New creative features as well as enhancements to favorite features means that you can create stunning videos faster in VideoStudio. The key updates are listed below.

Save yourself time and energy by recreating popular video styles in minutes with new Instant Project templates. Simply select a template, drag and drop your video, and you're ready for export! You can reproduce popular viral clips, add themed video openers, turn portrait video into landscape, replicate marketing promo templates, and so much more. For more information, see Using Instant Project templates.

Add instant fun and extra personality to your next project with new AR Stickers. These face tracking stickers recognize and map to facial features. Import and apply silly character ears, show-stopping eyes, larger than life sunglasses, or over-the-top hats to any project. Adding AR Stickers is the perfect way to emphasize reactions and add flavor to gaming videos, reaction videos, and tutorials. For more information, see AR Stickers.

Ultimate users can enjoy access to an expanded collection of industry-leading premium effects from NewBlueFX and proDAD. Achieve remarkable creative transformations, add interest with 3D titles, and set the mood in any scene. Enjoy optimized effects packs from NewBlueFX and more than 100 new VitaScene effects from proDAD. Make real-time corrections to shaky hand-held footage with the enhanced proDAD Mercalli video stabilization tool. Easily fix imperfections, apply lens corrections, enhance and calibrate color, create reflections, and so much more.

Leverage enhanced Customize Motion tools for more polished motion effects. New Auto Motion Blur calculates the size, position, and rotation of changes between two keyframes to apply the optimal level of blur effect to make your motion look more natural. Ease in and out of object animation seamlessly. Explore an enhanced project preview to see how your animation looks with other timeline clips. Enjoy the convenience of multi-item editing to work with grouped clips and titles, and easily switch between objects. For more information, see Customizing motion.

Video masking is a powerful tool designed for everything from basic fixes to creative enhancements. VideoStudio Ultimate 2021 expands the creative possibilities of the Mask Creator with new keyframe controls that empower you to quickly and efficiently adjust the position, size, and angles of your video masks. Jump right into the Mask Creator, without selecting any clips, to create windows in your project and achieve cinema-quality special effects and transitions! Create custom masks to remove objects from footage and target edits to specific areas in your clips. For more information, see Working with the Mask Creator (Ultimate).

VideoStudio Ultimate 2021 delivers enhanced tools to help you work smarter across split screen projects. Control objects more easily in the enhanced Split Screen Template Editor, by leveraging new options to zoom in and out of the preview window. No need to re-work your customizations—save time by quickly copying and pasting keyframe edits. With new Replace Mode, you can drag and drop your personal clips to swap out generic placeholders, simply and efficiently. For more information, see Split screen video templates.

Enjoy more intuitive editing from import to export with usability improvements. Easily drag and drop video to replace generic placeholder clips and create projects more efficiently. Adjust color with the new Color Picker that introduces novel palettes to get to preferred tones more quickly. The new Replace Mode lets you drag and drop footage to Instant Project templates or Split Screen videos with ease.

Work faster with an optimized editing workflow and enjoy major performance improvements made across the product. VideoStudio Ultimate 2021 is optimized for AMD and nVidia, which dramatically improves project previewing and speeds up your workflow when using popular file formats. Edit efficiently with smaller proxy files that speed up project previewing while preserving your original high resolution file quality for export. Get the reliable performance and stability you need in VideoStudio 2021.