Capture, edit and tell your story. Pinnacle Studio™ HD is plenty powerful, yet a cinch to use. Easily add emotion with music, heighten suspense, hilarity or surprise by editing scenes and create impact with Montage Themes, transitions, animations and effects. Our user-friendly drag-and-drop interface makes it easy for you to grab photos and videos from your video or still digital camera, phone or computer to create your own high-quality HD movies. Once finished, share your masterpieces with friends, family… or the world with Studio HD direct upload to sharing sites like YouTube.

New Features:

• HD editing*
• Share straight to DVD, YouTube (with wide-screen export)*, the web and more.
• Use stop-motion capture for amazing animated and fast-motion effects*
• Fix shaky camera shots with technology used in major motion pictures*
• Export movies for Flash, QuickTime, AVCHD, PS3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox and more, and sound straight to MP3
• Exciting new title designs, DVD menus, and effects*
• Add Hollywood-style animations and transitions with over 80 Montage themes.

System Requirements

• Windows® 7, Windows Vista® (SP2),Windows XP (SP3)
• Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended) - Intel Core™ 2 or i7 2.4 GHz required for AVCHD* (2.66 GHz for AVCHD* 1920)
• 1 GB system memory recommended, 2 GB required for AVCHD*
• DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB or higher recommended) - 256 MB required for HD and AVCHD*
• DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
• 3.2 GB of disk space
• DVD-ROM drive to install software
• Accessory:
  
  • CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
  • DVD burner for creating DVD and AVCHD* discs
  • Sound card with surround sound output required for preview of surround sound mixes**
  
  

Input 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 Pinnacle or Dazzle video hardware)
• Import from AVCHD* and other file based Camcorders, Digital Still Cameras, Mobile Devices and Webcams via USB

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 device with video output)

Import Formats

• Video: AVCHD*, BD Blu-ray*, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP(MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles (incl. DVD-VR/+VR), QuickTime® (DV, MPEG-4*, H.264*)
• Audio: MP3, MPA, WAV, AC3*, WMA
• Graphic: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF, PNG, J2K

Export Formats

• AVCHD*, DVD (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer), S-VCD, Video CD (VCD)
• Apple® iPod®, Sony® PSP/PS3, Nintendo® Wii, Microsoft® Xbox compatible formats*
• DV, HDV, AVI, DivX*, RealVideo® 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3*, QuickTime® (SD format) files
• Dolby® Digital 2 channel and 5.1 channel** audio