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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

OTHER ENHANCEMENTS
ENHANCED! Keyframe Editing
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.

IMPROVED! User Interface
Enjoy streamlined editing with enhanced usability across the product, thanks to improvements on the installation process, control panel options, in-product help, and more. Refreshed control panel sections provide more control over your editing experience, including options to reduce the demand on your computer; revised tooltips and interface strings deliver improved clarity and interpretability.

IMPROVED! Tools and features performance across the product
Enjoy improved title editing responsiveness and see changes applied to titles in the title preview much faster. Plus, manage your customized titles more effectively with updates to the accessibility of your saved presets.
Extend the power of video masking with reduced mask editing response time for shape creation and editing, object tracking, and applying functions to the mask or matte for better playback performance.

Make your story cinematic.
Why limit your creative vision by grounding it in reality? You choose the story you want to tell—whether fantasy, documentary, or love story—and Pinnacle Studio will help deliver the incredible pro-level results you’re seeking, all with its breadth of remarkable features and precise controls.