Pinnacle Studio 9

Pinnacle Systems took the wraps off Pinnacle Studio 9 yesterday, beefing up an already strong product. Among the highlights of the new release (which is due to ship in February) is a new SmartMovie feature that automatically creates a movie by combining a music soundtrack with raw footage, similar to what muvee autoProducer offers. There’s also a number of new effects and transitions, as well as tools for color correction and cleaning up artifacts from imported video. Users can also now edit 16×9 widescreen video with Studio 9. The best part is that Pinnacle is still offering Studio for just $99.