Pinnacle launches Pro-ONE video editing system

KOLKATA: Pinnacle Systems, Inc. manufacturer and marketer of a wide range of

high quality digital solutions has launched Pro-ONE in Kolkata. Pro-ONE system

comprises of a picture card and software handling multi-layer real time

compositing. Some key features include hardware accelerated image stabilization

and a group of ten filters and transition in real time.

The image stabilization detects shaky scenes and corrects them automatically,

which could be modified with effects and filters in real time while the engine

processes video in its original resolution and quality. There are more than 300

styles and effects from a wide range of titles, neon and metallic, stretched and

condensed among others. It supports picture in picture, zoom rotate, animation,

particles, image correction and speed variation. It also delivers a full palette

of effects from fade to black, wipes and dissolves to advanced 3D effects and

other image encapsulations.

Under a key frame animation the effects can change over time including of

graphics and titles for creative motion sequences and flexible screen

composition for graphical placements. There is an additional feature for

background music and mix in real time with the original sound effects. Several

complex effects can be combined simultaneously in real time. Thus it provides a

simultaneous combination of 2D and 3D effects as filters and transitions.

It supports a wide range of output formats including DVD, CD, MPEG 1 & 2,

and Windows streaming media and QuickTime among others. " Priced at Rs

72,000 the system, a combination of software and hardware, only recently

launched has had a very positive response in the country" said Krishan

Sanghi, Representative, Pinnacle Inc.

Aditya Infotechis their main

distributor in India. Minimum system requirements: Intel Pentium III or AMD

Athlon processor,700 MHz or faster, 1 X 32-bit PCI 2.1 slot, 128MB RAM, 500 MB

hard disk capacity for installation, Separate system hard disk 20GB dedicated

A/V rated video hard disk, High color AGP display adapter with DirectDraw

drivers, PCI soundboard, Windows 98 SE, Millennium, CD ROM drive for software

installation, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD-RW writer.