ReadMe_Ultimate.doc

Pinnacle Studio version 12 - Ultimate disc ReadMe

Pinnacle – a division of Avid

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Congratulations! You are about to enter the world of professional quality movie making. If you encounter any issues when working with the included 3rd-party applications, please read this text and the included PDF manuals and Help files.

Each of these applications is provided from their respective vendors and are not products of Pinnacle. You can find further information, tutorials, FAQs, forums and more on the vendors websites.

Boris Graffiti

Boris FX
260 Cedar Hill St.
Marlborough, MA 01752

USA

http://www.borisfx.com/

http://www.borisfx.com/product/support/

Magic Bullet Looks

Red Giant Software
13619 Pendleton Mills Court
Fort Wayne IN 46814

USA

http://www.redgiantsoftware.com/index.html

http://staging.myredgiant.com/support/

Red Giant recommends the following graphics boards for Magic Bullet Looks:

FAST: GeForce 6600, 7300, 8400 or ATI X-series 800, 1600, 2600

FASTER: - GeForce 6800, 7800, 8600, or ATI X-series 1900, 2900

FASTEST: - GeForce 8800, GT/GTS/GTX, or ATI 3850/3870

Intel GMA will NOT work with Magic Bullet Looks.

proDAD Vitascene

proDAD GmbH

Gauertstr. 2,

78194 Immendingen,

Germany

http://www.prodad.com

http://www.prodad.de/gb/support.html

Studio Graphic Board Memory Requirements

Studio uses the Graphics board to render effects. The video resolutions that may be edited are determined by the amount of memory on the graphics board:

Windows XP

·              64MB – Standard Definition video only

·              128MB – HD up to 720p

·              256MB – HD up to 1080 i/p

Windows Vista

·              128MB – Standard Definition video only

·              256MB – HD up to 1080 i/p

Using a board with more memory than rated above may increase the performance in HD. For the best experience with HD and using multiple Plug-Ins, we recommend using a 512MB graphic board.

Some graphic boards reserve 16MB of memory for internal use so it may not be possible to edit video at the expected resolution.  For example, an NVIDIA Quadro board with 128MB may only be capable of SD editing and a Quadro with 256 MB may only be capable of editing HD up to 720p.

Shared Memory – Graphics cards that do not have their own dedicated memory and instead use the system’s main RAM are not capable of HD editing. This includes Intel onboard graphics (i845, i860, i915, i940) and nVidia TurboCache graphics cards.

If you are intensively editing in HD with Plug-ins using the GPU (Magic Bullet Looks and Vitascene), we recommend to use a 512MB board