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Pinnacle Express DV & Panasonic LF-D311 DVD Recorder Bundle
Pinnacle
Express DV - DVD Authoring & Burning Software with FireWire PCI Card
Now watching your home movies can be as much fun as making
them! Pinnacle Express DV is the quickest and easiest way to convert your home
movies or digital photos for viewing on your DVD player instantly. Simply
install the included 1394/FireWire® card and connect a DV camcorder to your PC, and
Pinnacle Express DV lets you capture video, add digital still pictures, menus
and titles, and burn a CD or DVD. Then, sit back and enjoy watching your home
movie masterpiece on your DVD player! Pinnacle Express DV will also import .AVI
files, so any movie you've created on your PC can be easily shared with family
and friends. Pinnacle Express DV also allows you to trim, delete, and combine
scenes. Pinnacle Express DV. The only thing missing is the popcorn.
Holidays. Vacations. School plays. You have them all on tape.
Now what?
With Pinnacle Express DV, sharing your videos is as easy and fun as it was to make
them. In a few easy steps, you'll be able to capture your memories from tape and
assemble them into a truly professional looking video presentation, complete
with dynamic menus
Capture Your Inspiration
Watching your home movies on your DVD player couldn't be easier. Simply connect your DV camcorder to
included FireWire card and let Pinnacle Express DV do the rest. With its built in Scene Detection, Pinnacle Express
DV automatically generates a scene index so you can instantly go to any spot in your video - no more rewind or fast-forward! Pinnacle Express
DV also allows you to import videos as DV format AVI files, so you can quickly and easily burn DVD compatible discs of all the movies you've already created on your PC.
Prepare Your Masterpiece
Once your video has been captured, you have a choice. You can burn a disc right away and watch in your DVD player, or you can personalize your project by adding Hollywood style menus and effects. Pinnacle Express
DV allows you add all the fades, titles, music and professional looking scene menus you need to transform your home movies into cinematic works of art. Pinnacle Express
DV even allows you to import still photos and build interactive slide shows.
Premier Your Work
Once your video clips, titles and menus are exactly the way you want them, you're ready to burn! Pinnacle Express
DV allows you to preview your work and then use
the Panasonic DVD Recorder to create a disc that you can play in your set top DVD player. The only thing missing is the popcorn.
Pinnacle Express DV Features
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A Complete Solution
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Preview, Customize, Edit
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Preview final result with onscreen remote control
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Select menu style from pre-made templates
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Simple editing to combine / delete / trim scenes
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Add simple titles / captions / music
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Create slide shows from a digital still camera
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VCD/SVCD/DVD formats are supported
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Supports NTSC and PAL video formats
FireWire 1934 Card Specifications
- Plug and Play 32 bit PCI board with bus mastering interface
- Three 400 Mbps IEEE 1394 ports (2 external 1 internal)
- Cable Included: 6-pin 1394 to 4-pin DV
- Video Capture and Output:
- Frame rate: 30 frames per second/60 fields per second NTSC, 25 frames per
second/50 fields per second PAL
- Frame size: 720 X 480
NTSC, 720 X 576 PAL
Panasonic LF-D311 DVD
Recorder
A universal storage solution, the Panasonic LF-311 is an internal ATAPI (IDE)
interface drive that delivers the exciting world of DVD in a choice of
formats—secure, write-once DVD-R General technology and flexible rewriteable
DVD-RAM technology. Combined,
these formats provide end users and businesses with the optimum solution for
creating DVDs, audio and video storage/playback; expanded computer storage for
documents, data and images; backup and archiving; and small-scale distribution
or sharing of photos and videos.
DVD-R provides the very best compatibility with future, current and
legacy DVD players. It is estimated that 98% of existing DVD movie players
and DVD-ROM drives will play DVDs created using the Panasonic LF-D311 DVD-R format.
A recent
article indicated that only 70% of DVD movie players currently being sold would
play the DVD+RW format discs from DVD burners being offered by HP and others
(not to mention the incompatibility with DVD movie players and DVD-ROM drives
manufactured prior to 2000).
DVD-RAM provides the largest, most durable rewriteable DVD storage format.
The Panasonic LF-D311 will record to double sided DVD-RAM discs providing up to
4.7GB of storage per side (twice the storage of other formats). DVD-RAM
discs can be written to up to 100,000 times and data written to the discs has an
predicted life of 100 years. These two features make DVD-RAM the superior
format for archiving and backing up computer data.
The Panasonic drive makes all of these capabilities available while offering
backward support for first-generation DVD-RAM discs and compatibility with
future generations of DVD storage solutions.
In addition to writing to and reading from 4.7GB general use DVD-R as well as
2.6/5.2GB and 4.7/9.4GB DVD-RAM discs, the Panasonic DVD-RAM/R drive reads Multi
Read-compatible CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, audio CD, PhotoCD, VideoCD, and CD-Extra
media at up to 24X speed; and DVD-ROMs at up to 6X speed. It also plays DVD
Audio discs; and, when the host computer is equipped with a decoder and player
software, it plays back DVD Videos.
Panasonic LF-D311 Specifications
| Model
Number: LF-D311 |
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| Capacity: |
4.7/9.4GB
DVD-RAM (rewritable)
2.6/5.2GB DVD-RAM (rewritable)
4.7GB DVD-R General Use (write-once) |
| Interface: |
ATAPI /
IDE |
| Data
Transfer Rate (IF Interface): |
Ultra DMA
Mode 2: max. 33.3MB/s
PIO Mode 4:
max. 16.6MB/s |
| Write Data
Transfer Rate: |
4.7GB
DVD-RAM 1385KB with verifying (1x)
2.6GB DVD-RAM 690KB with
verifying (.49x)
4.7GB DVD-R
1385KB without verifying (1x) |
| Read Data
Transfer Rate: |
DVD-RAM
(4.7GB): 2770KBps (2x)
DVD-RAM (2.6GB): 1385KBps (1x)
DVD-ROM:
8310KBps (6x)
CD-ROM/CD-R:
3600KBps (24x)
CD-RW:
1800KBps (12x) |
| Average
Seek Time: |
DVD-RAM:
75ms
DVD-ROM/R, CD-ROM: 65ms |
| Write
Compatibility: |
4.7GB
DVD-RAM
2.6GB DVD-RAM
4.7GB DVD-R (General) |
| Read
Compatibility: |
CD-DA,
CD-ROM/XA, Photo CD, Video CD,
CD-Extra CD-R, CD-RW at max. 24x
DVD-ROM, DVD-R at max. 6x
DVD-RAM (4.7GB at 2x, 2.6GB at 1x) |
| Buffer
Capacity: |
1MB |
| Power
Supply: |
12V/5V, ±5% |
| Dimensions
(WxHxD): |
146
x41.3x196 mm
5.75"x1.63"x7.72" |
| Weight: |
1.1 kg
(2.4 lbs.) |
Minimum System Requirements
- Pentium 350MHz or faster Pentium ® II or equivalent
- Available 5 1/4" drive bay
- IDE controller with available connector
- Available PCI slot
- Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium, Windows 2000 or Windows XP
- DirectX 6.0 (or higher) compatible graphics and sound boards
- Mouse
- 30 MB of disk space to install software
- 4 GB of disk space for every
20 minutes of captured video from DV camcorder
- Hard disk drive must be capable of sustained throughput of at least 4MB
/sec. (All SCSI and most UDMA drives will work)
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