Minimum Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, Windows® XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP Media Center Edition, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
• 1 GB of available hard disk space for program installation
• Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)
• Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Non-Proxy HDV editing requires*

• Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology
• Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack2 for HDV camcorder support recommended)
• 1 GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)
• 16X PCI Express™ display adapter

Input/Output Device Support

• 1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV * camcorders
• Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 and 1394 Adaptec 8940/ 8945
• Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support)
• USB capture devices, PC cameras, and DVD/hard drive camcorders
• Windows® compatible HD DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive
• Apple iPod with video * , Sony PSP * , WMV Pocket PC, WMV Smartphone

Input File Format Support

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, QuickTime, Windows Media Format, MS-DVR, 3GPP**, 3GPP2**
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1*, MP3, MPA, QuickTime, WAV, Windows Media Format, AAC**
• Images: BMP, CLP, CUR, EPS, FPX, GIF 87a , ICO, IFF, IMG, JP2, JPC, JPG, PCD, PCT, PCX, PIC, PNG, PSD, PXR, RAS, SCT, SHG, TGA, TIF/TIFF, UFO, WMF
• Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD)

Output File Format Support

• Video: AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4*, Real Media, Windows Media Format, 3GPP**, 3GPP2**
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1*, MPA, WAV, Windows Media Format, AAC **
• Images: BMP, JPG
• Disc: DVD, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) movie title
• Media: CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-R Dual Layer, DVD+R Double Layer, DVD-RAM (CPRM), HD DVD* ready

Intel® Pentium® M, Intel® Pentium® D, or Intel® Pentium® 4 Extreme Edition processors or AMD Athlon™ 64 compatible

* Plus version
** Plug-in required