CyberLink PowerProducer 3 Readme

• An Overview of PowerProducer 3
• PowerProducer 3 Versions
• Registering Your Software
• Installation and Software Usage Notice
• Special Requirements for DV Capturing
• Compatible Capture Cards and Drivers
• Compatible DV Camcorder Models
• Supported Recordable CD/DVD Drives
• Technical Support

1. Minimum CPU requirements when Capturing Video from Analog Video Devices or Using Real-Time Mode:
   
   

   Capturing Profile	Analog Device Capture		DV Capture in Real-time
   Burning DVD
   Long Play (LP)	Pentium III 700	K7 600	Pentium IV 2.2G	Athlon XP 2200+
   Stdard Play (SP)	Pentium III 733	K7 600	Pentium IV 2.2G	Athlon XP 2200+
   High Quality (HQ)	Pentium III 800	K7 700	Pentium IV 2.2G	Athlon XP 2200+
   Burning VCD
   Stdard Play (SP)	Pentium III 533	K6-2 550	Pentium III 800	K7 700
   Burning SVCD
   High Quality (HQ)	Pentium III 733	K7 600	Pentium IV 1.4G	Athlon XP 1.2G

2. Minimum CPU Requirements when Capturing Video from DV in Non Real-Time Mode:
   
   Non real-time mode uses buffering technology to avoid frame-drop when capturing video from DV, which greatly reduces CPU resources. We recommend having at least a Pentium III 450 CPU to conduct non real-time capturing from DV, as it is necessary to capture full raw frames before compressing them into MPEG files. The faster the CPU you use, the less time needed for offline MPEG transcoding.

   If your hard disk drive is nearly out of space while capturing in non real-time, a warning message will appear in the Preview Window notifying you that a portion of the transcoding process will be paused and resume later after all the content in the buffer has been encoded by your hard disk. (This is called "Capture Auto-Resume".) If less than 150 MB of free space remains, all capturing is disabled. We recommend that you have sufficient free hard disk space before proceeding with non real-time DV capturing. The recommended space depends on your hardware computing power and the selected profile. However, to be safe, follow this table for non real-time DV capturing:

   Time Captured (Minutes)	Recommended Free Hard Disk Space
   1	390 MB
   3	810 MB
   5	1230 MB
   10	2280 MB
   20	4380 MB
   30	6480 MB
   60	12.18 GB

   If your PC has sufficient CPU power (for example, Pentium III 800, Athlon 800 or above), it may require less free hard drive space than recommended above, since the CPU may have enough computing power to consume the buffered frames. PowerProducer can run in Auto-Resume mode only if your DV tape has sequential timecodes. If your tape's timecodes have been reset (e.g. by turning your DV camcorder off and on before recording new content or recording over existing content), it will seek to the wrong timecode when Capture Auto-Resume resumes, and thus fail.

Compatible Capture Cards and Drivers

1. IEEE 1394 capture device compatibility list. The PowerProducer DV video capture modules utilize the Microsoft Windows driver. It is required that the IEEE1394 capture devices be compliant with the OHCI standard. Please visit CyberLink Web site for the latest models list at http://support.gocyberlink.com/.
2. Analog to digital video capture device compatibility list:
   
   

   CaptureDevices	Chipsets	BusTypes	Win98SE	WinME	Win2K	WinXP	Driver Version
   ATI
   ATI All-in-Wonder 128	Bt 829	AGP	*	*	*		4.13.7078(Win 9X) 5.13.1.192 (Win 2000)
   ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Pro	Rage Theater	AGP	C	C	*		4.13.7078(Win 9X) 5.13.1.192 (Win 2000)
   ATI All-in-Wonder 128 Radeon	Rage Theater	AGP	*	C	*		4.12.3056(Win 9X) 5.13.01.3102 (Win 2000)
   ATI Radeon 8500DV Combo	Rage Theater	AGP	C	C	C	C	5.13.1.3276(Win 2K) 6.13.3276 (Win XP) 4.13.7189 (Win 9X)
   ATI TV Wonder	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C	C	4.13.0003(Win 9x) 4.12.3.0 (Win 2K/XP)
   Other
   Askey TView99 (CPH051)	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C		3.1.28.0
   Aver MediaTV Capture 98	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C		3.1.28.0
   Hauppauge WinTV-Theater	Bt 878	PCI	C	--	C	----	2.3.17316(Win SE) 5.1.2258.400 (Win 2K)
   LeadTek WinFast TV2000	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C		3.1.28.0
   Live View Fly Video	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C	C
   NVidia NV11 Combo	Nogatech	AGP+BOX	*	*	C		1.04F
   SigmaCom Cyber TV	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C		3.1.28.0
   ProLink Pixel View Play TV	Bt 878	PCI	C	C	C		3.1.28.0

   C=Compatible *=Compatible but with minor issues

Please visit http://support.gocyberlink.com/ for the latest model list.

Compatible DV Camcorder Models

The following list contains approved DV or DVCAM models compatible with PowerProducer.

If your DV or DVCAM model is not on this list, it does not mean it is incompatible with PowerProducer. CyberLink will continuously provide patches to work with new DV models. To see the most updated list of DV compatible models or to download DV patches, please visit: http://support.gocyberlink.com/.

Supported Recordable CD/DVD Drives

Supported Recordable CD Drives

Supported Recordable DVD Drives

Note: OEM models are supported if the parent models are supported.

If your drive is not contained in the list above, it may be still be supported by the software - newer drives that have come to market after this Readme file was written may have been added to the list of compatible drive more recently. For the most up-to-date list of supported drives, please see http://support.gocyberlink.com/.

Technical Support

• Customer service:

http://support.gocyberlink.com/ (English)

• CyberLink corporate web sites:



http://www.gocyberlink.com/ (English)

http://www.cyberlink-usa.com/ (English)

http://www.cyberlink.com.tw/ (Chinese)

http://www.cli.co.jp/ (Japanese)

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