Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate Overview
 
Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate is an advanced Windows consumer-level video editing software with unlimited tracks, enhanced keyframing, and hundreds of creative effects, transitions, graphics, overlays, fonts, and title presets. It supports up to UHD 4K video and offers a full-featured color correction toolset that lets you turn your high-resolution footage into professional-looking polished videos. There's also a screen capture feature for creating YouTube tutorials and other demos and presentations.
 
Other key features include video masking, a new title editor, motion tracking with face detection, stop-motion animation, 6-camera multicam editing, a 360 video editing toolset, paint effects, royalty-free music and sound effects, and much more. A slideshow maker and themed templates and video montages are provided for quickly creating projects with photos, video, and sound to display to your audience. Studio 24 Ultimate also supports optional 3D LUTs, which are looks presets that can substantially enhance your videos with various cinematic looks. (Many LUTs can be downloaded for free online from trusted sources.) Various project types can be exported directly to social media, while you can also export to DVDs with chapters and menus. Blu-ray disc authoring is available for purchase separately from Pinnacle.
 
Editing
(New) Title editor
Motion tracking (enhanced with face detection and mosaic blur)
Motion Tracking with filter mask
Customizable workspace and keyboard shortcuts (enhanced with searchable shortcuts)
(Enhanced) Group and nest clips
(Enhanced) Keyframe effects and motion
Storyboard and timeline editing
Drag-and-drop video editing
Up to 4K video resolution
Unlimited video/audio tracks
Three- and four-point editing
 
Creative Features
Hundreds of video effects, transitions, titles, and templates (enhanced with new animated overlays)
Split screen video (enhanced with Smart Fit)
Video masking (enhanced with new dynamic masking)
Video templates
Green screen / chroma key
Selective color
Automatic slideshow maker, SmartMovie
Video capture and screen recorder, MultiCam Capture Lite
6-camera multicam editing
Stop-motion animation
Time remapping
Track transparency
Seamless transitions
Morph transitions
Paint effects
 
Video Corrections
Video stabilization 
Lens correction 
 
Full-Featured Color Grading
Hue and saturation 
HSL color tuning 
Luminance 
LUT presets 
Image tone curve 
 
Audio Editing
Royalty-free music library with ScoreFitter 
Sound effects library 
Audio filters 
Record voiceover 
Fade-in/fade-out audio 
Detach audio 
Audio ducking to easily layer audio tracks
 
Video Outputs and Sharing
(New) Add project notes to working files 
Burn to disc with chapters and menus with MyDVD (50+ 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 
Export animated GIFs 
 
Formats and Support
(New) 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 
XAVC S support 
 
Video Import Formats
AVCHD, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP (MPEG-4, H.263), WMV, non-encrypted DVD titles (including DVD-VR/+VR), MOV (DV, MPEG-4, H.264), XAVC S, GoPro LRV, Cineform, and HEVC (H.265) (HEVC requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card and Microsoft HEVC video extension installed)
 
Audio Import Formats
MP3, MPA, M4A, WAV, AMR, AC3, AAC, Vorbis, WMA
Image Import Formats
BMP, GIF, JPG, JPS, J2K, PCX, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF
 
Video Export Formats
DV, HDV, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP, XAVC S, MOV, M2TS, FLV, 3GP, GIF, Cineform, and HEVC (H.265, H.264) (HEVC requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card and Microsoft HEVC video extension installed)
 
Audio Export Formats
BMP, JPEG, TIF, TGA
 
Image Export Formats
AC3, MP2, MP3, MP4, WAV
 
Pinnacle-Recommended DirectX Graphics Cards
NVIDIA GeForce 700 series / Quadro 600 (Fermi-based) or newer (CUDA-enabled required for CUDA support)
ATI Radeon HD 5XXX series or higher
Intel HD Graphics from Ivy Bridge or higher
3D Titler requires DirectX 11