Review by Atomic Tofu

Pinnacle Studio 20 Plus is a good entry in the Pinnacle Studio 20 lineup, the other 2 being the standard or basic and an Ultimate version. I will be testing and reviewing this on an Intel Core i7-4770, 16GB ram in Windows 10 64bit. Additional hardware to note is gpu of Nvidia gtx970 and a 4k lcd monitor. Files to be tested will be 1080p.

You’ll enter your serial number, then choose a path for installation. You’ll be installing the main program, standard content, bonus content, and 20.0.1 service pack off the internet. I normally install most of my programs to D, not the typical C, so here’s hoping there won’t be any issues with that. Installation was wonky in a sense for me. In the end, the main program installed itself to C, gave me an install choice in which I chose D but it installed Pinnacle MyDVD there…so who knows what it needs to install. After installation, you’ll be greeted with a registration page upon startup of the program. After startup, make sure to set your preferences.

So I couldn’t figure out how to add my own track and opted to use one included in the program. I decided to export a 1080p video to 1080p with the altered audio track to see how it would turn out . Surprisingly the file is smaller than the original and still seems to retain the quality with what I could only imagine is a lot more audio information.

Features I’ll hopefully test out will be the live screen capture and later the stop motion animation. I also want to test its 3d editing powers but don’t have anything for that yet either.

For now I’ll give it a 4 star rating. Not the easiest or intuitive to use but hopefully with more learning and usage this will improve. If and when it improves I will come back and bump up the review to a 5. I’ll be testing and using the software ongoing almost daily, at least once a week anyway given time constraints.