Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Free Download Full Version 26.0.1.183

CONS

• Limited motion tracking
• Uneven 360-degree VR implementation

Can My PC Run Pinnacle Studio Ultimate ?

Windows 10 (64-bit) is now required, as well as an Intel Core i3 or AMD A4 3.0 GHz or higher, an Intel Core i7 4th generation or later or AMD Athlon A10 or higher for UHD, multicam, or 360 video, and you’ll need at least 4GB RAM, with 8GB recommended.

To get going you first download a small installer stub app, which then downloads the massive full program. It’s an over-2GB download and takes up 3.6GB on-disk after installation, so you’ll want a fast internet connection and plenty of space on your hard drive. Of course, if you’re editing 4K video, you need a big disk anyway. The installer also installs separate MultiCam Capture Lite and MyDVD programs.

Importing and Interface

When you first run the program, you’re invited to the program’s User Experience Improvement Program, which sends anonymous usage data back to the company; turning that off is straightforward if you’re not interested. Next, a dialog tells you that the Import feature lets you record and open media files.

Import takes up the full program window, which makes it easy to pick the types of importing you need, whether it’s from DVD, computer folders, stop-motion, snapshot, or multicam. The software can import 4K content, and you can star-rate and keyword-tag content at import, which helps you find it later. The search bar also helps you find content you haven’t marked in this way, searching instead for words in the filename.

One option on the Import mode is MultiCam Capture. This opens an external app that lets you record your screen along with any webcams you have connected or built in to your PC. You can use function keys to start and stop recording, and the tool produces separate, synced clips that you can add to your project bin. It lets you adjust lighting and sound sources, and in my testing, it worked flawlessly.

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Pinnacle’s editing interface is pleasing and flexible. It sports flat, 2D icons, and a black and gray color scheme. The program uses the concept of Project Bins, in which you stash all the content for a given movie project—clips, photos, and sound files, but not effects and transitions. This is a common approach for pro-level apps such as Adobe Premiere Pro, and it’s a feature that Corel’s other line,Pinnacle Studio Ultimate , does not include.

The whole program window is topped by four mode-switching buttons: a Home icon, Import, Edit, and Export. The first is simply a Welcome screen offering tutorials (including the excellent Studio Backlot videos), info on new program features, and additional assets and programs for sale. One thing I miss on this page is quick access to projects you’re working on, something most competitors include on their welcome screens.

Edit mode uses the standard three-pane editor interface, with source content occupying the top-left quadrant of the screen, the preview window at the top right, and the timeline across the bottom half. If you’re used to having preview on the left, a handy switcher button lets you move it there without any fuss. The Ultimate level allows an unlimited number of tracks, as mentioned earlier. The Plus level limits you to 24 tracks, and Standard to six. You can change the relative size of the panels, add a source-video preview, and switch the movie preview to full screen.

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Interface panels can be pulled off and you can change their positions, as you can in some other editors, such as Magix Movie Edit Pro. The preview window includes detailed controls, such as jog and shuttle, frame advance, and rewind. You can also switch the preview between source and timeline. You expand and contract the timeline (either the main one or the one in the preview window) with a clever mouse-drag action, but I wish there were a mouse wheel option for resizing the timeline.

Searching and sorting is available for any content, which is more than I can say for some video editing programs, such as Studio’s sister application, Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Hiding and showing items by content type—video, audio, photo, and project—is simplicity itself. There’s an enormous and customizable assortment of keyboard shortcuts. A helpful Project Notes panel, to help you keep track of work progress (Vegas Pro’s similar feature goes a step farther by attaching notes to particular timecodes). You can also choose which buttons you want to display on the timeline toolbar, including Split, Add Marker, Trim Mode, Multi-Cam Editor, and Audio Ducking.

The interface makes no specific concession to touch input, which I find useful for scrubbing, changing value sliders, and tapping control buttons. That said, scrubbing the timeline by finger did work acceptably. The software now fully supports high-resolution monitors. Rather than integrated help, you get an online PDF (that’s still better than Adobe’s unimpressive web help, which shows info for other products and from non-staff users). In general, however, Pinnacle’s interface is more accessible than those of some competing video editors.

Basic Video Editing and Transitions

Pinnacle uses a magnetic timeline, so any clip you drag and drop into it snaps to any existing clips, and you can turn that behavior off, if you prefer. Dropping one clip inside another splits the original one, and a razor icon offers clip splitting, as well. One thing missing is a button to drop a selected clip into the timeline at the current insertion point—most editors have this.

The Trim Mode button (or just double-clicking a join point) opens a second preview window so you can see the first and second clips’ states at the trim point. This is supposed to help with effecting slip and slide trims, but I find it less intuitive than the trimming windows of CyberLink PowerDirector and Pinnacle Studio Ultimate among other apps.

Three- and four-point editing offer more in- and out-point precision. You switch into this editing mode from the same button on the right side that switches among Smart Editing, Insert, Replace, and Overwrite modes. With the three-point option, you specify in and out points on the timeline, and an in or out point in the source clip. This way, when you insert the clip onto the timeline it will be fit to your specification.

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Two insertion buttons appear on the source window: Keep Speed and Fit to Duration. The second of these stretches the source clip to fit the target area in the timeline. The four-point option lets you specify in and out points on both the source and the timeline. When you use that, if your source selection is longer than the spot on the timeline you’ve marked, you see a dialog asking whether you want to align the source clip with the beginning or end of the timeline points, and whether to trim the source or overwrite the timeline.

If you choose the Fit to Duration button, your source clip is sped up or slowed down to fit the marked area in the timeline exactly. I see how these could be useful options and less haphazard than simply dragging source onto the timeline. In particular, the time stretching to fit a marked area saves you time.

Dog-eared corners of adjacent clips let you adjust transition lengths between them. You can also enable dynamic-length transitions, or just stick with transitions of set lengths. Cross-fades are accessible right on the timeline via the transition dog ears, but the place from which you get your fancier transitions is somewhat hidden, compared with how other video editors present it. They’re also not as simple to add to timeline clips, with no automatic duration option. Sometimes I dragged a transition between clips in my testing and the app didn’t add anything. There is, however, a very full selection of transitions, grouped as 2D-3D, Artistic, Alpha Magic, and more.

Conclusion

Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 26.0.1.183 is a fast, full-featured, near-pro-level video editing application without a steep learning curve. Performance upgrades and new mask motion-tracking, titling, and audio tools make it even more appealing.