Dazzle Video Creator Plus [OLD VERSION]

by Pinnacle Systems

Product Features

• No prior video editing experience is required.
• Simply transfer videos to the PC
• Create a DVD backup of your video using Pinnacle instant DVD recorder or use Pinnacle studio software to quickly edit your movie.
• Share your masterpiece directly on the web with the one-click upload to YouTube or transfer your video to your Apple iPod or Sony PSP
• No prior video editing experience is required
• Create a DVD backup of your video using Pinnacle instant DVD recorder or use Pinnacle studio software to quickly edit your movie

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 2.2 x 8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001C5DOWI
• Item model number: 82301006461
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,113 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #56 in Software > Video & Music > Digital Video > Video Editing
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

With Dazzle Video Creator Plus, anyone can produce great looking movies to share with family and friends. No prior video editing experience is required. Simply transfer videos to the PC. Create a DVD backup of your video using Pinnacle instant DVD recorder or use Pinnacle studio software to quickly edit your movie. Pick from an extensive library of music backgrounds, transitions and effects for amazing results. Share your masterpiece directly on the web with the one-click upload to YouTube or transfer your video to your Apple iPod or Sony PSP. iPod video transfer has never been so easy thanks to the Dazzle Video Creator Plus.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dazzle Video Creator Plus, January 6, 2009

By 

George B. (Brighton, MI USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Dazzle Video Creator Plus [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

A powerful, albeit memory hog product - but it does a great job.
And cannot beat the price!!!
I think (as usual) I only know 25% of its capabilities and I'm learning as I go along. Keep working at it and use the BURN DVD after you've spent some time experimenting with your "Projects" (keep saving them!!).
Adding titles and "buttons" in the opening scene is easy, once you mastered the nuances of the program. Converted 1:40 of tape to 3 DVD's so I can keep them separate.
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Ten months and many DVD's later and in response to some of the Q's floating around this discussion:

Dazzle is not simple...the first time around, anyway.

There are three distinct stages: Capture (takes your analog video and converts it to an avi file...a huge one. Then you have the Editing, where you can cut stuff out, add titles, etc. AND THIRDLY you burn the final to a DVD. That the good way!
Now, if you want to transfer without any editing, there is a way (the lazy man's/woman's way) - follow the instructions.

Free advice: Capture no more than 10 minutes at a time, then edit it and save it (better have a big hard drive, mine is a 160Gb, so I got a 250Gb USB Passport from WD and that drive is only for captured videos (AVI's). So get your short 10 mins captured video (avi) and play with it until you master Dazzle. Then you'll be ready for bigger and better things. The 10 minute segments also helps to eliminate any sound sync problems.

It is not that complicated, but it takes some practice. Personally I use it ONLY to CAPTURE, I use Windows MovieMaker for editing the AVI and saving it to a WMV file and then I use Sonic to burn it on a DVD. Why?? Because I am very familiar with both of these programs and I feel comfy using them. The results are great - ask my five grand kids :-)

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very happy with the Dazzle, December 26, 2008

By 

vgrift "vgrift" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dazzle Video Creator Plus [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I'm not sure about the negative reviews, especially those that don't give any detail as to the problems with the product. Just make sure it works with your operating system. I have Windows XP, and the Dazzle and Pinnacle software work well. My PC only has 0.5GB memory, so the Pinnacle SW can run slow at times. I blame the slowness on my lack of memory. I'd really like to give this product a 5. The only reason I can't is that I did have to recapture a couple video clips as the first captures had some bits of choppiness where the video and audio kind-of skip. That could also be my slow PC. I'm not sure. As for what I like: The Dazzle and the Pinnacle SW are extremely user-friendly. The video editing is very intuitive. There's a beginning tutorial after you first load the SW that is worth watching. After that, you're off. It's really fun, and I was surprised at how much you could do. For less than $100, I was not expecting the editing SW to have as many features as it does. It's really a terrific deal.

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars quick setup, great quality, January 24, 2009

By 

Robert Lyons (old saybrook, connecticut United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dazzle Video Creator Plus [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I just got this device about an hour ago and Im already capturing great clips from videogames! Contrary to what a lot of people have said about this it works with Vista Home 32-bit right out of the box! Setup was simple and the software is surprisingly very good.

The device that came with mine was black, apparently there are also red and silver versions out there, so this review is for the black one.