Pinnacle DC1000:
Producing An MPEG-2 Video CD-ROM

Now you can easily create and deliver corporate, educational, entertainment and training videos that can be viewed directly from the PC at high quality and with multimedia interactivity. CD-ROM drives are included on nearly 100% of new computers today and hundreds of millions of them are installed on computers around the world. Now each of these computers is the perfect place to watch your special video. CD-ROMs are accepted worldwide for the distribution of multimedia content and information. Music, PC applications, documents and now video.

The Pinnacle Systems DC1000 ships with the Minerva Impression CD Pro authoring software, making it easier than ever before for video editors and multimedia content providers to produce high powered video productions and deliver them in a format which can be viewed on computers around the world. With Impression CD Pro, the Pinnacle Systems DVD1000 includes full capabilities to create an interactive, fully navigable MPEG-2 CD-ROM, with no need for any player software or extensions.

The ABCs Of Producing MPEG-2 Video On A CD Using The DC1000

Step 1: Digitize The Footage To The DC1000 Editing System: The DC1000 digitizes or "captures" video footage from the video source through the analog or DV (optional) inputs. This footage is stored to the video hard disk as an MPEG-2 AVI stream. The high quality and low storage requirements of the MPEG-2 stream will produce a higher quality finished MPEG-1 video disk.

Step 2: Professionally Edit Your Digital Video Production: The DC1000 ships with the popular Adobe Premiere RT5.1 software for editing your video into a professional finished production. Premiere RT5.1 takes advantage of the dual stream technology of the DC1000 to provide real time effects, titles and filters saving you valuable production time by eliminating rendering on these items.

Step 3: Export To MPEG-2: When the video project is complete you can export the movie as a single MPEG-2 video stream with the included export utility on the DC1000. Once the movie is in an MPEG format, it is ready to be imported into the Minerva Impression CD Pro CD-ROM video authoring system.

Step 4: Author The Title: the Minerva Impression CD Pro software allows you to author fully interactive multimedia video titles that can be viewed on almost any new PC with a CD-ROM drive (a Pentium II 266 is recommended). A special player is automatically placed on the CD-ROM to ensure that no cumbersome downloads or driver changes required by the viewing audience. The Minerva Impression CD Pro allows you to:

• Import PhotoShop files as menus with full layer support for navigation buttons
• Add up to 99 chapter points to your movie
• Include up to two additional audio tracks for multi-language support
• Drag and drop navigation menu creation with full interactive support
• Preview the CD-ROM title before committing it to disk

Once the interactive title is created, the project is then exported as a CD-ROM image that can be burned to a CD-R.

Step 5: Burn The Master CD: The final CD-ROM video disk image can be burned to your master CD with the export to CD tool in the Minerva Impression CD Pro software. Alternative CD-R applications are available for use in creating other CD-ROM video, such as VideoCD.

Producing video that is intended for the multimedia delivery format MPEG-2 video disks is easy with the DC1000 and DVD1000 systems from Pinnacle. The powerful real-time editing capabilities and state-of-the-art MPEG video technology allow you to quickly produce professional videos economically. The included Minerva Impression CD Pro application provides interactive programming capabilities for your video titles, allowing you to deliver a high-impact product message that is remembered.

Key CD-ROM Video Disk Applications

• Multimedia
• Educational titles
• Government productions
• Corporate training
• Corporate news
• Product information
• Entertainment
• Video archival