Review by Ammy_Evaluator

I am a big fan of Pinnacle Studio and have used its various iterations over the years. Fortunately, version 18 offers much of the same stability and ease of use as previous versions. In terms of ease of use, this software falls somewhere between Corel Video Studio (less complex) and Sony’s Movie Studio (more complexity.) Ease of use is important to me as I don’t edit videos all that often, and can’t be bothered to remember the nuances of each software product.

The software installed easily, though it does takes a long while - there’s a ton of additional extras that I should have opted not to install (as an occasional videographer, I don’t see myself using many of its advanced plugins such as creating custom sound tracks.)nnPerformance was pretty decent, throughout the standard video workflow of capture (organize), edit, and render (author). Editing was straightforward with the staples of transitions, effects, titles, trims, etc. being very intuitive.

Overall, I enjoyed using this software.