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Product Summary
Manufacturer: Pinnacle
Mfg Part#: 82301000371
UPC: 00613570218432
Buy.com Sku: 202517273
Item#: C2JE4E
Buy.com Sales Rank: 1212
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Dazzle Video Creator Platinum provides a simple, fast way to record home videos of the highest quality. Transfer them straight to DVDs or transform them into polished movies before archiving onto DVDs or sending them to mobile devices.Dazzle Video Creator Platinum is a plug-and-play USB 1.1 or 2.0 device that allows you to record your videos from a camcorder, a VCR, or any video equipment with analog outputs. Dazzle Video Creator Platinum uses a hardware encoding chip for real-time video encoding into high-quality MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX formats without taxing your computer''s CPU resources. It comes with both InstantDVD Recorder software that allows you to transfer videos straight from tapes to DVDs, complete with menus, and Pinnacle Studio QuickStart software to easily create fully polished movies with titles, transitions, music and more, before burning to CDs and DVDs. You can effortlessly export your masterpieces for sharing on DVDs, Apple iPod, Sony PSP and other similar portable devices.
 
Features
Manufacturer   Pinnacle Systems, Inc
Interfaces/Ports   1 x Composite - RCA Video In
1 x S-Video Video In
2 x RCA (Left/Right) Audio In
Host Interface   USB
Manufacturer Part Number   230100037
Functions   Video Capturing
Graphics Resolution   720 x 480
720 x 576
Manufacturer Website Address   www.pinnaclesys.com
Product Name   Dazzle Video Creator Platinum
Packaged Quantity   1
Package Type   Retail
Product Type   Video Capturing Device

 
Tech Specs
Manufacturer   Pinnacle Systems, Inc
Software Included  
  • Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder software
  • Pinnacle Studio QuickStart software
  • Studio Bonus DVD
  • Host Interface   USB
    Interfaces/Ports   1 x Composite - RCA Video In
    1 x S-Video Video In
    2 x RCA (Left/Right) Audio In
    Package Contents  
  • Dazzle Video Creator Platinum
  • Quick Installation and Getting Started guides
  • Manufacturer Part Number   230100037
    Functions   Video Capturing
    Additional Information  

    InstantDVD Recorder:

  • Simple sharing and safe archiving
  • Easy navigating
  • Fast processing
  • No experience required
  • Studio QuickStart:

  • Enhance and restore your old video tapes
  • Create movies in seconds
  • Preserve and share your movies on CDs and DVDs
  • Capture Formats:

  • Hardware compressed MPEG-1, MPEG-2 & MPEG-4
  • Import Formats: (Studio QuickStart)

  • Video: Windows Media Format, Non-encrypted DVD Titles
  • Audio: WAV, MP3
  • Graphics: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, Windows Media Format
  • Export Formats: (Studio QuickStart)

  • Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
  • iPod & PSP compatible (MPEG-4)
  • DVD with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW)
  • DV, AVI, DivX, RealVideo 8, Windows Media 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 files
  • Dolby Digital 2 channel and 5.1 channel audio
  • Video System   NTSC
    PAL
    System Requirements  
  • Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
  • 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
  • DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card (Creative Audigy or M-Audio recommended)
  • 1 GB of disk space to install software and 3 GB to install bonus content
  • 1 USB 2.0 (Hi-Speed) or USB 1.1 port
  • DVD burner for creating DVDs
  • DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (ATi Radeon or nVIDIA GeForce 3 or higher, with 128 MB recommended)

    Operating System Support:

  • Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher
  • Manufacturer Website Address   www.pinnaclesys.com
    Product Line   Dazzle
    Compatibility  
  • USB 2.0 or USB 1.1
  • Graphics Resolution   720 x 480
    720 x 576
    Product Name   Dazzle Video Creator Platinum
    Packaged Quantity   1
    Package Type   Retail
    Video Formats   Composite Video
    S-Video
    AVI
    DivX
    DV
    MPEG-1
    MPEG-2
    MPEG-4
    WMV
    Video Features  

    Share your movies on the go!

  • Dazzle Video Creator Platinum is equipped with all of the latest compression formats for viewing your movies on Apple Video iPod, Sony PSP, and DivX certified players
  • Turn your videos into amazing movies:

  • Trim your videos, improve image and sound quality, add effects, stills, titles, and background music, even create movies automatically with SmartMovie, then save them to DVDs with Pinnacle Studio QuickStart
  • Easy on your PC:

  • On-board MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 hardware lets you create high-quality DVDs without tying up your PC while you''re recording. Hardware encoding gives you the ultimate in recording quality.
  • Powerful performance with exceptional results:

  • On-board MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, and DivX recording hardware creates high-quality videos without slowing down your PC. Capture from virtually any video source - S-Video and Composite Video inputs provide full-resolution DVD recording
  • Simple enough for anyone to use:

  • Transfer your memories to DVDs in minutes without having to spend time learning new technology
  • Product Type   Video Capturing Device
    Platform Support   PC

     
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    Customer Reviews
    Value 3
    Performance 2.5
    Ease of Use 3
    Overall Satisfaction 2.5
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    1 of 5 It's a good value if it worked. Saturday, May 24, 2008
    Buy.com Customer from Maplewood, MN  

    I have been working with Pinnacle's live chat tech support for over 4 days now and still have not been able to resolve the error and crash I am getting trying to use Instant DVD Recorder. After running into this problem I have discovered that many other have had problems with using Pinnacle's 'buggy' software.
     
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    1 of 5 Stay away Sunday, March 09, 2008
    A Customer from Fort Wayne, IN  
    I wasted my entire weekend trying to get this software to work. After downloading several new drivers, patches, updates, etc., it still failed to perform as advertised. I should have spent the extra money on an interface for my Mac and my project would probably be done by now.
     
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    1 of 5 Does very little, mainly ad-ware Sunday, December 09, 2007
    A Customer from Seattle, WA  
    This product works adequately for video capture to a file. The other advertised functions do not work as described, or at all. The direct capture to a DVD does not work. When using this option it will only allow capture to a disk drive. It then saves the captured video to files. You are on your own from there create your DVD. The version of Pinnacle Studio 10 that is included with this product is ad-ware with very limited capabilities. For most edit function you get a message that says 'to use this feature you must upgrade... click here to buy'. To make it worse you only get this message when you try to save your work. This means you can spend a lot of time on a project and can't save your work. I have not found anything you can really do with this product except save captured video to a file. There are far less expensive products to do this. This product provides minimal functionality and borders on fraud. I cannot recommend this product for anything. It is a rip off.
     
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    2 of 3 customers found this review helpful.
     
    5 of 5 Good value Wednesday, May 31, 2006
    rs from St Petersburg Florida  
    Software installation takes longer than producing a DVD. Haven't checked CPU usage, etc, yet but I just keep on surfing net while DVD burns with no slow down.
     
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    3 of 4 customers found this review helpful.
     
    5 of 5 Great Product Tuesday, May 23, 2006
    jjohnson from Foster City, CA  
    I have been using this for a week now and I am very impressed. I especially like the HW encoding. I use it primarily to transfer old tapes to DVD and it works great!
     
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