Pinnacle Gear to Feature Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator

Pinnacle Systems is now shipping its digital video editing products with Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator multichannel encoding technology.

The technology is currently being included in Pinnacle Liquid Edition and is also available for Studio Plus, the consumer-based video editor with a second video track for A/B editing, chroma key effects and dual-layer DVD support.

With Creator, users can store more audio content on discs and an audio track recording takes up less space.

Greg Rodehau, director, PC technology marketing, Dolby Laboratories said that video enthusiasts can now add dramatic sound effects to their video creations without compromising disc space.