Your Own Personal Video Studio
Good camcorders and digital cameras at reasonable prices are common these days, and that means that budding film and art students are on the lookout for good video compiling and editing software to go with them. Pinnacle comes into the picture here with Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Events Pro Deluxe 11.
The package is huge, and comes with a PCI FireWire expansion card for your PC. There’s also a chroma cloth to make keying and mask creation a lot easier. The installation is fairly simple—first install Studio Plus and then the upgrade to Ultimate.
The Ultimate version gives you three main plugins—proDAD Vitascene, BIAS SoundSoap and StageTools MovingPicture. It also gives you the ability to work with 5.1 audio streams.
The bundle features a huge collection of transition effects for scenes, and there are also loads of sounds provided in appropriate categories. Each of the components—sound, video, and text—are placed in different timelines, so handling all of them is very simple. There’s support for online video hosts like Yahoo! Video and Studio Online.
The package comes with a fat, highly-detailed user manual, which even has tips on how to get your hard drive prepared for the large amounts of data required during video editing by tweaking and optimising transfer rates.
At first, Pinnacle Studio Pro Deluxe 11 seems like a very sophisticated package, but its abundance of features is presented in a very friendly interface—you don’t have to be a trained professional to use them. At Rs 17,900 for the internal PCI package, the decision to buy it is a little difficult, but if you’re a student getting into the film industry or running a small business, it’s a must-have.
| Ratings |
| Features : 4 |
| Performance : 3.5 |
| Ease of Use : 4 |
| Value for Money : 3.5 |
| Overall : 3.5 |
Specifications
Included in Ultimate: BIAS SoundSoap, proDAD VitaScene, StageTools MovingPicture; Supports Dolby 5.1 encoding and HD video; Package contents: Green Screen, microphone, PCI FireWire interface card, manual
Contact : Pinnacle Systems
Phone : 9811904809
E-mail : adey.extern@ pinnaclesys.com
Web site : www.pinnaclesys.com
Price : Rs 17,900 (Internal PCI), Rs 19,900 (External PCI)