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Precise multi-track video editing program with keyframe-based controls.
Enhance color and add effects with unlimited creative possibilities.
Enjoy multi-camera video editing, split screen video, and more.
Perfect your sound with royalty-free music, voiceover, and more!
Burn to disc with menus, upload to social, or export to popular file formats.
"Pinnacle delivers once again with an instantly familiar interface, the greatest version to date."
"The best word to describe it is WOW! The speed when rendering, transitions and effects are all awesome."
"This product has everything to offer the novice to the professional. There are tons of tutorials to help you through the process."
"A+ editing, I tell everyone how much I enjoy the Pinnacle Studio."
"I used to use another very popular and expensive editor until I discovered Pinnacle. I'll never go back."
"Excellent, all-around easy to use, but powerful video and audio editing application."
"This is the best consumer video editing software money can buy."
"Pinnacle Studio Ultimate meets all of my needs. I've been able to increase my productivity while reducing my production time in post."
"I finally have software that lets me create what I want... and how I want it... with no hassles... and at a cost that didn't even dent my budget."
"This is a great alternative to some of the more expensive options."
"Producing high quality videos at only a fraction of cost of most. Have used it for years and it's worth the $$."
"This is the best video editor and I’ve tried a lot of them!"
"This software is amazing, I can't believe how easy it is. Very user friendly and love the photo slideshow option."
"A truly powerful editing program for the amateur video editor. Has the tools used by the pros. I strongly suggest using the included tutorials."
"I love this software for its price point. Pinnacle Studio is perfect for any creative editors seeking an affordable option."
"This is a great pro-consumer video editor. Lots of features. Stable operation. Perfect for the intermediate level videographer."
Stylize your image to set the tone and mood with new powerful color grading controls, including color correction, color wheels, LUT, waveform scope, and more. With precise controls, you’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to setting the ambience, creating a sun-kissed scenario or an ice blue landscape. Even match the color of two clips captured in different lighting! The creative possibilities and customizations are endless with Pinnacle Studio.
Features vary by version
Not only can you drag and drop your media to the timeline, but now precisely insert clips with new three and four-point editing. Mark the in and out points of your clip and identify the location on your timeline of where to place them for the ultimate level of flexibility and precision.
Plus & Ultimate
Record your screen and webcam simultaneously and create engaging tutorial videos. With unique screen recording software, you can easily capture video, system audio, and microphone sound in a single click and edit them together seamlessly with multi-camera editing.
All versions
Put the focus on certain people or objects in your video using Motion Tracking. Add moving text or graphics to track players in a sporting event, or draw attention to a particular guest in a room full of people. Mark your object, press play to track its motion, and then easily add the overlay of your choice.
Plus & Ultimate
Simply import your 360 video footage and start editing. Correct color, trim footage, and export as 360 video or control the angle and convert to standard video. With support for all popular 360 formats, you can now turn your 360 video footage into a tiny planet effect and give your audience a fun perspective.
Ultimate Only
Add incredible creative effects and correct almost any video problem with these premium effects from NewBlueFX. Get hundreds of dollars’ worth of professional-quality special effects with Pinnacle Studio Ultimate - now with NewBlue Video Essentials I.
Ultimate Only
Use keyframes to add motion to your split screen videos and show multiple video streams simultaneously. Create impressive promotional videos or share highlights from your latest trip.
Ultimate only
Flip, zoom, spin, or whip between scenes with Seamless Transitions that add excitement and energy to your cuts. Just align similar colors or objects to create a smooth and artful transition between imagery.
Ultimate only
Bring your focus to the spotlight and highlight a single color in your picture, pushing everything else to the background in black and white. It’s a truly unique effect to add to your next video.
All versions
Create custom motions with new 3D objects and titling options. Engage your audience and enhance your videos with customizable, eye-catching titles and graphics.
Ultimate only
Pinnacle Studio is fully loaded with features you would expect to find in professional video editing software. Enjoy new Color Grading controls, create immersive 360 videos, sync and capture video from multiple devices, superimpose people over backgrounds with the Green Screen Effect, or even create animations with Stop Motion. With all these pro-caliber editing tools, you have everything you need to put your strongest film-making foot forward! Features vary by version.
Apply video effects exactly how you want to - use keyframes to control every detail of your effect from start to finish. With unparalleled precision and control, you can edit video on an unlimited number of tracks. Pinnacle Studio brings you power, precision, and control that you crave, to bring your video to life in ways you only dreamed of.
With hundreds of professional-quality video effects and pro-caliber tools, easily correct common video problems, stabilize shaky footage, turn grey skies blue, and more. Pinnacle Studio is loaded with video effects to help you bring your vision to life and realize your full potential.
With everything you need to get started, explore Pinnacle Studio and create one-of-a-kind projects using themed templates or by editing your raw footage directly on the multi-track timeline. Correct video and eliminate subtle imperfections altogether, apply lens corrections, turn day into night, create reflections, enhance color, and so much more. Streamline your editing and quickly access the tools you need, with the power and precision you crave using Pinnacle Studio.
Get the performance you expect from a pro-quality video editor with Pinnacle Studio. View results sooner with native 64-bit architecture that lets you make the most of your PC’s processing power and memory. Enjoy faster multi-track rendering and better file handling.
Our most powerful Studio ever. Edit on unlimited tracks with 2000+ effects and premium effects from NewBlueFX. Includes all the power of Pinnacle Studio and Studio Plus & more.
Control the ambiance of your video and set the mood with the complete Color Grading controls. Shift the saturation and luminance on a per color basis. Alter the tone of your image and highlight certain characteristics with Color Wheel and Waveform Scope controls or match the color of two clips and adjust the lighting. You’re in complete control to adjust the image to your preference with pro-caliber controls. Once you’ve got the look you want, save preferences to easily apply to other clips.
Use keyframes to add motion to your split screen videos and show multiple video streams simultaneously.Create impressive promotional videos or share highlights from your latest trip. Create custom layouts and introduce new frames with keyframes, you’re in control of how your story comes together with these new custom controls.
Track an object and add a mosaic blur to sensor or obscure a face, licence plate, logo or more. Support for multi-point motion tracking lets you track multiple points of an object for greater precision as it approaches or moves away from your lens. Even add labels or graphics to tracked items.
Flip, zoom, spin, or whip between scenes with Seamless Transitions that add excitement and energy to your cuts. Just align similar colors or objects to create a smooth and artful transition between imagery.
Create custom motions with new 3D objects and titling options. Engage your audience and enhance your videos with customizable, eye-catching titles and graphics.
Paint the town and transform your next video into a storybook-like motion animation. Drag and drop filters to add cartoon or watercolor-like stylized effects to create the next big animation.
Create seamless transitions between clips. Transform a single image, shape or sequence and make cuts or transitions between scenes and merge video so that there is no discernable beginning or end.
Effect & Corrections – Only in Ultimate. Add incredible creative effects and correct almost any video problem with these popular packs from NewBlueFX. Get hundreds of dollars’ worth of professional-quality special effects applications for only a few dollars more with Pinnacle Studio Ultimate.
Enhance, optimize, and accelerate your productivity with NewBlueFX’s best selling collection. Enjoy ten highly practical video effects designed to make your workflow more efficient including Bleach Bypass, Day for Night, Skin Touch Up, Fisheye and more!
Transform your digital footage into vintage film stock. Discover the classic looks you need with over 80 presets in five plugins that recreate the look of hand-cranked cameras, dirty projectors, and the unique color and lighting characteristics of aged film stock.
NewBlue Stabilizer makes it easy to produce smooth and steady footage. A powerful analyzer searches through all frames, calculates frame-to-frame motion, and realigns the affected pictures so they look clear and jitter-free, just like the rest of your footage.
Over 100 presets in 10 plugins help to create vignettes, enhance and adjust color, and add artificial depth of field. Enhance your raw footage with Noise Reducer and Chroma Key and add color and visual interest with Color EQ, Picture-in Picture, Lens Correction and more.
NewBlue Video Essentials III includes over 175 image-enhancing, time-saving presets in 10 integrated plugins. Easily split screens, spotlight areas of interest, smooth edges, improve contrast and much more.
NewBlue Video Essentials 4 software plugins offer many new features like turning day footage to night, creating a reflection, retouching skin in video, creating a photo essay, and more!
Add emphasis to your video story with selective focus, selective color, and selective tint. Produce professional quality results with minimum effort using this powerful collection of over 100 presets in ten video software plugins with Video Essentials 5.
NewBlueFX Video Essentials 6 includes over 100 presets in 10 specialized plugins. This best-selling toolkit features Saturation Modifier, Picture-in-Shape, Cutaway, and Color Replace, to enhance your footage and highlight the details of your story to achieve your creative vision.
This collection includes 10 sophisticated plugins including Auto Pan, Gamma Corrector, Quick Pixelator, Gradient Fill Pro and more. Create gradients over alpha assets, separate your image into high and low regions and pan and zoom on stills and video footage to enhance your videos.
Add movement to your scene transitions with 112 style presets in 10 specialized plugins. Transport your audience from scene to scene with these energetic plugins that Liquify, Shear, Smear, and Melt one scene into the next.
Light Blends electrifies your story with over 138 presets in 10 plugins including Glow Pro, Light Bender, Neon Lights, and Psycho Strobe. These light-based scene transitions give you the tools to add vivid impact to your video with light flairs, orbs, rays, strobes, glowing blasts, and more.
PINNACLE STUDIO PLUS: Edit on 24-tracks with 1800+ video effects. Includes all the power of Pinnacle Studio, PLUS:
Not only can you drag and drop your media to the timeline, but now precisely insert clips with new three and four-point editing. Mark the in and out points of your clip and identify the location on your timeline of where to place them for the ultimate level of flexibility and precision.
Put the focus on certain people or objects in your video using Motion Tracking. Add moving text or graphics to track players in a sporting event, or draw attention to particular guest in a room full of people. Mark your object, press play to track its motion and then easily add the overlay of your choice.
Quickly remove distortion and create pro-like videos. Quickly straight lines that appear to be curved or angled and even straighten the horizon. Make footage feel fluid with the rest of your film and correct lens distortions from wide angle cameras.
Add impact to your video tracks and adjust the opacity of a video clip, so you can see multiple clips at the same time, create superimposed effects or custom fade-in / fade-out transitions. Easily control the transparency of each track directly from the timeline.
Balance dialog and narration with background sound for pro-quality audio. Use Audio Ducking to detect audio or voiceover and automatically dial down the volume of the background sound. Adjust the Ducking Level and Sensitivity for even more control.
PINNACLE STUDIO: Edit on 6-tracks with 1500+ video effects.
Record your screen and webcam simultaneously and create engaging tutorial videos. With unique screen recording software, you can easily capture video, system audio, and microphone sound in a single click and edit them together seamlessly with multi-camera editing.
Quickly modify or correct color in your production with simplified color grading controls. Shift the colors, and adjust the saturation and luminance on a per color basis. Plus, with Look-up Tables, you can store the corrections and changes you've made to your image(s) and apply your saved preferences to any movie.
Bring your focus to the spotlight and highlight a single color in your picture, pushing everything else to the background in black and white. A truly unique effect to add to your next video.
Show multiple video streams simultaneously with new Split Screen video. Easily drag and drop to create impressive promotional videos or share the highlights from your latest trip! Choose an existing template or create your own with the Split Screen template creator.
Combine footage from multiple devices to create more dynamic videos. Easily align and sync clips with audio syncing or by markers. When you’re ready, select the angle you want to show as the video plays, to create your own multi-camera production.
Studio: 2 cameras, Studio Plus: 4 cameras, Studio Ultimate: 6 cameras
Gather your props, plug in your camera and capture your story frame by frame. Control camera settings, see overlay frames, set distances and capture frames automatically or manually from within Pinnacle Studio.
Superimpose your subjects onto virtual backgrounds with the power of green screen. Adjust how the overlay blends with the background, set a transparent color, and easily swap out backgrounds using the Chroma Key effect.
Play with the video speed with Time Remapping and easily add slow motion or high speed effects to your videos. Freeze the action or even reverse and replay your scenes. Simply select your clip, go into the Editor, and select Time Remapping to set the speed.
Detach or mute audio, or fade in and out audio from your clips all within a few clicks on the timeline. Add royalty-free music to your timeline and have them automatically adjust to the length of your movie with the ScoreFitter music library.
Enjoy Timeline or Storyboard editing. Easily trim video and edit freely on the multi-track timeline. Create sophisticated picture-in-picture and multi-layer HD effects with frame accuracy and keyframe editing—produce like a pro with the control you need
Studio: 6-track, Studio Plus: 24-track, Studio Ultimate: unlimited tracks
Drag and drop your videos, photos, and music, and let SmartMovie, the automatic movie generator, do the rest. Preview your slideshow and edit in the timeline to customize your movie. Or, start with hundreds of Montage video templates with themes perfect for every occasion.
Add excitement and polish to every production with hundreds of customizable video effects, animated titles and transitions. Enhance colors, add effects, turn grey skies blue and much more.
Studio: 1500+ effects, Studio Plus: 1800+ effect, Studio Ultimate: 2000+ effects
Add motion to your still images or videos with simple controls for Pan and Zoom. Or, layer clips and create a picture-in-picture effect, or crop video directly in the preview pane!
Crop and rotate video or enhance color with Pinnacle Studio. Edit footage, apply quick effects, and even eliminate red eye from your photos and film!
Add titles to your photos and videos, or overlay graphics on your clips. Create custom titles with animations and motion and try your hand at the 3D title editor.
Save your finished projects as templates and fast-track future work. When your project is complete, you can go to ‘File, Save Movie as Template’ and easily replace media with placeholders.
Upload your video to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, and Box directly from Pinnacle Studio.
Export to popular formats to playback on your favorite device - with full support for Apple and Android devices, game consoles, and more.
Author DVDs with customizable themed menus, chapters, and music. Studio: 20+ Templates, Studio Plus: 50+, Studio Ultimate: 100+
Apply video effects exactly how you want to - use keyframes to control every detail of your effect from start to finish. With unparalleled precision and control, you can edit video on an unlimited number of tracks. Pinnacle Studio brings you power, precision, and the control you crave, to bring your video to life in ways you only dreamed of.
Customize your workspace and easily create custom shortcuts to edit work your way and streamline your workflow. Create custom profiles and adjust screen resolutions. Customize your workspace and set quick access points to the tools you use most.
Extend your editing across dual monitors with new detachable windows. View the library, preview pane, and editor mode simultaneously with new dual window controls. Even detach windows to work seamlessly across multiple screens.
Organize your media in project bins and with a simple right-click, add your most-used effects to your favorites section.
View results sooner with native 64-bit architecture that lets you make the most of your PC’s processing power and memory. Enjoy faster multi-track rendering and better file handling.
Whatever your video passion, talents, or interests, Pinnacle Studio delivers a collection of complementary powerful applications to satisfy all your video editing needs to delight your audience. Pinnacle Studio includes:
Pinnacle Studio 22
Bring out your inner editor with NEW Pinnacle Studio 22 and explore the flexible editing, themed templates, and new creative features!
Pinnacle Studio 22 Plus
Bring out your inner producer with NEW Pinnacle Studio 22 Plus. Take control, make precise edits, and enjoy cool creative effects!
Pinnacle Studio 22 Ultimate
Harness the power and creativity in NEW Pinnacle Studio 22 Ultimate, a fully-loaded, advanced editing suite with pro-caliber tools and features.
MultiCam Capture Lite video capture and screen recorder
Record your screen and webcam, capture video and audio, and create engaging how-to videos.
FastFlick Movie Maker
Make movies and slideshows in three easy steps. Select a template, add your media, and export to share your movie.
Pinnacle MyDVD
Burn your video projects to DVD and AVCHD with 100+50+20+ customizable menus, submenus, chapters, and music.
NewBlueFX
Add incredible creative effects and correct almost any video problem with premium effects from NewBlueFX - exclusive to Ultimate.
For beginner editors to advanced users, get the most out of Pinnacle Studio with video tutorials, and tips and tricks from the Discovery Center. Covering everything from basic editing to new features, access learning materials directly inside the Pinnacle Studio Welcome Tab.
Expand the power of your video editing software and purchase additional features and effects from within Pinnacle Studio. Preview and purchase premium effect packs from NewBlueFX, high-quality, royalty-free music from Triple Scoop Music, a Blu-ray plug-in, and more.
*Available for purchase
Give your video new life with Dazzle DVD recorder and convert VHS to DVDs and more. Connect multiple devices and record your screen with the full-featured MultiCam Capture. Record your cameras simultaneously, making post-production a breeze.
*Available for purchase
Pinnacle Studio makes it easy to create movies, manage your media and edit video like a pro on multiple tracks. Start your next project now with powerful and precise tools in a customizable workspace. Whether you're new to video editing or an experienced editor, there is a Pinnacle Studio that’s right for you.
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| POWERFUL AND PRECISE EDITING | |||
| Video editing software | HD | HD | HD, 4K |
| Number of video/audio tracks | 6 | 24 | unlimited |
| Storyboard and timeline editing | |||
| Frame-accurate timeline editing | |||
| Drag and drop video editing | |||
| Three and four-point editing | New | New | |
| Customizable workspace and keyboard shortcuts | |||
| Keyframe-based effects | |||
| Detach audio | |||
| CREATIVE FEATURES | |||
| Video effects, transitions, titles and templates | 1,500+ | 1,800+ | 2,000+ NewBlueFX collections |
| MultiCam Capture Lite - Record your screen and webcam simultaneously and create engaging tutorial video | New 2 streams |
New 2 streams |
New 2 streams |
| Multi-camera editing - Sync and align your clips and select which angle to show as the video plays | 2 cameras | 4 cameras | 6 cameras |
| Color Grading - Enhance your motion picture with powerful color controls and stylize your image to set the tone and mood | New simplified |
New basic |
New full featured |
| Hue & Saturation | |||
| HSL Color Tuning | |||
| LUT | |||
| Luminance | |||
| Image Tone Curve | |||
| Color Wheels | |||
| Waveform Scope | |||
| Selective Color - Highlight a single color in your picture, pushing everything else to black and white | New | New | New |
| Split Screen video - Show multiple videos streams simultaneously with pre-designed templates or create your own template with the Split Screen template creator | New with keyframes |
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| Motion 3D objects - Create custom motions with new 3D shapes in the 3D Title Editor | New | ||
| Motion 3D titles - Add 3D title presets to your next project or create custom titles with the 3D Title Editor | New | New | New |
| Wide angle lens correction tools - Remove distortion from wide-angle cameras and straighten the horizon | |||
| Video template creator - Save your finished projects as a video template and select which media to replace with placeholders to fast-track future projects | |||
| Video templates - Start with a customized themed Montage template to build your movie | |||
| Stop Motion Animation - Create animated movies frame by frame starring your toys, food, art and more with easy to use controls | |||
| ScoreFitter music library - Add royalty-free music that automatically adjusts to fit the length of your video | |||
| SmartMovie automatic moviemaking - Drag and drop video, images and music from your library and create quick photo slideshows | |||
| Green Screen / Chroma Key - Superimpose your subjects onto virtual backgrounds with the power of green screen | |||
| Motion Tracking - Easily set a target and track moving objects in your video to connect them to elements, such as text and graphics | Enhanced |
Enhanced with mosaic blur |
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| Track Transparency - Superimpose multiple tracks or create custom fade-in and fade-out effects with easy-to-use opacity settings | |||
| Audio Ducking - Automatically detect audio or narration and lower the volume of background sound | |||
| Screen Recording Software - Record your screen and capture both system audio and microphone sound with Live Screen Capture; perfect for making tutorials or demo videos | |||
| 360 video editing - Edit your 360 video and trim footage, add titles and transitions, now with support for all popular 360 video formats. Even convert your 360 video for playback on standard devices | Enhanced | ||
| Seamless transitions - Align like colours or objects and flip, zoom, spin or whip between scenes | New | ||
| Painting effects - Create a cartoon or watercolor-like appearance and transform your videos into a virtual animation | |||
| Morphing transitions - Take a single image, shape or sequence and make cuts or transitions between scenes so that there is no discernable beginning or end | |||
| Premium effects from NewBlueFX - Add filters, transitions and special effects from the best-selling NewBlueFX effects and titles. Get access to hundreds of effects, presets, filters and other tools to get that professional polish (1,000+ presets and 85+ plugins) | |||
| PREMIUM EFFECTS FROM NEWBLUE FX | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 1 - Enhance, optimize, and accelerate your productivity with this the best-selling collection of versatile effects | New | ||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 2 - Create a vignette, swap specific colors in a scene, add picture-in-picture, and correct lens distortion | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 3 - Easily split screens, spotlight areas of interest, smooth edges or improve contrast | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 4 - Turn day into night, create reflections, touch up skin and more | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 5 - Add emphasis to your video story with selective focus, selective color and selective tint | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 6 - Remove subtle imperfections, replicate footage into a video wall, and magnify a video segment for emphasis | |||
| NewBlue Video Essentials 7 - Avoid tedious keyframing when applying pixelation, easily pan and zoom on still or video, and more | |||
| NewBlue Stabilizer - Stabilize shaky video footage captured with handheld cameras | |||
| NewBlue Motion Blends - Incorporate video transitions that twist, turn, zoom, smear and spin | |||
| NewBlue Light Blends - Lighten up your production with light-inspired scene transitions that include light flairs, orbs, rays, strobes and more | |||
| NewBlue Film Effects - Create an authentic, old-school film look with blemishes, jitters, spots, scratches and graininess | |||
| VIDEO OUTPUTS AND SHARING | |||
| Insert chapter points in timeline | New | New | New |
| Burn to disc* with chapters and menus with MyDVD | Enhanced 20+ templates |
Enhanced 50+ templates |
Enhanced 100+ templates |
| Export to all common video formats | |||
| Export to specific video extension | |||
| Export to device (ex. smartphones and tablets) | |||
| Export to Web (ex. YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and Vimeo) | |||
| Project packages for easy archive/restore | |||
| Export 360 video | |||
| FORMATS AND SUPPORT | |||
| GoPro LVR | New | New | New |
| HEVC (H.265)** | Import | Import | Import and export |
| Dolby Digital | 2CH | 5.1CH | 5.1CH |
| 64-bit architecture | |||
| Intel® Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration | |||
| Support for VFR video from iPhone 6 and other cameras | |||
| XAVC S support | |||
| XAVC and DVCPRO HD decoding | |||
| Import MXF files | |||
| 4K video | |||
| 360 video | |||
* Blu-ray Disc authoring available for purchase in Pinnacle Studio
**HEVC (H.265) support requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card
Get the most out of Pinnacle Studio and learn new features with video tutorials, tips, and tricks. If you’re looking to create a special project, master new feature functionality, or simply searching for inspiration, this is the place for you!
Enjoy short step-by-step written guides on the most common video editing tasks.
Access how-to information on features, learn the basics, and much more.
Connect with other users, ask questions, swap tips and techniques.
From our friends at Studio Backlot, access their library of tutorials and creative content.
* Content is available only in English. Subtitles are available on select training videos.
Product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.
