There are more reasons than ever to step up to Pinnacle Studio Plus version 10, the most advanced and powerful home video editing solution available today. Studio Plus has been totally rebuilt from the ground up on the highly esteemed professional Pinnacle Liquid Edition Engine with your future in mind. Studio Plus combines the blowout horsepower, quality and control required for 100's of awesome keyframeable real-time effects in popular formats including high quality HDV with the familiar and intuitive interface and three-step workflow that you know and love.

Now you can even run real-time HD Pan & Zoom, Picture in Picture, and Chroma Key with full resolution HD preview on your computer. Studio Plus version 10 means more power, more features, more supported formats, more connectivity to the popular consumer devices including HDV video cameras and video cell phones and more reliability all in the comfort of Studio's well-known unadulterated intuitive interface.

Top ten reasons to upgrade to Studio Plus version 10

Built on the Most Powerful and Professional Engine in the Business Studio Plus now has the horsepower, quality, reliability and control of the professionally esteemed Pinnacle Liquid Edition Engine.

More Control with Keyframeable Real-Time Effects with Preview Pinnacle Studio Plus now includes hundreds of standard and new extraordinary keyframeable and format independent (SD and even HD) bonus real-time effects and transitions powered by the legendary and professional Pinnacle Liquid Effects Engine. With added keyframing, you have the control to change characteristics at any point in time. This means you can simply and clearly align an audio cue to a specific visual effect in your movie. These keyframeable effects and transitions can even be previewed immediately in their full resolution glory right on your primary or even secondary computer monitor. And if you ever outgrow the hefty palette of included effects, Pinnacle provides you with the peace of mind with knowing that there are always thousands more very affordable effects available when and if you ever need them.

Capture from More Popular Sources Including HD
Pinnacle Studio Plus now gives you the power in combination with Studio's celebrated ease of use to capture video from the latest consumer HD cameras, DVD video cameras and even cell phones.

Natively Edit and Share in More Popular Formats
Thanks to the power of the prestigious and professional Pinnacle Liquid Effects Engine, you can now actually edit with keyframeable real-time effects and transitions in DV, MPEG-2 and truly stunning high quality HD!

Professional TV Style Effects
With Pinnacle Studio Plus, you can create the extraordinary real-time multi-track editing and effects that you see on TV everyday like Chroma Key (blue screen) and Picture and Picture (PIP) in popular formats including MPEG-2 and HD. The Chroma key effect gives you the power to position the star of your video anywhere in the world and beyond while the PIP effect lets you place one video inside another in real-time in all Studio Plus formats.

HD Pan & Zoom
Retain the greatest image resolution while effortlessly creating captivating high quality HD movies. Studio Plus actually allows you to take advantage of the inherent quality of your original digital images when animating them with close ups and Pans and Zoom in any direction with Ken Burns like effects. Now, you can actually zoom in on a face or object with true HD clarity. Why drop the quality of your images and lose potential creative options when you can edit your images in true HD in combination with Pinnacle Studio's renowned ease of use. If you have digital images, you are now ready and actually owe it to yourself to edit in HD.

Instant Transfer to DVD
Studio Plus now includes a uniquely innovative feature for those times when you want to quickly archive or share your work on DVD. Pinnacle Studio Plus provides a quick and easy tool for instantly transferring your video tapes directly to DVD's without the extra time consuming step of copying your files on to your hard drive. Now you can actually take key video from video tapes and instantly archive them in full digital quality on DVD with menus in less the half the time it takes with other solutions.

Pinnacle Media Manager
Now with the remarkable Pinnacle Media Manager tool inside of Pinnacle Studio Plus, you can quickly and easily find, manage and organize all of your videos, photos, audio and music files for drag and drop editing within Studio Plus.

More Effects and Transitions Including Variable Speed Video and Audio
Pinnacle Studio Plus brings many new effects including slow and fast motion video and audio playback as well as the added control of true audio scrubbing for easy identification of key audio cues like specific musical beats and/or words. Pinnacle Studio Plus is also loaded with many new scene transitions and special realtime effects to bolster your creatively options.

Background Rendering
Now with Studio Plus, you can continue to drive your creativity while you are rendering high quality format and resolution independent SD and HD output transparently in the background. In other words, you can keep working on your project while you are simultaneously rendering your project to the top quality of your chosen format. This great new feature will sharply reduce and in many cases even eliminate the incremental time needed to render out your final project for CD, DVD or the Web.