Pinnacle Systems Extends Its Studio Consumer Video Editing Product Family.The Studio DC10 Plus Will Enter the Consumer Video Market as One of the Industry's Most Powerful and Cost Effective Nonlinear Video See nonlinear video editing. Editing Solutions MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1998--Pinnacle Systems today announced Studio DC10 plus, a new offering in the company's Studio family of consumer video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. products. Studio DC10 plus shares many features with the Company's recently introduced Studio 400, including the intuitive, easy and fun to use Studio video editing application. Studio DC10 plus is an internal PCI card A circuit board that plugs into the computer's PCI bus and contains the control electronics for a peripheral device. Starting in the latter half of the 1990s, PCI became very popular. See PCI. solution, based on Pinnacle Systems' award winning miroVIDEO product technology, and is the Company's price/performance leader for consumer nonlinear video editing Editing video in the computer. Also called "nonlinear editing" (NLE), digital nonlinear systems provide high-quality post-production editing on a desktop computer. However, some detail may be lost if lossy compression is used to store the images (see lossy compression). . "Studio DC10 plus and Studio 400 share our fun video editing application, and are among the easiest tools on the market for consumers to edit their video with," said Bill Loesch, Pinnacle Systems' vice president of consumer products. "Whether the customer is interested in editing long vacation Long Vacation is a Japanese television drama from Fuji Television, first shown in Japan from 15 April to 24 June 1996. Takuya Kimura played the male lead. The show enjoyed high ratings and would be the first in a series of big hits starring Kimura. tapes or creating a business presentation, 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). has made video editing as fun, easy-to-use and compelling as playing video games See video game console. ," Loesch added. Studio DC10 is compatible with today's high Today's High The intra-day high trading price. Notes: In other words, this is the highest price that a stock traded at during the course of the day. More often than not this is higher than the closing price. See also: Today's Low performance Pentium(R) class personal computers. With an estimated street price under $200, Studio DC10 plus is Pinnacle Systems' most cost-effective non-linear editing tool. Studio DC10 plus allows users to capture and edit videos right at their desktop. Ideal for short form subjects such as music videos, family skits, corporate presentations and Internet v-mails(tm) (short for video emails), Studio DC10 plus allows users to add sophisticated titles, transitions, and music, allowing for MTV-style productions, as well as more conservative style presentations. "If you have ever been inspired by a great commercial, a music video or even a Hollywood movie, Studio DC10 plus gives you the power to unleash your creativity and make your own great and entertaining videos," said Mike Iampietro, senior product manager at Pinnacle Systems. "This motion-JPEG PCI card captures full resolution video to your hard drive and is ideal for editing videos for work and for play," Mike Iampietro added. About the Studio Software: Studio video editing software Video editing software is application software which handles the editing of video sequences on a computer. It usually includes the ability to import and export video, cut and paste sections of a video clip, and add special effects and transitions; and it sometimes includes the , included with Studio DC10 plus, makes video editing extremely fun and easy. You can drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. scenes in any order using the intuitive Storyboard A sequence of images and annotations for a cartoon, animation or video. Storyboards are previews of the final version and typically contain mockups rather than final art and images. Before computers, storyboards were drawn with pen and ink on lightweight cardboard. view. You can preview wipes and dissolves, then add them to your movie with the click of a mouse. Studio DC10 plus also comes with the TitleDeko professional character generator (1) Circuitry that converts data characters into dot patterns for a display screen. (2) A device that creates text characters that are superimposed onto video frames. from Pinnacle Systems. TitleDeko features over 300 looks and styles, allowing you to create dazzling titles for your movies. With the SmartSound software, also included, you can create a custom musical soundtrack for your movie. Whether you output it to a video tape or save your work as an AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) A Windows multimedia video format from Microsoft. It interleaves standard waveform audio and digital video frames (bitmaps) to provide reduced animation at 15 fps at 160x120x8 resolution. Audio is 11,025Hz, 8-bit samples. file to send over the Internet, the final video is a masterpiece that will leave your friends and colleagues inspired by your talents and eager to start their own productions. -0-
Studio DC10 plus Features:
-- Easy Capturing & Scene Detection -- Studio DC10 plus allows you
to capture full-screen, full-motion, full-resolution video at 30
frames/60 fields per second. Studio DC10 plus automatically
captures your camcorder footage, detecting individual scenes.
-- Easy Editing -- Easy cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop editing lets
you place scenes in any order you want.
-- Instant Preview -- Instant Preview Window lets you try out
different scenes, transitions, effects, background music, and
more before final edit.
-- Add Professional Touch -- More than 100 different transitions
(including Video SpiceRack lite transitions from Pixelan
Software), plus more than 300 different styles and looks for
titles, and lots of other effects. Choose from Storyboard or
Timeline editing. Create custom musical sound tracks and record
voice-over narration.Import 3-D animations and AVI movies.
-- Pick your input and output choices -- Output to videotape or to
digital video files. The Studio DC10 plus can capture or output
S-VHS, Hi8, Video8, and VHS video formats.
-0- Pricing, Availability and System Requirements Studio DC10 plus is compatible with virtually all Pentium PC's running Windows 95 or Windows 98, and will be available at the end of October, 1998, with an expected price of $229 ($30 mail-in-rebate brings price to $199). About Pinnacle Systems Pinnacle Systems' broadcast, desktop, and consumer groups provide video professionals and consumers with the cutting-edge tools needed to create dazzling productions faster and more affordably than ever before. These innovative digital video manipulation tools perform a variety of on-air, production, and post-production functions such as the addition of special effects, image management, capture, storage, and playout, as well as graphics and title creation. The Company's broadcast and desktop product lines incorporate specialized real-time video processing circuitry for the ultimate in performance and creative flexibility. Pinnacle Systems may be reached at 650/526-1600 or on the World Wide Web at www.pinnaclesys.com. |
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