Warranty: 90 Day Pinnacle Warranty

Features:

• Use your photos, music, and video footage from your camcorder or VCR tapes to create home movies
• Capture video from any analog/digital source
• Archive your memories. Directly transfer from tape to DVD for safe-keeping in a few mouse-clicks
• Select from an impressive collection of preview-able titles, transitions, filters and effects
• Animate your photos with close-ups or pan-and-zoom to create engaging video slideshows and tools for removing red eye, rotating and cropping images
• Scorefitter music generator – Automatically create your soundtrack to the exact length and mood of your video, now with 40+ tracks and higher fidelity
• 1-Click upload – Share your movie creations on the Web. Pinnacle’s new webload feature lets you automatically share your home movies privately for an audience of your choosing, or post them publicly on Yahoo! Video to share with the world
• Built-in DVD Burning: Easily create DVDs with motion menus and custom navigation, for playback on DVD players. The fully integrated CD and DVD authoring lets you preview your work in progress with full DVD controls
• Automatic scene detection creates clips for drag & drop ease
• Directly encode video in real-time in a variety of formats
• Use Pinnacle Studio’s integrated disc authoring to create discs with multi-level menus to view on home DVD players and PCs
• Digital output lets you preserve and show your creations on DV tape
• Enjoy your created movies on the Web or view them on the go on popular media players

System Requirements:

• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz or higher recommended. Intel Pentium HT or AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista
• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended). 1 GB required for Vista (2 GB recommended). 1.5 GB required for AVCHD (2 GB required on Vista)
• Windows XP with SP2, or Vista
• DirectX9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended); 128 MB required for use with Vitascene filters; 128 MB required for use with Vista (256 MB ATI Radeon 9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 recommended); 256 MB required for HD and AVCHD editing (ATI Radeon 9600+ or NVIDIA GeForce 6 recommended)
• DirectX 9 or higher or compatible sound card
• 1 GB of disk spack to install software and 3+ GB to install bonus content
• DVD-ROM drive to install software

Optional System Requirements:

• CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
• DVD burner for creating DVDs

Hardware Specifications:

Inputs & Outputs:

• Composite video input (RCA connector) PAL, SECAM (input only), NTSC
• S-Video input (mini-DIN connector) PAL, SECAM (input only), NTSC
• Stereo audio input (2x RCA connectors)
• IEEE 1394 In/Out connector (6-pin type)

Analog Video Capture to Computer:

• Analog PAL & SECAM/NTSC input
• DV (IEEE 1394) camcorder capture 25 Mbit/s. Full camera control support
• Compression: MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DV, MJPEG (User-selectable. Available real-time capture formats depend on CPU speed.)

Video Playback from Computer:

• DV (IEEE 1394) output to camcorder 25 Mbit/s. Full camera/device control support

Import Formats

• Video: DV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX®, MPEG-4, 3GP(MPEG-4), WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles
• Audio: WAV, MP3
• Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats:

• CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
• DVD with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW)
• DV, AVI, DivX®, RealVideo® 8, Windows Media® 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 files
• Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ compatible (MPEG-4) formats
• Dolby® Digital 2 channel & 5.1 channel audio

In the box:

• Pinnacle Studio Software Install DVD Version 11
• Pinnacle Studio Bonus DVD
• Pinnacle Studio User Guide
• 510-USB External Video Capture Hardware (Highspeed USB 2.0)
• IEEE 1394 Cable
• USB Cable