• 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