System Requirements & Format Support

System Requirements

Operating System

• • Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1/8, 7, Vista

Screen Resolution

• 1024 X 768 pixels, 16-bit color or above

Memory

• 1GB required
  2GB DDR2 or above recommended for editing HD videos

  6GB or above recommended for 64 bit OS & 4K, 3D editing

CPU

• AVI Capture/Produce: Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
• DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
• High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
• Full-HD quality H.264 and MPEG2 Profiles: Intel Corei5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4
• AVCHD and BD burning Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400, or AMD Phenom II X2
• Blu-ray Disc playback: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 (2.66GHz), AMD Phenom 9450 (2.10GHz) or above
• Blu-ray 3D playback: Intel Core i5, AMD Phenom II X4 or above
• TrueTheater HD and TrueTheater 3D for Blu-ray and HD video: Intel Core i5 (with 4 Cores), AMD Phenom II X6 or above
• Playback 4K UltraHD with Hardware Acceleration: Intel 3rd generation Core i5 or above
• 2K/4K/3D video editing profile: Intel Corei7 or AMD FX series with 64 bit OS 6 GB RAM

Note: PowerDVD supports 4K UltraHD video in H.264 / MP4 format at bitrates up to 60 Mbps

VGA

• Higher than Intel 945 GM
• 128 MB VGA VRAM or higher (1 GB or higher VRAM and OpenCL capable are recommended)
• Some animation effects may be turned off or degraded for lower end graphics systems
• Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and TrueTheater HD/3D Playback
• Blu-ray Playback: Intel HD Graphics, ATI Radeon HD 5000, NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT or above
• Blu-ray 3D Playback: Intel HD Graphic (Intel Core i5), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 400 series and GeForce GT 240/320/330/340, AMD Radeon HD 6000 and 6000M series with UVD 3 support
• DVD Playback: PCI Express graphic accelerator supporting DirectX 9.0 or above

Hard Disk Space

• 5GB for product installation
• 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
• 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD production

DV

• OHCI IEEE 1394 compliant device

Video Capturing Device

• PCI or USB1.0/2.0/3.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
• DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant with IEEE 1394
• DVD camcorder connected via USB 2.0/3.0

Burning Device

• A 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

Internet Connection

• Internet connection required for web services

Additional Hardware Support for Blu-ray™ 3D and TrueTheater™ 3D

• New 3D technologies require additional hardware to view 3D movie content:
• HDMI 1.4 enabled 3DTV
• Eye wear:Active shutter glasses
• Tested Hardware: HDMI 1.4 enabled 3D TV
• Tested Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 and AMD Radeon HD 6800 series or above
• Integrated Graphics: 2nd generation Intel Core processors or above
  • NVIDIA 3D Vision
  • nVidia 3D Vision or 3D Vision 2 Wireless Glasses Kit + 3D Vision-Ready Display + 3D Vision Compatible NVIDIA Graphics Card are required
• Please download and install related driver from NVIDIA first.
  • 120Hz Frame-sequential 3D LCD (NVIDIA 3D Vision-Ready)
  • Native format: 120 fps left and right
  • Eye wear: Active shutter glasses (NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit)
  • Tested Hardware: Asus G51J-SZ028V, Acer GD245HQ, Acer GD235HZ
  • 3D Polarizer LCD
  • Native format: row-interleaved
  • Eye wear: Polarized glasses
  • Supported Hardware: Zalman ZM-M220W, Acer 5738DG (Notebook)
  • 3D Ready HDTV (DLP)
  • Native format: checkerboard
  • Eye wear: Active shutter glasses
  • Tested Hardware: Mitsubishi 1080p DLP HDTV, Samsung 3D Ready DLP HDTV