Quickly turn photos and home videos into professional-quality DVD productions

• Get started fast with the intuitive Launcher and work quickly with the easy step-by-step workflow
• Quickly turn photos into dynamic slideshows, and work with standard or high-definition video clips, either directly from camera or edited in your favorite video editor
• Choose from a wide range of professionally-designed menus and use easy customisation tools and high-quality effects to personalise your discs
• Burn discs in popular formats, including AVCHD and Blu-ray Pro, perfect for the latest high-definition home theater systems

Design stunning Hollywood-style menus

• Choose from a collection of over 100 menus that look great, and are easy to customise
• Create discs in a range of styles and themes, and be amazed by the special effects like reflections, masked text, menu transitions and animated overlay objects
• Combine photos, text entries and decorations for a one-of-a-kind DVD scrapbook with the unique new "Note Menu" pages
• Make every disc unique by customising music, titles, motion backgrounds, and even adding your own animated decorations
• Create stunning Hollywood-style Blu-ray discs with advanced pop-up menus that slide out chapter thumbnails without interrupting the movie Pro
• Use pro menu layout aids to add finishing touches to your designs

Work with advanced HD features

• Make the most of the latest HD equipment and formats with everything you need to create stunning quality discs
• Import HD video from all current HD camcorders using tape, disc, hard drive or memory card in HDV, AVCHD and Blu-ray Disc® formats. Even work with captured HDTV shows
• You don't need to upgrade your PC - unique Smart Proxy technology works in the background to smooth HD editing and previews
• Burn HD projects to high-capacity Blu-ray discs Pro or create AVCHD discs using a standard burner and DVDs

Edit and enhance photos and video clips with titles, music and effects

• Edit videos and photos with simple editing tools - no need to open your full-featured video and image editing applications
• Quickly trim video clips, and remove ads from recorded TV shows
• Add cool opening sequences with animated titles and music
• Improve photos with a couple of clicks, enhancing exposure, colour balance and skin tones in the easy Express Fix
• Show off your photos to their best advantage with the built-in slideshow tools
• Rotate pictures and apply auto pan & zoom, or customise the effect to highlight picture details
• Add transitions and background music, creating slideshows that everyone will love to watch

System Requirements

Minimum System Requirements

• Intel® Pentium® IV 3.0 GHz, AMD Athlon® 64 3800+
• 1GB RAM (2GB or above recommended)
• Microsoft® Windows®XP+SP3, Windows Vista®+SP1
• 30GB hard disk free space for program installation
• Windows® compatible display with 1024x768, 16-bit color graphics card; 24-bit or 32-bit true color recommended

Optional System Requirements

• Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or higher is required when capturing and burning directly from DV/TV Tuner to DVD discs
• 1.5GB RAM or above recommended for HD projects
• IEEE-1394 (FireWire) I/O devices compliant with OHCI standard cards for use with HDV™/DV/D8 camcorders
• Windows® compatible BD-R/RE, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive
• Windows Media® Player 10 or higher for Windows® XP and Windows Vista® systems
• 10 GB of available hard drive space or higher for DVD disc burning
• 30 GB of available hard drive space or higher for 3 hours of HD-quality video capturing

File Format Support
Import:

• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP4, DV AVI, AVI, DivX®, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, ASF, DVR-MS, DAT, MPV, QuickTime® (MOV, QT), Corel VideoStudio™ X2 Project (VSP)
• Audio: CDA, LPCM, MPEG Audio (MPA), WAV, Dolby Digita®, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3
• Image: BMP, GIF, JP2, JPC, JPG, PNG, TGA, TIF
• Import Digital Media: DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR, HDD Camcorder (TOD, MOD), AVCHD™(m2ts, m2t), Blu-ray Camcorder.

Export:

• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV AVI, AVI, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, ASF, QuickTime® (MOV, QT), H.264
• Audio: CDA, LPCM, MPEG Audio (MPA), Dolby Digital® Stereo, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3
• Image: BMP, JPG
• Disc: Blu-ray (BDAV, BDMV), DVD (DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR), VCD, SVCD
• Media: CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, DVD+R/-R(Single/Double Layer)/DVD-RAM, BD-R/RE

Work with a full suite of disc authoring and burning applications that give you results that look professional, every time - without straining your budget or your schedule.