Pinnacle 500, studio 500-usb Technical Specifications

Quickly Enhance and Share
Your Memories with Video

Product Overview

Studio 500-USB version 10 is the
most friendly, complete and powerful
home video editing solution available
today. Studio 500-USB combines the
legendary ease of its intuitive three-

step movie creation process with the
power to quickly and reliably capture all of your precious
memories from photos, videos and audio from popular digital
and analogue consumer electronic devices. Next, Studio 500­USB intuitively walks one through adding groundbreaking
effects, like Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster
home movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and
beyond.

Studio 500-USB is one of three flavours created to better
accommodate the specific needs and requirements of entry level
to intermediate video storytellers alike. Studio software delivers
comprehensive support for all-digital workflows while Studio
500-PCI adds an easy to install internal PCI card for capturing
and outputting from and to analogue video cameras and VCR’s.
Studio 500-USB provides the power and flexibility in the form of
an attractively designed F.A. Porsche plug and play USB-2 device
with support for all video cameras from either a PC or a laptop.

Digital I/O Analogue

I/O

Portable
External

Hardware

Studio X*
Studio

500-PCI

X X

Studio

500-USB

X X** X

* Requires a DV / FireWire port on your PC

** Analogue input only

Positioning

Studio 500-USB version 10, from Pinnacle Systems, the leader in
home video editing solutions, is a complete set of home video
editing tools created to get the entry level storyteller started
right away. Studio provides users with the easiest way to
enhance, preserve, and share their precious memories on DVD,
the Web and more in minutes. More specifically, Studio 500-USB
provides the power and flexibility in the form of an attractively
designed F.A. Porsche plug and play USB-2 device with support
for all video cameras from either a PC or a laptop.

Target Market

The complete family of hardware and software solutions
anchored by Pinnacle Studio version 10 covers the needs and
requirements of everyone from the entry level to intermediate
video storyteller who wants a simple and complete way to
quickly edit, enhance and preserve all of their precious media so
that it is all available to view and share with anyone at anytime.

Product Descriptions

25 Word Descriptions

Pinnacle Studio 500-USB version 10 provides the ease and power
to quickly combine and enhance your precious memories from
digital and analogue camcorders and VCR’s on your PC or laptop
and effortlessly preserve and share them on DVD and beyond.

50 Word Descriptions

Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home video
editing, Studio 500-USB version 10, the most friendly, complete
and powerful home video editing solution available today.
Studio 500-USB provides the ease and power to quickly combine
and enhance your precious memories from digital and analogue
camcorders and VCR’s on your PC or laptop and effortlessly
preserve and share them on DVD, the Web and beyond.

100 Word Descriptions

Introducing, from Pinnacle, the worldwide leader in home video
editing, Studio 500-USB version 10, the most friendly, complete
and powerful home video editing solution available today.
Studio 500-USB combines the legendary ease of its intuitive
three-step movie creation process with the power to quickly and
reliably capture all of your precious memories from photos,
videos and audio from popular digital and analogue consumer
electronic devices to your PC or laptop. Next, Studio 500-USB
intuitively walks you through adding groundbreaking effects, like
Pan-and-Zoom, music and titles to create blockbuster home
movies for preserving and sharing on DVD, the Web and
beyond. With Studio 500-USB, your home movies will always
earn a top star rating with family and friends.

Key Features in Studio

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Instant Transfer to DVD – Pinnacle Studio provides a quick

and easy way to instantly create robust DVD’s with menus
without first copying your files over to your PC hard drive.

• Pan and Zoom – Effortlessly create high quality movies by

animating your digital photos with close ups and pans and
scans in any direction.

• Video and Audio Restoration – Pinnacle Studio includes

tools like video cleaning to restore old damaged video tapes;
image stabilization for shaky and jerky footage; as well as

colour correction for bringing out the genuine quality in poorly
lit video shoots; and noise reduction for the elimination of
sounds such as wind and rain.

• Real-time Effects with Preview - Pinnacle Studio includes

hundred of real-time effects and transitions that can be
previewed immediately, in full screen, right on your computer
monitor.

• SmartSound

®

– The SmartSound feature provides a vast library
of categorized royalty free music to compliment your visual
creation.

• Many Popular Sources and Formats – Pinnacle Studio now

gives you the power to capture video from the latest
consumer cameras and devices including DVD video cameras.
With Studio, you can actually import videos from non­encrypted DVD’s for added enhancement and re-mastering.

• Background Saving – Now with Studio, you can transparently

save in the background to the high quality format of your
choice.

Package Contents

• Studio Software CDs

o Pinnacle Studio v.10
o Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder
o Pinnacle MediaManager

• Studio Bonus DVD

• Studio User Guide

• Studio 500-USB External Video Capture Hardware

• USB 2 cable

• FireWire

®

Cable

Box Dimensions

• Package Size (L x W x H): 300x080x220 mm

• Weight: 1.200 kg

Reference

Product Name PPN UPC Code

STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL D 202262247 613570217183
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL GB INT

202262248 613570217190
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL F

202262249 613570217206
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL NL

202262250 613570217213
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL E/P 202262251 613570217220
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL I 202262252 613570217237
STUDIO10 500-USB
RETAIL AS 202262253 613570217244

Technical Specifications

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows

®

XP (SP1 or higher)

• Intel

®

Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® 1.4 MHz 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™ 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

• 1 USB 2.0 (Hi-speed) port

• DVD-ROM drive

• Optional:

- CD-R(W) burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video

CDs* (S-VCDs)

- DVD-/+R(W) burner drive for creating DVDs*

Hardware Specifications

500-USB Inputs

• Composite video input (RCA connector) PAL, SECAM, NTSC

• S-Video input (mini-DIN connector) PAL, SECAM, NTSC

• Stereo audio input (2 x RCA connectors)

• IEEE 1394 I/O connector (6-pin type)

500-USB Outputs

• IEEE 1394 I/O connector (6-pin type)

Analogue Video Capture to Computer

• Analogue PAL & SECAM/NTSC input

• DV (IEEE 1394) camcorder capture 25 Mbit/s. Full camera

control support

• Compression: MPEG-2, MPEG-1, DV, MJPEG (User-selectable.

Available real-time capture formats depend on CPU speed.)

Video Playback from Computer

• DV (IEEE 1394) output to camcorder 25 Mbit/s.

• Full camera/device control support

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**

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

* 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.

©2005 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Pinnacle Systems, Pinnacle Studio
and the Pinnacle Fanwheel logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Pinnacle
Systems, Inc. and its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. All
trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Product Specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation. August 05