Pinnacle Studio Plus 10

Mark watched the frame counter tick up. 100... 500... 1000...

The installation process was a rite of passage. The software came on two CDs. Mark sat in the glow of the CRT monitor, the hum of the computer fan filling the room. He watched the blue progress bars crawl across the screen, praying that the family PC had enough RAM to handle the "Plus" features. pinnacle studio plus 10

This is a story about the golden age of the "prosumer." Mark watched the frame counter tick up

Users could apply and preview effects like Pan and Zoom (the "Ken Burns effect") for digital photos in high resolution without needing to render first. Mark sat in the glow of the CRT

Pinnacle Studio Plus 10 had a specific "feel." It was drag-and-drop. It was intuitive. You didn't need a degree in engineering to figure out how to splice a clip. You just grabbed the razor blade tool, clicked, and snip —the shot was trimmed.