Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate what’s new
Version 26 updates resource management, proxy processing, and the editing workflow. This release focuses on stability, performance, and usability alongside the existing editing tools.
Edit with Pinnacle
Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate combines unlimited-track editing with video masking, 360-degree editing, and full color grading. Use motion tracking, multi-camera tools, and grouped keyframes to refine complex projects.
Multi-track and multi-camera editing
Edit HD, 4K, and 360-degree footage across unlimited tracks. Combine video masking, motion tracking, multi-camera editing, and split-screen layouts.
Color grading, transitions, and titles
Adjust the appearance of footage with color grading, morph and seamless transitions, paint effects, and custom titles.
Keyframe controls and workspace customization
Use keyframes to adjust position, size, speed, overlays, transitions, and effects over time.
Adjust your workspace to your personal editing preferences: set custom tool shortcuts, group and edit clips simultaneously, and explore a streamlined workflow with better-than-ever product stability and reliability.
Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate: key features
- Blend Modes
- Title Editor
- Audio Ducking
- DVD Authoring
- Alpha Channel
- Video Masking
- Motion Tracking
- Screen Recording
- MultiCam Editing
- 360 Video Editing
- Keyframe Controls
- Full Color Grading
- Video Stabilization
- Smart Object Tracking
- Stop Motion Animation
- Split Screen Template Creator
Make your story cinematic
Build documentary, narrative, or other video projects using footage, titles, effects, and audio. Choose the editing tools that suit each sequence.
- Stability
- Version 26 includes fixes for reported crashes and editing problems, with changes focused on stability and core editing features.
- Performance
- This release updates application startup, resource use, project previews, and media import and export workflows.
- 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
- 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.
Add depth to your story
- Video Masking
- Evolve your story, frame by frame. Enhance, combine, and alter footage with video masks.
- Remove distractions
- Enhance footage and prevent reshoots by hiding distracting objects from your clips.
- Target special effects
- Brighten faces, blur backgrounds, censor license plates, reveal text, and more with the unique power of Mask Creator.
- Clone objects
- Clone characters and objects on-screen, create unique montages, and enjoy expanded storytelling possibilities.
- Combine clips
- Layer clips in a unique manner to create illusions and produce new impressive scenery.
- Custom transitions
- Create unique walk-by and wipe transitions to follow motion in your video and ensure you have seamless blending from one clip to the next.
- 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. You can easily apply masks to objects in your video-from pets and cars, to drones, and more. There is no need to re-create masks for each frame because smart technology automates the process by recognizing the original masked object and tracks it throughout the selected episode.
- Blend modes
- Improvise on the fly with Blend Modes and choose how one clip blends with another - from creating a superimposed effect, to blending masked areas, or creating light bleeds or other color and exposure effects. Each Blend Mode uses a different formula to combine the color and brightness values in a selected clip with the values in an underlying clip. Blend Modes boost your creativity and help to bring an artistic touch to your films.