ADS PYRO Platinum DV & Panasonic LF-D521 DVD/CD Burner Bundle

ADS PYRO Platinum DV & Panasonic LF-D521 DVD/CD Burner Bundle

ADS PYRO Platinum DV

The complete solution for capturing and editing digital video with professional, broadcast-quality results!  PYRO Platinum DV features (1) Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 FULL VERSION, including SmartSound QuickTracks, (2) Ulead DVD Workshop SE for DVD authoring and burning, (3) the ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card, the best-selling FireWire/1394 interface card for connecting your digital camcorder to your computer and (4) a 6 foot 6 pin/4 pin FireWire cable. 
 

Adobe Premiere 6.5 FULL VERSION - More... (opens new window)
The essential tool for professional digital video editing!
Delivering unmatched hardware support, Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 software is the most adaptable DV-editing tool on the market today. Now you can work more productively with Real-Time Preview to instantly view effects, transitions, titles, motion, and transparency. And you can take advantage of the sophisticated new Adobe Title Designer to create sophisticated title sequences.  Adobe® Premiere® 6.5 also includes MPEG-2 export, powerful audio tools, and more for producing extraordinary video productions! Whether you are a hobbyist or a professional, the program provides everything you need to work with ease and efficiency. Adobe Premiere is the hands-down choice for desktop video editing.

Adobe Premiere 6.5 Training CD
With the included video tutorial CD, quickly get up to speed on the power and features of Adobe Premiere 6.5 with over an hour of full-motion training videos.

Adobe Title Designer
Create broadcast-quality title sequences that include text and graphic elements using the new Adobe Title Designer. Whether you’re crafting a highly-choreographed opening sequence that integrates text and graphic elements with moving footage or producing a straightforward credit roll, you can create high-quality results using time-saving features. From right within Premiere, the Adobe Title Designer provides powerful controls that deliver exceptional results along with time-saving Templates and Styles.

Adobe Typographic Controls
High-quality typesetting can distinguish the titles for your productions, and now you have the tools to create excellent results right in Premiere. Professional typographical controls such as leading, kerning, baseline shift, rotation, slant, and more mean you can refine your titles with the precision you’ve come to expect in other Adobe products, such as Adobe Illustrator® and Adobe InDesign®.

Adobe MPEG Encoder
It’s now easy to create movies for DVDs, Super Video CDs, Video CDs, and cDVDs directly from the Timeline in Adobe Premiere 6.5, thanks to the new Adobe MPEG Encoder. This professional and fully featured tool provides access to the entire range of MPEG and DVD specifications through an interface that’s easy-to-use and highly productive.  Export your video in MPEG2 format from Premiere 6.5 and use the included Ulead DVD Workshop SE to author and burn to DVD.

SmartSound Quicktracks for Premiere:
SmartSound Quicktracks gives you everything you need to quickly and easily produce royalty-free custom-length music and audio effects. Whether you can’t read a note or are a professional sound engineer, the 27 SmartSound Quicktracks in Premiere expand your toolkit with sounds that range from triumphant trumpet fanfares to techno dance beats. Adobe Premiere 6.5 includes 11 new source tracks that reflect the latest musical trends, so you can produce up-to-the-minute soundtracks with ease.

TC Works Native Essentials
High-quality audio can make a dramatic impact. To help you transform audio clips into powerful acoustic experiences, Adobe Premiere 6.5 includes new audio sweetening tools from TC Works, a leading provider of digital sound-processing tools. Three DirectX plug-ins; reverb, EQ and dynamics deliver powerful controls for producing high-quality sound, whether you want to improve the quality of audio recorded with a DV camcorder’s built-in microphone or add depth to a professionally-recorded clip.

Ulead DVD Workshop SE:
Ulead® DVD Workshop™ SE, is a powerful, yet flexible DVD authoring and burning software package designed for creative video professionals and enthusiasts.  DVD Workshop provides DVD authoring features for both beginners and advanced users.  For beginners, DVD Workshop offers a range of attractive templates, which can greatly speed DVD creation. Choose a template, change your titles, drag and drop your videos and you're done, ready to burn your DVD.  Advanced users can easily convert any template to a normal menu and edit them as desired. You can also design from scratch and convert any custom menu into your own template.

Boris Factory:
The easiest way to add special stunning effects to your video project.  Add high quality wipes, dissolves, spheres, particles, ripples and waves to your project, Boris Factory contains over 100 dazzling transitions that add television style polish quickly from within Adobe Premiere as an FX transition plug-in.  

ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card:
To insure trouble-free installation and use, the ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card is OHCI and IEEE-1394 compliant as well as Microsoft DirectX compatible.  This means the ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card will support your other OHCI compliant devices such as FireWire/1394 drives, web cams, scanners and flash media readers.  Plus, OHCI compliance and Microsoft DirectX compatibility means the ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card is fully compatible with Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Adobe Premiere 6.5.  The ADS PYRO DV 1394 Card's IEEE-1394 compliance enables use with faster S100, S200 and S400 bus speeds.

Panasonic LF-D521 DVD/CD Burner

A breakthrough in versatility, the Panasonic LF-D521U DVD Multi Drive meets a huge range of data storage needs.  Compatible with all of the DVD Forum standards, the LF-D521U burns DVD-RAM, DVD-R and DVD-RW media, plus CD-R and CD-RW media making it the single drive solution for all DVD and CD needs!

DVD-RAM
The Panasonic LF-D521U writes the highly reliable, large capacity DVD-RAM discs at 2X speed. DVD-RAM provides the largest, most durable rewriteable DVD storage format. The Panasonic LF-D521U will record to single and double sided DVD-RAM discs providing up to 4.7GB of storage per side (twice the storage of other formats).  Plus, DVD-RAM discs can be written to over 100,000 times and data written to the discs has a predicted life of 30 years.  These two features make DVD-RAM a superior format for archiving high resolution artwork, scanned photographs, digital music collections and for backing up computer data.

Have you been using Zip or Jaz drives to archive your digital imaging files?  The LF-D521U quickly writes files to ultra-reliable DVD-RAM media having a much larger capacity.  Imagine storing 80 - 50MB high resolution scanned art photographs on a single removable disc!   Plus, with it's quick random access, you can do modifications and editing on the fly - just like a hard disk!

DVD-RAM media is available in cartridges (Type 1 and Type 2) and also as a non-cartridge disc.  The LF-D521U can read and write to all three types.  A brief explanation of the different DVD-RAM media types follows:

DVD-R
The LF-D521U also writes 4.7GB DVD-R discs at 2X speed. Quickly and safely archive up to 4.7GB of data to a removable disc with a 100 year life expectancy!  Or burn your own DVD movies with up to 2 hours of theater quality video that will playback on 98% of home DVD players. DVD-R provides the very best compatibility with future, current and legacy DVD players.  It is estimated that 98% of existing DVD movie players and DVD-ROM drives will play DVDs created using the Panasonic LF-D521U's DVD-R format.

DVD-RW
Fully compatible with DVD-RW discs, the LF-D521U allows you to test your DVD movies on these rewritable discs, then burn your finalized versions to DVD-R.  Also, the included software makes using DVD-RW discs as easy as floppy discs....drag and drop files to the DVD-RW disc or erase files by dragging them to the trash.

CD-R/CD-RW
The LF-D521U is also fully compatible with both CD-R and CD-RW discs, burning CD-R at 12X and CD-RW at 8X speed.  Plus, boasting a 32X CD-ROM read speed, the LF-D521U also reads CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW and Audio CD formats, so you can use it to replace your computers existing CD-ROM drive.

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