Cyberlink Powerdirector 6 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.
Magic Video Editing for Creating Dynamic Movies !
• Edit videos and slideshows automatically
• Quickly fix and improve videos with magic enhancement tools
• Express your creativity with over 300 effects and styles
• Import from high-def camcorders to create high-def movies
• Publish directly to the web on YouTube or Streamload
Cyberlink Powerdirector 6 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.
Free the director within using new tools and templates :
* DVD Template Designer - 29 new designs, moveable buttons, text and color tools let you create stylish menus for your movie DVDs
* Slideshow Wizard - New styles for presenting photos let you turn a folder of image files into a dynamic slideshow in minutes
* Animated PiP Designer - New alpha-blended objects and a motion path generator create dramatic PiP effects to enhance your video content
* Video Subtitle Room - Easily inserted directly on the screen or imported as text, new video subtitles offer an easy way to caption scenes and describe video content
Edit videos automatically, fix images and audio :
* Magic Movie Wizard - Great for beginners, convenient for experts, the automated step-by-step approach quickly guides you through movie production.
* Improved Magic Style - New animation elements and refreshed themes let you automatically edit your movie, add effects, and insert a title and credits using a handy timeline. Add or remove any part of the timeline after creating it.
* Improved Magic Fix - Enhanced precision ensures that shaky videos are stabilized with greater accuracy, photos are sharpened
* Improved Magic Clean - New back light correction and white balance improve hard-to-fix mistakes often caused by poor lighting conditions
Personalize videos with humor and style :
* Cool transitions and effects - Huge library of transitions and effects turns video clips and photos into an alluring storyline
* Dialog Balloons - Drag-and-drop templates let you add unspoken thoughts and highlight sections of conversation for humorous results
* Title templates - Multiple layers, animated text, and a choice of font and color, create professional opening titles, stylish chapter names, and closing credits
* Audio track for PiPs - Heighten the impact of moving PiP objects with accompanying sounds
Publish videos online or take them on the go :
* Publish directly to YouTube - Get seen by millions of viewers by outputting your file directly to YouTube
* Store files online via Media Max powered by Streamload.com - 25 MB of free online storage provides access to your files via the internet
* Write back to HDV tape - Storage on your HDV tape lets you use your camcorder as your playback device
* Burn to DVD - Built-in disc authoring creates DVDs for playback on a home player or PC
* Output as a file for iPod or PSP - Produce movies that you can watch everywhere
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