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from: Pinnacle Systems
Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Pinnacle Systems
EAN: 0613570203216
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Pinnacle Systems
Manufacturer: Pinnacle Systems
Publisher: Pinnacle Systems
Sales Rank: 6675
Studio: Pinnacle Systems
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com Review:
A multifaceted yet user-friendly solution, Pinnacle Studio 7 Professional makes movie production both fun and rewarding. Whether you're just adding titles to your home movies or spicing them up with 3-D animated transitions and audio effects, this affordable video editing software is perfect for all your home editing projects.
Although it may take days and perhaps weeks to become truly proficient--as indicated by the program's 300-page user's manual--Pinnacle Studio should have you tweaking your footage within minutes. Its intuitive and extremely polished interface, generous help section, slick tutorial, and massive online FAQ section are superb rookie aids. Unfortunately, you'll be far better off asking specific support questions via e-mail than through the company's telephone support lines, where hold times can be very long indeed.
Pinnacle Studio has been designed to look both elegant and visually appealing. It is divided into three main areas--Capture, Edit, and Make Movie. To upload a video, merely click the Start Capture command in the Capture interface. Control your video device by clicking various buttons on the program's large camcorder icon, and formulate edits on a large filmstrip spread across the bottom of the Edit screen. Pinnacle has smartly hidden secondary functions in pop-up windows to keep the screen uncluttered and easy to navigate.
The program offers several perks not found in other budget editors. When a video is uploaded, it automatically deciphers each new scene and creates a corresponding thumbnail image that may then be drag-and-dropped to any position on the filmstrip. Screen transitions can be drag-and-dropped, too, as can titles and sound effects such as music or voice-overs. If you want to deviate from the prefabricated special effects, Pinnacle Studio allows you to modify or create your own from scratch. For pinpoint edits, you'll want to access the timeline view, wherein you'll see an exacting second-by-second account of every video frame and every special effect you've added. Furthermore, the program helps conserve valuable hard drive space by converting your full DV-quality video to a more economical format for editing purposes, then reconverting it back to DV quality for the final product.
Veteran moviemakers may find some of the program's special effects rather basic, but anyone new to video editing will undoubtedly have a blast turning their homegrown movies into dynamic works of art, saving them in any number of video formats, and perhaps even sharing them at the Pinnacle Web site. --Gordon Goble
Amazon.com Product Description:
With a little creativity and Pinnacle Studio video editing software, home movies can be turned into masterpieces. Pinnacle Studio combines a simple drag-and-drop interface with professional features like SmartCapture automatic scene detection, fast or slow motion, advanced color correction, contrast and brightness control, and more.
Enhance home movies with more than 100 stunning scene transitions including Pinnacle Studio's HollywoodFX 3-D effects. These new 3-D, animated transitions, such as page turns, spinning balls, or breaking glass, allow users to move the story along in ways never imagined. Let SmartSound create custom audio effects and musical scores for movies, helping to set the mood and tone of a film. Also import MP3 files or rip WAV files directly from CD to instantly score a movie, in time and in sync.
Then use TitleDeko to design amazing title effects to make it look even more professional. Enhance the story or simply highlight people, places, and events. Features include more than 300 title styles, including metallic, stretched, condensed, and neon effects, as well as roll and crawl effects for added impact.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not a good choice
Too old.. too many glitches, no wonder why avid bought pinnacle, but this product its not a good editing program, too limited even for home users.
Rating: - a whole world of pain...
I'm a long-suffering user of Pinnacle's software, starting out with Studio DV a few years back, and now on Studio 7. With every new iteration of the software (mercilessly plugged via junk email I repeatedly asked not to be sent), there was the seductive promise of bugs finally fixed...
Well, I've decided that I'm now tired of playing guinea pig for Pinnacle, and hope you won't feel the urge to do the same. My advice would be: pay a little more to buy a stable, well-supported product. ... Read More
Rating:  - The best bang for your buck
I've recorded my sister's weeding and as a surprise I wanted to edit her video with sound and effects. Never having done such thing, I went to a local software retailer to find a product to get me started. Pinnacle Studio was the solution. I got the video capture hardware and the editing software bundle for [ a reasonable price] bucks! It was so easy... I watched their video tutorial and 15 minutes later I was editing. When I gave my sister and her new husband the tape they thought I've spent ... Read More
Rating: - Buggy Software
This software has great features and would be wonderful if it worked. I have encountered several intermittent bugs. The most serious is that audio and video get out of synch. Sometimes the audion just stops.
The support from Pinnacle is very poor. They make it difficult to even send an email. Sometimes they respond to a different problem. Several times they simply did not respond. I have never had an appropriate response to the synch problem. Many other people have had similar problems and ... Read More
Rating:  - Good Product for Home Editing
I did a lot of research before purchasing Pinnacle Studio 7 DV scouring PC magazines, newspapers and opinion sites. While most reviewers gave it top marks, a lot of home users gave it mixed reviews.
Upon purchase I have been extremely happy with this product. When deciding to get into computer editing, however, you need to exercise some caution. The fact is, video editing really puts your computer to the test. These commercials that show people plugging their camera's into the computer ... Read More
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