Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate

Pinnacle Systems has released version 12 of its class leading Studio entry level video editing software. It is available in three versions; Pinnacle Studio version 12 ($49), Pinnacle Studio version 12 Plus ($99), and Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate ($129). When the company released the first versions of its application in the 1990s, editing video on a computer was still a rough experience. The computers were not readily up to task, extra hard disk space and memory was very expensive, and the Windows operating system that Studio ran on was prone to crashing, freezing, and locking up.

Editing video today is easier to do, virtually any home computer can successfully edit video, and in fact, Microsoft has been shipping a free video editing application with Windows for several years. Today, Studio 12 Ultimate is probably the most powerful consumer based editing tool on the market, and with the release of Studio 12 Ultimate, it makes it a more compelling buy with the addition of several professional level tools, including Boris Graffiti 5.2, Magic Bullet Looks Studio, and additional ProDAD Vitascene effects.

When you get to a version 12 product, what do you do to improve on it? You would think that everything that could be done to a product that is pushing its teens would have been done, but with version 12 the company has added some cool workflow features, a weird auto recovery feature, and the Montage. Within the scope of this review, a few of the new features will be covered.

1 DVD - PS12d1:
- Pix430_VISTA
- Pix430_XP
- Pinnacle Studio 12 Ultimate (Boris Graffiti - title & graphic animation,Magic Bullet Looks – Pro film styles,proDAD© VitaScene – lighting, glows & more)

2 DVD - PS12d2:
- Pinnacle Studio 12 Content Part 1 (menus, butons, titles, backgrounds, textures, motion backgrounds)

3 DVD - PS12d3:
- Pinnacle Studio 12 Content Part 2 (motion backgrounds, sound effects)

4 DVD - PS12d4:
- Pinnacle Studio 12 Content Part 3 ( Hollywood FX Volume 1, Hollywood FX Volume 2, Hollywood FX Volume 3, Smart Sounds, Standart RTFx Volume 1, Standart RTFx Volume 2, RTFX Volume 1, RTFX Volume 1, BravoStudio, Adorage-filter, Adorage-transition, Bob Webb, DzieDzc's Effects, New Blue Effects, Profound Effects, Pixelan Effects, Mercalli, NewBlue Audio Plugins )
- AMT PLUGINS ( AMT FX: Reverse, Rotate; KHT: Hot Spot, Hot Spot Move, Mirror, SFX 1; Mister Z: Bleach Bypass, Deinterlace; BS Effects: Bounce, Circle, Fade To Colour, One Colour, Stretch, Wave 1, Wawe 2; CANAL+, HL's VD Filters: AutoLevels, fxVHS, Color Cycle, MSU DeBlock, MSU DeFlicker, MSU DeNoiser, MSU Old Cinema, Radial Luminance, RGB Filter; HL's VD Timecode: AddFrameNumber, Timecode RT; WL Effects: Border Effect, Color Look, Destabilizer, Histogram, Stars, Background Bar, Border Blur, WL Border, Black & White, Color Control, Color Pass, DropShadow (Alpha), Poster, Rain, Scatter, Snow, Sparkle, Sparcles 2, Spot, Vibration, MovieLook 21, Sparcles 21, 22, Texteffects, Spot 2; JP's Effects: Color Adjust, Color Change, Color Change 2, Colour Glow, Cut, De-Interlace, Filter, Gear, Kaleidoscope, Lens, Lighthouse, Mirror, Eraser, Spiral, Transform, Transform 2, Transparency, TV Interference, Waves, Zoom, Zoom 2, Zoom & Move ;
- AMT ALPHA TRANSITIONS
- OB NEW BLUE EFFECTS
- OB PIXELAN EFFECTS
- Heroglyph 2.5