PINNACLE SYSTEMS LAUNCHES DV500 PLUS.Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems, Inc. is a California-based American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the consumer and broadcast markets. It was founded in 1986. In 2002 Pinnacle purchased VOB Computersysteme GmbH (now pinnaclesys.de). , Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLE) has announced DV500 PLUS, one of the first real-time DV editing products to fully support the new features of Adobe Premiere 6.0. In particular, DV500 PLUS supports, in real time, Adobe Premiere 6.0's new multi-track audio mixer and 16:9 video format. DV500 PLUS is the successor to Pinnacle Systems' popular DV500. The product retains all of the hardware features of the DV500 such as analog and digital in/out. In addition to real time support for new Adobe Premiere 6.0 features, DV500 PLUS offers real time image correction, real-time effects and transitions and real-time titles with TitleDeko RT. DV500 PLUS is equipped with a DV2 Speed Codec with dual processor support for ultra fast rendering. DV500 PLUS exports MPEG-2, MPEG-1, MP3, Real Media and Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. . "We are excited to announce that DV500 PLUS is one of the first editing products to fully support the new features of Adobe Premiere 6.0 in real-time," says Bill Loesch, vice president of technology and marketing for Pinnacle Systems' Personal Web Video Division. "We believe that users will find the new audio mixing Audio mixing is used for sound recording, audio editing, and sound systems to balance the relative volume, frequency, and dynamical content of a number of sound sources. Typically, these sound sources are the different musical instruments in a band or vocalists, the sections of an , and widescreen capabilities of Premiere 6.0 to be extremely valuable upgrades to their editing suites," he adds. Bundled with Adobe Premiere 6.0, DV500 PLUS offers users real-time effects and transitions, multi-track audio mixing, real-time image correction, real-time 16:9 wide screen aspect ratio, and real-time titling with TitleDeko RT. It features inputs and outputs for both analog (SVHS See VHS. , composite) and digital (DV/1394/FireWire) video equipment. Internally the DV500 PLUS uses a dual-stream hardware DV CODEC, providing ultra fast rendering. The DV CODEC maintains a 100% digital communication between digital video equipment and the DV500, as well as providing extremely high quality encoding for analog video The original video recording method that stores continuous waves of red, green and blue intensities. In analog video, the number of rows is fixed. There are no real columns, and the maximum detail is determined by the frequency response of the analog system. . Additional software includes Pinnacle Systems' Impression CD-Pro for Interactive CD-R (CD-Recordable) A writable CD technology using a type of compact disc that can be recorded, but not erased (CD-Rs are "write once" discs). CD-R discs are used to master CD-ROMs, to back up data and to make copies of data for distribution. & DVD authoring, Pinnacle Systems' Hollywood FX Copper and Alpha Magic for powerful 3D and 2D transitions, TitleDeko RT for broadcast quality titling in real-time, and web streaming media creation with Real Media and Windows Media formats Windows Media formats are supported in many software and hardware-based players as well as Microsoft's own software-based Windows Media Player. The foundation container format for Windows Media is the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) file, which holds audio, video, meta-data (titles, author, . Pinnacle Systems' broadcast, desktop, and consumer products provide video professionals and consumers cutting-edge digital video tools to create, store, distribute and view web enabled digital video easier and more affordably than ever before. |
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