During this time I have created videos for both personal and commercial use with a variety of editing programs and have reviewed many of them on SoftwareHow. Video editing has been a serious hobby of mine for eight months.

Video Effects, Transitions, and Templates.

Detailed Review of Pinnacle Studio Ultimate.

Strange, unpredictable behavior occurs when moving elements of the project around in the timeline. It occasionally crashes and suffers lag spikes when applying effects, rendering the program temporarily unusable. What I Don’t Like: The majority of the effects look too poor to use in an actual project. Video transitions are easy to apply and highly usable. Templated intros and outros look excellent. Keyframe editing offers a high degree of control over the project. Toolbar and hotkey customization further improve the ease of use. What I Like: The UI is highly modern and intuitive, and the program looks and feels excellent. It’s my opinion that users who are interested in a modern, efficient, well-organized, and easy-to-use program will get their money’s worth out of the basic edition of Pinnacle Studio, but that the Plus and Ultimate editions don’t offer nearly as much bang for their buck as you’ll find from other video editors in the alternatives section below. Pinnacle excels at generating quality in certain categories but fails to deliver a substantial increase in quality for the increased price of Pinnacle Studio Plus and Pinnacle Studio Ultimate. At the end of the day, though, is that what makes a video editor worth your money?įor me, the bottom line when it comes to video editors is the quality of videos it can produce for the price you pay. It comes with tons of cool bells and whistles. It has the best user interface I’ve ever come across in a video editor, the most usable and professional templates in its class of video editors, and some the sleekest ease-of-use features in the business. There’s a lot to love about Pinnacle Studio.

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