Avid professional and consumer brands include Avid, Digidesign, M-Audio, Pinnacle Systems, Sibelius, Softimage and Sundance Digital. For more information, visit Avid Technology, IncĪvid is a worldwide leader in tools for film, video, audio, 3D animation, gaming and broadcast professionals - as well as for home audio and video enthusiasts. Pinnacle Systems has received nine prestigious Emmy Awards for its technical innovations and carries the commitment to help consumers enhance, preserve and share their memories with ease. The company's product lines including Pinnacle PCTV, Dazzle, Pinnacle ShowCenter, and its flagship Pinnacle Studio line, including cover the needs and requirements of any level of video storytellers or consumers who simply want to enjoy TV from their computer. Pinnacle Systems, Inc, a part of Avid Technology, Inc, is an industry leader in providing a complete set of home video editing and TV viewing tools for the consumer market.
ACCHD 1920 and support for various HD camcorder types including JVC full HD, Canon Vixia, Sanyo Xacti have also been added.
The new version also offers improved effects performance on lower-ends PCs, advanced 2D editing, the ability to rotate effects and new content for titles and DVD menus.Īmong the first to offer native HDV and AVCHD editing software, Pinnacle Systems Studio Plus and Ultimate now includes new Blu-ray disc burning capabilities in BD-MV with motion menus. New convenience features include the ability to reference images in the album and direct crop control to automatically remove black bars of a video or image. Clearly, Pinnacle Systems' customer-driven approach has helped it unlock opportunities in these emerging markets."Īddressing the features most requested by customers, Pinnacle Studio version 12 now incorporates advanced capabilities for audio, with numerical audio volume, master volume controls, a timeline VU meter and peak indicators. The people in these new markets don't want to deal with a complicated application they just want the fun of quickly creating videos that are entertaining. "New markets have emerged led by casual and younger users who simply want to quickly edit their videos and post them to the Web, women who have become the designated memory keepers in the family, and the growing number of people over 50 who are becoming video hobbyists. "The video editing market isn't just growing vertically, it's growing horizontally," said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie Research (JPR), a leading market research firm based in Tiburon, California.
In addition to Pinnacle Studio, the basic version, Pinnacle offers Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate with more advanced audio and video tools, including a complete HD workflow. The Pinnacle Studio version 12 family consists of three affordably priced versions to meet the needs of consumers ranging from novices to dedicated video enthusiasts. More titles, DVD menus and templates have been added as well as new professional audio and video controls and a complete HD workflow with Blu-ray authoring in certain versions of Pinnacle Studio version 12. With more than 25 new features, version 12 adds many new capabilities requested by users, while still maintaining the ease of use that has become the hallmark of Pinnacle Studio products. The new version includes Pinnacle Montage, an innovative tool that makes high-end compositing and animation effects accessible to consumers. Pinnacle Studio version 12 builds on the features that have established the Pinnacle Studio family as number one in the consumer video editing market in the US and Europe.
Phoenix Software has today announced availability of version 12 of Pinnacle Studio, the market-leading consumer video editing software.