Pinnacle Systems Ships DV500, a Professional Real-Time DV Solution for Less Than $1,000; DV500 Features Dual-Stream Native DV Editing With Real-Time Video Effects - Product Announcement

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, Jan 3, 2000

Pinnacle Systems Inc. Monday announced that it started shipping DV500, a real-time native DV nonlinear editing solution for video producers, videographers and consumers at an affordable suggested retail price of $999.

DV500 is a real-time, dual-stream, digital video production system based on the industry standard DV (IEEE 1394 or Firewire) format, providing customers with a native DV editing environment. DV500 enables customers to edit and create high-quality video productions on their desktop with industry standard DV camcorders and VCRs.

DV500 provides simultaneous digital and analog video with audio I/O, all on a single PCI card. DV500 also includes support for interactive MPEG-2 CDs, and Web video streaming applications. In addition, DV500 includes Pinnacle Systems' new FreeFX, a powerful 3D effects library offered as a complete and easy-to-use plug-in for Adobe Premiere.

"We are pleased to offer a real-time DV video editing solution for under $1,000," said M3 Sweatt, director of desktop retail products at Pinnacle Systems. "DV500 offers our customers superb performance and productivity, and provides a powerful solution at an affordable price.

"Customers can now take advantage of the popular DV format with DV and Digital-8 camcorders to capture, edit and deliver digital video on tape, the Internet and a variety of other formats," Sweatt added.

-- Dual-stream, native-DV editing with support for all DV formats including Panasonic DVCPRO, Sony DVCAM, Sony Digital-8 and the consumer DV format

-- On-board IEEE 1394 I/O interface for connection with other DV-format video equipment for digital dubbing, nonlinear editing, including batch capture and camera control, with virtually no degradation in picture or sound quality

-- Y/C and composite video I/O provides capture from analog cameras and output to tape.

-- FreeFX for accelerated, broadcast-quality 2D/3D DVE and transitions with sub-pixel resolution, anti-aliasing, and high-quality filtering, which runs with popular consumer 3D accelerated video cards

-- Pinnacle Systems' TitleDeko adds amazing creativity and impact with Hollywood-quality titles.

-- Pinnacle Systems' INSTANTVideo to reduce rendering time and overcome the 2 GB file size limit of Windows 98

-- Includes Adobe Systems' Premiere RT real-time nonlinear editing software, Adobe PhotoShop LE, Pixelan Software's Video SpiceRack Effects and Sonic Foundry's ACID Music audio editing

-- More than 300 real-time effects and transitions

-- Supports 32, 44 and 48 kHz stereo audio I/O supported to video ensures perfect lip sync.

-- Professional quality audio/video breakout box simplifies cabling.

-- Windows 98 support in initial release

-- Registered customers will receive Minerva Systems' Impression software, providing autoplay MPEG-2 CD-ROMs for use on many current CD-ROM computers (a minimum of Windows 98 Pentium II 300 computer with a 24x CD-ROM drive is recommended), as well as the ability to create DVD discs for use on many popular consumer DVD players and computer DVD-ROM drives.

Pinnacle Systems' broadcast, desktop and consumer groups provide video professionals and consumers, the digital video editing tools needed to create fun and exciting productions faster and more affordably than ever before. Pinnacle Systems may be reached at 650/526-1600 or on the World Wide Web at www.pinnaclesys.com.