Re: Pinnacle Studio 15 Effects Free Download
Takeshi Krueger
Video effects are the icing on the cake when it comes to video editing. A full suite of effects in Pinnacle Studio lets you customize your video however you like. Warp your video footage, turn it into cracked glass, change the colours, add some VHS-style noise and grain. Whatever you need to create your film is all available inside Pinnacle Studio. Read the following guide to find out more.
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To edit the settings for the effect, click the Editor panel, choose Effect, and then click on the bar with the name of the effect to expand the effect controls. Adjust the settings for the effect, adding keyframes if you want to vary the settings. At any point, you can delete the effect by selecting the trash can / delete. You can layer effects and add a second effect using the same method of dragging the effect to your clip on the timeline.
I was able to solve the problem, and I believe it was related to the NewBlue Application Manager. First I downloaded the Filters 5 Ultimate .exe file from NewBlue, then Uninstalled and Re-installed the program (just to be sure). But I think the real problem was that, for some reason, the NewBlue Application Manager was not launching from the Start Window. But I was able to open the Application Manager program by browsing to the application file on my computer's hard drive and launching it from there. C:\Program Files (x86)\NewBlueFX\Common. From there I was given the chance to enter the Serial Number for the Filters 5 Ultimate plugin in the Application manager program (which is the step I was missing). At that point, all of the NewBlue effects were unlocked and could be applied without any watermarks! I hope this answer can help other people, too. Thanks!
For anyone that deftly uses Pinnacle Studio 24, I need assistance. I bought the NewBluefx pack, a coupled product able to be used on multiple programs. However, I rebooted Pinnacle Studio and my laptop, and the effects do not show. I'm pretty sure I'm just downloading it wrong somehow as I was following this guide: -us/articles/360038372273-Pinnacle-Studio-Is-Not-Detected-When-Installing-NewBlue-Plugins. I noticed I did not have the "plugins" folder that the example has (or I'm just extremely blind). Anyone familiar with these products and what I'm doing wrong? (I haven't contacted NewBlue or Corel yet)
Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, now in its 26th version, is a video editing application that's steadily become speedier and more powerful with each iteration. Pinnacle is aimed at near-professional enthusiasts, featuring excellent editing features and effects such as stop-motion video, multicam editing, and motion tracking. The company behind the software, Alludo (formerly Corel, which continues to use Corel in some brand names), also makes the consumer-grade VideoStudio. Thankfully, Pinnacle lacks the steep learning curve associated with pro video editing software, though in terms of performance and usability, it still lags behind our Editors' Choice winners, CyberLink PowerDirector and Corel VideoStudio.
Pinnacle Studio is available at two levels with the entry-level Pinnacle Studio listing for $59.99, and Ultimate (reviewed here) for $129.99. An Ultimate Bundle option adds loads of content and effects, plus membership in Pinnacle's Studio Backlot online community, which provides training, support, and stock content. Prices are for perpetual licenses, with no recurring subscription fee. Upgraders from previous versions of Ultimate save $40 off the full price.
If you need to edit 360-degree or 4K content, you need to spring for Ultimate, which also adds color grading, video masking, and high-end effects from NewBlue, along with unlimited video tracks. It's the only level that includes some of the new features detailed here. New since our last update of this review is a free 15-day trial version of Pinnacle Studio. Competitors, including Adobe Premiere Elements and CyberLink PowerDirector, also offer free trials.
A Mask button right above the source panel accesses two kinds of masks: Shape masks and Panel masks. The first sort can only create one 2D effect, but Panel masks can be manipulated with 3D motion effects. You can create masks starting from a square, circle, pen, brush, text, or Magic Wand selection. The last option is tricky to get an effective mask with; it took me several tries to get one that worked. You can apply a mask per clip, rather than just per track.
You can create tiny planet and rabbit hole effects (above, left and right, respectively) with your 360-degree content. These are fun effects, and you can even animate things like the zoom, rotation, and even transition from a tiny planet to a rabbit hole or vice versa. Version 23 added a freeze-frame for 360-degree footage. I confirmed it works by right-clicking at the insertion point and choosing Time Freeze and then entering the desired number of seconds in a dialog box.
Pinnacle claims to offer more than 2,000 effects. That's more than anyone really needs, and many are duplicates with transitions or, worse, just goofy overlays. Pinnacle would do better to trim out the fat and combine the duplicates to make effects easier to find and use.
Keyframing. For those who want the ultimate control, Pinnacle lets video editors time every kind of effect and adjustment with keyframes. That includes position, size, rotation, opacity, borders, corrections, filter effects, pan/zoom, transitions, and time remapping. Keyframing lets you evenly increase or decrease an effect over time. Once you've got a video project set up the way you want, you can save it as a template from the File menu. You specify which clips should become placeholders, which you can fill in subsequent projects with different clips. You can also select multiple keyframes as a group and modify them together or duplicate them.
The Auto Tone and Auto White Balance options on this panel worked well for my sample clips. You can even apply the very pro-level LUTs (lookup tables) for color mapping. Pinnacle now includes 34 LUTs, letting you make your movie look like Pandora, Moonlight, or one of many black-and-white effects. You can also get LUTs from high-end video camera companies if you shoot with those. I was able to test it with a LUT in .CUBE file type, and it correctly applied a horror movie look to the clip.
The Tone Curve tool, like Photoshop's, lets you change lighting for effects, correction, or contrast adjustments. HSL (hue, saturation, lighting) lets you change the color intensity and brightness separately for eight colors. One issue I had in testing this tool was that I couldn't see the effect until moving the play head. That's not a big deal, but it isn't ideal.
The Color Wheels view lets you adjust saturation and hue separately for each of three tonal ranges: Highlights, Midtones, and Shadows, as well as applying an overall color shift. It's pro-level stuff like what you find in Adobe Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, but not in Corel VideoStudio or Adobe Premiere Elements. I appreciate that double-clicking the control points resets them to the center. You can use these tools to either fine-tune the colors or to get some crazy effects, as in the screenshot above.
Filters. Many of these are standard, old-school Photoshop filters, but there are many impressive effects among them, such as Dream Glow and Old Film. Many included third-party effects, such as NewBlue's Drop Shadow, Shredder, and Photon Blast, are of professional quality. With the Ultimate edition, you get several NewBlue plug-in effects. The latest of these to make its way into the program is NewBlue Video Essentials 5, which lets you apply selective focus, selective color, and selective tint. Other NewBlue packs include several geometry-altering effects, along with good auto-contrast, gradient-tint, diffusion, and rolling-shutter effects.
Why should digital photos be the only type of content you can turn into art and enhance with artsy effects? The Paint tool in Pinnacle gives you impressive Paint effects: Stylization, Pencil Sketch, Oil Painting, Detail Enhance, and Cartoon. You're not actually painting on the image, but the effects make it look painted or drawn. I particularly like the Stylization effect, which looks like graphic novel art. The Cartoon effect uses more of a black ink outline around the object in the video. But these effects aren't as sophisticated as PowerDirector's AI Styles, which you're your video the look of specific artists, such as Van Gogh.
Blend Modes. Related to transparency is the Blend Mode feature. When you place an overlay clip, you can now choose from 16 Photoshop-like blend modes, such as Color Burn, Hard Light, Dissolve, and Multiply. These let you produce artistic, unique effects based on the clips you're overlaying.
Both Magix Movie Edit Pro and PowerDirector have added other nifty title tricks in recent versions, including video mask title effects, though the last lacks 3D title editing. Even without the 3D options, Pinnacle offers a good choice of animated text options, all of which you can edit on-screen in WYSIWYG fashion.
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