Pinnacle Express & Panasonic LF-D311 DVD Recorder Bundle LF311/118

Pinnacle Express
Now watching your home movies can be as much fun as making them! Pinnacle Express is the quickest and easiest way to watch your home movies or digital pictures on DVD. Simply connect your DV camcorder to your PC (FireWire 1394 port or card required), and Pinnacle Express lets you capture video or digital still pictures, add menus and titles and burn DVDs that play in your set top DVD Player. Pinnacle Express will also import .AVI files, so any movies that you've already made on your PC can be easily shared with family and friends. Pinnacle Express. The only thing missing is the popcorn.

Holidays. Vacations. School plays. You have them all on tape. Now what?
With Pinnacle Express, 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 your PC (FireWire 1394 port or card required) and let Pinnacle Express do the rest. With its built in Scene Detection, Pinnacle Express automatically generates a scene index so you can instantly go to any spot in your video - no more rewind or fast-forward! Pinnacle Express 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 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 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 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.

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.

Model Number: LF-D311
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.)