Calibrated Software MPEG2-X Create v1 - Manual (Page 10)

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Windows Requirements and Installation
Ensure your PC meets the following requirements prior to installing Calibrated MPEG2-X Create:
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Pentium 4 processor with SSE3 support or greater; recommended at least Intel Core 2 Duo with two cores or two
physical processors
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32/64-bit Windows 7 or Vista (Business or Ultimate) or Windows 32-bit XP with SP3 (Win XP 64-bit is NOT
supported)
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BETA Support for 32/64-bit Windows 8 - our software should work fine on Windows 8; however QuickTime Player
does not officially support Windows 8 yet.
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QuickTime Player 7.6.6 or higher
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Virtual OS is NOT supported
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To view or playback XDCAM .MOV files in applications that support QuickTime, you need to have Calibrated{Q}
XD Decode installed on your computer and properly licensed. Some applications like Avid Media Composer (6.0
or greater) or Adobe CC applications should be able to natively import the created MOV files.
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Calibrated MPEG2-X Create supports encoding from 8-bit YUV422 colorspace, HOWEVER it is up to the
application using Calibrated MPEG2-X Create to send that colorspace to the codec. Please see the
“Enable Colorspace Watermark” in the Options Chapter to learn how to see what colorspace an application is
sending to Calibrated MPEG2-X Create, and also see the Windows Applications Chapter or Mac OSX
Applications Chapter to learn more about how to configure Calibrated MPEG2-X Create for popular applications.
Installing on Windows
To install Calibrated MPEG2-X Create on a Windows Computer:
1. Quit any applications using QuickTime.
2. Run the Calibrated MPEG2-X Create Installer:
a. Microsoft Redistributables will be installed (if they don’t already exist on the computer)
b. A folder named Calibrated will be created in the [System Drive]\Program Files directory*. This Calibrated
folder will contain the Calibrated MPEG2-X Create Info application (CalibratedMPEG2XCreateInfo.exe),
presets and the Calibrated MPEG2-X Create User Guide.
c. The CalibratedMPEG2XCreate.qtx will be auto-copied to the [System Drive]\Program
Files\QuickTime\QTComponents directory. *
d. (On 64-bit computers with PPro) The ExpCalibratedMPEG2XCreateOP1a.prm will be installed to the plugins
directory of the highest version of Adobe products.
e. (On 64-bit computers) The SMDK-VC100-x64-4_5_1.dll will be auto-copied to the [System
Drive]/Windows/System32 directory.
3. Restart your computer
* For 64-bit Windows 7 or Vista, this will be the [System Drive]\Program Files (x86)\ directory