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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- New user-tested, easy-to-use software interface
- InstantAudio offers complete MP3 organizing, editing and burning features
- Desktop Drive - just drag and drop your files to the icon on the desktop and they are added automatically to your CD or DVD
- Save your files directly to your CD from standard computer applications such as Microsoft Office
- No encoding time required! Direct-to-Disc technology burns and copies simultaneously with the same Pinnacle InstantCopy high quality
- High-speed burning. For those that want to copy their dual-layer DVDs even faster, InstantCopy now includes a high speed mode for DVD to DVD copying
- InstantCinema for media file playback : including high-resolution (S)VCD slideshows created with Expression
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Designed as a general-purpose application suite for anybody with a CD or DVD recorder, Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD 8.0 consolidates Pinnacle's Instant applications behind a new interface.
This is a pretty comprehensive suite of programs designed to handle most of the things you might want to record onto a CD or DVD. The easiest way to approach it is from the starter screen, which offers four tabs for the different kinds of task you might want to complete: Create, Copy, Media and Extras. All the applications have been given a new look, reminiscent of the Apple Aqua interface.
The Create button leads to four options for creating data, audio and MP3 discs under Instant Disc and VideoCDs and DVDs under Expression. Instant Disc works in a similar way to Nero or Easy CD, and makes it easy to save things to recordable discs by dragging and dropping files or audio tracks. Expression is a very basic video editor, which enables you to split and join sections of digital video, add a front-end menu and burn the results to a VideoCD or DVD.
The Copy functions of Instant CD/DVD 8 are handled by Instant Copy and Instant Backup, and cover copy, back-up and restore. Instant Copy does just that, copying non-protected CDs or DVDs from one disc to another. You can also create a disc image to hold on your hard drive for super-fast access through Instant Drive. Instant Backup offers little extra over and above the backup program supplied with Windows.
Media functions are provided by Instant Audio and Instant Music. Instant Audio handles the compilation of MP3, Wave, Aiff, Real Audio and WMA files, recorded from a variety of different audio sources. It also supports the new MP3Pro format, which halves the size of MP3 files while maintaining their audio quality.
Instant Music is a drag-and-drop sample sequencer, where you can pull together music in up to 16 stereo tracks. One hundred high-quality wav samples are supplied, all in a strong techno idiom. Samples from other sources should work, too.
Extras include Instant Write, which sits as an icon on your desktop for you to drag files over to burn them directly to CD or DVD, and Instant Cinema, which plays DVD movies in the same way as WinDVD or PowerDVD. --Simon Williams
Manufacturer's Description
Designed for novices and power users alike, Pinnacle InstantCD/DVD provides end-to-end production of any burning project - from capture to labels. Rip, clean and burn MP3 files onto play-anywhere audio CDs. Sample audio and arrange 16-track stereo music. Capture, edit and share digital photos and home movies on CDs or DVDs that can be viewed on practically any home DVD player. InstantCD/DVD also rapidly burns flawless copies of DVDs and CDs, backs up data to any removable storage medium including recordable CDs and DVDs, and lets you use a CD/DVD burner drive as you would a floppy or hard drive.1:1 DVD duplication of single-layer video and data DVDs Copy a dual-layer DVD video onto a one recordable DVD disc DVD, VCD and SVCD creation CD copying Complete backup features Photo and video slide show creation Capture movies from a camcorder Automatic scene detection and video editing tools DVD menu generator Convert CD audio tracks into MP3 Manage MP3 collection Burn play-anywhere audio CDs Audio arranger and music composing tools Automatic label creator
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
32 of 32 people found the following review helpful
good for cd's, exellent for downloading footage from digital camcorder, editing etc forget about burning to a dvd disc just does not want to know so for for that absolute rubbish. takes for hours to convert to mpeg 2 then crashes after a couple of hours i think pinnacle have a problem but try telling them it website useless as well
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
I like the ability to copy files to DVD. However, I cannot copy AVI files from my digital camera even after they have been edited. My PC usually crashes or seizes up, or the DVD is blank (after waiting more than an hour for the copying process to complete). Also, it is almost IMPOSSIBLE to relay a concern to Pinnacle without going through a very long list of questions. I do not appreciate the user-unfriendly service. I am almost to the point of returning this product to the store. Not happy.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Be advised: Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD 8.0 may be is the worst software I ever test. It does nothing in the right way, is slow, complicate even on a PIV 2.4 with 1 Gb RAM
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It is nearly 2009 and this is still rubbish
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Published on 29 Dec 2008 by Sydney Fewster
Continual system crashes
I bought this software for my HP Pavilion a250n and it caused the system to crash numerous times. Finally, I uninstalled the software only to find out that my disks could not be... Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2007 by PrintsJim
Works very well for me!
I wanted to backup directly to DVDRW using drag and drop as well as xcopy. Pinnacle is the only product I've found, so far, that does that. (There may well be others. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2005
OK but ?too simple
This came packaged with my pc which is pretty powerful performance all bells and whistles and worked fine for the first few months but then started playing up. Read more
Published on 24 Jun 2005
Depends what you want to do
This is basically "does everything" software, for playing cd', dvd's, ripping, burning, editing video, making data discs...the lot. Read more
Published on 6 April 2005 by Dr Nick
Does what I wanted it for.
I purchased Pinnacle Instant CD/DVD 8.0. purely for it's ability to copy DVD's. As another reviewer has said it does this job very well indeed. Read more
Published on 19 Nov 2004 by ed-woods
Don't buy it - unless you don't need to copy DVDs
This software is fine if you have plenty of time to waste, money to spend on blank discs and can live with frustration. Read more
Published on 30 July 2004 by "miyke"
need to have good hardware
I can understand why it was poorly rated here.I installed it on 40 GB hard disc with 6GB free space.It crashed whenever I dealt with big avi or mpeg files to make dvds. Read more
Published on 20 Jun 2004 by "tharlay"
What a nightmare
Came to Amazon for help! Was I the only one who simply could not get this software to work? After many wasted days and nights of installing, un-installing, re-installing, I could... Read more
Published on 1 April 2004 by eddie
This software has always had problems
I have, over the past few years, used Instant CD in various forms; when Novastore produced it & Version 5 & 6.5 in an attempt to find an upgrade that has all the bugs solved. Read more
Published on 15 Mar 2004 by Marc90125
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