Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 12

Description

Studio Ultimate 12 tries to maximize its appeal by adding Blu-ray Disc, Flash video, and direct-to-YouTube support.

A 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. The Magic Bullet LooksBuilder SE plug-in has many powerful settings for customizing the way clips look. Boris Graffiti, the third new plug-in, is designed for adding moving titles; its preset titles worked fine, and it has an extremely complex advanced mode for setting key frames.

A small but welcome new feature: If your designated drive runs out of space while you're outputting content to it, you can pause the operation. Studio Ultimate 12 has more features than any other consumer-level video editor, but we still prefer Adobe Premiere Elements  because of its more elegant interface and superior stability.