Specifications and more information

Pinnacle Montage

Watch your memories come alive

Easy Moviemaking

Making great looking movies has never been easier. Simply select a theme complete with associated titles and animated graphics. Drop in your video and photos. Then surprise everyone with polished results.

Great Graphics

Each theme gives you access to a series of templates to give your video a fabulous “look”– over 80 templates for multi-layered effects, animated graphics and great titles.

Fantastic Results

Amaze your friends and family with professional style videos. Who ever thought that mixing your media together – video, photos, audio – could be so simple and create such amazing home movies?

11 Themes + 81 associated templates including:

50s Modern, Album, Baby, Instant Photo, Love, Multi-layer Mix, Season, Sports, Star, Tribute & Video Wall

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows® XP SP2 (SP3), Windows Vista™ (SP1)
  Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
• Intel Pentium HT or AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista 1 GB system memory recommended
• DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB or higher recommended) 128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB or higher recommended)
• DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
• 2 GB of disk space
• DVD-ROM drive to install software
• Optional:
  CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
  DVD burner for creating DVD* discs

Capture Options

• Capture from DV and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs (requires a FireWire® port)
• Capture from analog camcorders, 8 mm, HI 8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow® compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analog (Composite or S-Video) inputs

Output Options

• Output to DV or Digital8 tape (requires camcorder with DV Input port and a PC with a DV/FireWire port)
• Output to analog videotape (requires DirectShow compatible video device or video card with TV-output)
• Output to Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ formats*

Import Formats

• Video: DV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP(MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
• Audio: MP3, MPA, WAV, AC3*
• Graphic: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

• Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
• DVD* disc with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer)
• Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
• DV, AVI, DivX*, RealVideo® 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3* files
• Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio