Pinnacle 12 Ultimate (PC) (DVD-ROM)

Top marks for Pinnacle Studio Ultimate12 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 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 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 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.

Studio 12 ultimate After slating Studio 11, (see my review)for it's lack of AVCHD capabilities, I was impressed with the way it handled DV footage. For this reason I bought Studio 12 and the fact you get Boris Graffiti, Montage, Magic bullets, Vitascene and a green screen which all work very well with Standard DV. I have made a few interesting DV shorts, however, I decided to load some AVCHD files that were left over from using Studio 11 and to my surprise Studio 12 did quite a good job in handling them. It is still early days but I think it just might work, I am in the process of making a short High def film, so far so good. Studio 12 is well worth the money for it's DV capabilities, it is much better than Studio 11, add to this better handling of AVCHD and Pinnacle might have got it right.. My system is:- Core 2 duo 3.0 Ghz CPU 2 gb Ram Win XP Service Pack 2 SATA hard drive for operating system. SATA hard drive for video footage. 512 mb Graphics card. Gigabyte GA 35 Series MoBo.