Pinnacle Studio has a massive library of optional effects – but with one big downside. Five extra VST audio plug-ins have been included as well, including the powerful stereo echo and stereo spread filters. A total of 18 new filters have been added too, including luma keying, motion blur, RGB colour balance and lighting control. Other than the real-time performance, the biggest feature brought over is keyframing, allowing you to vary filter settings over the duration of a clip. With Liquid Edition underneath, Studio 10 has a huge amount of editing power and effects to call upon. But playback would occasionally stutter for no apparent reason, even on our dual 3GHz test system: a single 2.4GHz processor is all that’s recommended by Pinnacle. On the one hand, it was possible to play a superimposition track with a Hollywood FX 3D effect over the top of another track, both with more than one filter applied. However, despite allegedly having the same rendering engine, we didn’t find Studio 10 quite as fluid during playback as we’ve come to expect from Liquid Edition.
We placed MPEG2 footage from a JVC Everio camcorder over DV using Picture-in-Picture, and Studio didn’t miss a beat. The Liquid Edition engine has the added benefit of being able to mix formats on the same timeline, so you could, for example, have DV AVIs and MPEG co-existing.
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Primarily, with Liquid Edition underneath, effects can be seen at full quality without the necessity of rendering. So users of recent versions of Studio will have no trouble getting to grips with this upgrade, but they may also wonder what’s new. In fact, if you can remember back to the original Gold Disk Video Director upon which Studio was based, the overall feel still has a lot in common. But the interface is similar to previous versions, with just a few aesthetic changes.
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The guts of the software have been scooped out and replaced by the Liquid Edition real-time renderer. Instead, the new version marks a complete replacement of the underlying engine. In fact, the consumer products will still keep the Pinnacle name, while Liquid Edition moves over to the Avid nomenclature. Version 10 isn’t just an Avid branding refresh, though.