Pinnacle Studio 25 Ultimate

I bought the bundle that you mention, just last night.

My thoughts:

Corel WordPerfect Office, on it's own, is worth the price of the bundle. I use Libre Office, Ashampoo Office 9 and now I have Word Perfect Office as of last night.
I am a heavy user of office software (not good at using it, but I do use it alot), and I really don't like Microsoft Office, so I am very happy to get WordPerfect Office for such a small price. Everytime I tried to use Microsoft Word, there were automatic pop-ups and pre-set features that were initiated within the program without me wanting such things to be initiated. I was spending about 30 seconds each time I opened the programs just to put everything back to a neutral beginning. So, I gave up on Microsoft and won't ever use their programs again.

Pinnacle 25 is a good editor and since it's part of the bundle, it is a tremendously good value. Only thing I don't like about Pinnacle is the import feature when you are trying to get a video file into the program to start things off. And the audio adjustments are just OK. But other than those 2 things, it is very good.

After Shot 3 is worthless. I have no idea why Corel doesn't just include After Shot capabilities as standard in PSP. I love PSP, but one thing I don't like is the results I get from the Adjustment sliders - they don't make my images Pop and stand-out on the page. This is why I am always searching for another editor. I have ACDSEE Photo, which is a great editor for adjustment slider results, but is inferior to PSP for selecting objects.

PSP is the best program I have used for object selection. It is one of the only photo editors on the market that has a SMOOTH option, so selections aren't jagged and unpleasent looking. The program can actually select hard, clean lines, which many programs can't do. I tried Affinity, but all the selections look terrible when you magnify them close up because there is no SMOOTH option within Affinity. Anyways, I have tried to work with After Shot many times because it is part of the Corel family, but the program lags and pixelates my results until I save it and repopen it in PSP. And After Shot hasn't been updated or supported since a long time ago, so Corel should either retire it or put the full software into PSP as standard.


Corel Draw Essentials, which includes Photo Paint is a nice bonus, but never going to replace PSP.

Painter Essentials is a nice bonus as well.

For the money, the bundle is amazing.

I would have bought Word Perfect Office, on it's own, for the Humble deal price. To get the others as freebies, essentially, is wonderful. And don't forget, Corel will usually offer $20 or more worth of discounts on all upgrades when you already own one of their programs. So, in the future, I will probably re-cuperate my Bundle purchase by saving on Corel software upgrade deals, going forward. This makes the bundle almost free in the end.

I was using Pinnacle 25 today and the export rendering is SO SLOW. I unchecked hardware acceleration in the program's export settings, but it doesn't help much.
I intend to contact Corel and ask them to help me solve this issue. I know others have had issues with it.

On another note, I upgraded to After Shot Pro 3 for $20 Canadian, as I received the upgrade offer once I installed the regular After Shot 3 download. The Pro version is better and the results are good, overall. Better adjustment slider results can be achieved in After Shot Pro 3 as compared to PSP 2023.

Corel/Alludo, if you read this comment, PLEASE incorporate After Shot Pro 3 adjustment sliders into PSP software, going forward. They give excellent results and you aren't even developing After Shot anymore, so it's not a loss from your end.