System requirements

For optimal performance of Corel VideoStudio Pro, make sure that your system meets the recommended specifications.

Minimum system requirements

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Intel® Core™ Duo 1.83-GHz Processor or AMD® Dual Core 2.0-GHz Processor

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Microsoft Windows® 7 SP1 (32-bit or 64-bit edition), Windows Vista® SP1 or SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows® XP SP3 operating system software

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2 GB of RAM

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Minimum display resolution: 1024 × 768

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Windows®-compatible sound card

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Windows-compatible DVD-ROM (for program installation)

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Windows-compatible DVD Burner (for DVD output)

Recommended system specifications

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Intel® Core™ i5 or i7 Processor, or AMD Phenom™ II X4 or X6 Processor

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Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit edition), Windows Vista SP2 (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or Windows XP SP3 operating system software

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4GB of RAM or higher

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1GB of VRAM or higher

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Minimum display resolution: 1024 × 768

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Windows-compatible sound card

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Windows-compatible Blu-ray Disc™ Burner (for Blu-ray Disc and DVD output)

Supported input/output devices

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1394 FireWire® cards for use with DV, D8, or HDV™ camcorders

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USB Video Class (UVC) DV

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Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394

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Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW and WDM support for Windows XP and Broadcast Driver Architecture support for Windows Vista and Windows 7)

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Analog and digital TV capture device (Broadcast Driver Architecture support)

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Camcorders that record to internal memory, memory card, DVD disc or hard drive

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USB capture devices, PC cameras, webcams

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Windows-compatible Blu-ray Disc, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD- RAM and CD-R/RW drive

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iPhone®, iPad®, iPod Classic® with video, iPod touch®, Sony® PSP®, Pocket PC, Smartphone, and Nokia® mobile phones

Hardware acceleration

Depending on your hardware specifications, Corel VideoStudio Pro lets you optimize the performance of your system by optimizing hardware acceleration.

Hardware decoder and encoder acceleration is supported only by Windows Vista and later versions of the Windows operating system software and requires at least 512 MB of VRAM.

To change hardware acceleration settings

Select Settings > Preferences [F6].

Click the Performance tab and select the following options under Editing Process and File Creation:

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Enable Hardware Decoder acceleration — enhances editing performance and improves clip and project playback by using video graphics acceleration technologies of the computer’s available hardware

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Enable Hardware Encoder acceleration — improves the rendering time required for producing your movies

For optimum performance, VGA cards must support DXVA2 VLD mode with Vertex and Pixel Shader 2.0 or later.

If you want the program to automatically detect the hardware acceleration capabilities of your system and determine the optimum settings, select all hardware acceleration options in Performance Optimization, including Enable hardware acceleration optimization.

If the feature is not supported by your system, some hardware acceleration options will be grayed out.

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