Pinnacle Studio 12 gets updates and themes

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It's not exactly winter yet, though it feel fairly cold. However, folks at Pinnacle Systems think differently and on Thursday announced a new Pinnacle Theme Winter Pack for the Pinnacle Studio consumer video-editing application.

The Winter Pack is released together with the 12.1 update of the Pinnacle Studio software. The pack offers more than 80 additional winter-themed titles, DVD menus, and Pinnacle Montage templates. It will be included in special Pinnacle Studio Plus and Ultimate Winter Pack Editions at selected retailers until December 31.

The Winter Pack enables people to quickly create movies with themes relating to the holidays. If you already have the Pinnacle Studio 12 software, you can purchase the pack separately for $39.99 from October 30, 2008 to November 6, 2008, directly from Pinnacle Systems.

On the other hand, the 12.1 update is available as a free download for all Pinnacle Studio version 12 users. The update offers support for importing and exporting of the QuickTime file format, expanded support for the latest H.264-based camcorders such as Aiptek H.264 and Sanyo Xacti, and performance improvements.

[scythie]

>It's not exactly winter yet, though it <b>feel</b> fairly cold.

Seriously?? Seriously?!

[ICU812]

Studio 11 edited AVCHD but with no smart rendering. Now Studio 12 edits AVCHD. Still no smart rendering. Another video software that I know and use does have smart render for AVCHD and works like a charm. It only costs $80.00 and is a suite of softwares that do more than just edit movies. I have used Studio for years and prefer it's interface. To me it's ignorance in software engineering that it doesn't include smart render at this late date. Does the people at Pinnacle actually think that we want to tie up our computers for countless hours while their software completely rerenders and damages every frame of our AVCHD video? I've tried rendering an AVCHD video in Studio 12 Ultimate without changing bitrate or anything else and burning it to AVCHD DVD only to find the video full of digital artifacts. Plus it took a couple of hours to render a 17 minute video. The other software can add titles, transitions, menus and leaves the untouched video pristine with few if any artifacts. My advice is not to walk, but run. Run screaming for your lives from Studio 12 if you want to edit AVCHD. At least until it includes smart render. Then I would highly recommend it.