Minimum system requirements for Nero 12
- Windows® XP SP3 (32 bit), Windows Vista® SP2 or later (32/64 bit), Windows® 7 SP1 Home Premium, Professional or Ultimate (32/64 bit), Windows® 8 (32/64 bit)
- 2 GHz AMD or Intel® processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 5 GB hard drive space for a typical installation of all components (including templates, content and temporary disk space)
- Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 compliant graphics card
- DVD disc drive for installation and playback
- CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc recordable or rewritable drive for burning
- Windows Media® Player 9 or higher
- Third party components such as Microsoft Windows® Installer 4.5, Microsoft .NET® 4, Microsoft® DirectX® or Adobe Flash are shipped with the product or automated download if not included in the package
- For some services an Internet connection is required
- Internet connection may be required to verify the serial number during usage of certain features. Internet connection charges are the user's responsibility
Notes:
- On 64 bit operating systems, applications run in 32 bit emulation mode
- The devices must be correctly installed and recognized by the operating system for the product to work properly
- Installation of the latest WHQL certified device drivers is strongly recommended
- Setting up of media access server capability requires an PC connected to a local network
Special Minimum Requirements for video editing and authoring
- OHCI compliant FireWire® controller (IEEE® 1394) for DV or HDV™ capturing
- TV tuner or video capture card for analog and digital video recording
- Up to 50 GB hard drive space for disk images and temporary files
- For support of NVIDIA® CUDA™, AMD App Acceleration or Intel® Quick Sync Video technologies a capable graphics card with a minimum of 256 MB video memory is required
Special Minimum Requirements for Backup
- Broadband Internet access is required for backup to Nero Online Backup
Special Minimum Requirements for LightScribe and Labelflash™
- LightScribe compatible recorder and medium.
- LightScribe host software must be installed.
- Labelflash™ compatible recorder and medium.
Supported Media for Burning
- CD-R
- CD-RW
- DVD±R
- DVD±RW
- DVD-RAM
- DVD±R DL
- BD-R
- BD-RE
- BD-R DL
- BD-RE DL
- BD-R TL (BDXL)
- BD-RE TL (BDXL)
- BD-R QL (BDXL)
- BD-RE QL (BDXL)
Supported Disc Formats
- Data CD (ISO, UDF, ISO/UDF)
- Data DVD (ISO, UDF, ISO/UDF)
- Blu-ray data disc (ISO, UDF)
- SecurDisc CD/DVD/Blu-ray Disc
- Nero DiscSpan (UDF)
- Audio CD
- Mixed Mode CD
- CD EXTRA
- Nero Image (NRG)
- CUE-Image (Import only)
- ISO Image
- Video CD
- Super Video CD
- DVD-Video
- DVD+VR
- DVD-VFR
- DVD-VR (Import only)
- AVCHD™ video
- BDMV video
- BDAV (Import only)
Supported Audio Formats and Codecs
- Advanced Audio Coding elementary stream (AAC) - not ripping
- MPEG High-Definition AAC (HD-AAC)
- Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 (MP3 / mp3PRO / mp3HD )
- MPEG-4 Audio (MP4, M4A)
- MPEG Audio (MP2, MP2A, MPA, MPA2, M2A)
- Dolby® Digital (AC3)
- Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF, AIF)
- Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDA) - not encoding
- Ogg Vorbis (OGG, OGM, OGA)
- PCM WAV file, ADPCM Wav file (WAV, WAVE)
- Windows Media™ Audio (WMA)
- Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
- Monkey’s audio (APE)
- Matroska audio (MKA)
Supported Video Formats and Codecs
- Advanced Streaming Format (ASF)
- Audio Video Interleave (AVI, NVAVI)
- Digital Video (DV, DVSD)
- QuickTime® Movie (MOV)
- DVD Video Object (VOB)
- MPEG Video (MPG, MPEG, MPE, M1V, M2P, M2V, MOD, MP2V)
- MPEG-2 Transport Stream Files (M2TS, M2T, MTS, TS, TOD, TRP)
- MPEG-4 Video (MP4, DIVX)
- MPEG-4 AVC/H264
- Windows Media™ Video (WMV)
- Flash Video (FLV)
- Matroska Video (MKV)
- Microsoft Vista TV Recording (DVR-MS)
- Video CD Movie (DAT)
- AVC Blu-ray Disc Video Format (BSF)
- Third Generation Partnership Project Movie (3GP)
- DVD Movie Info (IFO)
- Motion JPEG Video (MJEPG)
- MicroMV Video (MMV)
- Windows 7 Media Center TV Format (WTV)
Supported Image Formats
- Bitmap (BMP)
- Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB)
- Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
- Icon Image File (ICO)
- JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
- Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG, JPG, JPE)
- Picture Exchange (PCX)
- Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
- Portable Pixel Map (PPM)
- Targa Image File (TGA)
- Tagged Image File Format (TIFF, TIF)
- Windows Metafile Format (WMF)
- Portable Bitmap (PBM)
Supported Formats for Playlists
- Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator/MP3 URL (M3U)
- Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator/MP3 URL + UTF-8 (M3U8)
- Playlists File Format (PLS)
- Windows Media Player Playlists (WPL)
- iTunes Playlists