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Software installation

In this section we will take a quick look at the software installation.

Here we have a shot of our Main screen, PowerProducer, Trial Software, Free Utilities, Contact Us and Exit.

Clicking on PowerProducer we can choose either Install, read the User Guide, check out System Requirements or view the Introduction.

Clicking on the Install button will take us through the simple install menus that are pretty much basic for all windows installations so we won’t go into any further detail.

From our Main screen we have a few more options, one being Contact Us.

Under free utilities you can choose to install Acrobat reader and Internet Explorer 6

Trial software available on this disc is PowerDVD and Power2Go

Included in the retail package:

• Installation disc

• Printed user manual

Contents of the retail package.

Test machine:

For this review we will be using a computer with the following configuration:

Hardware:

•          Motherboard: Asus P5K Deluxe

•          Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.7GHz

•          RAM: 2x 1GB Patriot PC2-6400 DDR2

•          Graphics Card: eVGA  7900GT 512 KO with Zalman vf900 @ 650/1600

•          Sound: SoundMAX Digital HD Audio Onboard

•          Hard disk: 2x 320GB – 1x 750GB SATA Seagate

•          Television: Philips 27” 27PT6441/37

•          Operating System: Windows XP Professional with SP2

Software:

•          DivX Pro 6.5

•          SimpleDivX 1.40.24

•          TMPGEnc 4.0 Xpress

On the next page we will take a look at Authoring performance…

Introduction

Authoring performance tests