Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate

Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate is an advanced Windows pro-level video editing software with unlimited tracks, enhanced keyframing, and hundreds of creative effects, transitions, graphics, overlays, fonts, and title presets. It supports up to 4K video and offers a full-featured color correction toolset that lets you turn your high-resolution footage into professional-looking polished videos. Updated features in version 26 include improved stability and performance, enhanced keyframe editing, an improved user interface, and improved tool and feature performance.

Studio 26 Ultimate arrives in a box containing a card with a download code for installing the application from the Pinnacle website.

Dozens of crash and bug fixes for targeted improvements to more than 200 unique user-identified scenarios.

• Implemented 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

• 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.

• 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

• Enjoy improved title editing responsiveness and see changes applied to titles in the title preview much faster.
• 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

• Title editor
• Motion tracking (enhanced with face detection and mosaic blur)
• Motion Tracking with filter mask
• Customizable workspace and keyboard shortcuts (enhanced with searchable shortcuts)
• Group and nest clips
• Keyframe effects and motion
• Storyboard and timeline editing
• Drag-and-drop video editing
• Up to 4K video resolution
• Unlimited video/audio tracks
• Three- and four-point editing

• Hundreds of video effects, transitions, titles, and templates
• Split-screen video
• Video masking (enhanced with new dynamic masking)
• Video templates
• Green screen / chroma-key
• Selective color
• Automatic slideshow maker, SmartMovie
• Video capture and screen recorder, MultiCam Capture Lite
• 6-camera multicam editing
• Stop-motion animation
• Time remapping
• Motion tracking
• Track transparency
• Blend modes
• Seamless transitions
• Smart object tracking
• Morph transitions
• Paint effects

• Video stabilization
• Lens correction

• Hue and saturation
• HSL color tuning
• Luminance
• LUT presets
• Image tone curve
• Color wheels
• Video scope
• Selective vectorscope

• Royalty-free music library with ScoreFitter
• Sound effects library
• Audio filters
• Record voiceover
• Fade-in/fade-out audio
• Detach audio
• Audio ducking to easily layer audio tracks

360 Video Editing

• 360 video editing
• 360 video freeze frame
• 360 titles and transitions
• Convert 360 video to standard video
• Convert single or double fisheye to equirectangular
• Convert 360 video to Spherical Panorama (Tiny Planet and Rabbit Hole effects)

• Add project notes to working files
• Burn to disc with chapters and menus with MyDVD (50+ templates)
• Blu-ray disc authoring available for purchase separately from Pinnacle
• Insert chapter points in timeline
• Export to all common video formats
• Export to specific video extension
• Export to device (smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles)
• Export to Web (YouTube, Flickr, and Vimeo)
• Convert video to popular formats
• Project packages for easy archive/restore
• Save projects as templates
• Export animated GIFs
• Export alpha channel video
• Export 360 video

• Intel Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration
• AV1 import
• HEVC/H.265 import/export (requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card and Microsoft HEVC video extension installed)
• .TS support
• GoPro LVR
• 64-bit architecture
• Support for VFR video
• XAVC S support
• XAVC and DVCPRO HD decoding
• Import MXF files
• 4K video
• 8K video
• 360 video

AVCHD, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP (MPEG-4, H.263), WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles (incl. DVD-VR/+VR), MOV (DV, MPEG-4, H.264), HEVC** (H.265), XAVC, MXF, DVCPRO HD, XAVC S, GoPro LRV, Cineform

MP3, MPA, M4A, WAV, AMR, AC3, AAC, Vorbis, WMA

BMP, GIF, JPG, JPS, J2K, PCX, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF

DV, HDV, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP, HEVC** (H.265, H.264), XAVC S, MOV, M2TS, FLV, 3GP, GIF, Cineform

BMP, JPEG, TIF, TGA

AC3, MP2, MP3, MP4, WAV

• NVIDIA GeForce 700 series / Quadro 600 (Fermi-based) or newer (CUDA-enabled required for CUDA support)
• ATI Radeon HD 5XXX series or higher
• Intel HD Graphics from Ivy Bridge or higher
• 3D Titler requires DirectX 11

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