Capture Your Videos and Photos from Any Source

Video Capturing
Detects input devices for the easy capture of video from a wide variety of sources: DV, TV, VHS, PC Cameras, and Capture Cards. Video can also be imported in MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and DivX formats. Audio can be encoded in LPCM, MP3, MPEG-Audio and Dolby Digital (depending on the output disc format). PowerProducer 3 detects all capture devices connected to the PC and displays them simultaneously onscreen.

Widescreen (16:9) Video Support
Capture either 16:9 or 4:3 video content and keep the native aspect ratio for editing and burning to disc. You can also convert from16:9 video to 4:3, ensuring optimum playback on standard-sized monitors.

DVD Import
You can import your favorite videos from DVD playlists, non-CSS DVD-Video and DVD+/-VR discs.

USB and 1394 Support
PowerProducer supports the capturing of DV video from camcorders via USB 2.0 and 1394 cables.

Four Encoding Qualities
Select from one of four levels of encoding quality - HQ, SP, LP, and EP - to ensure your files are the right quality and/or size for your disc media.

Smart Fit
Automatically delivers the highest possible production quality by calculating the available DVD disc space.

MPEG@Best
This new technology dynamically optimizes your video quality during real time encoding by intelligently monitoring the CPU capacity.

Enhanced MPEG Encoder
A new codec engine helps maintain the original quality of a video source after converting to MPEG format.

Right-to-Disc™ Recording
Allows you to record video directly from a DV camcorder to DVD without writing to a hard drive buffer first, reducing large hard disk requirements in the process. Video from a TV, PC Camera, or VCR may be transferred into DVD-VR, DVD+VR, DVD-Video formatted discs, and even DVD+R9 double-layer and dual layer discs.

Pre-defined Video Capturing Profiles
Automatically defines the capturing profile when the desired disc output format is selected so that you don't need to configure the bit-rate.

InstantMPEG™
Transcodes DV files into MPEG in real-time. Saves valuable hard disk space and time.

Auto-Chapter
Automatically separates a video file into chapters during the recording process for fast and easy chapter creation.

Auto-File Separation
Estimates the length of a file and the available disc space, then only records up to the disc size limit. It continues recording subsequent files on the successive discs, making it easy to produce disc compilations. Each disc indicates where each file appears within the set.