24 Ultimate ((top)): Pinnacle Studio

In previous versions, masking a moving object was tedious. Now, you just draw a box around a person or a car, and the AI tracks it frame-by-frame. I added a pixelated blur over a license plate in a 4-minute driving clip. It took 12 seconds to render the track. Perfect.

When you hear "consumer video editing," Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve usually dominate the conversation. But for the last two decades, has been the quiet workhorse for prosumers—especially those on Windows who refuse to pay a monthly subscription. Pinnacle Studio 24 Ultimate