PowerDirector 8 offers superior video enhancement, editing and designing tools for creating professional-like videos on 16 tracks. Video rendering is now five times faster,letting you spice up projects with any of the 13,000+ free effects and templates from the software’s online community website, DirectorZone.

16 tracks for creativity

16 video and audio tracks give you room to be creative, nine PiP tracks allow multiple layers of video. Create video walls, sophisticated animation, split screens and chroma-key effects. Four audio tracks give you richly-textured audio.

Editing “like magic”

Magic editing and style tools let you quickly create complete movies. Add effects and PiPs, insert titles and credits and create movie soundtracks from a built-in library of theme tunes. Remove dull, action-less scenes, using sensitivity settings for zooming, panning and scenes with moving objects and speaking people.

Zoom-in creative control

PowerDirector’s new Zoom-in cut feature edits down to a single frame. Retain your best video shots with most interesting camera angles using the new video cropper. Other tools include reverse video, slow motion and rotation effects.

Video up-scaling and fixing

A host of tools are designed to save editing time and improve video quality. CyberLink TrueTheater technology gives HD-like results to SD content, up-scales video resolution, smoothes playback in slow motion and enables virtual surround sound, removing video noise and fixing extreme and inadequate lighting or poor white balance.

Shared creativity

Achieving memorable effects is easier than ever. Learn the techniques of fellow video fans and share your own on DirectorZone.com. Accessing other creative approaches is a valuable tool for your own projects. “Open editing" lets you share special effects and editing secrets online.

Ways to show and tell

PowerDirector’s editing software provides direct HD video uploading to Facebook and YouTube, enabling easy sharing on social networks and blogging sites. Enjoy movies on AVCHD or Blu-ray Discs in top-quality resolution and produce playback files for iPhone, iPod, or PSP.

New: particle effects

The Particle Effects Designer expands your creative options, letting you add custom special effects to your videos using a wide range of templates. Combined with other design tools for titles, animated PiPs and menus, your productions will receive a custom look.

Inspired menus, titles and animated objects

Choose from thousands of templates on the DirectorZone website and download directly into your project. Add speech bubbles, dialogues, credits, captions, or, create PiP effects and animations – including stylish navigation menus.

HD input and output

PowerDirector lets you create high-quality, high-definition products from captured HD videos and photos. Import, edit in HD or use proxy editing, and then output in a range of HD formats to suit your playback device.

Improved proxy editing

PowerDirector 8 makes working with HD content easier. Importing HD files, PowerDirector creates lower resolution proxy files, allowing faster previewing and more responsive editing by reducing CPU loading. PowerDirector uses your original files for final production output, letting you choose manual or automatic deletion of low resolution files after production.

Product Features

• Create pro results with 16-tracks, particle effects and Magic designer features
• Render videos five times faster with CPU/GPU acceleration support
• Upscale SD video to HD-like quality
• Learn editing tricks from other users on DirectorZone
• Share videos on YouTube and Facebook, output to mobile devices, burn to discs
• Magic Movie Wizard lets you create movies easy, step-by-step, in minutes
• Magic Style has 12 styles to quickly edit, add effects, insert titles and credits, including Particle effects, PiPs and transitions
• Magic Music: built-in tunes library creates soundtracks and syncs melody to video length
• Magic Cut: Remove dull scenes and keep best footage, using sensitivity settings for zoom, pan, moving and speaking scenes
• Particle effects include speed, density, colour, size, path, influence of gravity. Bitmap file import lets you determine shape
• Up-scaled video resolution technology noticeably refines and enhances SD videos and photos to high density-like sharpness, removing video noise
• TrueTheater Surround Sound: give a professional touch to your discs with virtual surround sound
• Fix Colours and Lighting with TrueTheater Lighting: correct backlighting, enhance brightness and colours, compensate for poor lighting
• Slow-mo Effects with Theatre Motion: enhance slow motion sequences, using frame interpolation to reduce jitters and smooth scenes
• HD Input and Output for iPhone, PSP, and Xbox. Export to HD discs such as Blu-ray and AVCHD. Other supported HD formats: AVCHD, H.264, MPEG-2 HD, and WMV-HD
• Fast performance: optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream technology; up to 5 times faster performance for rendering effects and trans-coding videos at improved editing and previewing speeds
• Non-Real Time Preview: slow playback speed to view each frame individually
• Dual monitor support lets you preview on a second display
• Lock and hide tracks to remove timeline clutter and protect project settings
• Improved: Adjustable Workspace Lets you drag to re-size your area for priority tasks
  

System requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture) Screen Resolution with 1024 x 768 pixels, 16-bit colour or above
• For AVI Capture/Production a Pentium 2 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500 MHz is required.
• For VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles a Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 700 MHz is required.
• For DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles a Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+ For High Quality MPEG-4, WMV, QuickTime and RealVideo Profiles a Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+ is required. For AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles a Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+ is required.
• 512 MB Random Access Memory is required (2 GB DDR2 or above recommended for editing HD videos)
• 5 GB free hard disk space minimum required (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library),10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production, 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD production
• Video Capturing Device: PCI or USB 1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (that is PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver), DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394, DVD camcorder connected via USB 2.0, Sony MicroMV camcorder , JVC Everio camcorder (GZ-MC100, GZ-MC200), Sony HDR-FX1 (HDV), Sony HDR-HC1 (HDV), JVC GR-HD1U (HDV)
• Supported AVCHD camcorders: SONY HDR-SR1, SONY HDR-UX1, SONY HDR-CX7, SONY HDR-SR7, Panasonic SX5
• Burning Drive: A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD titles, a Blu-ray disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs.