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Why upgrade to Pinnacle Studio 26?

Explore Pinnacle Studio 26, our best performing, most reliable and stable version to date. Enjoy smooth and streamlined video editing from the moment you install it!

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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!

IMPROVED

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.

OTHER ENHANCEMENTS

With newly added keyframe management options, it’s easy to manipulate groups of keyframes for quick replication of your customizations, such as looping animations, light flashes, custom pan and zoom animations, complex sequences of changes to color or brightness, and more.
Create, copy, paste, and delete groups of keyframes across parameters (brightness, transparency, saturation, etc.) to another clip, or another parameter on the same clip.

Upgrade today with exclusive pricing

Upgrade from a previous version of Pinnacle Studio to take advantage of special pricing and begin editing in NEW Pinnacle Studio 26 today!

Do I qualify for an upgrade?

Previous owners of Avid Studio or Pinnacle Studio 9 and higher qualify for upgrade pricing.
Qualified versions include: Studio 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25.

Tech specs

System Requirements

  • Operating system: Windows 11, Windows 10, 64 bit
  • Processor*: Intel Core i3 or AMD A4 3.0 GHz or higher
    • Intel Core i5 or i7 1.06 GHz or higher required for AVCHD & Intel Quick Sync Video support
    • Intel Core i7 4th generation or later or AMD Athlon A10 or higher for UHD, Multi-Camera or 360 video
  • RAM: 4 GB or higher, 8+GB highly recommended for UHD, Multi-Camera, or 360 video
  • Graphics card: Minimum resolution 1024 x 768, minimum 256MB VGA VRAM, 512MB or higher recommended for hardware decoding acceleration
    DirectX graphics device recommended:
    • 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
  • Sound card: Windows-compatible sound card
  • Hard drive space: 10 GB HDD space for full installation
  • Internet connection required for installation, registration and updates Registration required for product use.

Import Formats

  • Video: AVCHD, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP (MPEG-4, H.263), WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles (incl. DVD-VR/+VR), MOV (DV, MPEG-4, H.264), HEVC** (H.265), XAVC, MXF, DVCPRO HD, XAVC S, GoPro LRV, Cineform
  • Audio: MP3, MPA, M4A, WAV, AMR, AC3, AAC, Vorbis, WMA
  • Image: BMP, GIF, JPG, JPS, J2K, PCX, PNG, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

  • Disc: DVD, AVCHD, Blu-ray ($)
  • Video: DV, HDV, AVI, WMV, MPEG-1/-2/-4, Flash, 3GP, HEVC** (H.265, H.264), XAVC S, MOV, M2TS, FLV, 3GP, GIF, Cineform
  • Image: BMP, JPEG, TIF, TGA
  • Audio: AC3, MP2, MP3, MP4, WAV

Accessories

  • DVD burner required for creating DVD and AVCHD discs
  • Blu-ray burning requires purchase of a separate plug-in from within the product

Supported Languages

  • English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polish, Czech, Russian, Finnish, Danish, and Swedish.

Product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.

* For 8K video support, an Intel 7th generation or newer CPU with Quick Sync, an NVIDIA 10 series or newer CPU, or an AMD 4000 series or newer CPU is recommended.

** HEVC (H.265) support requires supporting PC hardware or graphics card and Microsoft HEVC video extension installed.