Pinnacle Studio version 10 provides the ease and power to quickly combine and enhance your precious memories and effortlessly preserve and share them on DVD and beyond. 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 any consumer DVD player or DVD capable computer. 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 Studio 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.<p>Windows® XP 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&#8482; 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 DVD-ROM drive Optional: CD-R(W) burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs* DVD-/+R(W) burner drive for creating DVDs* Capture Options Capture from DV and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs (requires a DV/FireWire® port on your PC) Capture from analogue camcorders 8 MM, HI 8, VHS, SHVS, VHS-C, SVHS-C or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow®compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analogue (Composite or S-Video) inputs on your PC Output Options Output to DV or Digital8 tape (requires Camcorder with DV Input port and a PC with a DV/FireWire port) Output to analogue videotape (requires DirectShow compatible video device or video card with TV-output) 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 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 Package Contents Studio Software CDs Pinnacle Studio v.10 Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder Pinnacle MediaManager Studio Bonus DVD Studio User Guide *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.