System Requirements

The system requirements listed below are recommended as minimums for general digital video production work.

System Requirements
Screen Resolution
  • 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or higher
OS
  • Windows Vista/XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture).
Memory
  • 512 MB required
  • 2GB DDR2 or above recommended for editing HD videos
CPU
  • AVI Capture/Producer: Pentium II 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz
  • VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium III 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 700 MHz
  • DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+
  • High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo) Profiles: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+
  • AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD (for BD/HD burning) Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Video Capturing Device
  • PCI or USB1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
  • DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE1394 (check CyberLink web site) for supported model list)
  • DVD camcorder connected via USB2.0 (check CyberLink web site for supported model list)
  • Sony MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder (check CyberLink web site for supported model list)
  • JVC Everio camcorder (check CyberLink web site for supported model list)
Hard Disk Space
  • 5 GB required (400MB for SmartSound Quicktrack Library)
  • 10 GB (20 GB recommended) required for DVD production
  • 60GB (100GB recommended) required for BD/HD/AVCHD production
Burning Devices
  • 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 Disc titles*
Microphone
  • A microphone is required for recording voice-overs
PowerDirector note System Requirements

Note: please consult the CyberLink web site for the most recent system requirements information. http://www.cyberlink.com. * optional features in CyberLink PowerDirector. Check the readme file for detailed versioning information.

System Requirements