New Montage feature in Pinnacle Studio 12 brings holiday videos to life
Montage effortlessly creates professional looking videos with TV-like effects
Pinnacle Systems provides holidaymakers with an incredibly easy way to create spectacular home videos that look like
they were made for TV. The secret lies in Pinnacle Montage, an exclusive feature of the recently released and already
award-winning Studio 12 video editing software product family.
Pinnacle Montage lets users spice up home video projects of their
vacations with the kind of effects that are frequently seen on TV
shows, like having several clips playing simultaneously. Common
examples are the “video wall” used by news shows and the “zoom-in,
zoom-out” scene transitions used in popular TV shows.
Until the release of Studio 12, having two or more videos playing at
the same time was virtually out of the reach of inexperienced users.
The only way to create it was with complicated and time-consuming
processes using several video tracks (known as multi-track) and
creating the right mix of the different videos, a task that demanded
quite an effort, even for a professional. But thanks to Pinnacle
Montage, users can now add multi-track video effects project in
minutes – no experience required.
Montage offers beautifully designed pre-built templates effects,
animated graphics and titles. The user simply drags video clips on to
the template’s drop zones and adds text for the titles. Montage does
the rest – and the results are amazing. Presets can be added to
multiple tracks - such as video and title - and can overlay other
presets for complex compositing results.
Pinnacle Montage includes 11 pre-defined themes (Album, Seasons,
Video Wall, 50s Modern, Baby, Instant Photo, Love, Multilayer Mix,
Sports, Star, and Tribute) with over 80 individual templates. The
Album theme, for example, recreates the experience of browsing
through a photo album, complete with page turns. The Seasons
theme is particularly appropriate for holidaymakers who want to turn
their vacation videos into a professional-looking souvenir movie.
With the new exclusive feature included only in Pinnacle Studio 12,
users can amaze their friends and family by turning their holiday
footage into professional style videos that easily mix video, photos
and audio. And what’s best is that editing it will only take a few
minutes of their precious time.
Pinnacle Studio 12 family
The Pinnacle Studio version 12 family consists of three affordably
priced versions to meet the needs of consumers ranging from novices
to dedicated video enthusiasts. In addition to Pinnacle Studio, the
basic version, Pinnacle offers Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate with
more advanced audio and video tools, including a complete HD
workflow.