System Requirements
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture)
Screen Resolution
- 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above
Microphone
- Required for recording voice-overs
Processor
- AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz
- VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 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 WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo Profiles: Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+
- AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Memory
- 512 MB required (2 GB DDR2 above recommended for editing HD videos)
Hard Disk Space
- 5 GB required minimum (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library)
- 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
- 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc production
Video Capturing Device
- PCI or USB 1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
- DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394
- DVD camcorder connected via USB 2.0
- Sony MicroMV camcorder
- JVC Everio camcorder (GZ-MC100, GZ-MC200)
- Sony HDR-FX1 (HDV)
- Sony HDR-HC1 (HDV)
- JVC GR-HD1U (HDV)
Supported AVCHD camcorders
- SONY HDR-SR1
- SONY HDR-UX1
- SONY HDR-CX7
- SONY HDR-SR7
- Panasonic SX5
Burning Drive
- 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 Discs
100% clean:
We guarantee PowerDirector is 100% CLEAN, which means they does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to:spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.
PowerDirector was tested thoroughly and were found absolutely clean, therefore they can be installed with no concern by any computer user.