DV WONDER™
The affordable answer to your digital video and FireWire® needs! Edit
footage from your DV camcorder and add dozens of visual effects, music,
titles and more. Create professional looking productions to share with
family, friends or business associates. Plus, get three FireWire® (IEEE
1394) ports to connect to FireWire®- enabled accessories such as external
hard drives, DV camcorders, digital scanners and more!
Overview
At-a-glance
Connect your digital video camcorder to your PC
Create professional-quality productions with the easy-to-use video
editing software included in the box
Add three FireWire® ports to your PC and enable the next generation of
peripherals – external hard drives, scanners, printers and more!
Features
Connect your digital video camcorder to your PC
Connect your FireWire®-enabled DV camcorder to your PC and edit digital
video right out of the box – digital video cable included!
Transfer razor sharp motion video from your digital video camcorder or
digital camera
Capture clear still images from your DV camcorder. Send them to friends
or business associates via email, save to CD or post to a website
Blazing fast transfer rates – up to 400Mb/sec!
Edit digital video into your own creative productions!
Get a full suite of powerful video editing features with DV WONDER™:
Easy-to-understand user interface
Over 100 transitions and effects to enhance your creations
Customize settings to suit your needs
Edit digital video to craft productions in MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
Use your imagination!
Create vacation memories
Add video clips to business or school presentations
Publish video to your personal web sites for friends & family to enjoy
Control your camcorder from your PC effortlessly – play, pause, rewind,
fast forward to go directly to the sequences you want
Transfer your productions back to your DV camcorder, or save them onto a
recordable CD or DVD
Convert digital video into Internet-friendly formats. Stream video, send
pictures or video in an e-mail, or include in documents
-fast digital data transmission with FireWire®
DV WONDER™ has three external FireWire® ports which allow you to connect
to digital electronics accessories with FireWire® -now and in the future:
External or internal hard drives
DV Camcorders
DV Cameras
Printers with a FireWire® port
Digital scanners with a FireWire® port
Digital speakers & digital home theater systems
Digital VCRs
FireWire® lets you send digital audio signals, video & images to and from
your digital electronics accessories – transmitting data at 30 times the
speed of USB 1.1:
Expand the capabilities of your PC – add more hard drives effortlessly
with the FireWire® ports on the DV WONDER™
Scan crisp images to your PC more quickly
Easy hookup of DV camcorders to transfer digital video
Clear audio quality on digital speakers
Specifications
System requirements
Intel® Pentium® 4/III, Celeron™ or compatible – 300 MHz or faster
Minimum 64MB RAM
Minimum 300MB available hard disk space
4GB of free disk space required for 20 minutes of video
Minimum 256-color DirectX® 6.0 or higher graphics board
Sound card supported by Windows®
Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
Supported Operating Systems
Windows® 2000
Windows® 98 SE
Windows® Me
Warranty
2 year limited
Feature Comparison
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ATI
DV WONDER™
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Pinnacle Systems Studio DV
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Dazzle
DV-Editor
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FireWire® (IEEE 1394 ports) |
3 external
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2 external, 1 internal
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2 external
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Disk space required to edit digital video (per 30
min.) |
6.5GB
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6.5GB
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6.5GB
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Maximum resolution (NTSC) |
720x480
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720x480
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720x480
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Maximum frames per second |
60
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60
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60
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Software included |
Ulead® VideoStudio™ 5.0
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Pinnacle Studio
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Ulead® VideoStuido™ 4.01
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Automatic scene detection |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Transitions |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Visual effects |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Sound effects |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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MPEG-2 format output |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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AVI format output |
Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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ASF format output |
Yes
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No
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Yes
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Breaks 4GB file limit |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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Record to Video CD |
Yes
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No
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No
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6 pin 1394 to 4 pin DV cable included |
Yes
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Yes
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No
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