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Pinnacle Systems Ships Four New Dazzle Consumer Video Editing Solutions

London, UK, 03/11/2003 - Pinnacle Systems announces 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 colourful 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 analogue 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 analogue 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.

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 such as Slow Motion, Colour 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 line-up are immediately available through leading retailers:

Dazzle DV Clip is priced at £39.99 inc VAT, Dazzle Digital Video Creator 80 is available for £59.99 inc VAT, Dazzle Fusion can be purchased for £79.99 inc VAT, and Dazzle Digital Video Creator 150 is available at £149.99 inc VAT. All pricing is listed at the suggested UK retail price. For more information please visit www.dazzle.com.

Dazzle Upgrade Programme started
An attractive Upgrade Programme has been launched for all Dazzle customers that had previously purchased any Dazzle branded product. There are three different upgrades available: a STUDIO Software upgrade, a hardware upgrade to Pinnacle MovieBox DV, and a combined Software-Hardware Upgrade to Pinnacle Liquid Edition. Details and more information can be found at www.dazzle.com/specialupgrade.

About Pinnacle Systems:
Pinnacle Systems provides broadcasters and consumers with cutting-edge digital media creation, storage, and play-back solutions for use at Home, in the Studio and on the Air. Pinnacle Systems’ award-winning digital media solutions are in use around the world for broadcast, video editing, DVD and CD-R authoring and on the Internet. A recognized industry leader, the company has received nine prestigious Emmy Awards for its technical innovations and carries this commitment throughout all of its product lines. Pinnacle Systems can be reached on 01895 442 003 or www.pinnaclesys.com