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The latest version of CyberLink’s award-winning video editing software, PowerDirector 9, is designed with high usability for consumers and powerful, pro-like features for prosumers. Unleash your full creative potential with performance-driven technologies including CyberLink’s new TrueVelocity Engine.

Product Features

New TrueVelocity Technology speeds up entire video process
Professional productions with 100 video tracks and powerful editing tools
Instant video enhancement with TrueTheater Technology
Download free effects & templates on DirectorZone

Video Production at Blazing Speed

Intelligent Rendering - TrueVelocity FastRender intelligently recognises portions of a movie clip that have been modified and then only renders those modified portions during production, saving time and preserving the original quality of the video.
Optimising CPU Utilisation - TrueVelocity Parallel makes video processing smoother and faster by splitting tasks into smaller segments and simultaneously processing them across all available CPU threads.
Harnessing the Power of the CPU/GPU - TrueVelocity Accelerator taps into the power of Intel, AMD and NVIDIA video processing technology for hardware-enhanced video decoding and encoding.

Powerful Editing Tools

Timeline Interface - Up to 100 video and audio timeline tracks for a flexible workspace, easier media management, and more creative projects.

Video Enhancement Tools - PowerDirector’s suite of advanced TrueTheater technologies improves the video quality, offering SD-to-HD quality up-scaling, video noise removal, colour and light adjustment, smooth slow-motion playback, and more.
Advanced Audio Editing - New WaveEditor allows users to edit their audio tracks with effects and includes VST plug-in support for third party effects.
Full HD Previews - Preview your video in real-time with full HD quality like never before.

Maximised Creativity

MagicStyle Movie Wizard - Select existing photos and videos; choose a built-in 3D template and audio track, and MagicStyle puts it all together into an amazing 3D movie in seconds.

Customised Particle Effects - Unique Particle effects that are customisable for that special touch to your video creatives.
100,000+ Free Effects - provided to you by the PowerDirector community on DirectorZone.com. Including customised effects, templates, tips, tutorials and DVD menus that grow in amount every day.
Publish to Social Networks - Users can choose to upload to Facebook or YouTube in Full HD quality directly from PowerDirector.
On-the-Go Media - Output videos directly to the iPad, iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry, PSP, Zune and many other mobile devices. Simply select your device type and PowerDirector does the rest.

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Minimum System Requirements

Operating System: Windows 7/Vista/XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture)
Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above
Memory: 512 MB required. 3 GB DDR2 or above recommended.
Hard Disk Space: 5 GB minimum, 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production, 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD/HD production
CPU AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz
VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 700 MHz
DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+
High Quality MPEG-4 and WMV, QuickTime Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
Full HD Quality H.264 and MPEG2 Profiles: Intel Core i5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4 AVCHD and BD Burning Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Phenom II X2

For Optimised Video Effects Rendering:

NVIDIA GeForce and GeForce Mobile

NVIDIA Quadro and Quardro Mobile
NVIDIA Tesla
AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

Burning Devices:

A Blu-ray Disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs
A DVD burner (DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn DVD/AVCHD titles
A CD (CD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/SVCD titles

Microphone:

A microphone is required for recording voice-overs.

Internet:

An internet connection is required to access online services.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

Great but a bit expensive 22 Jun 2011

By Jennifers Daddy TOP 1000 REVIEWER

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I had to get this, because the format of my camera was not supported by Microsoft Movie Maker (free). It took a couple of attempts to get into it, but I am now fairly fluent. It's easy to get good results, adding masks, crops, titles, freeze frames, speeding up, etc. It also utilised the CUDA cores in my Nvidea graphics card which is a bonus. I haven't had it crash yet, which I know some other people have moaned about. Overall, I'm very pleased. I'm using a Win7 32bit AMD64x2 3Ghz with 4GB RAM (so not hugely modern).

p.s I am only creating clips about 30 seconds long for You Tube (720p). They still take a while (e.g. 5-10mins to render). If you are making large videos, I would get a very fast graphics card, loads of RAM and the 64bit version, otherwise it will take all day!

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Addendum 2nd July 2011
I've now used powerdirector for another month or so since my first review. If I used the computer while rendering, the outcome would be a useless video (e.g pausing or interference). I upgraded my PSU in the computer and got a reasonable graphics card (nvidea gts450 1gb) which has 192 CUDA cores which Powerdirector is able to utilise. After the upgrade I would say it runs 4 times faster when rendering! I have the 32bit version.

I've found a few niggles. It was really hard to find the video speed feature (faster or slower). It was even harder to find the "rotate" option (it is in the crop section). I found the features by searching the online forum which is pretty useful. There are just so many features, it's no wonder it's hard to find stuff. Overal I still give it 4/5. A very good piece of software.

Before I purchased Powerdirector9 I tried Corel & Sony software too (all 3 have trial versions). I liked Corel, but Sony didn't handle my video format. Corel was much dearer. To be sure, I'd recommend you all try the trial versions first and see what suits your needs best.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

not very good. 3 Sep 2011

By GuyH

I bought this because my friend and I are hoping to make some more professional videos. My camera shoots in 1080p HD and this software just can't cope with it. So much for true velocity, once added to the library the videos take over 20 mins to "generate" and still at that point the playback is very very slow. The effects aren't very good either even though I never really get a chance to use them because I spend most of the day waiting for the videos to load. If the content that you are planning to edit on this video is above 480p, don't bother getting this, its just a waste of time. Pretty annoyed.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful

Basic, but simple to use video editing software - looks pretty but as usual you need the Ultra version for Blu-ray and AVCHD 23 July 2011

By Keith Joseph HALL OF FAME TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE

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Cyberlink are a large Taiwanese multimedia company, that produce DVD authoring, editing and playing software. Although Cyberlink are best known for their DVD player and burning software [MediaSuite 9, which is similar to Nero 10], this product Cyberlink PowerDirector 9 deluxe, is their video editing package. Cut downs versions of PowerDirector are included in MediaSuite 9. Although this 'deluxe' version of PowerDirector 9 is more powerful than the LE version in MediaSuite, this is still the basic edition compared to the PowerDiector 9 Ultra version - you need the Ultra version for 64-bit processing support and Blu-ray support: BDXL Burning, BD Burning, AVCHD Disc Capture, AVCHD Burning and create AVCHD format to flash memory. For upgraders from deluxe v8, new to PowerDirector 9 deluxe are: Import RAW files directly, Import .MKV, FLV, Canon / Nikon video files, now 100 Video/Audio Editing Tracks, Keyframe Setting Room, Advance Timeline Control, 3D Magic Style, Audio WaveEditor, and 'smart upload' quick transfers to Facebook/YouTube in full HD.

PowerDirector 9 installed easily and runs smoothly on my 2 year old XP Pro Intel quad core gaming PC [4Gb system RAM]. You can cut and splice movies [down to the single frame level] and do things like video enhance, rotate, crop, and even reverse the video direction. You can have up to 100 track timelines with cut, copy & pasting features, and can do things like add subtitles, effects, video transitions and 4:3/16:9 aspect ratio conversion. Plus you can export/convert movies from say MP3 to AVI, and add animations and effects easily [although the choice for these is limited and might get boring on every DVD]. The interface is very good looking, and fairly easy to use [but not a doddle, it can take quite a while to jump around the layered menus to find the tool to do what you want, e.g. export to a different movie format in hi-res]. You can then burn your output to DVD or put it onto the iPod/PSP. I use this package to edit short movies for presentations and webpages, for which the software is intuitive and works well - I rarely bother to edit home video as it takes too long and I produce so many. Although I find PowerDirector 9 far easier to use than my old version 1.5 of Adobe Premiere, I have to say I have now moved to Serif's MoviePlus X5 which I find far more powerful as it has many more features & templates, and it's faster under 32-bit Windows systems - although Serif's MoviePlus X5's extra complexity does add to it's learning curve [but Serif do offer a lot more on-line help and UK based support]. Also check out PC Pro's A-listed 'Sony Vagas Movie Studio HD Platinum 11' video editor which is rated highly for home user friendliness. Adobe Premiere Elements 9 is apparently very lethargic and isn't rated that highly by many.

You can buy extras to add to PowerDirector 9, largely to add themes [e.g. animated Xmas fun] to your videos from Cyberlink on-line, but these are quite pricey - more annoying is that hard sell also appears in your PowerDirector 9 occasionally. You can easily upload your output directly to the likes of YouTube and Facebook. There is the pricier version of PowerDirector [ultra] that also allows you to author Blu-Ray and AVCHD movies - although otherwise the PowerDirector ultra and this deluxe package are identical for standard video. You can't upgrade to PowerDirector 9 Ultra cheaply though, so make sure you buy the right PowerDirector package for you. Overall I rate PowerDirector deluxe a solid 7/10 as it's stable, easy to use, good looking interface, and fairly responsive with my short video sequences [typically up to 1,000 frames], plus it's quite cheap to buy. Minimum system requirements are quite low, a Pentium 4 and 512Mb system Ram [but you need a lot of hard drive space for the movies, and they recommend a multicore CPU and 2Gb+ RAM]. PowerDirector runs under windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. Visit cyberlinks website for more details [often though it's cheaper to buy the boxed version of PowerDirector deluxe from Amazon, rather than as a download].

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