Pinnacle Studio v10.5 Video Editing Software

by Pinnacle

Product Features

• Complete, powerful, and easy-to-use home video-editing software
• Combine and enhance videos and photos; intuitive user interface
• Easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly
• Add titles, transitions, music, and special effects like pan-and-zoom
• Export movies with 1 click; preserve and share on DVD and the Web

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000FDK8U4
• Item model number: 210100527
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 18, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,948 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #67 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Compositing & Effects

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Introducing Studio version 10.5, the most complete, powerful, and easy-to-use home video-editing software available today. Quickly combine and enhance your videos and photos. Easily add titles, transitions, music, and special effects like pan-and-zoom. Then effortlessly preserve and share your memories on DVD and the Web.

Features:

• Play Everywhere--New!
  Now, with one click, you can seamlessly export your movies for playing on your Apple iPod, Sony PSP, and favorite DivX-compatible consumer device.
• Simplicity and Ease-of-Use
  The intuitive user interface with simple three step process effortlessly guides you through the Capture, Edit (Enhance), and Share steps and makes learning and using Studio a breeze.
• SmartMovie
  Pinnacle Studio's SmartMovie feature walks you through the creation of amazing movies from capture to adding spectacular effects, transitions, titles, and music in minutes.
• Built-in DVD Authoring
  Pinnacle's fully integrated CD and DVD authoring workflow allows you to easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly.
• Instant Transfer to DVD
  Pinnacle Studio provides a quick and easy way to instantly create robust DVD's with menus without first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.
• Pan-and-Zoom
  Effortlessly create high-quality movies by animating your digital photos with close-ups and pans and scans in any direction.
• Studio version 10 is also available with capture hardware
  • Studio 500-PCI: use the easy-to-install internal 500-PCI card to capture video on your PC from most camcorders or VCRs.
  • Studio 500-USB: connect the 500-USB external device to capture video on your desktop or laptop PC from most camcorders or VCRs.

*See rebate forms for applicable terms, conditions, and expiry dates. Pinnacle reserves the right to change without notice the terms and conditions, or modify the offer, or end the offer at any time without notice.

Product Description

Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home video editing, Studio version 10.5, 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. New output options allow for different ways of sharing home movies beyond traditional DVD players: DivX videos, the Web and mobile video players such as Apple Video iPods, Sony PSP.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, June 25, 2006

By 

Johnny Z. (Boston) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Studio v10.5 Video Editing Software (CD-ROM)

I bought Pinnacle Studio version 8 three years ago...then I upgraded to version 9...then I upgraded to version 10. With each purcha$e I hoped that Pinnacle was fixing all the bugs in their product. Apparently, they have just kept feeding the beast.

Pros: When you create a finished product, you may have a wonderful DVD of little before seen family movies. You may succeed in creating a family treasure sure to make everyone cry with joy. Keep your movies short and simple and you will be happy (if you get the program to run). Another plus is the numerous free patches between major releases.

The cons: You will need a serious PC to use this product. 1GB RAM required (even though the box says 512MB). A 2+ Ghz CPU will be needed. Creating the product is exhausting. It is slow to load. It is buggy. It crashes. Lots of features that you see require an additional purchase.

Not for the faint hearted.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay Away, November 17, 2006

By 

W.Ballou1 "Media Maniac" (Smithfield, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Studio v10.5 Video Editing Software (CD-ROM)

I have 10.5 plus have downloaded the patch to make it 10.6 and it still doesn't work properly. I have had nothing but problems with this software. I find it disturbing that I paid 100 plus dollars for this software and I've had nothing but problems with it. Capturing the video was no problem. Editing it was slow and it kept locking up or shutting down completely. after spending hours trying to get the video editied I finally was able to complete an abridged version of the video. I made a movie and now it keeps locking up. I'll burn the movie and put it in my DVD and it'll lock up somewhere along the way so I burn another one and it locks up somewhere else when playing. I have burned about 12 DVD's and not one has worked from beginning to end without problems. The tech support is useless. My advice is to stay away from this video editing software. I have bought a competitor's software and now will start the entire process over.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Buckle up., November 26, 2006

By 

P T - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pinnacle Studio v10.5 Video Editing Software (CD-ROM)

Because you will undoubtedly crash. Hard.

If you like wasting time, acid stomach, and throwing money away, then go right ahead and pick this little baby up. But if you're trying to actually make videos with your computer, then avoid Pinnacle at all costs.

Pinnacle Studio is appealing in its scope of features. This software would be a very decent product if it worked as advertised. But its inordinate amount of crashes have given the Pinnacle name a reputation it will likely suffer for years to come. The folks at Pinnacle have earned a reputation as producers of the world's most bug-laden video authoring software.

There are at least five better alternatives, at equally affordable prices. Avoid Pinnacle at all costs.