Pinnacle Studio is a non-linear video editing software application manufactured by Pinnacle Systems; who was acquired by Avid (and later acquired by Corel in July 2012).

Pinnacle Studio may be purchased separately, but is also included in bundled packages with various video capture hardware devices.

This version is based in Avid Studio and bears little resemblance to previous versions of Pinnacle Studio.

My first video in Pinnacle Studios - still a novice there :-)...

There are a variety of different encoders to compress video footage into the MPEG-2 format, including software like Pinnacle Studio 9.

Pinnacle Studio 11.1.2 and higher offers AVCHD disc output.

Pinnacle Systems recommends that Pinnacle Studio be used on computers with at least a one-gigahertz processor and 256 megabytes of RAM and a high-end graphics card.

Higher up the food chain in terms of price and features is Pinnacle Studio 8 for Windows, which sells for $99 at www.pinnaclesys.com.

Pinnacle Studio (www.pinnaclesys.com) is another home video-editing program with different versions that range in price from about $50 to $130.