System Requirements The environment described below is required in order to use this product. *This does not guarantee full operation. *A higher than recommended environment may be necessary depending on the number of authoring contents and volume. Supported OS Mac OS X v10.2.8, v10.3.1 to v10.3.9 *Mac OS X Server is not supported. Year 2006 new models Year 2007 new models Mac OS X v10.3.1 to v10.3.9, v10.4 *Mac OS X Server is not supported. CPU PowerPC G4 800MHz or higher *Intel Core Processor is not supported. Year 2006 new models Year 2007 new models PowerPC G4 800MHz or higher PowerPC G5 Intel Core Duo Processor *Macintosh equipped with Intel Core Duo Processor operates on Rosetta. Memory 128MB or more (256MB or more recommended) Year 2006 new models Year 2007 new models Mac OS X v10.3.1 to v10.3.9 : 128MB or more (256MB or more recommended) Mac OS X v10.4 : 256MB or more Hard Disk 30MB or more of free space required for installation Graphics 1024 x 768 pixels or more, full color recommended Required Software QuickTime 6.5 or later * If you have QuickTime version 6.5 or previous versions, download the update from Apple website. To update, please read here. Limitations - Does not support MPEG-1 format files. - Does not support VOB format files. - Cannot load files of less than 0.5 seconds or more than 12 hours. - Cannot load files with the timetable reset in midstream. - Maximum length of files created is 12 hours and minimum length is 0.5 seconds. Note that for DV stream and QuickTime movie, maximum length of files is 2 hours. - Handles PCM, MPEG-1 Audio Layer-2, and Dolby Digital Audio formats. - Handles 48kHz of audio sampling rate. Converts audio sampling rate of files other than 48kHz to 48kHz. - MPEG-2 with audio sample size other than 16-bit is not supported. - Handles video bitrate of 2Mbps to 9.8Mbps. Note that when audio format is PCM, maximum bitrate is 8Mbps. - If video bitrate exceeds 8Mbps, you cannot select PCM as audio format. - Does not support files with multiple audio streams. - Handles up to 18 frames in a GOP for NTSC and 15 frames in a GOP for PAL. - Handles system bitrate up to 10.08Mbps. Even if system bitrate is lower than 10.08Mbps, video bitrate higher than 9.8Mbps cannot be handled. - Files can be combined in File Combination Mode if they are MPEG-2 format files and their video size, frame rate, aspect ratio, format of interlace and field order, audio sampling rate, and the number of audio channels are identical. - Handles MPEG-2 format files as follows:  NTSC : 720 x 480, 704 x 480, 352 x 480, 352 x 240  PAL : 720 x 576, 704 x 576,352 x 576, 352 x 288 - System bitrate is the total bitrate size comprising audio bitrate of MPEG-2 format files and video. Video bitrate varies according to audio bitrate. (e.g.)When the system bitrate of MPEG-2 format file is 8Mbps, the result is as follows:   When the audio bitrate is 224Kbps, video bitrate will be approximately 7.2Mbps.   When the audio bitrate is 384Kbps, video bitrate will be approximately 6.9Mbps.