System Recommendations

General Recommendations

Operating Systems Support

Cinegy Convert software is certified to run on the 64-bit editions of the following operating systems:

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

  • Windows Server 2008 SP2

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2019

  • Windows 7 Pro SP1

  • Windows 8.1 Pro

  • Windows 10 Pro

Operating system recommendation: Windows Server 2016 is recommended for servers, Windows 10 Pro is recommended for workstations and desktop PCs.

Caution
 We recommend updating Windows OS to include the latest Microsoft updates and hotfixes.

Hardware Recommendations

Note
 Cinegy products work only on machines with CPU supporting minimum instruction set SSE4.1
Note
 These system recommendations use older hardware which has been previously tested. The CPU’s listed should be used as a guide to select modern equivalent options and not as direct requirements.

The actual performance of a machine depends on the number of running simultaneous tasks, their TV formats, as well as various settings like number of encoders used, complexity of encoding profiles, etc. Therefore no precise hardware recommendation can be given. As Cinegy Convert has no requirements to perform faster than real time, virtually any modern machine can be used.

The following configuration has proven to be reliably sufficient for up to 4 simultaneous HD transcoding tasks using single encoder: Supermicro Superserver 1028 series platform, dual Xeon E5 2630v3 CPU, 8x 4GB of DDR4 RAM, SATA-2 SSD drive for OS.

Note
 When exporting Cinegy Archive Sequences with Cinegy Type elements and\or CUDA effects enabled, a dedicated NVidia K2200 video board is required. For highly intensive graphics please consider the NVidia Quadro M4000 board.
Caution
 Do not choose NVIDIA "RTX" series cards if you want to use GPU encoding (NVEnc) for Interlaced TV formats! All RTX (Turing family) Nvidia cards do not support interlace field coding mode.

File Formats Support

File Formats

AVI (Supporting all locally installed codecs including alpha channel support)*

XDCAM SD

AVID DNxHD (In AVID compatible MXF)

XDCAM HD

DV

XDCAM HD422

DV25

XDCAM EX

DVCAM

H.264 (MP4)

DVCPro (DV50)

MXF with MPEG-2 Long GOP

DVCProHD (DV100)

MXF AS-03

HDV

MPEG-2 (I-frame and long GOP up to 1080i 4:2:2)

IMX

Windows Media

Panasonic P2 (DV, DV50, DV100, AVC-Intra)

* Only reading of such container/codecs is supported.

Audio Formats Support

Note
 All Cinegy products currently support only live input with an audio sample rate of 48 kHz.

The following audio formats are supported for import: PCM/WAV, MP3, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, all AVI audio codecs (with locally installed codecs).

For export: PCM, AAC and MPEG audio.