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Studio 12 Ultimate | 
| From: Pinnacle Systems (UK)
Category: Software
List Price: £89.99
Buy New: £60.97
You Save: £29.02 (32%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 24
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows Vista, No Operating System
Media: DVD-ROM
Shipping Weight (lbs): 11
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 8 x 2.9
MPN: 8202-26258-91
UPC: 613570223160
EAN: 0613570223160
ASIN: B001AIAN1M
Release Date: July 2, 2008
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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STUDIO 12 ULTIMATE . UK
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 Unstable platform October 10, 2008
I bought Pinnacle Ultimate 12 because I had used Pinnacle before - in the 1990's - and had some success with it, albeit, then, the edition I was using was fraught with stability problems. Later, I realised most of these were to do with lack of computer power. Recalling this, I opted for a brand new computer with 4 g RAM, high speed Hz processor with 420 g HD, and presumed the newer version would have improved, that this level of power would make the thing work. Oh dear. Ultimate 12 loads with a wobble to begin with - indicating stability problems. Then, once you have done your stuff, it sets about saving files randomly, with suffixes it fails to recognise. It drops scenes and also muddles saved work, because of this file business and where it's managed to hide them last time. This is a BIG SNAG. If you have just spent 100 hours on your Magnum Video Opus to discover it infuses a miraculous melange of all your serious work with your earlier bungled efforts, you wonder if the people who made this thing worship a different kind of god? Or hail from some planet where nothing has logical sequencing, of any kind or order? Maybe that's modern American for you? I know not. Anyway, one look at Pinnacle's web site and all the problems people have had with their stuff will vindicate this opinion. I'm afraid, from my own humble observations, Pinnacle Ultimate 12 isn't up to much. I had hoped for better and indeed have struggled to prove myself wrong. Alas, it has not been possible to do. Editing and all the rest of it is easy but - by the way - it doesn't like anything to do with SD cards, so if you've gone and spoiled yourself with a camcorder that uses SD cards, then definitely DO NOT GET PINNACLE ULTIMATE 12 - why don't they say that on the box? But - if you are prepared to struggle, as I have, perforce, been obliged to do, eventually it will capture the import from an import, so to speak, to get the genie out of the bottle, which, believe me, leads to much fury and many bitter thoughts. By the time you have edited - nothing wrong with the actual basic editing package, which works fine, and is also fun - when you come to rendering the thing, or not rendering the thing, it refuses to acknowledge what it has done and so all your many hours of hard labour are lost.
All points considered, the editing bit is quick and good, the dissolve effects are excellent, but all the other Mickey Mouse stuff you can muck about with provided you like making stuff clogged solid with sham/fake or common or garden spoof, the bottom line is, I have found Pinnacle Ultimate 12 to be an inherently unstable video software suite, certainly not compatible with anyone who wishes to make anything beyond jokey afternoon unwatchable twaddle which you can see on Youtube any day, for nothing, if you can bear it, saving you the sweat/cost/fury of having to get it there in the first place using this particular package - according to my own views. However, I will add, that these are from one perspective only and from one personal experience. If you are more adroit at handling Pinnacle than I, then do as you will. Personally, I'll look about for something else.
 Top marks for Pinnacle Studio Ultimate12 September 30, 2008
I bought this a few months ago and it has been fab so far not one problem to say about it ,I use the firewire port from my camcorder to my pc,it imports the video perfect no problems at all, edits it ,can add music to it,never crashes can burn it to disc or hard drive not a problem, the finish product is always 100%.I would recommended this software to anyone,I have always had pinnacle to edit my videos as I do weddings in my spare time also events,I believe pinnacle is easy to understand & easy to use,yes over the years some of the Pinnacle software has not been up to standard,but I would say the major problems for people is to use the firewire port not usb port, your computer has to be top spec for taking video footage eg: lots of memory, good graphics card like nvidia & your hard drive has to be at least 7200rpm & over 200GB for taking video footage if you have all of this you should begin making great movies
can not transfer using usb 2 September 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this product telling me it was ideal to edit high definition video only to find out it would not transfer video from my camera. this is because the only lead I have is a USB. When I asked there help desk they informed me you canot import to the latest? video editing programme uasing a USB lead only the more old fashioned firewire.!
 Studio 12 Ultimate - Disaster September 17, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this product from Amazon in the mistaken belief it will edit AVCHD. It DOES NOT DO what it says on the 'tin'. The AVCHD technology is new and there is not a capable consumer editing package on the market at this time. Avid/Pinnacle have been over zealous in their advertising and too quick to launch Studio 12-Ultimate as a stable AVCHD editor. It just cannot handle the files and is IMO useless for AVCHD. I have wasted some 80 on a product from Amazon that just does not work. I have a top of the range HP laptop running at 5.66Ghz/4GB ram and Intel duo core CPU and Studio 12- Ultimate causes the sytem to crash everytime I attempt to edit a AVCHD clip in the timeline. I have used Apple Macintosh FCE editor very successfully for HD and SDV but unfortunately it will not handle AVCHD. I thought PS12-Ultimate was the answer. I was sadly and expensively mistaken and misled by both Amazon and Pinnacle. Do not buy this product, in its present form it 'Sux'.
Don't risk buying this September 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
All I want is an editor so I can take other peoples' camcorder DVDs, or my own camcorder stuff, or VHS tapes, possibly with TV extracts; and put them into DVD format or flash video for youtube or DVDs. I'm not interested in fantastic special effects; I'm the equivalent of someone wanting to edit, crop, and adjust still pictures, maybe with some special features here and there, say solarisation, or colour effects or sepia tones -- but with video and sound.
I tried Magix but it has a problem with lip sycnh and is useless for this process.
Pinnacle has a similar interface to Magix - it's unclear what you're supposed to do, what a 'project' is, how to get video files into the system etc. I tried a DVD (not a commercial one - someone had taken this at a meeting). As soon as I tried reading it, I was told I needed to purchase software, or a licence, from Dolby, price not given. The system also told me, when I tried a file saved on hard disk, that it 'doesn't recognise mpg format'. I also read, too late, that the licence only lasts two years.
If you're a normal user who doesn't want to waste time, don't risk your money on this.
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