Overview
Complete audio and video production suite
Create movies in stunning AVCHD and stereoscopic 3D. Edit audio in Sound Forge Audio Studio, upload movies to Pixelcast, and burn them to DVD or Blu-ray Disc all with Movie Studio Platinum Suite! With innovative and powerful features for video compositing, color correction, and animated titling, professional-grade results are easier to achieve than ever. Use the surround sound mixing tools to create 5.1 soundtracks. Add style with the NewBlueFX 3D Titling and Video Effects. Complement your film with 50 Sony Sound Series: Production Music soundtracks. When you're ready, upload completed projects to your free Pixelcast Plus* account and invite others to collaborate!
Movie Studio Platinum 12
Tell your story any way you want. Edit video in nearly any format, including stereoscopic 3D. Stylize your movies with high-quality video effects, transitions, titles, and filters. Fix washed-out footage or make colors pop with color-correction tools. Share your movies on Pixelcast without ever leaving the application! Collaborate on a fun and unique experience with friends and have them upload their movies and photos too. The choice is yours and, with Movie Studio Platinum, the possibilities are endless.
DVD Architect Studio 5
Produce picture slideshows, single-movie DVDs, music compilations, and menu-based DVD and Blu-ray Disc projects in no time. Choose from dozens of ready-made templates or create your own custom backgrounds and buttons. You can also add a menu and scene-selection menu to any title.
Sound Forge Audio Studio 10
Sound Forge Audio Studio is the easiest way to work with music and sound on your home computer. Record almost anything. Give your tracks presence and sparkle. Digitize rare LP records and tapes, create your own karaoke tracks, burn CDs, and generate files for the Web and all your favorite portable players.
Red Giant Magic Bullet Quick Looks
Classic film looks in a click. Magic Bullet Quick Looks sets the mood for your footage in seconds. You can easily define the style of your video with 100+ presets that add color and light to every scene, from wedding video to the next Sundance original.
NewBlueFX 3D Titling and Video Effects
The Movie Studio Platinum 12 Suite includes an exciting group of audio and video effects by NewBlue, a leading manufacturer of audio and video plug-ins. Once installed, the tools are available directly from the Movie Studio Platinum 12 effects windows, providing a seamless editing experience without ever leaving the application. These additional transitions and effects provide more options to enhance audio and video projects with a professional look and feel.
Jump Start Tutorials
The included Jump Start Tutorials provide a quick overview of the Movie Studio Platinum 12 program. Youll learn how to create entire audio and video projects from setup to final delivery. Topics also include several advanced sections explaining how to add that professional touch with Chroma Key techniques and Color Correction tools.
iZoptope Vocal Eraser
Sound Forge Audio Studio 10 software includes the Vocal Eraser plug-in. Create karaoke tracks and remove vocals from songs for remixing.
50 Sony Sound Series: Production Music soundtracks
Add intensity with music. Access 50 royalty-free Sony Sound Series: Production Music soundtracks. Each Production Music soundtrack comes in four different lengths. Choose the one that best fits your movie, or tweak the file any way you want.
Technical specifications
Movie Studio HD Platinum software has everything you need to produce movies in spectacular high definition and burn to DVD or Blu-ray Disc. With the Production Suite you can step up your audio with the included Sound Forge Audio Studio software and 50 Sony Sound Series: Production Music soundtracks. The included NewBlueFX audio and video effects make this our most comprehensive video editing tool for the home studio.
Movie Studio Platinum 12.0 Features
General Features
- New! 20 Sony Sound Series production music files
- New! Windows Vista and Windows 7 64-bit support
- New! Simplified event edge trimming
- New! 3D Blu-ray Disc and Internet project templates in New Project dialog
- Transport Control support for Trimmer and Preview Window
- Horizontal Window Docking
- Microsoft Windows 7 certified
- Streamlined New Project creation wizard
- Customizable windows layouts
- Device Explorer Window
- Slideshow Creator
- Save As dialog with Copy media with project check box
- Media Generator Match Event Length
- Keyboard modifiers
- Time Selection Envelope editing
- Automatically crop still images
- Improved native HDV .m2t playback performance and improved memory handling for HDV long form projects
- Freehand envelope drawing on the timeline.
- Display of media marker names in events.
- Ability to snap to event edges on other tracks
- Multitrack video and audio editing
- Real-time editing of parameters during playback
- Support for any aspect ratio (4:3, 16:9, etc)
- High-definition editing and output
- Built-in Show Me How interactive tutorials
- Project media bins
- Track markers and regions
- Unlimited undo/redo
Capture/Export/Hardware Features
- New! Publish movies to Pixelcast
- New! Support for GPU-accelerated AVC rendering using the Sony AVC and MainConcept AVC plug-ins
- Integrated upload to YouTube
- Burn to Blu-ray Disc from timeline
- Integrated DVD burning from the timeline
- Render and Make Movie Dialogs
- Custom render template creation
- Upload 3D projects to YouTube 3D
- Quicktime AVC decode
- File format and template updates
- OpenCL AVC Encode
- Render As dialog templates display templates matching the project with a "=" symbol
- Improved support for AVC/AAC (MPEG-4) video
- Import and export support for FLAC files
- Import support for LPEC files
- Import support for MJPEG-encoded AVI files
- Sony AVCHD import and edit support
- Import and export ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and ATRAC Advanced Lossless files
- Insert I-frames at marker positions when rendering MPEG-2 (works in conjunction with I-frame viewer in DVD Architect Studio 5.0)
- Gracenote MusicID CD album identification
- AC3 stereo and 5.1 encoding
- MainConcept AVC/AAC, read/write (templates only) iPod format
- PSP (PlayStation Portable) integration
- Sony AVC/AAC (templates only)
Audio Features
- New! Up to 20 audio tracks
- Event level audio effect assignment
- Zplane lastique audio timestretching and pitch shifting
- Place audio without quantizing to frame boundaries
- Improved Audio Waveform drawing
- Multithreaded audio engine maximizes performance
- Gracenote MusicID CD album identification
- Basic surround support
- Support for multichannel (5.1) source files for Sony HDV Handycam camcorders
- 16-bit, 44.1 kHz song quality for exceptional performance
- Volume and pan envelopes
- Audio time stretching
- Event normalization
- CD audio extraction
Supported File Formats
Opens: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AVI, BMP, CDA, FLAC, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MVC, OGG, OMA, PCA, PNG, QuickTime , RealMedia , SND, SFA, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV
Saves: AAC, AC3, AA3, AIFF, AVC, AVI, BMP, FLAC, JPEG, LPEC, MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MVC, OGG, PCA, PNG, QuickTime, RealMedia , TIFF, W64, WAV, WDP, WMA, WMV
Video Features
- New! Up to 20 video tracks
- New! Split and Trim toolbar buttons
- New! 3D Floating Windows controls
- New! Color-coded visual indicator that event has been added to timeline
- Stereoscopic 3D editing
- Support for 24p, 50p and 60p projects
- Enhanced video plug-in architecture
- Support for MVC and MPO file formats
- Single-display 3D support
- Image stabilization
- White Balance video plug-in
- Secondary Color Corrector plug-in
- Subclips in the Trimmer window
- Automatic Video Preview playback optimization
- Adjust source media to automatically match project or render settings
- Gradient Wipe transition
- Full-screen preview to a primary and secondary Windows display
- Real-time playback of effects, processes and transitions to external monitor
- Color-correction tools
- Superior frame rate conversions
- Credit rolls and text animation
- Over 400 video effects and transitions
- External monitor preview
- Ripple editing across tracks
DVD Architect Studio 5.0 Features
General
- Microsoft Windows 7 certified
- Burning to Blu-ray Disc
- Enhanced window layout management save, recall, and share custom window layouts.
- Built-in Show Me How interactive tutorials
- End actions for menus and media
- Project overview window
- Customizable user interface
- DVD theme export
- Project playlists
- Smart reprepare
DVD design and authoring
- Menu-based and single-movie DVD creation
- Picture slideshows and music compilations
- Easy to use drag-and drop interface
- Unlimited number of undo/redo
- Media Explorer
- Adjustable project and file optimization settings
- Multimonitor support
- Multiprocessor support
- Fully customizable toolbars
- DVD editing and layout
- Still and motion menu creation
- Support for multiple video titles
- Multiple menus with up to 36 buttons per menu
- Menu object editing, alignment, and sizing tools
- Text editing and shadow effects
- Object snapping
- Slide image rotation
- Add, edit, and move chapter points
- Title and Action safe grid area
- Customizable themes
- Menu looping
Video
- Fit-to-disc compression
- DVD movie creation
- NTSC and PAL in standard (4:3) and widescreen (16:9) formats
- Imports AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV, WMV, and a variety of still image formats
Audio
- Music compilations
- Attach audio files to menus
- Media file previewing
- Import WAV, MP3, WMA, PCA, AIF, MPEG audio
Testing and Burning
- Dual-layer drive support
- Real-time project previewing with virtual DVD remote control or to external monitor
- DVD project verification and preparation
- Supports a wide variety of DVD burners
Sound Forge Audio Studio 10.0 Features
General Features
- 24-bit/32-bit float, 192 kHz audio support
- Windows 8 compatible
- Global Media cache
- Customizable window layouts
- Floating window docks
- Tabbed data window browsing
- Custom selection gridlines
- Show Me How interactive tutorials
- Simple editing and navigation
- Easy drag-and-drop functionality
- Real-time nondestructive editing
- Multitask background rendering
- Media Explorer with automatic file previewing
- Automatic left and right mono-to-stereo merge
- Fully customizable toolbars
- Mix, paste, and crossfade
- Automatic file mixing and conversion
- Unlimited Undo/Redo
- Over 30 built-in effects & processes
- System and user-defined function presets
- Enhanced Preset Manager
- Crash recovery
- Mark-in, mark-out, drop markers in real time
- Embed URL flips within audio and video stream
- Mono and stereo sound files
- Real-time play and record meters
- Full support for 4 GB and larger files
- Standard keyboard commands, mouse shortcuts, and toolbars
- Compress sound files for 8-bit distribution
Sample Editing
- Sustaining Loop, Release Loop Recording
- Real-time record meters
- Remote record function
Tools
- Enhanced Vinyl Recording and Restoration Tool
- Metadata Windows
- Integrated disc-at-once (DAO) CD burning
- JKL scrubbing
- Gracenote MusicID CD album identification
- Track-at-once CD burning
- Drag-and-drop CD extraction
- Express FX Vinyl Restoration Tool
- Statistics Tool
- Simple Synthesis with sweep
- DTMF/MF Synthesis
Effects
- Resonant Filter
plug-in
- Vocal Eraser
plug-in
- DirectX audio
plug-in support
- VST audio effect support
- ASIO driver support
- Amplitude Modulation
- Chorus
- Delay
- Distortion
- Dynamics
- Envelopes
- Flange/Wah-Wah
- Noise Gate
- Pitch Bend
- Reverb
- Stutter
Regions and Playlists
- Updated marker and region ruler with selection snapping
- Regions List
- Name markers, loops, and regions
Processes
- Bit Depth Converter (to 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit)
- DC Offset
- 10-band EQ
- Fade In/Out
- Graphic Fade
- Multiple fade curve types
- Insert Silence
- Invert/Flip
- Mute
- Normalize
- Pan
- Resample
- Reverse
- Smooth/Enhance
- Swap channels
- Time Compress
- Volume
Tools for ACID Software
- Create loops for use in ACID software
- Loop-editing toolbar
- Assign root notes, number of beats, and tempo
Timing Basis
- Time Display window
- Absolute Frames
- Measures and Beats
- Samples, Time, Seconds
- SMPTE Drop/Non-Drop
- SMPTE EBU/Film Sync
- Time and Frames
Audio and Video Support and Encoding
- AAC support
- Save files to popular multimedia and Internet file formats
- Windows Media 9 import and export, RealMedia 9 export
- QuickTime 6 import
- Adjustable video frame rate and frame size
- Video frame display above waveform
- Edit AVI files with multiple audio streams
- Maintain perfect sync while working with full NTSC and PAL video
- Audio and video synchronization with sub-frame accuracy
- Various video and audio compression options
- Support for 24 fps native DV video files
- Video Preview window
Supported Formats
Import: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, FLAC, SD, IVC, MP3, OGG, OMA, PCA, QuickTime , RAW, SND, SFA, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
Export: AAC, AA3, AIFF, AU, AVI, DIG, FLAC, IVC, MP3, OGG, RealAudio , PCA, RAW, RealVideo , QuickTime, VOX, W64, WAV, WMA, WMV
Minimum system requirements
- Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit or 64-bit SP2, Windows 7 32-bit or 64-bit, or Windows 8 32-bit or 64-bit operating system
- 2 GHz processor (multicore or multiprocessor CPU recommended for HD or stereoscopic 3D)
- 500 MB hard-disk space for program installation
- 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
- IEEE-1394DV card (for DV capture and print-to-tape)
- USB 2.0 connection (for importing from AVCHD, XDCAM EX, NXCAM, or DVD camcorders)
- 512 MB GPU memory
- NVIDIA, INTEL, or AMD GPU:
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NVIDIA
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Requires a CUDA-enabled GPU and driver 270.xx or later.
- GeForce GPUs: GeForce GTX 4xx Series or higher (or GeForce GT 2xx Series or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
- Quadro GPUs: Quadro 600 or higher (or Quadro FX 1700 or higher with driver 285.62 or later).
NVIDIA recommends NVIDIA Quadro for professional applications and recommends use of the latest boards based on the Fermi architecture.
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AMD/ATI
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Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU and Catalyst driver 11.7 or later with a Radeon HD 57xx or higher GPU. If using a FirePro GPU, FirePro unified driver 8.85 or later is required.
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INTEL
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Requires an OpenCL-enabled GPU such as HD Graphics 4000.
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- Windows-compatible sound card
- DVD-ROM drive (for installation from a DVD only)
- Supported CD-recordable drive (for CD burning only)
- Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW (for DVD burning only)
- Supported BD-R/-RE drive (for Blu-ray Disc burning only)
- Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (included on application disc)
- Apple QuickTime 7.1.6 or later for reading and writing QuickTime files
- Internet Connection (for Gracenote MusicID Service)
You must provide your registration information to Sony Creative Software Inc., a US company, in order to activate the software. Product requires online registration.
