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Studio 9 Plus

Pinnacle Systems Studio 9 Plus is a popular software solution for video editing.

For precisely this reason, Studio 9 is useful for benchmarking purposes. Each new version designed by the manufacturer is usually compliant with new processor functions such as SSE3.

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Software:Studio 9 Plus (Pinnacle Systems)THG timing tool
Version:Patch 9.4.2
Installed size:768 M (plus workload)
Benchmark duration:A few minutes

Installation

Install the program and update it to Version 9.4.2 by loading the latest patch. We use a self-designed utility program and our own project file for time measurement.

Settings

Switch to 'Make Movie » Settings... » Make MPEG File', in order to make the following adjustments:

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Presets:DVD compatible

Benchmarking

Having opened your project file, now open an input window in 'Make Movie » MPEG » Create MPEG file...'. This will ask you for a file name for the video file you're working on. At this point we start our measurement program, which automatically starts the conversion process and measures the time.