CyberLink recommends you don’t try to use it with real-time previews, and sure enough, ignoring that advice reduced our test i7-4470K PC (64-bit Windows, 16GB RAM) to a crawl. Unsurprisingly, the stabilizer can be very CPU-intensive.
As well as the "fix rotational camera shake", there’s now a "use enhanced stabilizer" option, and you can check one or both to find out which works best for you. As usual, you select the clip, head off to the Fix/ Enhance panel and choose "Stabilize". Trying this out doesn’t involve any extra work. Shaky video is an issue with most home movies of any length, but PowerDirector includes an "enhanced stabilizer" which tries to minimize the problem. But it’s good to know that the titles can be tweaked as required, and on balance the Designers are a welcome new feature. You start with around 100 templates, but these can then be customized down to the finest detail: font, style, color, fill, shadows, borders, transparency, position, rotation, 3D settings and more, with complete keyframe control if you need it (you can even apply PowerDirector’s video effects to the results).Īgain, we really doubt that many users need 360 degree control over the shadow direction of their titles. It’s a similar story with the Titles Designer. But if there’s a particular shape that fits the theme of the video - a company logo, say - then it could work, and there’s no harm in having the option available. Is this useful? Transitions normally shouldn’t draw attention to themselves, so perhaps not. Whatever you produce can be saved to your transition library for easy access later, or sharing via DirectorZone. You can play around with other parameters, too, flipping the image, adding a colored border, tweaking transparency, sharpness, even playing with transition speed (you might have it start slowly and speed up, for instance). Just import and optionally crop your picture, and PowerDirector treats it as a mask, dissolving from the darkest parts to the lightest for the length of the transition. The Transition Designer is interesting, particularly for its ability to create transitions from any image. If you’ve always wanted more choice, though, you might appreciate PowerDirector 13, where new Transition and Title Designers help you to produce your own custom effects. And that worked just fine, as long as you were happy with the canned effects on offer. Either way, we found the syncing to be extremely accurate, and it’s certainly much faster than having to sync the clips manually.Īdding transitions or titles to your PowerDirector project used to be as simple as choosing your preferred style from the program library. But if you know approximately where the clips will sync then you can trim them down to around that point (just resize them with the mouse), speeding up the process hugely. In real life use, if you’re working with a lot of very lengthy clips, then unsurprisingly this can take a while. (A CyberLink video tutorial shows this in action.) Drag and drop your target clips onto the timeline, select two or more, and a "Sync by Audio" button appears click this, the audio of each track is analyzed, the earliest is placed first in the timeline, and everything else is positioned appropriately. The process is very straightforward, and essentially works precisely as you’d expect. But the new release goes a big step further with extremely easy support for synchronizing up to 100 clips by audio, directly on the timeline.
This has always been sort-of possible, with a lot of work, and PowerDirector 12 improved the situation with its MultiCam Designer. These days almost everyone has a camera on them, almost all of the time, and you might easily find yourself trying to blend multiple clips - all taken at different times, from different angles - into a single video. Video editing used to be just about working with your own footage - but not anymore. We grabbed a copy of the high end PowerDirector 13 Ultimate edition to take a closer look.
CYBERLINK POWERDIRECTOR 14 ULTIMATE REVIEW FULL
Still, there are some new abilities here: custom Title and Transition designers, auto syncing of up to 100 multicam clips, a new PowerDirector Mobile app for Android/ Windows 8, CyberLink Cloud integration and full H.265 support, amongst others. With such a strong base program, it’s no surprise that PowerDirector 13 is a relatively gentle upgrade, more about expanding existing abilities than bringing any revolutionary change.
None of these options are difficult to use, though, and once you’ve finished your work can be exported as a video, burned to your own custom video DVD or Blu-ray disc, or uploaded directly to Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, and now Youku and Niconico Douga. Click "Fix/ Enhance", say, and you’ll find tools to adjust video lighting, brightness, contrast, exposure, colors, white balance and more, as well as video and audio denoise options and an improved video stabilizer. There are a huge number of advanced tweaks and options.
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