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Lako Pacific Pinnacle Studio Version 9 Software only
Award winning digital video editing and DVD authoring software for the PC. Lets you edit your videos on your PC, add transitions and special effects, titles, background music (inc. MP3s) and sound effects, enhance your audio & videos with powerful image correction tools, author your videos onto DVD with chapter points and menus, and burn directly onto CD or DVD.
Drag-and-drop your captured video footage onto the editing timeline and assemble a movie in minutes. Take your production to the next level by adding voiceover narration, professional-caliber titles, and background music. Other features include the ability to; import CD, MP3 and WAV audio files into your timeline, and export still frames that can be printed out on a color printer. New features include:
Automated Editing (SmartMovie), lets you simply choose your video clips, background music, and a theme style and it'll create a movie automatically for you.
Home Cinema standards - You can now edit and output home videos in 16:9 wide-screen format, and also create surround sound soundtracks.
New audio & video restoration tools - makes life easy by correcting poorly shot video and audio with tools like image stabilization, auto color correction, Analogue cleaning of old VHS tapes, Noise reduction on audio.
New support for Real-time FX video plug-ins and VST audio plugins
Product Specification
ADVANCED VIDEO EDITING
Capture and edit widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) video
Capture and edit footage from your DV, Digital8 or MicroMV digital camcorder
Capture and edit footage from your 8mm, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, or SVHS-C analogue camcorder
Capture and edit DVD quality MPEG video from your DV or Digital8 camcorder
Import and edit MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files
Easy drag-and-drop editing lets you assemble your masterpiece in minutes
Advanced timeline features for frame-by-frame editing
Preview window shows your edits immediately
TRANSITIONS & VIDEO EFFECTS
More than 100 scene transitions and Hollywood FX 3D transitions
Professional title effects with Pinnacle TitleDeko, including drop shadows and neon glows
Fast/slow motion effects
Special video effects and image correction
Video Enhancement
Automatic colour correction
Image stabilization
Analogue cleaner
Plug in support
Effect fade in fade out
AUDIO FEATURES & EFFECTS
Import background music as MP3 files or rip directly from an audio CD
Record your own voiceover narration
Create custom musical soundtracks precisely matched to the duration of your movie
Audio noise removal
Stereo panning
Surround Sound pan
Graphic EQ
Effect fade in fade out
ADVANCED VIDEO PUBLISHING
Share your movies on videotape, DVD, Video CD, and the Internet
Burn a video CD or DVD that you can play on your living room DVD player
Output widescreen (16:9) or standard (4:3) video
Output Windows Media 9
SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS (Input formats)
Capture from DV, Digital8 and MicroMV camcorders or VCRs (requires DV / FireWire port on your PC)
Capture from analogue camcorders (8 Millimetre, (S-)VHS(-C), Hi8) or VCRs (PAL/SECAM). (Requires DirectShow compatible video capture device.)
Capture directly from DV & Digital8 camcorders to DVD quality MPEG-2
120 MB of disk space for every 20 minutes of DV video captured at preview quality (4 GB for every 20 minutes of finished movie).
SOFWTARE SPECIFICATIONS (Output formats)
Output to DV or Digital8 tape (requires Camcorder with DV Input port an a PC with a DV / FireWire port)
Output to analogue videotape (requires DirectShow compatible video capture device or video card with TV-output)
Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (SVCD) with optional CD-R or CD-RW drive
DVD with optional DVD-R DVD-RW or DVD+RW drive
MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 AVI RealVideo 8 Windows Media Format, including Windows Media 9
IMPORT
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI
Audio: WAV, MP3
Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF
System Requirements
Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 800 MHz or higher (1.5 GHz or
Higher recommended)
512MB (recommeded)
Windows 98SE, "Millennium", 2000, XP (Windows X recommended. MicroMV support requires Windows XP))
DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics card (ATI Radeon or
Nvidia Geforce 2 or higher recommended)
DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
500 MB of disk space to install software
CD-ROM drive
Optional: CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs
Optional: DVD burner drive for creating DVDs
ProLogic compatible audio system for preview of surround sound mixes (Creative Labs Audigy recommended)
16:9 compatible camcorder for capture of 16:9 video
