Once you open or start a project, you'll see the standard three-panel video editing interface, with source tray and preview window on the top, and a storyboard and timeline across the bottom. You can also access help from here (and only here), and set default durations for titles, transitions, and photos you add to movies. When you first start Pinnacle Studio, you'll see its attractive movie-film-styled home screen, from which you can start, open, share, or delete movie projects. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( Read our editorial mission.) The app's 57.3MB is large by iOS app standards, but much smaller than Apple's iMovie for iPad ($4.99, 3.5 stars), which takes up a massive 496MB. Users of first-generation iPads need not apply, as Pinnacle only runs on iPad 2 or later. And this version is even better than its forbear in several ways, among them 1080p output and a voiceover feature. That doesn't take away the fact that it's the best, most powerful, and easiest to use iPad video editor around. To add insult to injury, what was a $4.99 app is now $12.99. Unfortunately, existing Avid Studio users don't get a free update to Pinnacle Studio, even though it's essentially the same app.

The good news, however, is that the app has been reborn as Pinnacle Studio for iPad. With Corel's purchase of the Pinnacle video editing software assets from Avid last summer, my Editors' Choice iPad video editing app, Avid Studio, is no longer supported.

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