Now, you can be your own Ken Burns with your own old home movies.

Today, Pinnacle Systems, well known for its video editing software, Pinnacle Studio software, has announced two new hardware devices (in two packages) that will allow consumers to digitize their analog movies (such as movies captured via VHS tape or Hi8 cassette) and convert them into digital formats for burning DVDs, posting on the web and creating video podcasts. But the devices are well equipped to handle newer formats such as miniDV tape and the ability to import a variety of digital video formats, such as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.

The USB products are Pinnacle Studio MovieBox ($99) and MovieBox Plus ($149) and PCI products Pinnacle Studio MovieBoard ($79) and MovieBoard Plus ($149). Both the USB and PCI product provide the same functions. It just depends whether you like to have the devices connected externally or internally to your computer. The Plus packages have Composite video, S-Video, Stereo audio and IEEE1394 (firewire) inputs and outputs. The non-Plus packages have the same inputs, but only the IEEE1394 (firewire) has both inputs and outputs.

In addition to these hardware devices, the company has updated its Studio software to version 10.6, which now allows for better high def editing and new tools for better managing files from a variety of imaging devices. But perhaps most importantly, they've enhanced the software's stability. The software will retail for around $70.