All the tools you need to manage your CD with DVD burning projects. Designed to meet and exceed all your disc creation requirements, Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD lets you create, burn and copy any kinds of CD or DVD media quickly and easily that is not copy protected.  Encode MP3 files, burn audio CDs, back up data, and build photo and video slideshows that play in your DVD player.

Product Features

The all-in-one disc creation software tool
Create, burn and copy CDs and DVDs. Encode MP3 files, compose music, and build photo and video slideshows that play in your living room DVD player. Instant CD/DVD is the definitive CD and DVD authoring application for data management and disc creation.

Copy and backup your most important discs
Don't ever worry about losing your data again. Instant CD/DVD duplicates any non-copy protected DVD video, including dual-layer DVDs, onto recordable DVD discs with no loss in picture quality. It's true 1:1 DVD duplication. If the data exceeds the storage capacity of the disc, Instant CD/DVD spans the content overflow onto multiple discs. Instant CD/DVD also makes bit-for-bit copies of any CD and any media format.

Do you simply need to back up your data? Instant CD/DVD lets you use your CD-R like you would a floppy drive. Backup all of your files or selected items, and make full or incremental backups with encryption protection and after-write verification.

Create photo and video slideshows
Take your photos and videos out of the computer and into the living room. Quickly import and prepare photos for slideshows. Create high-resolution multimedia slideshows with music, match transitions to the beat of the music, and archive your original images on the same disc. Point, click, drag, drop; it's that easy.

Use automatic scene detection to assemble clips from your home movies and embellish them with professional-looking transitions and soundtracks. Instant CD/DVD imports AVI and MPEG files and has a DVD menu generator for quickly burning VCD, SVCD, and DVD discs.

Create Great Music CDs
Instant CD/DVD is the CD creation tool every music lover needs in his or her arsenal. Manage MP3 collections, prepare audio tracks for burning and convert CD audio tracks to MP3 or WMA files. Add cross-fades and commentary to music discs, remove noise and improve the audio quality of your MP3 files. If you're feeling creative, use the composing tools to mix MP3s, and arrange original music. Enhance your music further using Instant CD/DVD's built-in audio effects that include fade in/out, pitch, phase shift, and more. As you can see, Instant CD/DVD does it all and more.


KeyFeatures Include

Copying Discs *

• True 1:1 DVD duplication
  
   
• Multiple ways of duplicating any non-copy protected DVD video with no perceptible loss of audio or video quality
  
   
• Copy a dual layer DVD video onto a recordable DVD disc
  
   
• One-click or customizable DVD creation
  
   
• VCD and SVCD creation
  
   
• Enjoy DVD films on a PC without a DVD player (they also play on most home DVD players)
  
   
• Automatic multi-CD spanning
  
   
• Select film, subtitle and audio tracks
  
   
• Bit-for-bit copying of any CD and any media format
  
   
• Create backup copies of any kind of CD
  
   
• Copy CD disc images to hard drive (virtual drive)
  
   
• Emulate CD/DVD drive on hard drive to speed up data access times (great for gaming) and enhance notebook battery performance
  
   
• * (copy protected CDs not supported)

Data

• Rewritable drive support
  
   
• Use burner like you would a floppy drive
  
   
• Backup all or selected files
  
   
• A complete and powerful backup solution
  
   
• Supports complete and partial restores
  
   
• Multi-disc spanning
  
   
• Ensures data integrity and adapts to any environment: home, home office or small office
  
   
• Back-up file compression
  
   
• Encryption protection
  
   
• Network drive support
  
   
• After-write verification

Photo

• Digital camera and removable storage device support
  
   
• Quickly import and prepare photos for slideshows
  
   
• Editing tools (crop, rotate, mirror, color correction)
  
   
• Create multimedia slideshows complete with music and transitions
  
   
• Advanced slideshow creation tools take your photo collection out of the PC and into the living room
  
   
• Automatically match transitions to the beat of the music
  
   
• Create hi-resolution slideshows
  
   
• Archive original images on same disc as slideshow

Video

• Capture movies from a DV camcorder (FireWire required)
  
   
• Edit home movies and embellish them with professional-looking transitions and soundtracks.
  
   
• Import AVI and MPEG files
  
   
• Automatic scene detection and editing tools
  
   
• Add transitions or photos between scenes
  
   
• DVD menu generator
  
   
• Quickly author VCDs, SVDS and DVDs that can play on virtually any PC or home DVD player.
  
   
• Burn VCD, SVCD and DVD discs
  
   
• Automatic label and jewel case cover creator

MP3

• Convert CD audio tracks into MP3
  
   
• Mange your MP3 collection and prepare tracks for burning.
  
   
• Add cross-fades and commentary to music discs
  
   
• Remove noise and improve audio quality of MP3 files
  
   
• Exact Audio Read/Write technology
  
   
• Burn play-anywhere audio CDs
  
   
• Create labels automatically
  
   
• Manage a project while burning another
  
   
• Burn to multiple drives
  
   
• Streamline project workflow and speed up the burning process.

Music

• Arrange up to 32 audio tracks (16 stereo tracks)
  
   
• Use intuitive composing tools to arrange and burn original music-even mix with your MP3s
  
   
• Hundreds of integrated samples
  
   
• Sample from any audio source
  
   
• Graphical arranging table
  
   
• Sophisticated audio effects including Fade in/out, pitch, phase shifting and many more.

Add Bonus

Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD includes the following titles.  A great addition to this collection!  (A $70.00 Retail Value)

• Pinnacle InstantCopy
  
   
• Pinnacle Expression

Pinnacle InstantCopy
Featuring a user-friendly interface and unique compression technology, Pinnacle Systems InstantCopy software rapidly burns flawless copies of DVDs and CDs. It makes true 1: 1 copies of DVDs that contain all the DVD content, including the main movie, menus, languages, subtitles and bonus material. It also transfers DVD movies to Video CDs and Super VCDs that can be played on nearly any PC or home DVD player. Finally, InstantCopy make perfect bit-for-bit copies of any CD media including data, music, video and games thanks to its support of all CD formats, all recordable CD formats and most CD drives.

Pinnacle Expression
A great way to share your home movies and digital photos. Simply connect your DV camcorder or import your digital photos, and Pinnacle Expression will allow you to capture your video, trim your clips, arrange and edit your photos into a slideshow, build menus and publish to CDs and DVDs that will play on your set top DVD player.
 

System Requirements

Input formats:

• Capture from DV and Digital8 with an OHCI-compliant IEEE1394/FireWire interface card (capture card not included)
  
   
• Video Import (For VCD/SVCD/DVD creation): AVI, DV, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2
  
   
• Digital still import (for VCD/SVCD/DVD creation): BMP, JPG, PCD, PCT, TGA, WMF, TIF (LZW-compressed not supported)
  
   
• Supported formats for copying: ISO9660, Joliet, CD Audio, Data, Mode 1, Mode 2XA, MixedMode, CD-Extra, CD-Plus, VideoCD, SVCD, PSX Playstation, PSX2, Multisession, CD+G, DVD Data, DVD-Video, UDF, Photo CD, and more.

Output formats:

• Audio: MP3 file, WMA file, WAV file, audio CD, MP3 CD
  
   
• Video: VCD, SVCD, DVD
  
   
• Data: ISO9660, UDF, UDF Bridged, Joliet, Apple HFS, CD-Extra, CD-Plus, CD-Enhanced, MixedMode, Data disc Mode 1 & 2XA, El Torito (bootable) CD and DVD, Multisession, and more…
  
   
• Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW and DVD-RAM
  
   
• Other: CD-Text and M3U ID tags supported

Minimum System Requirements:

• 500MHz or faster Pentium III or Athlon processor
  
   
• 64MB RAM
  
   
• Windows 98SE, ME, 200 or XP
  
   
• DirectX 8.0 (or higher) compatible graphics and sound card
  
   
• 650MB of disk space to install software
  
   
• At least 1GB of hard disk space for project creation and temp files
  
   
• DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, or CD-R/RW burner
  
   
• For digital video capture, hard drive must be able to sustain a constant 3.6MB per second bitrate (For example, UDMA/66 or higher, FireWire or USB 2.0 external hard drives, or Ultra SCSI or higher).

Recommended System Specs:

• Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP processor 1.2GHz or higher
  
   
• 256MB RAM
  
   
• Graphics card with 32MB or more of RAM
  
   
• 10GB or more of hard disk space recommended for video projects.

Instant CD / DVD 7 £19