Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate

Pinnacle Studio 26 is a pro-level video editing software for Windows. This new version of Pinnacle is faster, better, and more efficient than ever. Based on clients feedback, the product was improved, focusing on core editing processes to bring real improvements to the aspects that truly matter, delivering most streamlined and smooth editing experience in years. Pinnacle Studio 26 brings tangible improvements to the user experience beyond simple bug fixes and interface tweaks— the structure of the product was upgraded with changes in everything from behavioral logic to resource management, to a brand-new proxy codec. With greatly enhanced stability, performance, and usability, enjoy a streamlined workflow, and fully focus on the creative side of video editing.

Key features of Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate:

• Screen Recording
• MultiCam Editing
• Split Screen Video
• Title Editor
• Keyframe Controls
• Creative Effects
• Stop Motion Animation
• DVD Authoring

Ultimate exclusive features:

• Motion Tracking
• Video Masking
• Full Color Grading
• Smart Object Tracking
• Split Screen Template Creator
• 360 Video Editing
• Blend Modes
• Alpha Channel
• Audio Ducking

Key new features of Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate:

Product Stability
This release focuses largely on product stability and core feature performance, along with dozens of crash and bug fixes for targeted improvements to more than 200 unique user-identified scenarios. Pinnacle Studio 26 is our most reliable and stable version to date.

Product Performance

• Incredible performance improvements have been implemented in user-identified areas such as software launch time, resource utilization, interface and project preview responsiveness, as well as import and export speed. Main performance improvements include:
• Implementing Apple ProRes as a smart proxy format for improved preview, playback, timeline rendering, and overall editing responsiveness
• Changing behavioral logic to avoid unnecessary refreshes and reduce rendering delays
• A new dropdown to choose from project preview quality options to optimize performance
• Targeted speed improvements on importing clips into the library and exporting final projects

Keyframe Editing

• With newly added keyframe management options, it’s easy to manipulate groups of keyframes for quick replication of your customizations, such as looping animations, light flashes, custom pan and zoom animations, complex sequences of changes to color or brightness, and more.
• Create, copy, paste, and delete groups of keyframes across parameters (brightness, transparency, saturation, etc.) to another clip, or another parameter on the same clip.

User Interface
Enjoy streamlined editing with enhanced usability across the product, thanks to improvements on the installation process, control panel options, in-product help, and more. Refreshed control panel sections provide more control over your editing experience, including options to reduce the demand on your computer; revised tooltips and interface strings deliver improved clarity and interpretability.

Tools and features performance across the product
Enjoy improved title editing responsiveness and see changes applied to titles in the title preview much faster. Plus, manage your customized titles more effectively with updates to the accessibility of your saved presets. Extend the power of video masking with reduced mask editing response time for shape creation and editing, object tracking, and applying functions to the mask or matte for better playback performance.

Ultimate exclusive: Color  grading. Advanced controls like Tone Curve, HSL Tuning, Color Wheel, and Selective Vectorscope make it easy to independently adjust colors, highlights, midtones, and shadows.
Ultimate exclusive: Video Masking. Enhance, combine, and alter footage with video masks.
Ultimate exclusive: Smart object tracking. Edit more efficiently and save a lot of time with Smart Object Tracking, intelligent, shape-aware motion tracking for masks applied on common objects
Ultimate exclusive: Censor moving objects with mosaic blur.
Ultimate exclusive: Add graphics or text to moving objects with Motion Tracking.
Ultimate exclusive: Split Screen Template Creator. Combine two or more videos filmed separately—on one screen. Use this popular technique to create promo videos or comparison videos, to show different gaming strategies or to better illustrate any of your stories.
Ultimate exclusive: 360° Video Editor. Play with fun perspectives and 3D effects (Tiny Planet, Rabbit Hole) to bring entertaining moments to your films. 
Ultimate exclusive: 3D Title Editor. Make your video more cinematic with the enhanced Title Editor. Leverage stylish 3D typography presets and tell your story your way.

Main Applications included:

• Video editing software
• Video capture and screen recorder
• Slideshow maker
• Audio editor
• DVD authoring
• Video converter

Creative Content included:

• Hundreds of filters and effects
• Library of animated overlays, graphics, creative fonts, and titles
• Themed templates and video montages
• Royalty-free music and sound effects