Pinnacle Studio 18 Ultimate - Basic Editing Beginners Tutorial

The Pinnacle Studio 18 Ultimate basic editing tutorial for beginners will get most users up to speed on the basics of the video editing software application and give you some useful tips for video editing. This tutorial will show tips and tricks for users of Pinnacle Studio 18 Ultimate and Plus. We review the features of the software, setting up projects, splitting, trimming, adding titles, creating transitions, accessing media, keyboard shortcuts, and a whole lot more.

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[pmafa]

Just upgraded from Studio 15 and I have been a user (amateur) since Studio 8.  When I first seen the user interface of 18 Ultimate, I gasp and thought alright here comes the learning curve until I came across your tutorials.  Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.  It's also great to see my brother making it happen too, kudos.

[gelphaze]

This guy knows what he's doing. thank you so much. it's like schooling online.

[samueljohnson]

of all the pinnacle tutorials I've watched yours is the greatest. being a true beginner in digital video photography, your beginner session has helped me a lot, looking forward to more as i progress

[Firehorse]

Hi, Maliek.  I view all of your "Tuts" and learn from each one.  A big "THANKS" for sharing your expertise with us.  Regards, Michael.

[franszoetemeyer]

Dear Maliek, you're a great tutor ... I love your clear explanations.  Thank you, Frans from Holland

[azgunguys]

I just upgraded from 14 to 18 plus. I just watched this video and I love your work. I'm very basic but your vids will help a lot.
I can see me referring back many times to finger it out....Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.  and Yes I subscribed!!!

[clementleroy]

Hello, I have just looked at your video and I wanted to tell you that it is the good work! I am French and there is no tutoriaux as yours, it is very well! I was on the iPad version of pinnacle and this version seem very interesting so thanks to you!

[JackandJillTV]

Just wanted to say thanks for providing us with an informative and straight forward tutorial. We appreciated it :)

[TechGamesEtc]

This was such a big help, thank you so much. Im upgrading from pinnacle studio 15. I love it but now I know its time for an upgrade. Thx again. 

[DiPaTravelVlogs]

Thank you so much for these tutorials! Very helpful and well explained. Thumbs up! :D

[margyjr]

Another Great Tutorial from The "Pro" Thank you!!

[GrommieWolf]

Love the tutorial vids- they make learning easy!

[TwirrleySeed]

I only recently got my Pinnacle Studio 18, and barely know how to use it. This video helped out a lot and it wasn't boring. I would like to thank you for you short tutorial on the basics. I do have one major question that I really need help on, "How do you get Pinnacle to play .gif files?" I have a bunch of animated .gif files that I made and Pinnacle doesn't play them. I was hoping you could help me get an answer to this problem. Thank you!

[martincitypaintball]

thank you for your great video. It was extremely helpful.

[UptownCats]

thank you for the tutorial. It was very good

[elcarryfilms]

thanks man even i don speak inglis a lern just achin what you don thins thanks again

[jamessween]

I think Pinnacle 18 needed to be able to use two monitors, one for preview, and one for work flow. also a big improvement is to have some kind of and easy camera solve, like Mocha, Blender or something that pinnacle would design. And be able to use alfa channels instead of green screens.I also think they could speed up the render process by not letting your video clips render, they really do not have to render unless you change something in that clip, therefor you could save a lot of render time, I think 18 realest to soon, what I see, it's not worth constantly spending money, I just got done buying 17, I'm sick of every time you turn around there is a new upgrade, why don't they just let us download it for free like a lot of other software companies. Thank you for letting me post!

[mamaluigi]

I learned my lesson "don't forget the undo button"!

[israpazh]

Great video and wonderfully edited... Need some explanation on how to frame (mask) a video using vector graphics (not going out from pinnacle, but drawing graphical frames to run videos inside them. I mean - not rectangles but frames from splines.

[Reyfox]

Again, another great tutorial to get you up and running. One question for you. Can you delete a group of markers at the same time? If you have a hundred or so markers on the timeline and want to delete a group of them, is it possible or do you have to delete them one at a time or all of them in one shot.
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