Three new plug-in packages included with Studio Ultimate 12 confer varying benefits. Some of the Montage options are snazzy, but few of them allow any customisation. My best results came when I uploaded a high-quality Flash video to YouTube.Ī new feature, Pinnacle Montage, provides 11 themes and 80 templates that you can use to add effects such as menus of moving frames with video, animated text, and graphics. Once they’re uploaded to YouTube, however, you can view clips in “high quality” or “standard quality.” I’ve found that, the higher the quality before I upload videos, the better the YouTube-compressed versions turn out to be. The YouTube uploads have just one quality setting – which is understandable, since YouTube has a single upload setting. Studio 11 supported Yahoo Video or Pinnacle’s own video-sharing site though you can upload to Yahoo with Studio 12, uploading to Pinnacle’s site is no longer an option. Studio Ultimate 12 lets you export videos directly to YouTube. The reason: The newer player recognised discs burned in AVCHD format, whereas the older one didn’t you can, however, change Studio Ultimate’s settings to create discs for older models of Blu-ray players. The first Blu-ray discs I created wouldn’t play in an older Blu-ray player, but they worked fine in a newer model, the Panasonic DMP-30K. Studio performed sluggishly with AVCHD files on both systems that I used with it. The basic, $130 version of Studio does not support AVCHD or HDV importation the $200 Plus and $250 Ultimate versions do.

Studio Ultimate 12 adds Blu-ray Disc authoring, with tools that include animated menus. The previous version of Studio Ultimate let users import footage in the Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD) and High Definition Video (HDV) formats, and create HD DVD discs. Pinnacle’s Studio Ultimate 12 video-editing software tries to maximise its appeal by adding Blu-ray Disc, Flash video, and direct-to-YouTube support. Standard-definition video is going the way of the HD DVD player – or is it? TVs have gone high-def in a big way, but YouTube and other online venues continue to serve standard definition.

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