Pinnacle Studio 26 Standard

Pinnacle Studio 26 Standard Overview

Pinnacle Studio 26 Standard is a consumer-level Windows video editing software with six video/audio tracks and hundreds of creative effects, transitions, graphics, overlays, fonts, and title presets. Studio 26 supports HD import and offers a color correction toolset that lets you polish your videos with pro-style finishes. 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 Standard arrives in a box containing a card with a download code for installing the application from the Pinnacle website.

Enhanced in Pinnacle Studio 26

Product Stability

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

Product Performance

• 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

Enhanced 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.

Improved 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

• 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

Editing

• Drag-and-drop editing
• Storyboard and timeline editing
• Keyframe effects and motion
• Screen recording and video capture
• HD video resolution import/export
• Six video/audio tracks

Creative Features

• Hundreds of video effects, transitions, titles, and templates
• Split-screen video
• Video templates
• Green screen / chroma-key
• Color correction
• LUTs and filters
• Automatic slideshow maker, SmartMovie
• Video capture and screen recorder, MultiCam Capture Lite
• 2-camera multicam editing
• Screen recording
• Split-screen video
• Stop-motion animation
• Time remapping

Video Corrections

• Video stabilization
• Lens correction

Simplified Color Grading

• Hue and saturation
• HSL color tuning
• Luminance
• LUT presets

Audio Editing

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

Video Outputs and Sharing

• Add project notes to working files
• Burn to disc with chapters and menus with MyDVD (20+ 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

Formats and Support

• 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

Video Import Formats

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, GoPro LRV

Audio Import Formats

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

Image Import Formats

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

Video Export Formats

DV, HDV, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP, H.264, MOV, M2TS, FLV, 3GP, DVD, AVCHD

Audio Export Formats

BMP, JPEG, TIF, TGA

Image Export Formats

AC3, MP2, MP3, MP4, WAV