• Windows® XP with SP2 or Vista (32 bit 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 AVCHD editing

• 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended)

• 1 GB required for HD and/or Vista (2 GB recommended)

• 1.5 GB required for AVCHD (2 GB required on Vista)

• DirectX® 9 or higher compatible graphics card with 64 MB (128 MB recommended)

• 128 MB required on 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 DVD, HD DVD and AVCHD discs*

• Sound card with surround sound output required for preview of surround sound mixes**

Capture Options

• Capture from DV, HDV 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

• Import from AVCHD* camcorders (requires USB 2.0 on your PC and a UDF driver which comes with your camcorder)

Output Options

• Output to DV, HDV or Digital8 tape (requires camcorder with FireWire 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: AVCHD*, DV, HDV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 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*, 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

* Requires free product activation via the Internet

** Requires product activation via Internet at additional cost.

Package Contents

• Pinnacle Studio Plus install DVD

• Pinnacle Studio Plus

• Pinnacle InstantDVD Recorder

• Pinnacle RTFX volume 1

• SureThing™ Express Labeler

• Pinnacle Studio Bonus DVD

Product specifications are subject to change without notice or obligation.