Pinnacle Studio 10.0 - Video Editing

by Pinnacle Systems

Product Features

• Comprehensive and easy-to-use home video editing software
• Quickly adds spectacular effects, transitions, titles and music to videos
• Image stabilization feature and color correction tool helps you enhance video quality
• Create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly without copying your files to your PC
• Imports videos from non-encrypted DVDs for added enhancement and re-mastering

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000B7RBAE
• Item model number: 210100479
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 30, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,878 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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When it's time to edit your great home videos, you'll want the most complete, powerful and easy-to-use home video editing software you can find. Pinnacle Studio 10.0 is exactly that. Not only will Studio 10.0 let you add titles, transitions, music and special effects quickly and easily, it will also allow you to combine your photos with your video for that extra professional touch. And with one-touch simplicity, you can preserve your video on DVD without needing to copy your files over to your PC hard drive.

Pinnacle Studio 10.0 is powerful, easy-to-use home video editing software.

An intuitive user interface makes learning Studio a breeze. View larger.

SmartMovie helps you add effects, transitions, titles, and music. View larger.

Studio 10.0 instantly creates DVDs. View larger.

Simplicity and Ease-of-Use
Video editing software is only as good as it is intuitive and easy to use. Studio 10.0 couldn't be any more intuitive. The software boasts an extremely user-friendly interface that guides you through your editing in three effortless steps: Capture, Edit/Enhance, and Share. It's that simple.

Studio 10.0's SmartMovie feature walks you through the steps to create amazing movies by adding spectacular effects, transitions, titles and music in a matter of a few minutes. A pan-and-zoom feature lets you create high-quality movies by animating your digital photos with close-ups and pans and scans in any direction. Included with the software are hundred of extraordinary real-time effects and transitions that can you can use and preview on your computer monitor. A SmartSound feature also provides a vast library of categorized royalty-free music that you can add to your creation. Best of all, the music you choose will let you match precisely, second for second, the duration of the video clip or movie you are editing.

Studio 10.0 also includes all the tools you need to take the quality of your work to the next level. A unique video cleaning toolkit helps you restore old damaged video tapes. An image stabilization feature gives you the tools to take care of that unfortunate shaky and jerky footage. If you have video footage that was shot under poor lighting conditions, don't despair -- Studio 10.0 features a color correction tool to help you with that as well. Eliminating extraneous and distracting sounds such as wind and rain is no problem at all with Studio 10.0's noise reduction tools.

Built-in DVD Authoring and Instant Transfer
With a fully integrated CD and DVD authoring workflow, Studio 10.0 lets you easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly. You can also create DVDs with menus without first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.

As with its other great features, Studio 10.0 makes the process of working in different formats as seamless as possible. You can capture video from the latest consumer cameras and devices, including DVD video cameras for Studio 10.0 editing, and you can even import videos from non-encrypted DVDs for added enhancement and re-mastering. Another great feature, brand new to Studio 10.0, is its unique background saving feature. With this feature, you can work uninterrupted and avoid the time-consuming steps of saving your work in the format of your choice. In other words, you can keep working on your project while you are simultaneously rendering your project to the top quality format of your choice. So, regardless of whether your final project will be for CD, DVD or the Web, all you need to do is shoot amazing videos, and Studio 10.0 will take care of the rest.

Product Description

Studio version 10, the most friendly, complete and powerful home video editing solution available today. Studio combines the legendary ease of its intuitive three-step movie creation process with the power to quickly and reliably capture all of your precious memories from photos, videos and audio from all popular consumer electronic devices. Next, Studio intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects, like Pan & Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and beyond. With Studio, your home movies will always earn a top star rating with family and friends.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful Software - DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY, December 19, 2005

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Bibliophile - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Studio 10.0 - Video Editing (CD-ROM)

I was experiencing repeated crashes, program errors, etc...and I thought it was me. However, when I discovered the Studio 10 support forum (Google: "Pinnacle Studio 10 Support Forum"), I learned I was not alone.

The final straw today was trying to transfer some pre-Christmas video I recently took to my computer (worked fine) and add a soundtrack (crashed the program). Figuring the 10.1 patch would solve my issues, I downloaded this behemoth. 2/3 of the way through applying the patch, like the software it was designed to fix, it hung. After rebooting and applying the patch again, it "took." When I attempted to re-do my editing chores, I discovered that all the voices and sounds associated with my video was now missing - plus the soundtrack I was trying to add when the system crashed wasn't there either.

After wasting > three hours on a project that left me with nothing to show for my efforts, I gave up. What a horrible P.O.S. (Piece Of Sofware). It *almost* makes me wish I had bought a MAC - at least it works.

Review Summary: Don't waste your money on this half-baked product. Try ANYTHING else first.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS SOFTWARE, October 13, 2005

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avc (Tucson) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Studio 10.0 - Video Editing (CD-ROM)

It is complete junk! Had version 8, it had it's troubles, but worked pretty well. Avoided 9 due to poor reviews. Bought 10 (a big mistake). Takes forever to load, and after it is loaded, does not work well at all! Hopefully some updates will come soon to make this software usable. DO NOT BUY IT!!!!!

MUCH better after lastest update (11/15/2005)

18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning - Don't waste your money or time on this software, October 12, 2005

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Cary B. Overmeyer (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pinnacle Studio 10.0 - Video Editing (CD-ROM)

While this product advertises a rich list of features, it is so full of bugs that even a technically savvy general consumer wouldn't be able to use this product satisfactorily. The program launches very slowly, the program responds very slowly when it is finally running, the Bonus DVD does not load, video playback is choppy, and on my machine the video playback lacked sound.

Also, Pinnacle's support has to be the worst in the business. Their online help is difficult to navigate and provides little information that is helpful. When submitting a question by email their response times are very slow (24-48 hours to get a response) and when you do get a response it is cryptic at best. If you call their support desk, you only get one phone call. All calls after the initial call cost $25. Pretty sad considering their product doesn't even work when you load it on your machine. Finally, their technical support is only opened 12 hours a day Monday-Friday, so good luck reaching them.

I have asked for a refund, but because their technical support team still wants to try to resolve the issues they won't grant me one. They want to waste hours of my time trying to fix a piece of software that is obviously a piece of junk and wasn't properly tested before it was released.

Don't make my mistake and waste your money. The headache just isn't worth it.