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.