Pinnacle Studio 26 Ultimate Video editor

Edit freely across unlimited tracks with complete control, precision, and the power of pro-caliber tools to transform your creative vision into cinema-grade productions.

Create with inspiration.
Edit with Pinnacle.
Discover this unique gateway to advanced editing with sophisticated tools, creative filters, an intuitive workspace, and significantly improved stability and performance in Pinnacle Studio™ 26 – everything you need to transform your videos into impressive productions is inside.

Passion. Power. Precision.
Edit and improvise with confidence.
Learn the ropes quickly.
Transcend to pro-level proficiency.

Evolve your films by taking your edits to the next level.
Develop your editing skills in concert with the quality of your productions by leveraging sophisticated tools like Stop Motion Animation, MultiCam Editing, Split Screen Video, and more.

Impress your audience with creative storytelling.
Realize your unique vision and stylize your productions with creative filters, variative color adjustments, smooth transitions, and custom titles - all to bring artistic flair and cinematic quality to your films.

Enjoy endless fine-tuning options and frame-accurate customization.
Enjoy drag-and-drop timeline and storyboard editing across 6 tracks, add keyframes to adjust your edits with exceptional precision, and customize your workspace to your personal preferences – all with better-than-ever stability and reliability.

Affordable editing power that brings you closer to pro.
Dive into an editing experience that empowers you to go beyond the basics and doesn’t break the bank.

What’s NEW in Pinnacle Studio 26?
This new version of Pinnacle is faster, better, and more efficient than ever—and we have you to thank. Based on your feedback, we've fortified the product, focusing on core editing processes to bring real improvements to the aspects that truly matter to you, delivering our most streamlined and smooth editing experience in years. Pinnacle Studio 26 brings tangible improvements to the user experience beyond simple bug fixes and interface tweaks—we've upgraded the structure of the product with changes in everything from behavioral logic to resource management, to a brand-new proxy codec. With greatly enhanced stability, performance, and usability, enjoy a streamlined workflow, and fully focus on the creative side of video editing!

IMPROVED
Product Stability
This release focuses largely on product stability and core feature performance, along with dozens of crash and bug fixes for targeted improvements to more than 200 unique user-identified scenarios. Pinnacle Studio 26 is our most reliable and stable version to date. Enjoy smooth and streamlined video editing from the moment you install it!

Product Performance
Incredible performance improvements have been implemented in user-identified areas such as software launch time, resource utilization, interface and project preview responsiveness, as well as import and export speed. Main performance improvements include:

Implementing 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
*Pinnacle Studio Smart Proxy supports the Apple ProRes format, but quality is limited to 4:2:2 8-bit.