Minimum System Requirements

• Windows® XP with SP2 or Windows Vista™ operating system (32 bit Windows Vista recommended)
• Intel® Pentium® or AMD® Athlon® 1.8 GHz or higher (2.4 GHz recommended) - Intel® Pentium® HT or AMD® Athlon® 2.4 GHz or 1.6 GHz Dual core required for Windows Vista
  Intel® Core™2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher required for 1440x1080 AVCHD editing; Intel® Core™2 Quad 2.66 GHz or higher required for 1920x1080 AVCHD editing
• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) - 1 GB required for HD and/or Windows Vista (2 GB recommended)
  1.5 GB required for AVCHD (2 GB required on Windows Vista)
• DirectX® 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended) - 128 MB required on Windows Vista (256 MB ATI® Radeon®9600+ or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 or higher recommended)
  256 MB required for HD and AVCHD editing (ATI® Radeon®9600+ or NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6 or higher recommended)
• DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card
• 1 GB of disk space to install software and 3+ GB to install bonus content
• DVD-ROM drive to install software
• Optional:
  • CD burner for creating Video CDs or Super Video CDs (S-VCDs)
  • DVD burner for creating DVDs and HD DVD discs*
  • Sound card with surround sound output required for preview of surround sound mixes**

Capture Options

• Capture from DV, and Digital8 camcorders or VCRs (requires a FireWire® port on your PC)
• Capture from analog camcorders, 8 MM, HI 8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C, SVHS-C, or VCRs (NTSC/PAL/SECAM). Requires DirectShow® compatible graphic board or TV tuner board with analog (Composite or S-Video) inputs on your PC

Output Options

• Output to DV, HDV or Digital8 tape (requires camcorder with DV Input port and a PC with a DV/FireWire port)
• Output to analog videotape (requires DirectShow® compatible video device or video card with TV-output)
• Output to Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ formats*

Import Formats

• Video: DV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOD, DivX®*, MPEG-4*, 3GP (MPEG-4)*, WMV, Non-encrypted DVD titles*
• Audio: WAV, MP3
• Graphic: BMP, JPG, PCT, TGA, TIF, WMF

Export Formats

• Video CD (VCD) or S-VCD with optional CD burner (CD-R or CD-RW)
• HD DVD* and DVD* disc with optional DVD burner (DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R or DVD+RW, dual layer)
• Apple® iPod® and Sony® PSP™ compatible (MPEG-4) formats*
• DV, HDV, AVI, DivX, RealVideo® 8, Windows Media® 9, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4* files
• Dolby® Digital 2 channel* and 5.1 channel** audio