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  • Pros

    Fast startup. Fast interface. Fast rendering. Tons of effects and transition. Up to 100 simultaneous video and audio tracks. Advanced editing features such as keyframes and time-codes. Blu-ray and AVCHD authoring. 64 bit native code. Uses graphics card acceleration and multiple CPUs.

  • Cons

    No tagging or face tagging. No search for effects.

  • Bottom Line

    PowerDirector offers the best response and rendering speed of consumer video editing software we've tested. The app includes nearly every video effect and output option you could ask for. And this latest version also adds a capable sound editor.

The fastest consumer video editor around gets even faster with this latest release, now available as a full 64-bit Windows app—the first consumer video-editing software able to make this boast. That's in addition to its already taking advantage of any graphics processers on your system. This is important for basic things like starting the program up and scrubbing through the timeline, and even more so when it comes to rendering a complex movie production with picture-in-picture and other effects. CyberLink offers just about everything you could want in a video editor at this level. The only noteworthy omission is the lack of the ability to tag videos for easy classification.

Interface
CyberLink splits its main interface into three sections: a preview window on the top right, a content browser on the top left, and a timeline at the bottom. You can resize any of the sections, but you can't pull them out into separate windows. You can, however open a Media Viewer preview window if you want to see your work on a full screen, and a dual-preview option lets you show your movie preview on a separate full monitor. This is a big help, but you need a powerful graphics card to pull it off smoothly. Sony Vegas Movie Maker HD Platinum 10 also offers separate monitor preview, but has a busier interface with 4 sections instead of PowerDirector's more-common three.

PowerDirector's interface is also broken down into 'modes' and 'rooms.' The former are just four in number and entered using the tabs right across the top of the app window—Capture, Edit, Produce, and Create Disc. Of course, the second is where you'll spend most of your time. The timeline view is quicker to respond to moving and resizing than that of Adobe Premiere Elements 9[link], but PowerDirector's storyboard view's thumbnails are small and not resizable (Elements' are). This view also doesn't offer a transition drop target, and doesn't show transitions even after you've added them. So you're better off spending your editing time in PowerDirector in its excellent, responsive timeline view. Vegas doesn't even offer a storyboard view, though.

Importing and Organizing Video Clips
To get raw material for your movie into the app, you have several avenues: You can hit the Capture tab to create a video clip from your attached webcam; pull it in from a DV, HDV, or AVCHD camcorder; or from a TV tuner attached to your PC. When you add video clips to PD, it starts creating a 'shadow copy' file, allowing it to display your edits faster. Alternatively, you can just click on the folder icon, while in Edit Mode's Media Room tab, to bring in video, audio and images from a folder on your hard disk. Simple.

Maybe too simple for some. You don't get Premiere Elements' clip tagging, auto-tagging, and analysis, so you're pretty much left on your own when it comes to organizing media. PowerDirector does, however, make it easy to switch between showing everything and just showing video, just images, or just audio.

Magic Movie Making
If you just want to have the program create a wrapped up nicely movie for you without a lot of fuss, you can use the Magic Movie feature. Clicking its hat-and-star icon starts a wizard that asks where your media is and what theme style you want to use. The default installation only offered three 2D and one 3D choice. I chose the latter. Unlike iMovie and Premiere Elements, PowerDirector makes yousupply your own background music—there's no canned mood music to go with your theme. You can, however, choose the sound mix between your movie track and the background music, and you can fit your movie to the background track. A slider also lets you choose whether you want more stills or video clips. Once it's done, you can have it dump the movie into the timeline for further tinkering.

Basic Video Editing
PowerDirector makes it easy to fix the lighting, color, and stabilize your video, from the Fix/Enhance button above your timeline. Other buttons offer Split, Modify, Trim, Multi Trim, Fix/Enhance Power Tools, and Keyframe. The trim tool allows precise control (down to the individual frame) with two sliders, and the multi version lets you mark several In and Out points on your clip. But if you're not that fussy, you can just delete a selected part of a clip right in the timeline. Splitting video and deleting sections are a pleasure, with PowerDirector's unique and intuitive selection cursor. Premiere Elements doesn't offer a separate precision trimmer, and Sony Vegas Movie Maker's doesn't offer the excellent control of PowerDirector's double sliders or its scene detection. Fix/Enhance also includes video denoise, audio denoise, and enhancement to punch up color and sharpness. You can independently adjust the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and sharpness, and white balance. And for each of these adjustments, you can set keyframes to designate when it should be turned on and off. Premiere Elements makes you choose separate effects for each of these, rather than offering PowerDirector's unified Fix/Enhance options.

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Bottom Line: PowerDirector offers the best response and rendering speed of consumer video editing software we've tested. The app includes nearly every video effect and output option you could ask for. And this latest version also adds a capable sound editor.

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PowerDirector is a video editing software created by Cyberlink. It offers the possibility to create 3D videos of impressive quality. You can also import and export videos, sounds and images from digital TV, cameras, microphones etc. It is available on the web for free download.

Once you are done with your projects, you can choose to burn them in DVD´s, Blu-ray or save them straight to your computer. Most of the basic functionalities are available in version 10 but to enjoy its full features, you can get the latest version.

You can also have access to an online community where people share their works and experiences about PowerDirector, which can help you learn some tricks about it.

In this transcription, we will be looking at the New Particle Designer and how you can create animated particle effects. Let's get started!

In this screenshot, the “Particle Room” button is selected.

A click through the sections will display the Particles available.

Select and use click ‘n’ drag to place a particle.

By double clicking on the particle in the track or by selecting Modify, the New Particle Designer opens.

The designer’s default sized interface will be displayed.

Select Maximize to view your work in full screen.

You may change the preview display with the zoom” options. The magnify or reduce buttons can change the size with a mouse click. Click Fit to bring the screen back to a default size. Keyboard shortcut for Zoom is Ctrl key+mouse scroll.

Let’s select “Fit” to get back to the default size.

You can preview each track. Each track is responsible for a display action event.

Particles can start an action off screen, creating a flowing movement motion. Click and then swivel to redirect or you can reposition with a click and drag.

You may disable tracks when necessary, to preview or exclude individual tracks.

To duplicate a Particle, first, highlight a track, select Edit, then Copy/Paste. I prefer the quicker keyboard shortcut to copy and paste; Ctrl+C and then Ctrl+V. A new track and particle is created, a duplicate of track 3 which confusingly, is particle 1.

Let’s rename the new track.

Select, Add a Particle. Click and drag the frame then the new particle will display the default blue stars.

The spread and positioning of the particle can be done via click and drag.

To remove the blue star, just select Add/Delete Particles.

To add a new particle, browse for a .png image with a transparent background.

Click the blue star next and the bin icon to remove.

Staggering a particle; Click and move the control to have different display times.

After clicking “stop” in preview, the slider will slip back to the start, allowing you to play through the alterations.

Modify Parameters. You can play with the slider controls and observe the results.

There is a “Reset” to default settings option and you can always preview the changes made. It is always fun to watch what happens.

The slider is a quick method or the finite counter to adjust the parameters.

Images and background placement; Click the “Add an image” button then browse and locate an image.

The image is static with no motion effect. 'Resize' and 'Place' are the options available in Particle Designer.

Click the “Set background” button and browse.

A settings dialogue box displays.

For the image selected, “Stretch” will be Ok, but you may choose other options.

A Highlighted track can be “binned” or removed in a snap.

Colour Keyframes; There are different choices for this, but as an example, we'll select ‘Enable Red seeds floating’. To change colour keyframes, select a start or ending colour.

Selecting a different colour alters the appearance.

“Enable particle overlay”; Look at the feathered appearance created on the gossamer seeds. Play 'Preview' to assess which to retain. You can make alterations, switch and change the colours and when satisfied, move on to the next editing task.

You can use click and drag to expand the span of the displayed particles and reduce the spread in an opposite movement.

Cyberlink Powerdirector 8 Particle Effects Download

The TV safe zone defines the viewable screen display area.

Gridlines assists placement and alignment.

“Save” will retain the alterations for the track. “Save as” will keep a Custom Particle.

Shift+Delete removes the Dandelion Particle and leaves a gap.

Locate Custom Particles and place the newly created “DanteLiew” Particle.

Repositioning on a new track gives the new particle dominance as an overlay.

I can tweak the Fantasy Particle by disabling a track and unchecking the Fade options.

Previewing the Fantasy display includes the dandelion seeds swirling around.

Particles can be staggered or layered on top of each other.

In a clip, you can add as many particles as you like. No it’s your turn to have a go so tweak, change and play around with the New Particle Designer.