Pinnacle Studio 500-USB version 10 @ Antrix Tech Zone, Mumbai

Pinnacle Studio 500-USB version 10 provides the ease and power to quickly combine and enhance your precious memories from digital and analog camcorders and VCR’s on your PC or laptop and effortlessly preserve and share them on DVD and beyond.


Simplicity & Ease	SmartMovie	InstantDVD Recorder	Pan-and-Zoom

:: Features ::

Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home video editing, Studio 500-USB version 10, the most friendly, complete and powerful home video editing solution available today. Studio 500-USB combines the legendary ease of its intuitive three-step movie creation process with the power to quickly and reliably capture all of your precious memories from photos, videos and audio from popular digital and analog consumer electronic devices to your PC or laptop. Next, Studio 500-USB intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects, like Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and beyond. With Studio 500-USB, your home movies will always earn a top star rating with family and friends.

Simplicity and Ease-of-Use
The intuitive user interface with simple three step process effortlessly guides you through the 1) Capture, 2) Edit(Enhance) and 3) Share steps and makes learning and using Studio literally a breeze. Add on-demand assistance, and making breathtaking movies was never so easy.
SmartMovie
Pinnacle Studio's SmartMovie feature literally walks you through the creation of amazing movies from capture to adding spectacular effects, transitions, titles and music in minutes. SmartMovie is intelligent enough to actually follow your personal direction in editing and enhancing your unique video and images to create incredible compelling movies. It is really just that easy!
Built-in DVD Authoring
Pinnacle's fully integrated CD and DVD authoring workflow allows you to easily create DVDs with menus and custom navigation on the fly for playback on most consumer DVD players or DVD capable computers. Why waste the time and energy of going back and forth between two completely separate applications when with Pinnacle Studio you can preview your results with full DVD controls right from within your familiar editing workspace!
Instant Transfer to DVD NEW!
For those times when you want to quickly archive your treasured memories on DVD, Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder provides a quick and easy way to instantly create robust DVD's with menus without wasting the time and space of taking the extra step of first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.
Pan-and-Zoom
Effortlessly create captivating high-quality movies by animating your digital photos and images with close ups and pans and scans in any direction with Ken Burns like effects. Studio even includes great tools like red eye removal so that you have your best work when adding effects, transitions, titles and music to complete your masterpiece.
Video and Audio Restoration
Pinnacle Studio includes all of the tools you need to quickly and effortlessly take the quality of your work to the next level. The toolkit includes video cleaning to restore old damaged video tapes; image stabilization for shaky and jerky footage; as well as color correction for bringing out the genuine quality in poorly lit video shoots; and noise reduction for the elimination of extraneous distracting sounds such as wind and rain.
Real-time Effects with Preview NEW!
Pinnacle Studio includes hundred of extraordinary real-time effects and transitions that can be previewed immediately in their full-screen glory right on your computer monitor. And if you ever outgrow the hefty included effects palette, Pinnacle provides you with the peace of mind with knowing that there are always hundreds more very affordable effects available when and if you ever need them.
SmartSound®
Pinnacle Studio's SmartSound feature provides a vast library of categorized royalty-free music to compliment your visual creation. Moreover, your music choice will always precisely match second for second the duration of your selected video clips or movie.
Many Popular Sources and Formats NEW!
Pinnacle Studio now gives you the power in combination with Studio's celebrated ease of use to capture video from the latest consumer cameras and devices including DVD video cameras. With Studio, you can actually import videos from non-encrypted DVD's for added enhancement and re-mastering.
Background Saving NEW!
Now with Studio, you can work uninterrupted and avoid derailing your creative process when transparently saving in the background to the high-quality format of your choice. This great feature will sharply reduce and in many cases even eliminate the added time needed to save out your final project for CD, DVD or the Web.

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:: Specifications ::

Minimum System Requirements

Windows® XP (SP1 or higher)
Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
DirectX® 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 32 MB (ATI® Radeon® or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 3 or higher with 128 MB recommended)
DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card (Creative Audigy or M-Audio® recommended)
1 GB of disk space to install software + 3 GB to install bonus content
1 USB 2.0 (Hi-speed) port
DVD-ROM drive
Optional:
- CD-R(W) burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs* (S-VCDs)
- DVD-/+R(W) burner drive for creating DVDs*

Hardware Specifications

Inputs:

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

Outputs:

IEEE 1394 I/O connector (6-pin type)

Analogue Video Capture to Computer

Analogue 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

Export Formats

Video CD (VCD) or Super Video CD (S-VCD)* with optional CD-R or CD-RW drive
DVD* with optional DVD-R(W) DVD-/+R(W) drive
DV, AVI, DivX® **, RealVideo® 8, Windows Media® 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2*, MPEG-4** files
Dolby® Digital Audio 2 channel**

Import Formats

Video: DV, AVI MPEG-1, MPEG-2*, DivX**, MPEG-4 (AVI)**, Windows Media Format, Non-encrypted DVD Titles**
Audio: WAV, MP3
Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF

Package Contents

Studio Software CDs
Pinnacle Studio v.10
Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder
Pinnacle MediaManager
Studio User Guide
Studio 500-USB External Video Capture Hardware

* Capture, import and export of MPEG-2 files and DVD Titles and burning of S-VCD and DVDs require free product activation via Internet at the first use.
** Output of DivX & MPEG-4 files possible if codec installed on your PC. The import/editing of DVD titles with Dolby Digital (AC3) audio, files with AC3 audio, DivX files, MPEG-4 files and output in Dolby Digital Audio format require Advance Codec Pack, which can be activated inside Studio at additional cost.