Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture)

Screen Resolution

• 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above

CPU Processor

PowerDirector 8 is optimized for CPUs with MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNow! Extension/HyperThreading technology.

• AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or Athlon 64 2800+
• VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+
• DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 4000+
• High Quality MPEG-4 and WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo Profiles: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
• AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+

Memory

• 512 MB required (2 GB DDR2 above recommended for editing HD videos)

Hard Disk Space

• 5 GB required minimum (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library)
• 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
• 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD production

Video Capturing Device

• PCI or USB 1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
• DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394
• DVD camcorder connected via USB 2.0
• Sony MicroMV camcorder
• JVC Everio camcorder (GZ-MC100, GZ-MC200)
• Sony HDR-FX1 (HDV)
• Sony HDR-HC1 (HDV)
• JVC GR-HD1U (HDV)

Supported AVCHD camcorders

• SONY HDR-SR1
• SONY HDR-UX1
• SONY HDR-CX7
• SONY HDR-SR7
• Panasonic SX5
• Canon HF10
• Canon HF11
• Canon HF20
• Canon HFS10
• Canon HG10
• Canon HG20
• Canon HG21
• Canon HR10
• Canon XLH1S

Burning Drive

• A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD titles
• A Blu-ray disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs

Specifications are subject to change without prior notice. All rights reserved. Copyright CyberLink Corp.