Pinnacle Studio Plus V.11 Retail

Create impressive home movies Pinnacle Studio™ Plus version 11 helps you harness the power of the latest technologies -HD, Windows Vista, Web Publishing and more - without compromising ease of use. Enjoy a full range of automated and advanced features to meet all your video editing needs.
Your Life in the Timeline Directly import your digital videos, photos and audio into Pinnacle Studio Plus from a wide range of devices including DV, HDV and ACVHD camcorders, and digital still cameras. The software automatically detects scenes and creates clips to get started.
Your Life. Enhanced Choose from a wide range of keyframe-able effects and transitions, titles, and more, all with real-time full-screen previews. Or try advanced effects such as Picture-in-Picture, Surround Sound editing, and Chroma Key green screen. Automatically generate a soundtrack or import your favourite music. Pinnacle Studio Plus uses background rendering while you create for faster results.
Your Life in Movies. Enjoyed Your Way Create Hollywood-style DVDs or HD DVD format discs with multiple menus and animated backgrounds on standard DVD media. Enjoy your movies on your Sony PSP, Apple iPod, DivX certified players, and more. Use the Web upload feature to automatically share your creations publicly or privately with family and friends.

New - From capture to editing and disc burning A complete HD workflow with HD DVD authoring on standard DVD media - Pinnacle Studio Plus edits native HDV or AVCHD footage and then authors HD DVD format discs that will play on the latest HD players. You can even combine projects that mix SDV, HDV and photos that are then “up-sampled” to HD resolution.   Click here to learn more about HD
New - Now with cutting-edge AVCHD capabilities Pinnacle Studio Plus users can now import and edit the latest HD format, projected to become the primary HDV format for Camcorder leaders like Panasonic and Sony, allowing for more HDV content in half the space.
New - Windows Vista™ compatibility The perfect companion to the new Windows Vista operating system, Pinnacle Studio version 11 provides full compatibility and a sleek look while it offers complete video editing tools to do more with home video content.
New Scorefitter™ music generator Automatically generate soundtracks, now with 40 souce tracks which include greater variation and 48k audio samples for higher fidelity and increased accuracy than previous solutions. Flash Demo - Click here
New User Interface Pinnacle Studio's interface is scalable, making it perfect for working on widescreen monitors or adjusting the windows to get close to the task at hand while keeping all the tools at your fingertips.
New - Simplified Web publishing Anticipating people's desire to share their video creations on the Web, Pinnacle Studio makes Web publishing automatic. Users can now post their movies publicly on Yahoo! Videos (more to come) or privately with just a few simple clicks.
New - Improved speed and performance Pinnacle Studio Plus now installs faster and exports files of any type at speeds double* those previously possible. (* an average; results may vary)
Advanced editing Effects, and integrated DVD authoring, all within an intuitive interface. Users can master more sophisticated video effects such as HD editing, custom key frames, Surround Sound editing, graphic overlays, scrolling titles, Picture-in-Picture or Chroma Key (green screen), and more.

Minimum System Requirements

Windows® XP with SP2 or Windows Vista™ operating system (32 bit Windows Vista recommended)
Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® 1.8 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz 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 AVCHD editing
512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
1 GB required for HD and/or Windows Vista (2 GB recommended)
1.5 GB required for AVCHD (2 GB required on Windows Vista)
DirectX® 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended)
128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB ATI® Radeon® 9600+ or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 or higher recommended)
256 MB required for HD and 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 install software and 3+ GB to install bonus content
DVD-ROM drive to install software
Optional:
CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
DVD burner for creating DVD, HD DVD 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 on your PC)
Capture from analogue camcorders, 8 MM, HI8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow® compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analogue (Composite or S-Video) inputs on your PC
Import from AVCHD* camcorders (requires USB 2.0 on your PC and a UDF driver which comes with your camcorder)

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 analogue 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, MOD, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP (MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
Audio: WAV, MP3
Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
HD DVD*, DVD* disc with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer)
Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
DV, HDV, AVI, DivX, RealVideo® 8, Windows Media® 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4* files
Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio

Package Contents

Pinnacle Studio Plus version 11 install DVD
- Pinnacle Studio Plus
- Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder
- Pinnacle RTFX volume 1
- SureThing® Express Labeler

Pinnacle Studio Bonus DVD
Pinnacle Studio/Studio Plus User Guide

* Requires free product activation via Internet at the first use
** Requires product activation via Internet at additional cost