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Where it has fallen down in the past is the all-important middle stage – the editing itself.
PowerDirector has traditionally had a competitive level of support at import and export stages. (centre)”’Audio effects from Freesound and images from Flickr can be imported straight from the web into the PowerDirector media library.”’ (/centre) The Flickr access can be used without an account, too, and we found this was sometimes preferable as otherwise the applet kept expecting us to authorise its use on the Web, each time we accessed it. You can also choose the size to download. The Flickr connectivity gives you direct access to your own account, so you can bring in photos you uploaded. Simply supply your login details for either service (or sign up when prompted), and you can then search their databases within PowerDirector, preview sounds and images, then download your choices straight into the media library. Annoyingly, importing files into the media library and folder creation are only accessible via icons at the top, not via a right mouse-button click.Īside from bringing in your own video, image and audio assets, you can also import from Flickr and Freesound (a royalty-free audio library) directly. Instead of having one amorphous media library, you can now create a second layer of subfolders to assist file management – although only one. It’s at this stage in the editing process that we start to encounter PowerDirector’s plethora of new features.
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The aspect ratios were correctly displayed in almost all cases, with the notable exception of the MOD files created by Panasonic’s SDR-S7, which uses a slightly non-standard 704 x 576 frame size.
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Progressively scanned Full HD files from Canon’s HF10 were handled without issue, as were the TOD files created by JVC’s High Definition Everio camcorders (which isn’t surprising, as a version of PowerDirector is bundled with these camcorders).
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Since CyberLink holds a few key patents in Blu-ray, we expected PowerDirector to cope with most things, and we didn’t manage to find anything the software wouldn’t import.
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(centre)”’PowerDirector 7 can capture from the full range of sources, including DV and HDV, analogue and digital TV tuners, and webcams.”’ (/centre) Instead, you have to copy the files manually to your hard disk, and then use the import command in the media library However, there’s no specific import wizard for pulling footage off a hard disk or flash memory-based camcorder. The separate capture section has sections for DV, HDV, analogue capture cards, digital TV tuners, webcams, soundcards, audio CD and video DVD. So we threw everything we had at PowerDirector, from DV to MPEG-2, and HDV to AVCHD. In these days of camcorder format confusion, editing software needs to cope with a hefty array of different file types. These are features most people will want to pay the extra £20 for, however. The Deluxe edition can’t create AVCHD files, can’t author Blu-ray discs, and can’t write AVCHD and other Blu-ray video formats to DVD. The differences show themselves at the output stage. Both variants will import pretty much every format under the sun, including HDV and AVCHD. It’s also available in two versions – Ultra and Deluxe. (centre)”’Both Ultra and Deluxe versions of PowerDirector 7 can import virtually any camcorder video format, including progressively scanned 25p Full HD AVCHD.”’ (/centre)įor starters, CyberLink has followed the trend and given PowerDirector a graphite finish to its interface, making it look vaguely like Adobe Premiere Elements 4. Some new versions seem more like dot releases, but the shift from PowerDirector 6 to 7 is more of a leap than a baby step. With version 7, however, CyberLink is hoping to make PowerDirector an application you might want to stick with a bit longer. It may be bundled with quite a few camcorders, but most video makers interested in editing will have wanted to move onto something more powerful fairly quickly. In the past, CyberLink’s PowerDirector has felt like an also-ran.
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