Getting Started with Pinnacle Studio
Learn the basics and get started in Pinnacle Studio. From beginner to advanced users, Pinnacle Studio has something for you. Creativity meets control with Pinnacle Studio. Edit with precision on unlimited tracks with pro-caliber tools like Multi-Camera editing, screen recording, Split Screen video, sophisticated audio tools and 2000+ filters and effects. Easily share online, export to device or burn to DVD with menus!
Want to learn more? Browse through our collection of Pinnacle Studio tutorials for beginners for more detailed instructions on how to use each of the tools covered in this overview video.
Download a printable PDF of the Pinnacle Studio User Guide (PDF, 15 MB)
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Comments (67)
Gibt es das Benutzerhandbuch Studio 24 auch in deutsch?
Hello Martin,
Of course! Here is a link to the German user guide for Pinnacle Studio 24.
Discovery Center Team
Hi, can I create timelines in Portraitmode 1080×1920 (not 1920×1080) in Ultimate 24?
Hello Fitschu,
Did you mean creating or exporting videos in a 1080 x 1920 format? This can be done by using a custom video format instead of a preset when setting up the project and selecting output options. For the most part, the preset formats assume the user wants a horizontal display.
Discovery Center Team
Buongiorno,
dopo anni ho riacquistato il programma pinnacle, la versione studio 23.
Vedo che alcune cose che davo per scontato non ci sono: gli effetti per i video, quelli preimpostati; le classiche transizioni tra video, immagini etc..
La domanda è: è la versione che ho acquistato che non riporta queste funzioni, oppure ho sbagliato qualcosa quando ho installata il programma? Scusate, per molti di voi può essere una cosa scontata e stupida, però per me che dopo anni si riaffaccia a questo bel programma no!
Grazie in anticipo per chi mi vuole rispondere
Un saluto cordiale 😊
Hello Alessandro,
Which version did you purchase previously? It sounds like you may have used a Pro or Ultimate edition before, and have purchased a less comprehensive version than the one you have previously used. For a more detailed comparison of what is included in the different editions, please see this comparison chart.
Discovery Center Team
Acabo de adquirir Pinnacle 24 Ultimate y el manual de usuario viene en inglés, dónde puedo consultar uno en Español?.
Vengo usando Pinnacle desde la versión 7 y siempre tenía un manual en Español, la versión anterior a ésta (24 Ultimate ha sido la 17). Es la primera vez que no viene en Español.
Hello Jose,
Our apologies for the confusion! Here is a link to the Spanish user guide for Pinnacle Studio 24.
Discovery Center Team
What is the best Intel processor for Pinnacle Studio 23 with a $1000 budget? I need to use the 2066 socket. If you don’t want to say which is the best what do you recommend for Pinnacle Studio 23? Thank you
How do I get a pdf version of the PS23 user manual? According to a training video I’m supposed to click on User Manual in the Help menu. Apparently the instructor has never clicked on that link, because it takes you online to http://help.pinnaclesys.com, where you can print individual pages to a pdf, but no way to download the entire manual.
Hi Tom,
You can download a PDF of the entire manual from this link http://help.pinnaclesys.com/pinnacle/how-to/en/user-guide/pinnaclestudio.pdf. We’ve also added a download link in the description at the top of this tutorial page.
Hope this helps!
The Discovery Center team
Hi, Does Pinnacle Studio 23 also do photo editing or just video
Hi Nicole,
Pinnacle Studio is video editing software only. If you are interested in photo editing software, you can download a free 30-day trial of PaintShop Pro photo editing software at http://www.paintshoppro.com.
Hope this helps!
The Discovery Center team
Hello
Is there any manual in Romanian for Pinnacle Studio 23 Ultimate? or can one create one?
Thank you very much
Magyar nyelvű oktató anyagot szeretnék.Hol találok?Korábbana 10-es változatot használtam, de ez a 23-as teljesen új.
Kedves Ágnes!
Küld el az E-mail címedet, átküldöm a magyar nyelvű fordításomat, nem teljesen tökéletes, de remélem segíteni fog.
Üdv István
Kedves István!
Ha lehetek olyan pofátlan, én is szeretném elkérni a fordításodat, amit Ágnesnek igértél.
Nagyon sokat segítene ennek használata nekem.
Előre is köszönöm:
Kálmán István
Tata
Hello!
I’m curious that the Pinnacle Studio 23 manual in English can be found somewhere?
Thanks.
Andrew
Hello Markovics,
Of course! Here is a link to the English Pinnacle Studio User Guide.
Discovery Center Team
Ich hätte gern das Tutorial in deutscher Sprache.
Herzlichen Dank im Voraus.
Eckard Sünnemann
Dieses Videotutorial ist mit Untertiteln auf Deutsch verfügbar. Um die Untertitel anzuzeigen, klicken Sie im Wiedergabefenster auf das Symbol für die Einstellungen und wählen Sie die gewünschte Sprache.
Ich habe PS23 installiert. Meine ersten Film in von der Videokamera. Import war in IO. Nur in der Bearbeitungsleiste erscheint der Film als Ganzes, nicht in einzelne Szenen. Ich kann keine Szene einzeln anfassen und bearbeiten. Was habe ich falsch gemacht? Wie kann ich es besser machen?
LG Klaus (deutsch)
Hello Klaus,
Were these different videos you transferred, or one long one? If it was several clips that the direct import process combined into one, you may want to manually copy the contents to your computer, and import them from a folder.
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team
Bonjour,
Impossible de visualiser le montage dans l’écran de contrôle, que faire?
Merci
dOBRÝ DEN,
KDE NAJDU ČESKÝ PŘEKLAD PINACLE 23!
Hello Hana,
Here is a link to the Czech User Guide for Pinnacle Studio 23.
Hope this helps!
Discovery Center Team
I am finding it difficult to plugin Vitascene V2 to Pinnacle Studio 23. the program will install to my computer ok, but when I check PS23 there is only one transition showing. Does anyone have any idea to resolve this problem please.
Installed Pinnacle Studio 20 Ultimate. Audio okay but the videos I import will not play on the preview screen. In short, no video.
Hello Joseph,
Unfortunately Pinnacle Studio 20 is no longer a supported product, and our technicians would be unable to assist with this. We would suggest taking a look at the Knowledgebase, where we keep the solutions to many previously resolved issues, or the User Forums to see if anyone in the community has had a similar problem and resolved it.
Discovery Center Team
have the same problem Joseph. Pinnacle asked me to close and open some data link and rename Pinnacle to Pinnacle old. Then open programme. I did and every programme I had loaded said goodbye. Pinnacle clip sky is the limit still there but everything gone. Am going to import again and see what happens. Very annoying and time wasting. Cheers Rod
Hello !
Where can I find the french Pinnacle Studio 23 manual ?
Best regards.
Hello David,
Here is a link to the French Pinnacle Studio 23 manual.
Discovery Center Team
Hello !
Where can I find the french Pinnacle Studio 22 manual ?
Best regards.
Hello Francois,
Not a problem! Here is a link to the French Pinnacle Studio 22 User Guide.
Discovery Center Team
I have just started but cannot import the file I need. I get..
Organise
Could not import file. Please check event log in control panel.
Where is the control panel??
Hi Marcus,
You can open the control panel under the Setup menu (beside File, Edit in top left corner of the interface) or press Ctrl + Alt +C. Event Log is listed in the left column. What is the file type you are trying to import?
The Discovery Center team
Hi, I am using Pinnacle Studio Plus and already have .srt files to add as captions. I want to import them and add to my video. Do you have a video tutorial showing how to do this?
Thanks Steve
Hello Steve,
Thank you for the suggestion! We do not currently have a tutorial on adding subtitles from existing .srts, and have passed your comment on to the Pinnacle team for their consideration.
Best,
Discovery Center Team
Music won’t play while editing but DOES play in the final product. Please help.
To clarify, I am trying to add music to a video montage I created; simple pictures with transitions. That’s it.
i’m trying to add music from my iTunes library to the montage in EDIT mode. I can’t get the program to play the music. The scroll bar moves, but no sound. I CAN play music on my computer through Windows Media Player and iTunes. Also, when I burn a file of my montage, the music I added is there.
I’m getting more and more frustrated as the night goes on. This should be an extremely simple step, done countless times on earlier versions of Studio with ease.
When I call customer support, I get someone overseas who promises to escalate my situation to technical support via email. EMAIL? I need someone to walk me through what’s going on and fix it. I’m too far into the project (and out $70) to start over.
Hello David,
Our apologies for the frustration! While we are happy to give tips and advice on how to use Pinnacle and other products, this sounds like an issue best solved via technical support. They typically do some initial investigation and information gathering via email, as depending on the problem some of the initial steps may need to wait on downloads, installs, and other things that prevent any other actions for the duration. In order to allow our technicians to assist as many users as possible, these first steps are typically done by email. Contact via phone is also possible, and something that the technician assigned to your case can schedule as needed once you are in touch!
Best,
Discovery Center Team
Hello Adam.
I’m a new user of Pinacle Studio 22. I have inserted at the end of a movie some photos and a musical soundtrack thah I’ve applied only to the photos.
I Have adapted the music to the duration of the photos presentation but I would like the music to gradually decrease as it reaches the end of the presentation. Can you please let me know what tool and how should I use it, to decrease the volume gradually? I haven’t found it on the manual
The soundtrack and the photos have to end at the same time but the volume of the music should be decreasing as the end of the presentation arrives
Thank you so much for your assistance.
Hello Núria,
You can do that with audio keyframes! Just set the first keyframe at where you want the audio to start to decrease, and another where you want it to reach zero. On the second one, adjust the volume to zero. Now during playback, Pinnacle will automatically reduce the audio during the time between keyframes. For some more detail on how this works, check out our tutorial video on Adjusting Volume with Volume Keyframing!
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team
Thanks a lot Adam!!
I’ll try it this way.
Regards
Is there a printed version of the manual?
If so, how do I get a copy?!
Hello Jim,
Thanks for the feedback! While we are working on expanding our selection of tutorials paired with written instructions, we don’t currently have a written version of this tutorial available. We have submitted your comments to the tutorial team for their consideration.
Best,
Discovery Center Team
bellissimo
La falta de cultura que hay en Corel, se nota mucho, el mejor programa de edición de video, manuales en inglés, algunos programas de Pinnacle en italiano, alemán japonés y la segunda lengua mas hablada del mundo la ignoráis el español, vuestra cultura en la rama de las letras es la de saber cuantas veces se ha resbalado su presidente al bajar del avión y la hora, pero el tener conocimiento sus directores que el español es la segunda lengua lo ignoráis. Pinnacle 22 es maravilloso, pero es una lástima no venga en español, solo su propaganda, no todo el mundo estudia inglés estudiamos griego latín francés etc. como segunda lengua. Les informo de Méjico para abajo menos Brasil se habla el español sin contar islillas y zonas de Ingleterra y Francia, Guayana, Maldivas etc., espero os halláis instruidos, De Méjico hacia abajo menos Brasil se habla español sin contar EEUU Filipinas etc. os regalo cultura gratis. Saludos eso sí buenísimos programadores.
Hello Jose,
Not to worry, we do have a Spanish version of the Pinnacle 22 manual! You can find it here:
http://help.pinnaclesys.com/pinnacle/how-to/es/user-guide/pinnaclestudio.pdf
Best,
Discovery Center Team
As a new user, your “Guide to getting started” video is very hard to pick up on because you rush through the procedures with lightning speed. After watching it multiple times, I still can’t figure out how to edit out a middle section of my movie project that I don’t want. Where can I find that information in the PDF user manual?
Hello Andre,
Thanks for the feedback! We have passed your comments on to our tutorial team for their consideration. In the meantime, we have a separate tutorial on How to Split, Cut, and Trim Videos that you may find helpful. The presenter and delivery style is all different, and we’d love to hear your feedback on that one as well.
All the best,
Discovery Center team
Hey
How to perform motion masking in Pinnacle 22 is tracking traffic but it escapes beyond the area that should be masked. How to do it manually in previous versions on the axis marked out the dots and the mask moved. Regards Tadeusz
Hello Tadeusz,
While the starting shape options are a circle or a square, you can add a new node by clicking on the edge of the mask area, and then you can drag that node into place as needed!
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team
I’m having trouble after a movie is finish, being able to copy it to a DVD. Some of the videos are over two hours long. When I was using Pinnacle 14 I was able to see a pie graft which would show the percentage of quality and how it change with the length of the movie. We were able to see a breakdown of option like disc File etc.
I have been working Pinnacle 21 and now 22 and do not see an easy way to put the produce movie to a DVD that can be used on and seen on any PC.
I like using the Pinnacle program for it ease of reworking these movies.
If there is simple way to make these copies from Pinnacle 21 or 22 like there is in Pinnacle 14 would you advise me how?
Thank you
Hello Roy,
The DVD authoring tools have been consolidated into Pinnacle MyDVD, which is included with Pinnacle Studio. Here’s a tutorial with information on how to use MyDVD to help get you started!
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team
I have been using Pinnacle studio since version 8 and currently using version 22 ultimate. The disc authoring in version 22 is more complicated than heck, (You removed the Author Tab). There are no great tutorials to be found for disc authoring in 22. The so called consolidation into “MYDVD” do not explain very well, how to get from your edited video you created in pinnacle 22 into “MYDVD”. The so called tutorial entitled (how to use MYDVD) only focusses on how to make menus and sub menus, and that has become complicated than ever before. Wasted my money on this one! Where is Maliek Whitaker when you need him, now there is a guy who knows how to put together a tutorial that editing for dummies can understand
Hello Craig,
Thanks for the feedback! We have passed your suggestion of a more thorough MYDVD tutorial on to the Pinnacle team for their consideration.
If you would prefer the Author tab in the meantime, it is still in Pinnacle 22 as a legacy feature! To enable it, go to Setup > Control Panel > Legacy options, and click the Enable button for the Legacy Authoring Mode.
Hope this helps!
Discovery Center Team
Muziek importeren in een film van een CD
Hello Henri,
In order to prevent any potential link errors in Pinnacle Studio, we would suggest you start by ripping the audio from the CD to your computer. Once it is stored locally, you can import it into Pinnacle Studio like any other media file! We have a tutorial on Importing and Managing Media that you may find helpful for this step.
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team
Is er ondersteuning voor CR2 fotoformaat in studio 22 ?
Hello Bollestan,
Pinnacle Studio 22 does not currently support Canon RAW image files. If you wanted to use images from your Canon DSLR, you would first need to convert them to a supported format, which includes: JPS, BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF, PNG, and J2K.
Discovery Center Team
Je decouvre pinacle. Comment importer les images a partir d’un camescope numerique ? merçi de votre reponse
Hello Gilbert,
Unless you wanted to copy them manually and organize them yourself, the simplest way to import files from your camcorder would be let the Pinnacle Importer handle copying those video files! From the Importer (open the importer by clicking ‘Import’ at the top of Pinnacle Studio), set the Import Mode is set to Copy (so that you don’t have to have your camcorder plugged in every time you edit a video), select your camcorder from the tabs at the top of the Importer, and find your videos on the right hand navigation menu!
You can find a more thorough explanation of importing files and the Importer screen itself in the user guide, here:
http://help.pinnaclesys.com/pinnacle/how-to/fr/user-guide/pinnaclestudio.pdf
Hope this helps!
Discovery Center Team
vorrei avere con urgenza, il manuale in Italiano di Pinnacle 22
Hello Livio,
Of course! You can find the manual here:
http://help.pinnaclesys.com/pinnacle/how-to/it/user-guide/pinnaclestudio.pdf
Best,
Discovery Center Team
quando si vende un prodotto nella comunita europea deve essere fornita qualsiasi documentazione e manuali d’uso nella lingua in cui viene venduto il prodotto o siamo obbligati a imparare tutti l’inglese?
Hello Antonio,
Were you looking for the Italian Pinnacle Studio 22 manual? You can find that here: http://help.pinnaclesys.com/pinnacle/how-to/it/user-guide/pinnaclestudio.pdf
Hope this helps,
Discovery Center Team