Minimum hardware/software requirements
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Minimum hardware/software requirements |
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TV2003 needs a personal computer with a fast CPU, a modern operating system and plenty of RAM. Depending on your needs, requirements may differ (see table below).
Processor: AMD 750 MHz or equivalent
RAM: 250 MB SD (but 500 Mb DDR would of course be better)
OS: Windows XP - recommended (and a must if you want to be able to record video with the All in Wonder Radeon graphics card). If you do your recordings elsewhere or with an external MPEG encoder and only want to use the system for cueing and viewing, you may use Windows ME or even Windows 98. Vista and Windows 7 are okay, but why burden your CPU with animated icons? Well, soon you'll have to use Win7 and beyond...
File system: NTFS (FAT32 may be used, but then recordings are limited to 4 GB)
DirectX: Minimum 8.1
Hard drive: If you want to record with a TV card, you'll need two of those – one for operating system and programs and one for recordings only. For recordings a 20 GB hard drive will be adequate, but we recommend an 80 or 120 GB drive. They are not that expensive anymore.
Graphics/TV card: ATI All in Wonder Radeon - for video recording and live video input. If these features are not wanted, any graphics card will do. Video clips can undoubtedly be recorded with other TV cards and 3rd party software, but the quality may vary. Beware of dropped frames!
Time code reader: Strictly speaking a time code reader is no longer needed, as time code is generated by the computer in video cache mode. But if you want to be able to do your subtitling the old-fashioned way a time code reader is a must. (Hm... Now the year is 2010, and we don't know of any subtitlers who need a time code reader any more).
Supported time code cards:
| • | Adrienne Electronics (ISA version only) |
| • | Alpermann & Velte (ISA and PCI) |
A connection to the World Wide Web (on the computer the program is to be installed on)
Video codec: PicVideo MJPEG V2 (or MPEG-4 V2 for supercompressed files with scene change detection capabilities)
Requirements for: |
Option 1 - desktop computer |
Option 2 - desktop or laptop |
Recording video clips |
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 Extra hard drive ATI All in Wonder Radeon tv card |
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 (Extra hard drive) External MPEG or DV encoder |
Viewing/processing video clips |
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 No extra hard drive Any graphics card |
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista/Win7 No extra hard drive Any graphics card |
For a laptop computer without a numeric keypad you must also have an extra keyboard
with a numeric keypad (a loose numeric keypad won't always do) or better still:
A USB shuttle (which may of course be used on desktop PCs as well).
We recommend the ShuttlePro from Contour A/V.
See also:
Im' confused. What do I really need?