Making movies is as easy as 1-2-3

Preserve, edit and enjoy your video memories. Pinnacle Studio's simple three step process quickly and easily guides you through capturing, sharing and enhancing your home movies. 
Your Life. Captured.

Easily capture your analog videos from your camcorder or VCR; or directly import all of your digital footage, pictures and audio into Pinnacle Studio. The software automatically detects scenes and creates clips to get you started. 
Your Life. Safe. Better.

Create movies automatically or add your personal touch. Simply select and trim your scenes, pick a style and Pinnacle Studio does the rest. Want to do more? Add photos, music, titles and transitions for easy yet impressive results. Or preserve your movie memories instantly by capturing straight from tape to disc. 
Your Life shared with Your World.

Create Hollywood-style DVDs to play on any set-top DVD player or your PC. Record your finished movies to camcorder or VCR tapes. Enjoy your movies on your Sony PSP, Apple iPod and other portable devices or use the web upload feature to automatically share your creations publicly or privately with family and friends.

New - Windows Vista™ compatibility

The perfect companion to the new Windows Vista operating system, Pinnacle Studio version 11 provides full compatibility and a sleek look while it offers complete video editing tools to do more with home video content.
 
New - Simplified Web publishing

Anticipating people's desire to share their video creations on the Web, Pinnacle Studio makes Web publishing automatic. Users can now post their movies publicly on Yahoo! Videos (more to come) or privately with just a few simple clicks.
 
New Scorefitter™ music generator

Automatically generate your soundtrack, now with 40 source tracks, which include greater variation and 48k audio samples for higher fidelity and increased accuracy than previous solutions.
 
New User Interface

Pinnacle Studio's interface is scalable, making it perfect for working on widescreen monitors or adjusting the windows to get close to the task at hand while keeping all the tools at your fingertips.
 
The power create stunning movies from still photos or video footage, all within an easy-to-use, step-by-step workflow.
 
Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder - Archive video memories direct from tape to DVD disc for safe-keeping with a few mouse-clicks, all without taking up room on the hard drive.
 
Make entertaining movies in seconds - Pinnacle SmartMovie lets you choose your video clips, theme and music, and then does all the work for you.
 
Minimum System Requirements

Windows® XP with SP2 or Windows Vista™ operating system (32 bit Windows Vista recommended)
Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® 1.8 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz recommended)
Intel® Pentium® HT or AMD® Athlon® 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista
512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
DirectX® 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended) - 128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB ATI® Radeon®9600+ or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 or higher recommended)
DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
1 GB of disk space to install software and 3+ GB to install bonus content
DVD-ROM drive to install software
Optional:
CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
DVD burner for creating DVDs*

Capture Options

Capture from DV and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs (requires a FireWire® port on your PC)
Capture from analog camcorders, 8 MM, HI 8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow® compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analog (Composite or S-Video) inputs on your PC

Output Options

Output to DV or Digital8 tape (requires camcorder with DV Input port and a PC with a DV/FireWire port)
Output to analog videotape (requires DirectShow® compatible video device or video card with TV-output)
Output to Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ formats*

Import Formats

Video: AVCHD*, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOD, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP (MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
Audio: WAV, MP3
Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
DVD* disc with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer)
Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
DV, HDV, AVI, DivX, RealVideo® 8, Windows Media® 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4* files
Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio

Available Options:

1 Year Download (+$9.99) 1 Year Product Support (+$9.99) 90 Day Download (+$4.99) Backup FlashDrive Shipped (+$9.99)