Appendix E: The Installation Manager
The hard drive
Your hard drive must be capable of sustained reading and writing at
4 MB/sec. Most drives are capable of this. The first time you
capture, Studio will test your drive to make sure it is fast enough.
Video files are often quite large, so you also need a good amount of
available hard drive space. For instance, video in the DV format fills
3.6 MB of hard drive space per second of footage: a gigabyte every
four and a half minutes.
For capture from video tape, we recommend using a separate hard
drive to avoid competition between Pinnacle Studio and other
software, including Windows, for use of the drive.
Video capture hardware
Studio can capture video from a variety of digital and analog
sources:
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All types of auxiliary file-based storage media, including optical
drives, memory cards and USB sticks.
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Files from drives connected to the computer.
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DV or HDV video cameras using an IEEE-1394 connection.
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Analog video cameras and recorders.
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DVD and Blu-ray discs.
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Digital still cameras.
