WHAT IS CYBERLINK POWERDIRECTOR?

CyberLink PowerDirector is a digital video

editing program that lets you create
professional-looking videos and photo
slideshows, complete with music, voice-
overs, special effects, transitions and
much more. You can then output your
video to a file, upload it directly to YouTube
or Facebook, or burn it to a disc, complete
with stylish menus.
 POWERDIRECTOR MODES

CyberLink PowerDirector has separate modes that enable you to perform different
tasks: Capture, Edit, Produce and Create Disc.

Mode Description

Capture Captures media in a variety of formats, from a variety of sources.

Edit your production by adding video and photos to the timeline,

Edit
then add transitions, effects, titles and much more.

Output your created video to a file, camcorder (DV, HDV or HDD),

Produce
or upload it to YouTube or Facebook.

Create and burn your video to a disc, complete with a professional

Create Disc
looking disc menu.
 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The system requirements listed below are recommended as minimums for general
digital video production work.

Screen
Resolution • 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or higher

OS
• Windows Vista/XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture).

Memory • 512 MB required

• 2GB DDR2 or above recommended for editing HD videos

• AVI Capture/Producer: Pentium II 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz

• VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium III 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 700 MHz
• DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+
CPU
• High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo) Profiles:
Pentium 4 2.4 Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+
• AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD (for BD/HD burning) Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo
E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+
 • PCI or USB1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM
standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
Video
• DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE1394
Capturing
(check CyberLink web site) for supported model list)
Device
• DVD camcorder connected via USB2.0
• Sony MicroMV/AVCHD/HDV camcorder
• JVC Everio camcorder

• 5 GB required (400MB for SmartSound Quicktrack

Library)
Hard Disk
• 10 GB (20 GB recommended) required for DVD
Space
production
• 60GB (100GB recommended) required for BD/HD/AVCHD
production
 • A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or
DVD-R/RW) is required to burn
Burning Devices
VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD* titles
• A Blu-ray Disc recordable drive is required to burn
Blu-ray Disc titles*

Microphone • A microphone is required for recording voice-

overs

DV is a format for recording and playing back digital video.

HDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape.

HDD
- High definition display, for high-definition video, high-definition television (HDTV),
or Intel High Definition Audio
- Hard disk drive, a computer device which stores digitally encoded data

AVI - Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved)

AMD - Advanced Micro Devices

MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group

VCD - Video Compact Disc (MPEG-1)
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc (MPEG-2)

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer 3 (MP3) - is a patented digital audio encoding forma

MPEG-4 is the new worldwide standard for interactive multimedia creation

(MP4)
AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a format for the recording and
playback of high definition video.

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

WDM - Windows Driver Model (also known at one point as the Win32 Driver Model)

IEEE 1394 interface is a serial bus interface standard for high-speed

communications and isochronous real-time data transfer, frequently used by
personal computers, as well as in digital audio, digital video, automotive, and
aeronautics applications.
The interface is also known by the brand names of FireWire (Apple), i.LINK (Sony),
and Lynx (Texas Instruments)