Operating System

• Microsoft Windows 11, 10 (64 bit OS only, Windows 11 Arm64 is supported)

Processor (CPU)

• Intel
• Intel Core™ i-series and above.
• Haswell (4th generation) processor: Core i7-4770 (only Core and Xeon branded), and above required for AI features.
• AMD
• AMD Phenom® II and above.
• AMD A8-7670K and above, AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 and above required for AI features.
• Qualcomm
• Snapdragon® 8cx Gen 3
• Snapdragon® X Elite

Graphics Processor (GPU)

• Standard Video: 128 MB VGA VRAM or higher.
• 360-video: DirectX 11 compatible.
• AI Plugin: 2 GB VGA VRAM or higher.
• NVIDIA Audio/Video Denoise and Room Echo Removal: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060, NVIDIA Quadro RTX 3000, NVIDIA TITAN RTX, or higher.

Memory

• 4GB required (6GB or above recommended).
• 8GB or higher required for NVIDIA Audio/Video Denoise and Room Echo Removal.

Hard Disk Space

• 7GB

Burning Device

• Burning drive is required for disc burning purpose.

Sound Card

• Windows compatible sound card is required.

Internet Connection

• Required for initial software and file format activation. It is also required to access the subscription version, for online services, some software features, and to download program and AI component updates.

Screen Resolution

• 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above.

Language Support

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish (European)
• Chinese Simplified
• Chinese Traditional
• Japanese
• Korean
• Dutch

Format and Device Support

Video File (Import)

• ▪ H.265/HEVC (8bit/10bit/10bit with HDR10 and HLG)
• ▪ MOD
• ▪ MVC (MTS)
• ▪ MOV (H.264/HEVC/alpha PNG/Apple ProRes 10bit 4:2:2)
• ▪ Side-by-Side Video
• ▪ MPEG-1
• ▪ Top-under Video
• ▪ MPEG-2
• ▪ Dual-Stream AVI
• ▪ MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
• ▪ FLV (H.264)
• ▪ MP4 (XAVC S, XAVC 8bit 4:2:0)
• ▪ MKV (multiple audio streams)
• ▪ TOD
• ▪ 3GPP2
• ▪ VOB
• ▪ AVCHD (M2T, MTS)
• ▪ VRO
• ▪ AVI
• ▪ WMV
• ▪ DAT
• ▪ WMV-HD
• ▪ WTV in H.264/MPEG2 (multiple video and audio streams)
• ▪ DV-AVI
• ▪ Dolby Digital audio*
• ▪ DVR-MS
• ▪ WebM (VP9)
• ▪ HDR (HEVC HDR10 & HLG)
• ▪ ProRes 4:2:2
• ▪ MXF AVC 4:2:0
• ▪ V210 4:2:2
• ▪ XAVC 4:2:0

360 Video: Equirectangular format MP4 (H.264). PowerDirector supports your movie editing specifications up to 4K resolution in 2:1 aspect ratio.

Audio File (Import)

• ▪ WAV, MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG, FLAC, AAC, AMR-NB, Opus

Audio Format (Import)

• ▪ AAC, Dolby Digital*, Dolby Digital Plus*, WAVE, MPEG-1 Layer III, FLAC, ALAC, ADPCM

Photo File (Import)

• ▪ MPO, JPS, RAW, GIF, BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, Animated GIF, HEIC, APNG
  360 Photo: Equirectangular format JPG/TIF in 2:1 aspect ratio.

Look-up Table (Import)

• ▪ 3DL, MGA, M3D, CUBE, CSP, CMS, RV3DLUT, VF

Video Capturing Device Support

• ▪ Analog TV tuner
• ▪ CI or USB capture device compliant with WDM standard

Video File Exporting (Production)

• ▪ High-Definition: AVCHD, AVCHD 2.0 (3D/ Progressive) MPEG-2 HD, WMV-HD
• ▪ 2K/4K resolution: H.264 AVC, WMV, H.265 HEVC, XAVC S
• ▪ MKV H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC (.MKV) with LPCM/AAC Stereo/5.1 /Dolby Digital Stereo*

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