Combining power and simplicity, Pinnacle Studio Plus version 12 lets you take control 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.

• Your Story - Now in Dazzling HD
• Built-in HD Disc Burning
• Enjoy multi-track power without the complexity
• Create multi-layer effects
• Mix your media together
• 11 themes with +80 templates including Video Wall, Album, Seasons and more
• It's all in the Timeline.
• Optimized for performance
• Real-time multi-track editing
• Key frame-able 2D/3D motion graphics
• Scorefitter music generator
• NEW! Web publishing simplified
• NEW! Refined audio editing
• Clean up and rejuvenate
• NEW! Even more ways to share
• Built-in HD Disc Burning
• Scalable user interface

• Pinnacle Studio 12

• Video: AVCHD*, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX*, MPEG-4*, 3GP(MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
• Audio: MP3, MPA, WAV, AC3*
• Graphic: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF Export Formats:

   

• Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
• AVCHD*, Blu-ray BD*, HD-DVD*, DVD* disc with optional disc burner (incl. dual layer)
• Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
• DV, HDV, AVI, DivX*, RealVideo 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3* files
• Dolby Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio

  *Requires free product activation via Internet.

  **Requires product activation via Internet at additional cost.

• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.8GHz (2.4GHz or higher recommended)
• Intel Pentium HT or AMD Athlon 2.4GHz or 1.6GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista
• Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz or higher required for 1440x1080 AVCHD editing
• Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66GHz or higher required for 1920x1080 AVCHD editing Operating System:

   

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3), Windows Vista with Service Pacl 1 Hard Disk:

   

• 2GB of disk space Memory:

   

• 1GB system recommended
• 2GB required for AVCHD*, recommended for HD and/or Windows Vista Optical Drive:

   

• DVD-ROM to install software Others:

   

• DirectX 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64MB (128MB or higher recommended)
• 128MB required on Windows Vista (256MB or higher recommended)
• 256MB required for HD and AVCHD*
• DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
• DVD burner for creating DVD, HD-DVD and AVCHD discs on standard media*
• Blu-ray burner for creating Blu-ray discs*
• Sound card with surround sound output required for preview of surround sound mixes**

  *Requires free product activation via Internet at the first use.

  **Requires product activation via Internet at additional cost.