

The hardware component of Pinnacle's MovieBox DV comes in a handsome, brushed-aluminum chassis designed by F.

Bundled with Pinnacle's excellent Studio 8.0 video-editing and -authoring application, MovieBox DV is a powerful choice for consumers who need a conduit from one video device to another or who want to convert old VHS movies to digital format, edit them, and save them on a DVD or a digital tape. This hardware/software combo captures all but the lowest-quality recordings with nary a lost frame and lets you route analog and digital video between any combination of computers and external video components, such as your camcorder and VCR.

Pinnacle Studio's versatile MovieBox DV seeks to mitigate the damage. Unless you're working with an impeccable source, you'll end up with lost frames, out-of-sync audio, and other unseemly flaws. Anyone who's tried to transfer a movie from VHS to DVD knows that video capture can be a game of trade-offs.
