Pinnacle Systems Ships Four New Dazzle Consumer Video Editing Solutions

Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ Pinnacle Systems today announced the availability of four new Dazzle video capture products designed for first-time video editors. As a result of its recent acquisition of the Dazzle product line, Pinnacle's industry leading consumer video editing solutions now include: Dazzle DV Clip, Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80, Dazzle Fusion, and Dazzle Digital Video Creator 150. All four new products come with Pinnacle Studio QuickStart, an entry-level version of the company's award winning Studio video-editing software.

The Dazzle product line with Studio QuickStart enables users to make engaging home movies complete with colorful titles, transitions, effects, and music. With a CD or DVD burner, Studio QuickStart also empowers users to create video CDs (VCD), SuperVideo CD (S-VCD), and DVDs of their home movies. Each product comes with hardware to import video to the computer for editing, preserving, and sharing.

The four new Dazzle solutions featuring Studio QuickStart are:

• Dazzle DV Clip: A PCI card that users install inside the PC to import digital video.
• Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80: An external video capture solution that lets users transfer video from virtually any analog or digital camcorder to any PC with a USB port.
• Dazzle Digital Video Creator 150: An external video capture solution that lets users transfer DVD-quality video from virtually any analog or digital camcorder to any PC with a USB 1 or USB 2 port.
• Dazzle Fusion: An external, USB video capture device and media card reader.

"Parents, Grandparents, young adults, and even children are embracing the trend of digitally preserving the most important events in their lives by editing and sharing their home movies. By combining the Dazzle hardware with our own Studio QuickStart software, we're giving millions of camcorder and PC owners an affordable solution to make great looking movies on their PC," said Bill Loesch, vice president, product management and engineering for the Business and Consumer Division at Pinnacle Systems. "As our customers move on to become advanced hobbyists and professionals, they can easily move up to the full-featured version of Studio and take advantage of the more powerful feature set without having to learn a new editing interface."

Pinnacle Consumer Video Editing Products
Pinnacle's award-winning consumer video-editing products offer powerful video editing solutions that can take the user from beginner level to expert. The Dazzle product family combines easy to set up and use video capture hardware with an entry level version of Pinnacle's best-of-breed Studio video editing software to give consumers the easiest way to get into video editing. Pinnacle's award-winning Studio line lets consumers take their video editing to the next level by adding more professional-quality features like such as Slow Motion, Color Correction and advanced DVD authoring and motion menus while retaining the same easy-to-use, intuitive user interface. And for advanced hobbyists and professional video editors who want a professional feature set, Pinnacle Liquid Edition offers a comprehensive professional editing solution with real-time compositing, effects and DVD authoring.

Pricing and Availability
All four products in the Dazzle product lineup are immediately available through the Pinnacle estore at www.pinnaclesys.com as well as leading retailers: Amazon.com, Best Buy, Circuit City, CompUSA, Fry's Electronics, J&R Music and MicroCenter. Dazzle DV Clip is priced at $49.99, Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80 is available for $69.99, Dazzle Fusion can be purchased for $99.99, and Dazzle Digital Video Creator 150 is available at $149.99. All pricing is listed at the suggested U.S retail price. For more information please visit www.pinnaclesys.com.

Source: Pinnacle Systems, Inc.

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