Key Features

Edit on unlimited tracks with frame accuracy in HD and/or advanced stereoscopic 3D

Create eye-popping effects with Red Giant Filmmaker’s Toolkit and Motion Graphics Toolkit

Add excitement with over 2000 2D/3D additional effects

Includes green screen for shooting with superimposition in mind

Create Dolby® 5.1 surround Blu-ray™/DVD discs and export to your favorite digital devices and formats

Organize, tag, and rate your favorite clips and music with the built-in media library

Enhance and correct movies, photos and audio right inside the media library

Preview timeline and source clips simultaneously

Use the trim editor to set source clip in/out points, then drag trimmed clips to the timeline for perfect cuts—just like the pros

Import clips and movie projects from Pinnacle Studio for iPad

Quickly learn to make great videos using the included video tutorial DVDs

Storyboard quick first drafts—even create movies automatically

Layer animations and titles easily with included Montage templates

Create custom-fit soundtracks with Scorefitter

Share HD and 3D videos on Facebook®, YouTube®, and Vimeo® with one click

Zip through projects via 64-bit, NVIDIA® CUDA™, and Intel® Quick Sync Video optimization

Access video and photos from HD camcorders and digital devices—even 3D

Easily archive and restore your work with Project Packages

Bonus Content

Creative Pack Volume 1

Polish your video creations with unique, professional title templates, DVD menus, and Montage themes

Creative Pack for Studio gives you fun new ways to entertain your friends and family with the video memories you've captured. Creative Pack Volume 1 includes 16 DVD menus, 5 Montage themes, and 28 new titles with motifs that will brighten any of your video creations. Using Creative Pack is easy, and it's compatible with Studio 12 and later. Like any video you create in Studio 12, the movies you make with the Creative Pack can be recorded on DVD or Blu-ray Discs and shared on Sony PSP, iPod, Flash video, the web, and 3GP cell phones.

Jump start your movies using unique, professional-looking design templates

28 new titles provide inspiration and let you create great-looking titles fast

Use 16 seasonal DVD menu sets to quickly add great looking screens and buttons with seasonal themes for navigating your discs

Put your video clips, photos, and music into five new Pinnacle Montage themes to produce entertaining videos with professional touches like multi-layered effects, animated graphics, titles, and sound

Hollywood FX

Add vitality to your video productions with this set of dynamic video transitions

Spice up your video productions with a set of dynamic video transitions from the Hollywood FX collection of advanced transitions. This Hollywood FX volume includes over 20 themes of 16 transitions each, making of more than 320 unique, professional-level transitions. Hollywood FX Volume 1 includes themes such as "Peels, Curls, and Waves," "Sports," "Weddings," "Space and SciFi," and many more. Hollywood FX Volume 2 includes themes such as "Holiday FX," "Sports 2," "Weddings 2 and 3," "Comics and Cartoons," and many more. Hollywood FX Volume 3 includes themes such as “Pirates,” “Wild West,” “Tropical Vacation,” “Soccer,” “Home Improvement,” and more. and many more.

Complete control over all 3D rendering options lets you customize the look of your work

Create completely new effects or save change you make to the preset

Animate your work with complete keyframe editing of all object, surface, light, and camera features in a full 3D editing environment

Lighting — control the direction of the light and shine

Shadows — control shadow direction and use full scene shadowing for true 3D shadows

Add motion blur to give transitions greater realism

Add motion trails to any 3D object

Anti-aliasing gives you greater control over the quality of edges

Customize flight paths, morphing, and transparency of objects

Adjust the hold time at the start and end of an effect to change its timing

Premium Packs

Easily add high-style graphics and audio to your video productions

Add high style to your video productions with professional-level graphics and audio from the Premium Pack collection of professionally designed Video Titles, DVD Menus, and Sound Effects. Each set includes an intro DVD menu, a scene menu, three video titles, and a group of special sound effects. Premium Pack Volume 1 includes title and DVD menu themes such as "Baby," "Extreme Sports," and "Holiday," as well as sounds such as "weapons," "Sports," "Tools," and more. Premium Pack Volume 2 includes title and DVD menu themes such as "Baby2," "Performing Kids," and "Winter Holidays," as well as sound effects such as "Low Rumbles," "Performing Kids," "Starship," and more. They are all designed to work together to bring your video production one integrated look and feel, just like the pros.

Use professionally designed titles, menus, and sound effects to add high style to your video productions

6 DVD menu designs let you match the graphic look to your video content

A variety of sound effects let you add essential sounds and comedic relief to your videos

Title templates designed to match the set’s DVD menu graphics help you create projects with a unified look

Scorefitter Volumes

New songs you can add to your movies in a snap

Pinnacle Scorefitter Volume 1 contains original royalty-free songs for Pinnacle Studio Versions 11 and 12. The tracks are recorded at 16-bit, 48 kHz for a sound quality that is higher than CD audio. Volume 1 features a type of sound effect called a “stinger.” Stingers are commonly used in TV and films. Between three and 8 seconds long, a stinger is a sound or audio effect used to accompany a short video sequence, such as a transition, special video effect, or animated graphic. Volume 1 also comes with two background themes — World and Inspirational — containing five songs each. For added depth and control, up to 12 variations are available for each background track, depending on the length of the movie.

14 original royalty-free music tracks let you add a professional quality score to you videos

Use four "stingers" to add sonic accents to your video clips

10 background tracks with up to 12 variations (tempo, mood) per track help establish mood and emotion

16-bit, 48 kHz better than CD-quality sound

Scorefitter automatically adjusts track to movie's length (except for “ stingers”)

Pinnacle Scorefitter Volume 2 contains original royalty-free songs for Pinnacle Studio Versions 11 and 12. The tracks are recorded at 16-bit, 48 kHz for a sound quality that is higher than CD audio. Volume 2 comes with four background themes — Ambient, Electronica, Ethnic, and Film/TV — containing 2-6 songs each. For added depth and control, up to 12 variations are available for each background track, to better match the length of your movie. For added depth and control, up to 12 variations are available for each background track, depending on the length of the movie. Adding these songs to your movie is a snap with Pinnacle Scorefitter. Just preview and then pick the track you want. Scorefitter places the music on the audio timeline and automatically adjusts the track to match the length of your movie.

15 original royalty-free music tracks let you add a professional quality score to you videos

Up to 12 variations (tempo, mood) per track help establish mood and emotion

16-bit, 48 kHz better than CD-quality sound

Scorefitter automatically adjusts track to movie's length

Title Extreme

Look like a pro with broadcast-quality titles

Use Pinnacle Title Extreme to add broadcast-quality titles and text effects to your next video project. Title Extreme comes with the ProDAD Heroglyph plug-in for Studio and 30 professionally designed vector-graphic title templates.

Total Control: proDAD Heroglyph for Studio enables you to create eye-catching, professional-quality titles from within Studio at a fraction of the cost of high-end, stand-alone titling tools. You can use Heroglyph to create your own titles and text effects such as rolling credits, subtitles, animated handwriting, and motion text. Or you can use Heroglyph to customize existing 2D and 3D title templates.

Work Fast: When you don’t have time to make or customize a title with ProDAD Heroglyph, you can still add professional polish to your project by selecting one of the 30 title templates and then adjusting the text and timing settings.

Cool Design: Inspired by today’s most popular TV shows and movies, the titles combine beautiful typography with rich textures, images, animations and objects. The high-resolution titles are available in full-screen and lower-third formats, and are fully compatible with SD and HD (widescreen) video projects.