User Guide

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Studio DC10plus, Studio AV or another Pinnacle
card with analogue outputs. Output to analogue
camcorders or VCRs is also possible using a
Pinnacle Studio DV or other OHCI-compliant 1394
(FireWire) port if your DV or Digital8 camcorder or
VCR can pass a DV signal through to its analogue
outputs (see your camcorder manual and Chapter 10:
Making Your Movie, for more information).
Abbreviations and conventions
This guide uses the following conventions to help
organise the material.
Terminology
Studio: Studio refers to the editing software.
DV: The term DV refers to DV and Digital8
camcorders, VCRs, and tapes.
1394: The term 1394 refers to OHCI-compliant IEEE-
1394, FireWire, DV or iLink interfaces, ports and
cables.
Analogue: The term analogue refers to 8mm, Hi8,
VHS, SVHS, VHS-C or SVHS-C camcorders VCRs
and tapes, and to Composite/RCA and S-Video cables
and connectors.
Buttons, menus, dialog boxes and windows
Names of buttons, menus and related items are written
in italics to distinguish them from the surrounding text,
whereas window and dialog names are written with
initial capital letters. For example:
Click the Edit Menu button to open your menu
in the Title Editor.