Casablanca Prestige PLUS is the new, smart production solution for digital video editing. Make your video the finest - without external, additional equipment and totally without a PC or PC experience.

The hard-core hardware facts:

• DV port and Direct-DV mode as standard:

Casablanca Prestige PLUS features two DV or i-Link in- / out ports. This allows you to directly record and output data from and to a digital camcorder or digital VCR. Without further conversion, all data is recorded to the internal hard-drive - this means excellent picture quality. In addition, you can of course use analog material in your projects. Record your finished project to either analog recorders or directly onto digital tape using the DV ports.

• DVD-writer and DVD DICON

Create your own DVDs using the integrated DVD-writer. And thanks to DVD DICON, video data can be converted to the DVDs video format in real time. A hardware supported MPEG-2 compression makes this possible, resulting in a conversion time that is up to 20 times faster than on PCs. The DVDs can be used on nearly all available DVD players.

• Flexibility thanks to front inputs and removeable 160GB hard-drive.

The front inputs simplify capturing from the camera to Casablanca Prestige PLUS tremendously. The removeable hard-drive for limitless expandable capacity.

the front inputs

Moreover, Casablanca Prestige PLUS features a SmartMedia-drive. This Smart Media cards have a capacity of between 4 and 128 MB. and are considerably faster than floppy-disks, making for really fast software updates.

Nowhere near harmless: The software.

• Playful work with SMART EDIT:

It has never been this easy to edit. The user interface SMART EDIT is easy to learn for novices and has a logical concept. Step by step, you will be creating your perfect movie.

The most important new features:

• Whisper Edit
• Better quality of the scene stamps
• Fast creation of "scenes" in DV mode (faster than real-time)
• Automatic split of DV capturing, including already edited material
• Audio record from the second track of a DV camera
• Audio: Sound control, display of volume levels, automatic trimming in gaps, over-modulation display
• improved stills
• Audio samples can directly be imported from a CD

• Countless effects in real-time.

Casablanca Prestige PLUS accelerates the creation of render-intensive effects and titles. Many 2D effects are created in real-time and are available for playback immediately after you have added them to the storyboard.

The differences between Prestige and Prestige PLUS:

• 256 MByte RAM (working memory, instead of 64 MB)
• 160 GByte hard disk drive (instead of 120 GB)
• Whisper Edit (much more silent)
• up to 16-times writing speed of DVDs with the modern DVD-writer (for example Pioneer DVR-110) and DVD-Arabesk 3
• 3D-Shapes Professional