User Guide

viii Studio 8
• Mouse
• A microphone, if you want to record voice-overs
• 300 MB of free hard disk space to install software.
Your hard drive must be capable of a sustained
reading and writing at 4 MB/sec. All SCSI and most
UDMA drives are capable of this. The first time you
capture at full quality, Studio will test your drive to
make sure it is fast enough. DV-format video
occupies 3.6 MB of hard disk space for every second
of video, so four minutes of DV video will require
almost 900 MB of hard disk space. If disk space is a
concern with DV captures, use SmartCapture to
capture your video at Preview-quality (see Chapter 2:
Capturing Video). This feature uses much less disk
space. An entire tape can fit in as little as 360
megabytes.
• We recommend using a separate hard drive dedicated
to video capture to avoid competition for the drive
with Windows and other software during capture.
Video capture hardware
Studio can capture video from a variety of digital and
analogue sources. Please see “Capture hardware” on
page 27.
Video equipment
Studio can output video to:
• Any DV or Digital8 camcorder or VCR. This
requires Pinnacle Studio DV or other OHCI-
compliant 1394 port. The camcorder must be enabled
to record from DV Input.
• Any analogue (8mm, Hi8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C or
SVHS-C) camcorder or VCR. This requires Pinnacle