Operation Manual

xii Pinnacle Studio 9
• Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Windows “Millennium”,
Windows 2000 or Windows XP (recommended).
The MicroMV digital video format is supported only
under Windows XP.
• Graphics card compatible with DirectX 9 (ATI
Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce2 or higher
recommended)
• Sound card compatible with DirectX 9
• Audio system with Dolby Pro Logic compatibility if
previewing surround-sound mixes is required
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• CD-ROM drive
• DVD drive for installing the bonus DVD containing
tutorial, electronic manual and bonus content. The
same content is available free on CD-ROMs from
the Pinnacle e-store (shipping cost not included).
• Speakers
• Mouse
• A microphone, if you want to record voice-overs
• 500 MB of free hard drive space to install software
• Optional CD burner for creating VideoCDs (VCDs)
or Super-VideoCDs (S-VCDs)
• Optional DVD burner for creating DVDs
The hard drive
Your hard drive must be capable of sustained reading
and writing at 4 MB/sec. Most drives are capable of
this. The first time you capture at full quality, Studio
will test your drive to make sure it is fast enough.
Video in the DV format occupies 3.6 MB of hard drive
space per second, so just four and a half minutes of DV
video will consume a full gigabyte on the drive.