We imported 4K footage from a Panasonic Lumix GH4 and GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition, and the software had no problem dropping them onto the timeline. Other consumer editors claim to provide film-look effects, but the quality available here is in another league.Ī key new feature of Studio 17 Ultimate is support for 4K video.
The highlight is the Red Giant Filmmaker Toolkit, a suite of three effects that deliver sophisticated colour-grading treatments. Instead, Studio 17 Ultimate includes some of the best effects of any consumer editor.
The effects and template libraries are no longer littered with chargeable extra content. The Ultimate edition we tested comes packed with extras its timeline is straightforward and responsive to navigate and media, effects, transitions and other assets are well organised. Version 17 is the second edition under Corel, and installing it reminded us of how far it has come. In 2011, it was rebranded, and it changed owners again in 2012, this time to Corel. However, it wasn’t until a buyout by Avid in 2005 that Studio’s chronic reliability issues began to dissipate. Pinnacle Studio was a major player in the early days of PC video editing, often coming preinstalled on new PCs and bundled with Pinnacle’s capture hardware.
