Key Features
Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home
video editing, Studio 500-USB version 10, the most friendly, complete and powerful
home video editing solution available today. Studio 500-USB 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 popular digital and analog consumer electronic devices to your PC or laptop.
Next, Studio 500-USB intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects,
like Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home movies for
preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and beyond. With Studio 500-USB, your
home movies will always earn a top star rating with family and friends.
- Simplicity and Ease-of-Use
The intuitive user interface with simple three step process effortlessly
guides you through the 1) Capture, 2) Edit(Enhance) and 3) Share steps and
makes learning and using Studio literally a breeze. Add on-demand assistance,
and making breathtaking movies was never so easy.
- SmartMovie
Pinnacle Studio's SmartMovie feature literally walks you through the creation
of amazing movies from capture to adding spectacular effects, transitions,
titles and music in minutes. SmartMovie is intelligent enough to actually
follow your personal direction in editing and enhancing your unique video
and images to create incredible compelling movies. It is really just that
easy!
- 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 for playback
on most consumer DVD players or DVD capable computers. Why waste the time and
energy of going back and forth between two completely separate applications
when with Pinnacle Studio you can preview your results with full DVD controls
right from within your familiar editing workspace!
- Instant Transfer to DVD NEW!
For those times when you want to quickly archive your treasured memories
on DVD, Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder provides a quick and easy way to instantly create
robust DVD's with menus without wasting the time and space of taking the
extra step of first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.
- Pan-and-Zoom
Effortlessly create captivating high-quality movies by animating your digital
photos and images with close ups and pans and scans in any direction with
Ken Burns like effects. Studio even includes great tools like red eye removal
so that you have your best work when adding effects, transitions, titles
and music to complete your masterpiece.
- Video and Audio Restoration
Pinnacle Studio includes all of the tools you need to quickly and effortlessly
take the quality of your work to the next level. The toolkit includes video
cleaning to restore old damaged video tapes; image stabilization for shaky
and jerky footage; as well as color correction for bringing out the genuine
quality in poorly lit video shoots; and noise reduction for the elimination
of extraneous distracting sounds such as wind and rain.
- Real-time Effects with Preview NEW!
Pinnacle Studio includes hundred of extraordinary real-time effects and
transitions that can be previewed immediately in their full-screen glory
right on your computer monitor. And if you ever outgrow the hefty included
effects palette, Pinnacle provides you with the peace of mind with knowing
that there are always thousands more very affordable effects available when
and if you ever need them.
- SmartSound®
Pinnacle Studio's SmartSound feature provides a vast library of categorized
royalty-free music to compliment your visual creation. Moreover, your music
choice will always precisely match second for second the duration of your
selected video clips or movie.
- Many Popular Sources and Formats NEW!
Pinnacle Studio now gives you the power in combination with Studio's celebrated
ease of use to capture video from the latest consumer cameras and devices
including DVD video cameras. With Studio, you can actually
import videos from non-encrypted DVD's for added enhancement and re-mastering.
- Background Saving NEW!
Now with Studio, you can work uninterrupted and avoid derailing your creative
process when transparently saving in the background to the high-quality
format of your choice. This great feature will sharply reduce and in many
cases even eliminate the added time needed to save out your final project
for CD, DVD or the Web.