Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 Software

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Product Brand: Pinnacle Systems
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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

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Make your home movies look great without having to learn a difficult editing program. Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 lets you take advantage of the latest HD video technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD. lts 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 interface. When you are finished, archive your video memories, publish them on YouTube or enjoy on DVDs and portable devices. lncludes professional tools for titling, color correction, lighting and special effects, plus a green screen backdrop.

Windows XP with SP2 / Vista (32 bit Vista recommended) lntel Pentium / AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz recommended) lntel Pentium HT / AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Vista lntel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher needed for AVCHD editing 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) 1 GB needed for HD and/or Vista (2 GB recommended) 1.5 GB needed for AVCHD (2 GB required on Vista) DirectX 9 or higher graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended) 128 MB needed on Vista (256 MB ATl Radeon9600+ or NVlDlA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) 256 MB needed for HD & AVCHD editing (ATl Radeon 9600+ or NVlDlA GeForce 6 or higher recommended) DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card 1 GB of disk space to install & 3+ GB for bonus content DVD-R0M drive to install

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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, plus a green screen backdrop.

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 lets you take advantage of the latest HD video editing technologies, including Blu-ray and AVCHD.

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.

Watch your memories come alive with Pinnacle Montage.

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

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.

B0NUS:
Green Sheet (approx. 5.95 ft x 5.58 ft) included in retail box version of Studio Ultimate version 12. Essential for creating high quality Chroma Key effects.

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. 0r 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, and music--to create a Hollywood-style movie.
11 themes with +80 templates including Video Wall, Album, Seasons and more

Additional Features

lt's all in the Timeline.
With its sleek, scalable interface, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Version 12 represents a stunning leap forward in workflow refinement and ease of use. Directly import your digital videos, photos and audio from a wide range of devices including DV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders, and digital still cameras. Automatic scene detection and clip creation gets your project off to a great start. You'll be editing your movie, fast!

0ptimized for performance
Unleash the power of your computer. This means a faster, smoother experience while you work and in your final output.

Real-time multi-track editing
Create advanced effects like Chroma Key, graphics overlay and Picture-in-Picture (PlP).

Key frame-able 2D/3D motion graphics
Pick from hundreds of effects and transitions, and preview them in full quality, even in HD. lf you ever need even more creative variety, add to your effects library with just a few simple clicks.

Scorefitter music generator
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.

New--Web publishing simplified
What fun is capturing your memories if you don't share them? ln just 0ne-Click share your movies with the world on popular web sites like YouTube and Yahoo! Video

New--Refined audio editing
New digital controls and monitors to add a dimension in sound to your movie.

Clean up and rejuvenate
lmprove audio tracks, clean up video, enhance color, remove noise, and fix poor lighting to restore old, damaged footage--automatically.

New--Even more ways to share
0utput movies to Sony PSP, Apple iPod, DivX certified players and even 3GP mobile phones. Export to Flash video too.

Built-in HD Disc Burning
Burn DVD, HD DVD and AVCHD format discs on standard DVD media. Natively author Blu-ray format discs with full motion menus.

Scalable user interface
Keeps tools at your fingertips. Adjustable windows are perfect for widescreen monitors.

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Testimonials

Average Buyer Rating: out of 5 stars

Buyer's feedback: 3 out of 5 stars

- * Promising software if I achieve stability ...
I started using Pinnacle with version 8, then version 9. For some these have worked well. I had mostly favorable results for my limited use. Version 10 received a "no" vote in most of the reviews I read and held out for Version 11. I liked 11 for creating photo slide shows, but had limited success editing raw video, in particular the format from my Sanyo Xacti. I eagerly upgraded to Studio 12 Ultimate as soon as it was released to put it to work based on the promise of new features, including newer digital video formats. I have all but abandoned the software at this point due to the lack of stability (crashes/freezes) on any of my test installs, both Vista SP1 32-bit and Windows XP SP2/SP3, 2+ GB RAM. I will give it another try after hearing 12.1 is coming up. Otherwise, this is the last time Pinnacle will see me as a customer.

Buyer's feedback: 5 out of 5 stars

- Excellent buy
I've just used Studio Ultimate Version 12 to capture and edit 55 hours of home video, stretching back more than 50 years on a PC running Windows Vista. I was easily able to navigate through 220 GB of data to create a memorable and professional looking montage video with music, menus, sound and video effects, and awesome transitions. My friends are amazed at the final product. The format is very user friendly and intuitive. If you are familiar with other common programs, such as PhotoShop and/ or PowerPoint, you will find that to complete most tasks, you automatically have a sense of how to do it, even without reading the documentation. I highly recommend this software.

Buyer's feedback: 1 out of 5 stars

- * Buyer Beware ...
I have been attempting to use the Pinnacle Studio products since 2004 with little or no success. After much frustration we contacted Pinnacle last summer. They told us to update our software, we did. Then they gave us specifications on a computer, operationing system and video card, we did that. Now 5 months later, we still cannot get it to operate effectively or effectiently. The technical support, if they can be called that, are only able to offer assisstance from a written text. Even though I got the Ultimate package, I still am missing vital portions of the program. Now they say the program files are corrupted. How did they get corrupted, well when I downloaded Pinnacle's latest patch. Do not be swayed with all Pinnacle's glitzy add ons, they do little good if they do not work. I spend more time trying to get it to work than I do producing DVDs. I hightly recommend looking elsewhere for you video editing software.

Buyer's feedback: 5 out of 5 stars

- Very Robust Feature Set - A Great Value
THE COMPETITION: I downloaded several evaluation copies of various video editing programs for Windows. Most were limited and buggy. 2nd best to this is Adobe Premier assuming you have 20-15 vision for the tiny text user interface and infinite patience for slow start ups.

STUDIO ULTIMATE 12: There is a lot of bad history out there and rightfully so, so let me give you the quick take on it. Version 10 was a buggy nightmare and version 11 was the fix. Ergo, version 12 is what 11 should have been if 10 had not been such a filthy miserable pig of bad coding.

My sympathies to 10 users. Get over it and get 12. They finally got it right this time. The new standard feature set in Ultimate 12 is so robust, you can do things you never imagined. I got this version and bought the title extreme add-on so I could do vector graphic CGI. I'm happy.

The company is also doing free online video seminars and they are really helpful. Pinnacle's efforts to educate their users on how to use their product to its full advantage is a big plus.

Buyer's feedback: 2 out of 5 stars

- * Crashes constantly ...
I bought version 11 that says Vista ready on the box
(which crashes constantly in Vista) so I stupidly gave them ANOTHER $125 for version 12, which crashes only half a much as 11.

The easist editor to use BUT KEEPS CRASHING DURING EDIT.
Don't use it with Vista.

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The Wi-Fi Year in Review for 2007, and What to Expect in 2008

The rise and fall of muni-Fi (and rise again): Clearly, the largest story involving Wi-Fi in 2007 was the at-first continued growth in cities awarding contracts with no money involved on their part to have service providers build Wi-Fi networks--and the subsequent failure of these networks to be built. Starting quietly in late 2006, the market shifted for metro-scale Wi-Fi. During 2007, providers decided that bearing the full cost of a city-wide network without city contracts wasn't financially sensible.

The full scope of the low uptake rates in cities that had large portions of the network built out also became clear: rather than 15 to 35 percent of residents subscribing, just a few percentage points would put a network in the top tier. Revenue is apparently also pretty minimal even in cities like Taipei, Taiwan, the network provider for which was predicting 250,000 subscribers by the end of 2006, and had just 30,000 regular users each month at last public report in early 2007.

MetroFi started to tell cities that without an advance service commitment at a minimum level -- an anchor tenancy -- the company couldn't proceed on networks. In 2007, MetroFi lost half a dozen bids or saw contracts canceled due to this change. Its work in Portland, Ore., the biggest network it was building, won't be extended beyond current limited dimensions until additional capital or a city commitment is obtained; the city has said it won't commit to service fees, however.

Meanwhile, EarthLink lost its CEO Garry Betty in January due to cancer. A strong backer of new initiatives to change EarthLink's core business, his death was certainly one of the causes in a quick re-evaluation of the municipal wireless division. New CEO Rolla Huff pulled EarthLink out of new deals, suspended existing ones, laid off hundreds of employees while gutting the metro Wi-Fi division, and appears poised to leave currently built or underway networks, including their flagship Philadelphia effort. They may sell the division, but it's hard to see much worth in it given the current state.

In a smaller bit of news, Kite Networks, formerly known by various names, was sold by parent MobilePro to Gobility with conditions that according to SEC filings by MobilePro weren't met. Kite was once high flying, in the company of EarthLink and MetroFi as one of the major U.S. Wi-Fi network builders. Now it's still in that company, with work on its Arizona networks apparently halted. A suitor has emerged in the form of a regional telecom that specializes in the Hispanophone market (double entendre intended), and which thinks it could boost Tempe subscriptions from the current several hundred to about 300 times that number. Hope springs eternal.

And while AT&T was able to launch a Riverside, Calif., network with MetroFi handling the installation and operation, it backed out of St. Louis, Mo., due to a utility pole problem, and the bidding in Chicago, too. The Metro Connect consortiums in Sacramento and Silcion Valley were unable to raise financing despite the apparent blue-chip participation by Cisco, IBM, and Intel.

County-wide Wi-Fi was also hit again and again by providers who pulled out--CenturyTel in Pierce County, Wash., for instance--or problems with technology or utility poles. In a few scattered areas, Wi-Fi across counties has been built out, but it's not an idea whose time has yet come.

Muni-Fi isn't down for the count. While these high-profile networks in large cities and county-wide networks have mostly hit the skids, more modest networks with well-defined goals continue to be built with a focus on public safety and municipal uses in hundreds of small and medium-sized towns. Brookline, Mass., may be a good example, in which a public safety/public access network was built relatively quickly and with no reported problems.

And there's one big city success story: Minneapolis, Minn. While local provider US Internet wound up spending more than they'd intended, reports from the ground indicate that service works quite well, and subscriptions and interest are quite high. The company was able to respond almost instantly to the bridge collapse a few months ago by deploying additional mesh infrastructure to add network capacity in the area. And it says that it could reach positive cash flow in early 2008. One of their advantages? They secured a substantial commitment from the city for the services they built.

Other trends of the year gone by: Music and Wi-Fi are clearly more aligned, with the new Zune models and firmware from Microsoft allowing wireless sync (but not yet Wi-Fi purchases), and the introduction of both the Apple iPhone and iTunes touch, which allow music purchases over Wi-Fi but not synchronization. (While the MusicGremlin preceded both the Zune and iPhone/iPod options, it didn't seem to gain any market traction in 2007.)

Security continues to be a concern in 2007, although less of one as home users have clearly accepted WPA Personal, at long last, and networks are increasingly encrypted through better software from major hardware manufacturers. Wizards make encryption a no-brainer, when they work. Corporations stung by reports and by requirements from credit card issuers are also clearly protecting their networks better, although I'm sure we'll still see breaches at those firms that didn't cross every "t."

The 802.11n standard's emergence into an interim certified Wi-Fi state was also a significant milestone for faster wireless networking. Shipments of Draft 802.11n products in 2007 increased significantly, while prices dropped so much that it makes perfect sense to purchase a $50 to $80 Draft N router than a comparable G unit. Manufacturers made it clear as the year progressed that hardware sold today should generally be firmware upgradable to whatever the final, not much changed 802.11n standard is when approved in 2008.

Gadget-Fi continued on the rise, as an increasing array of devices included Wi-Fi as a connectivity option. Most notably, T-Mobile launched its HotSpot@Home service, the largest scale offering of converged cell/Wi-Fi calling. By year's end, they had four handsets for sale--two plain, a BlackBerry, and a clamshell--but subscriber numbers are unknown.

What's coming in 2008?

In-flight Internet (over Wi-Fi): 2008 is finally the year. It was supposed to be 2005. Or maybe 2002. But we should see a number of planes, mostly flying over the U.S., equipped with either in-flight Internet access or in-flight text messaging and text email. Connexion by Boeing's failure fortunately didn't discourage a half a dozen competitors who were in the R&D phase when Boeing wrote off its satellite-based Internet access venture.

AirCell, Row 44, OnAir, Aeromobile, Panasonic Avionics, and a T-Mobile consortium are among the announced or nearly announced firms with commitments or trials underway. AirCell and Row 44, focused on the U.S. market, plan to deliver Internet not voice to fuselages; OnAir and Aeromobile are working on mobile-based services, including voice, via existing cell phones and devices.

In 2008, American, Alaska, and Virgin America will launch trials over the U.S., and potentially move into production. OnAir should be expanding in Europe beyond the single French aircraft that's equipped in a trial now to RyanAir's fleet. And Aeromobile's Qantas trial could turn into real usage. There's likely action that will happen in Asia and the Middle East, too, that's not yet disclosed.

Other trends to watch

Wi-Fi in every smartphone with better integration. The iPhone was the leading edge, pun intended, offering 2.5G EDGE cell networking as part of the subscription price, along with seamless roaming to Wi-Fi networks. With RIM finally offering BlackBerry models with Wi-Fi, it's unlikely that any future smartphone model intended for serious users would lack the option.

Wi-Fi everywhere. Despite the setbacks in municipal Wi-Fi, wireless networks continue to expand, with better and better coverage found across larger areas and more locations. 2008 might be the year of hotspot saturation.

WiMax arrives. In 2008, we'll finally see production mobile WiMax in action in the U.S., and the questions about whether it works well enough and fast enough at the right price to beat current generation cell data networks, and make money for the disorganized Sprint Nextel will be answered. More certainly, Clearwire, with WiMax as its only option, will push aggressively to steal customers away from fixed, wired broadband, especially in markets with little competition.

Gadget-Fi a go-go. Wi-Fi will become an expected part of gaming consoles (already found in a few), cameras (found in crippled form in just a handful), regular cell phones (in dozens and dozens now), and music players (with more full functionality).

via Wi-Fi Networking News

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