control of the latest HD video editing technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD
- Transform your videos and photos into amazing movies
- New theme-based video editing gives you creative power
- Share and archive your creations on DVD, YouTube, and more
- Burn your Hollywood-style movies on DVD and HD DVD format discs on standard DVD media
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Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12 Description
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Make your home movies look great without having to learn a difficult editing program. Combining power and simplicity, Pinnacle Studio Plus version 12 lets you take control of the latest HD video technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD. Its Montage theme based editing, designed by professional producers and artists, puts incredible creative power at your fingertips. Simply drag and drop your video and stills to preview your show - 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 interface. When you are finished, archive your video memories, publish them on YouTube or enjoy on DVDs and portable devices.
Intel Pentium / AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz recommended) Intel Pentium HT / AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Vista Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher required for AVCHD editing 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) 1 GB required for HD and/or Vista (2 GB recommended) 1.5 GB required for AVCHD (2 GB required on Vista) DirectX 9 or higher graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended) 128 MB required on Vista (256 MB ATI Radeon9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) 256 MB required for HD & AVCHD editing (ATI Radeon 9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card 1 GB of disk space to for installation and 3+ GB to install bonus content DVD-ROM drive to install CD/DVD burner for creating Video CDs, Super Video CDs, DVD, HD DVD & AVCHD discs Blu-Ray burner for BD discs
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Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12 customer reviews:
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Lots of features, still a little crashy
Pinnacle Studio is a very comprehensive and diverse video editing product. I've been using it since version 9 and each version seems to be a little more comprehensive than the last. However, the program is very RAM intensive. It is important to save projects frequently, as when you get up there the thing can crash.
DVD authoring gets better with each edition, but it still has some quirks that don't make it as efficient in more complex menu systems.
I've always loved the built in Smart-Sound compatibility. If you are serious about videos, being able to get royalty free music onto it is always a plus.
Nevertheless, I think Ulead and Pinnacle combined as video editing softwares will meet most folks needs. Ulead is great with smaller projects, but Pinnacle is about as good as it is if you want a lot of features and editing capabilities for a reasonable price.
This software is full of bugs... I mean FULL of them!
This software has so many bugs that it would take too long to list them all. It is an amateurish piece of unfinished junk that never should have been put on the market. What a joke!
Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12
Pinnacle Studio Plus Version 12 - had a chance to use this product - a friend gave it to me because he was tossing it, and Yes it is full of bugs, and it is a pig, it wants lots of memory and it crashes, I love Pinnacle but they still don't have it together, they need to get the love they put into the Avid and put that into the Pinnacle Software, so out it goes and back goes the Sony Vegas... Sorry....
This Version Seems to Work
I started using Pinnacle Studio around the time it first came out (version 5 or 6). I upgraded a couple of times and just quit using Pinnacle out of protest for bad products that never worked quite right. System crashes, sound syncronization problems, hours and hours of painstaking editing followed by hours of rendering which then produced an unusable "coaster". It was maddening!
Each successive Pinnacle Studio version had such a great interface while always holding the lure of such promise that I kept upgrading and buying add-ons in the hope that Pinnacle would correct their troubled software. As I noted above, however, out of frustration and quiet protest, I just quit using Pinnacle Studio around version 8. I was not going to keep rewarding Pinnacle with my money.
After Pinnacle Studio 8 I tried a variety of different video programs: Microsoft, Ulead, and a couple different versions of Adobe Premiere. In my opinion, none of those had the simplicity combined with the power of Pinnacle. Hence, my pile of HI-8 tapes languished in a big box as I kept adding more and more video tapes while growing increasingly concerned that if my Sony HI-8 video camera ever gave out I'd be hard pressed to get all our family tapes edited and on disk. (No HI-8 camcorder means no way of transferring to digital.)
After hearing good things about Pinnacle 12, and in part out of growing desperation, I bought Pinnacle Studio 12 Plus. I'm pleased to say that this version of the software has thus far worked very well for my purposes. I am on a roll now and am getting all my HI-8 tapes edited and transfered with none of the problems I experienced in previous versions.
I do not have an HD video camera so I cannot speak to the efficacy of that, but I am just so pleased that this version seems to live up to all the promise that previous versions held but failed to produce. Pinnacle Studio 12 works.
Having said that, I heard a
Run Away!
I had version 9. It's cheaper to upgrade so I upgraded to Version 12 Plus several months ago - nightmare started as soon as I upgraded:
1. This thing freezes itself in an average of every 15 minutes of usage. Pinnacle had a patch came out recently. I was hoping the patch would fix this problem but I was wrong. It still freezes. If you do decide to buy, be prepared to waste A LOT OF time on using this thing.
2. Another problem is making video in AVCHD format. AVCHD video made with this thing cannot be played in the AVCHD software came with my Sony SR11 camcorder.
Tech support was horrible. You get one free phone tech support. If you don't want to pay for support, you can use email. The guy I dealt with did not know anything. After a few questions, he kept asking questions he had asked and I had provided answers again and again. I was dragged into circles and circles. What a waste of time! My advice is run away from this thing. Get something else.
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