At the tail end of last year,
Pinnacle released version
10 of its video-editing program, Studio. But less than six months later and
there's already a new member of the Studio family -
Pinnacle
Studio Plus Titanium Edition.
The latest version brings together all the revisions that were implemented in
the Studio10.5 update, along with a selection of additional 'professional-level'
video effects.
The 10.5 update itself includes a large number of performance enhancements,
such as slightly faster launch of the application and increased support for AMD
processors. Sadly, still only two layers of video are available in timeline
editing mode.
The only real significant new feature is the ability to export video to
either Ipod
or
Playstation
Portable (PSP) friendly formats.
The various other fixes and improvements certainly go towards making Studio a
dependable video-editing platform but, since the 10.5 update is free to download
for existing Studio 10 users, it has little genuine value in itself.
More interesting are the bundled effects, which are normally sold separately
for around £50 as RTFX Vol. 1.
Since Pinnalce Titanium Edition sells for the same price as the Studio Plus
10 standard version, this works out as something of a bargain.
As it is, the effects themselves are a bit of a mixed bag. The Tint and
Sharpen filters are fairly useful and the advanced Old Film filter could come in
handy, but many of the remaining effects, including Mosaic, Hall of Mirrors and
Stained Glass Advanced, are as gimmicky as they sound.
That said, we stick by the comments we made in our initial assessment of
Studio 10.
It doesn't have the kind of sophistication or level of control of higher-end
products like Adobe Premiere, but with a simple interface, built-in DVD
authoring, support for high-definition formats and plenty of help from various
wizards and one-click automated options, Studio - Titanium Edition or
otherwise - is still definitely one of the easiest, most well-rounded video
editors on the market.
System requirements:
1.4GHz processor
512MB of Ram
1GB disk space (3GB for bonus materials)
DVD-Rom drive
Windows XP
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