CyberLink PowerDirector 7 - Your Complete Production Studio for Editing and Publishing Home Movies !

Powerdirector 7 is a video editing and production suite aimed at the home video market. It’s very easy to use and supports capture, editing and export of high-definition video formats. All home video editing programs follow the convention of dividing the whole process into chronologically ordered tasks and providing the necessary tools for each - Powerdirector is no exception.

Powerful Video Editing With Unlimited Possibilities !
• Create movie masterpieces with powerful editing features
• Enhance video quality with adjustable fixing tools
• Get creative with unlimited effects and groovy templates
• Share new effects on the editing community DirectorZone
• Export to YouTube, iPods, PSPs, DVDs, Blu-ray & AVCHD discs

Cyberlink Powerdirector 7 is a video editing and production suite aimed at the home video market. It’s very easy to use and supports capture, editing and export of high-definition video formats. All home video editing programs follow the convention of dividing the whole process into chronologically ordered tasks and providing the necessary tools for each - Powerdirector is no exception.

Four buttons ranged across the top of the screen provide everything you need to capture and edit video footage, produce video files for distribution and create video DVDs. Most of the action occurs in the edit module, which, like every other aspect of the Powerdirector workspace, is well-designed, allowing you to easily find your way around without needing to refer to the Help option. There’s a choice of storyboard or timeline layout, the latter providing a master video track, effects track, picture-in-picture overlay track, a titling track and voiceover and music audio tracks.

If the effort of arranging clips and applying transitions is all too much, Powerdirector’s Magic Movie Wizard will do it all for you, but don’t expect miracles. We were a little disappointed with the pedestrian array of templates on offer and the wizard’s inability to cut clips to the beat of the music backing produced stilted, disjointed results.

In addition to new effects, transitions and titles, the PiP (Picture in Picture) Object Room provides a library of overlay graphics including frames and clipart. These can be animated using keyframed motion paths so you can, for example, have suitcase and travel ticket graphics wend their way erratically across the screen, most likely overlaying footage of you waiting for your luggage to appear on the carousel at Ibiza airport, long after everyone else has left for their hotel.

Voiceover recording exemplifies the program’s straightforward approach. All you need to do is position the play head in the timeline where you want to begin your voiceover and press the record button, say your piece, then press stop. You can elect to set a time limit and add fade-in and fade-out, but that’s as complicated as it gets.

The Produce button opens a production wizard which provides file output options including write bask to DV or HDV tape and upload to Youtube and Mediamax sharing websites. Windows Media Video, Realvideo and Quicktime streaming formats are also supported.

Before pressing the Create Disc button you need to do some preparation, not only editing your footage, but adding chapter markers that are subsequently used to create the DVD menu structure. Once again, this is made easy in the Chapter Room, where you can have chapters created automatically at the start of each clip, or add them yourself manually. You can now also name chapters.

Powerdirector’s DVD authoring takes footage from the storyboard or timeline, automatically creating a chapter-based menu system. We’ve criticized previous versions of the program for lacking menu customization and Cyberlink has addressed this by introducing a Menu Designer which allows you, among other things, to change the background image, re-arrange the layout, add buttons and change their appearance.

The supplied style templates are a bit cheesy, but there’s a good range and each offers several layout options, so you can organise movies with lots of chapters onto menu pages with multiple buttons. You can’t redirect menu buttons, for example to go to sub menus, or to return to the top menu after playing a scene, so this isn’t the application to use for kiosk-style DVD presentations.

Create Your Own Movie Masterpieces
• High definition, all the wayFrom Capture to Produce — in High-Definition - Create high-definition videos with support for HD content including AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD, and WMV-HD formats.
• 6-track Picture-in-Picture Effects - Design breathtaking video effects such as image overlays, masks and chroma-key effects, with up to 6 layers of video tracks. Learn about using multiple PiPs.
• Disc Menu Designer - Featuring all-new DVD template designs available for standard and widescreen displays. Also support burning onto Blu-ray Discs and DVDs. See our disc menu demo.
• Dolby Digital 5.1 Creator - Burn discs featuring surround sound audio that you can enjoy on your home-theater system.
• Resizable Workspace - Adjust your workspace to make editing even easier. Drag to enlarge the timeline, preview window and effects libraries.

Enhance Videos and Photos with Magic Tools
• Powerful Video Enhancements - Intelligent fixes to video flaws and transform them into your best memories. PowerDirector's video and photo enhancement tools let you adjust the degree of each fix then automatically create the results your are looking for.
• A touch of Magic to create your masterpiecesAutomated Video Editing - Select a movie theme and let PowerDirector complete your video for you. No need to set a single edit point or add an effect. It's totally automatic!
• Professional Slideshows - Choose from 7 unique templates, including the new "3D" style and slideshows featuring beat-detection technology to automatically sync your photos to music. The "cell" style gives your complete control, letting you arrange each photo.

Acquire Online Resources Easily
• Countless photo and audio resources to choose fromDirect Access to Photos on Flickr™ - Retrieve photos you have already uploaded to Flickr™. Search for photos created by your contacts or available under common license agreements. Import directly to your PowerDirector projects.
• Unlimited Audio on Freesound - Never get stuck for a sound effect again. Search by tags and import to your media library.

Connect with other PowerDirector Users on DirectorZone
• DirectorZone, the new online sharing community for PowerDirector usersYour PowerDirector Community - Enjoy free access to DirectorZone, PowerDirector's dedicated online community.
• Download Effects - Access new effects created by other PowerDirector users for your projects.
• Upload Effects - Share your effects and DVD templates with other users on DirectorZone. Learn about uploading your creations to DirectorZone.
• Subscribe to Other Creators - Make sure you always get the latest designs of your favorite creators.

NOTE: Output to Blu-ray Disc and support for AVCHD and other high-definition formats is available in the PowerDirector 7 Ultra version. Please check the version comparison for a complete outline of the features available.

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