With Pinnacle Studio™ MovieBoard it's easy to capture video and make great looking movies. Archive your videos, publish them on YouTube or enjoy on DVD's and more.

Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard is a versatile movie-making solution that combines a capture card with the power and simplicity of Pinnacle Studio. The internal PCI card captures video from any analog or digital source. The new Pinnacle Montage theme-based editing feature in Pinnacle Studio puts incredible creative power at your fingertips. Simply drag and drop your video and stills to preview your show – complete with Hollywood style multi-layered effects, animated graphics, titles and Hi-Fi audio. Users can then automatically publish them on the Web or enjoy them on DVDs and portable devices.

Exclusive Features:

NEW! Pinnacle Montage - Watch your memories come alive

Easy Moviemaking
Making great looking movies has never been easier. Simply select a theme complete with associated titles and animated graphics. Drop in your video and photos. Then surprise everyone with polished results.

Great Graphics
Each theme gives you access to a series of templates to give your video a fabulous “look”– over 80 templates for multi-layered effects, animated graphics and great titles.

Fantastic Results
Amaze your friends and family with professional style videos. Who ever thought that mixing your media together – video, photos, audio – could be so simple and create such amazing home movies?

11 Themes + 81 associated templates including:
50s Modern, Album, Baby, Instant Photo, Love, Multi-layer Mix, Season, Sports, Star, Tribute & Video Wall

Everything you need to make home movies.

Give it some style
Select from an impressive collection of titles, transitions, filters and effects.

Pinnacle Scorefitter ® music generator
Automatically generate a rich soundtrack to match the length of your movie.

Bring your still photos to life
Animate your photos with close-ups or motion pan-and-zoom features.

Keep your memories safe
Archive your video memories with Pinnacle Instant DVD Recorder.

Clean up and rejuvenate
Improve audio tracks, enhance color, remove noise, and fix poor lighting.

Built-in Disc Burning
Easily create DVDs with motion menus and custom navigation for playback on DVD players. With integrated CD and DVD authoring you can preview your work in progress with full, on-screen DVD controls.

NEW! Web publishing simplified
Direct upload to video sharing sites like YouTube and Yahoo! Video.

NEW! Enjoy your movies on the go
Enjoy your movies on your Sony® PSP™, Apple® iPod®, DivX® certified players, and even 3GP cell phones.

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows® XP SP2 (SP3), Windows Vista™ (SP1)
• Intel® Pentium® or AMD Athlon™ 1.8 GHz (2.4 GHz or higher recommended)
• Intel Pentium HT or AMD Athlon 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista 1 GB system memory recommended
• DirectX® 9 or 10 compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB or higher recommended) 128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB or higher recommended)
• DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
• 2 GB of disk space
• DVD-ROM drive to install software
• Optional: CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs), DVD burner for creating DVD* discs

Capture Options

• Capture from DV and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs
• Capture from analog camcorders, 8 mm, HI 8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM).

Output Options

• Output to DV or Digital8 tape
• Output to analog videotape
• Output to Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ formats*

Import Formats

• Video: DV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP(MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
• Audio: MP3, MPA, WAV, AC3*
• Graphic: BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PSD, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

• Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
• DVD* disc with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer)
• Apple iPod and Sony PSP compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
• DV, AVI, DivX*, RealVideo® 8, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Flash, 3GP*, WAV, MP3* files
• Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio

Hardware Specifications
Inputs & Outputs:

• Composite Video input/output (RCA connector) NTSC
• S-Video input/output (mini-DIN connector) NTSC
• Stereo audio input/output (uses system sound card)
•  IEEE 1394 in/out connector (6-pin type)

Video Capture to Computer

• Analog PAL & SECAM/NTSC input
• DV (IEEE 1394) camcorder capture. 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

• Analog output from computer
• DV (IEEE 1394) output to camcorder. Full camera/device control support