Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate | Pro-Level Video Editing & Screen Recording Software [PC Key Card]
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Otto Von
07-06-2025For basic video editing (clipping, transitions, audio overlaying, etc) pinnacle is easy to use and does a nice job. Offers many options for exporting in various file formats. Adjusting video quality with color tweaking, noise reduction, etc greatly slows exporting time, FYI. However… The program has significant issues with stability. It crashes - a lot. Even on a brand new laptop with a super powerful graphics processor. Fortunately, pinnacle has an autosave function that saves the day when this happens. Sometimes the program requires a full computer reboot to resume use (it won’t reopen otherwise), but even then the autosave is helpful. Pinnacle 26 promises better stability but crashes still happen. In addition, Pinnacle doesn’t have a good cropping option (you can crop out part of a video, but resizing the image to fill the screen reduces image quality - this should not happen). Have purchased the blu-ray burning plugged in but this doesn’t seem to function in pinnacle (no blu-ray burning option appeared after purchasing the plug-in, very odd). So, in all pinnacle is useful for the basics of video editing but will test your patience with frequent crashing.