Operation Manual

252 Pinnacle Studio 9
Capture format settings
The options available here depend on the capture
device you are using (from the Capture source tab).
You will not see all the settings described below
displayed at once.
Presets
The settings in the other areas on the Capture format
panel depend on your choice in this Presets area. The
available presets depend in turn on your capture
hardware.
For a DV capture source, the main capture options are
selected in the first of two dropdown lists. (The other
list provides any applicable sub-options.) The choices
are:
• DV: Full quality DV capture, which uses about 200
MB of disk space per minute of video. The
advantage of this setting is that you won’t have to
recapture clips at full resolution when you output
your finished movie. There are no sub-options with
this setting. DV capture is recommended over
MPEG if outputting your project to videotape is a
possibility.
• MPEG: Capturing to MPEG takes less space than
DV but more time – both when capturing and later,
when you output your movie. The quality presets
(High, Medium and Low) are available as sub-
options, plus a Custom preset that lets you configure