Quick Summary

PowerDirector is intuitive (you’ll hear me say that word a lot), speedy, and amazingly user-friendly, but does not offer the same high-quality video editing tools that some of its competitors do.

If your priorities are to save time while creating your next home movie project, you’re exactly the kind of person that PowerDirector was designed for. Perfect for editing handheld video (such as high school graduations and birthday parties) or creating slideshows to show to the family, PowerDirector does an excellent job of making the video editing process as painless as possible for users of all levels.

However, if you endeavor to create high-quality videos for commercial use or have already taken the time to learn a more advanced video editing program, you’re probably better off sticking with competitors such as Final Cut Pro (Mac) or VEGAS Pro (PC).

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• Incredibly quick and painless to learn the software and start creating basic videos.
• An intuitive user interface which makes it easy to find the tools you're looking for.
• Built in video templates enable even the most technically illiterate users to create entire videos and slideshows in minutes.
• Editing 360 video was just as simple and easy to do as editing standard videos.

• Most of the effects are far from professional or commercial quality. I'd never touch the majority of them to make videos for a commercial environment.
• Advanced video editing tools in PowerDirector offer less flexibility than competing video editors or are simply not present in the software.

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Quick Navigation

// Why Trust Me?
// What Is PowerDirector?
// Is It Compatible with Mac?
// How to Use PowerDirector (A Quick Tutorial)
// Is PowerDirector Good for Making High-Quality Videos?
// The Reasons Behind My Review & Ratings
// PowerDirector Alternatives
// Conclusion

The post has been revamped for freshness and accuracy. The latest version of the program is version 16, while the screenshots in the post below were initially taken based on version 15. Learn what’s new in PowerDirector 16 here.

Why Trust Me?

My name is Aleco Pors. Having just begun the process of learning how to edit videos In the past six months, I’m a relative newcomer to the art of making movies and the exact sort of person who PowerDirector is marketed to. I’ve used programs such as Final Cut Pro, Sony Vegas (now VEGAS Pro), and Nero Video to create videos for both personal and commercial use. I have a decent grasp of the standard features of competing video editing programs, and can quickly recall how easy or difficult it was to learn other video editors.

I have not received any payment or request from CyberLink to create this PowerDirector review, and aim only to deliver my complete, honest opinion about the product.

My goal is to highlight the program’s strengths and weaknesses, and outline exactly which kinds of users the software is best suited for. Someone who reads this review should walk away from it with a good sense of whether or not they are the kind of user who will benefit from purchasing the software, and feel as though they were not being “sold” a product while reading it.

In testing PowerDirector I did my best to exhaustively use every feature available in the program. I’ll be completely transparent about the features of the program I was either not able to thoroughly test or did not feel qualified to critique.

What Is PowerDirector?

PowerDirector is without question the easiest video editing program I have ever used. Designed to minimize the headaches you’d have to work through learning more advanced software, PowerDirector offers a number of tools which enable users of all skill levels to easily splice together simple videos in a matter of minutes.

Here are the key reasons you might be interested in purchasing PowerDirector:

• The target audience for your videos is friends and family.
• You need a cheap and effective way to edit 360 videos.
• You don’t plan on making a hobby out of video editing and are not interested in spending hours and hours learning a new piece of software.

Here are some of the key reasons you might NOT be interested in purchasing PowerDirector:

• You’re creating videos for commercial use and require nothing short of the highest quality videos.
• You’re a hobbyist or professional video editor who already owns and has taken the time to learn a more advanced piece of software.

Is It Safe to Use?

Absolutely. You can download the software directly from the trusted CyberLink website. It does not come with any viruses or bloatware attached and poses no threat to the files or integrity of your computer.

Is It Free?

PowerDirector is not free but offers a free 30-day trial for you to test drive the software before you buy it. Almost all of the features are available for you to use during the free trial, but all videos produced during the trial will have a watermark in the lower-right hand corner.

The pricing starts at $59.99 for the Ultra version, $69.99 for the Ultimate version, $99.99 for the “Video + Photo” version, and $159.99 for Director Suite.

Is It Compatible with Mac?

Unfortunately, for Apple fans PowerDirector ONLY works on Windows machines for the time being. If you are looking for a Mac video editor, consider Filmora, Camtasia, or Final Cut Pro.

How to Use PowerDirector (A Quick Tutorial)

Please note: this tutorial is based on PowerDirector 15. If you’re using the latest version (i.e. PowerDirector 16), the screenshots below may look different than the version you’re using.

How Quickly and Easily Can You Create Movies?

To illustrate just how fast, clean, and simple PowerDirector’s “Easy Editor” tool is, I’m going to step through the entire video creation process for you in a matter of minutes.

Upon launching the program, PowerDirector offers the user a number of options for starting a new project, as well as the option to select the aspect ratio for the video. Couperin les barricades mysterieuses. Creating a full movie with transitions, music, and effects can be completed in just 5 steps with the Easy Editor option.

The first of our five steps is importing our source images and videos. I imported a free video I found online of Zion national park, as well as a few nature photos I took myself.

The next step is to select a “Magic Style” video template for your project. By default PowerDirector only comes with the “Action” style, but it’s very simple to download more free styles from the official Cyberlink website. Clicking the “Free Download” button opens up a page in your default web browser which contains download links to a handful of styles you can choose from.

To install the style, all you need to do is double-click on the file after it’s done downloading and PowerDirector will automatically install it for you. As you can see above, I was able to easily install the “Ink Splatter” style. For the purposes of today’s demo, I’ll be using the default Action style.

The Adjustmenttab allows you to edit the background music and the length of the final video. As with most things in PowerDirector, all you have to do is drag and drop a music file into the “Background Music” tab to load it into the program. I skipped this step for this demo as I want to showcase the default song PowerDirector uses with the default Magic Style.

The settings tab brings up a number of simple options which allow you to highlight different features of your video. PowerDirector makes it easy to highlight features of your video such as “Scenes with people speaking” without having to do any of the dirty work yourself.

The Preview tab is where your video is automatically spliced together according to the settings and Magic Style you provided in the previous two tabs. Depending on the length of your video, it may take a few minutes for PowerDirector to get cut it all together.

As you still haven’t told PowerDirector what you’d like your video to be called, we’ll have to briefly enter the Theme Designer. Just click the “Edit in the Theme Designer” button to tell our intro screen to say something other than “My Title”.

In the Theme Designerwe can edit the title settings (circled in red), click through the different transitions automatically created by the Magic Style at the top to edit our scenes one by one, and apply effects to each of our clips and images by selecting the “Effects” tab in the top left corner of the page. Be sure to watch the video in its entirety, as you may have to change the default text in more than one scene.

Applying effects to clips and images, like most features in PowerDirector, can be performed by clicking on the desired effect and dragging it to the desired clip. PowerDirector automatically identified the natural transitions in the video I provided it, which made it simple to apply effects to just one scene at a time without having to go in and cut up the video into different scenes on my own.

Once you’re satisfied with your changes, you can click the “OK” button in the bottom right of the screen and watch the preview again.

Just like that, we’re ready to pack it up and output our completed project. All three of the options provided on this screen will bring you to the Full Feature Editor. Since we’re done with our video, click on the “Produce Video” button to take us to the very final step of the project.

Here we can select the desired output format for video. By default, PowerDirector suggests MPEG-4 video at 640×480/24p, so you may wish to adjust this output format to a higher resolution (highlighted in the red box). I selected 1920×1080/30p, then clicked the Start button on the bottom of the screen to begin rendering the video.

From start to finish, the entire video creation process (not including the rendering time at the end of the project) took me just minutes to complete. Though I may have a bit more video editing experience than the average intended customer of PowerDirector 15, I believe that a user with absolutely no video editing experience whatsoever could complete this whole process in roughly the same amount of time it took me.

Feel free to check out the quick video PowerDirector created for me here:

Full Feature Editor – How Powerful Is It, Really?

If you’re looking to have a little more control over your video, the “Full Feature Editor” is what you’re looking for. The entire program uses a click-and-drag system to add features such as visual effects, transitions, audio, and text to your movies. Once you find what you’re looking for, it’s always easy to add those effects to your project.

To add this video file from my Media Contenttab to my project, all I have to do is click and drag it to the timeline windows below. To add new content to my Media Content tab, all I need to do is click and drag from a folder on my computer to the Media Content area. If you’re ever in doubt of how to add something to your project, it’s safe to assume that all you need to do is click and drag somewhere.

The Edittab at the top of the screen is where you’ll do all of the actual edits for your project. The other tabs allow you to perform most of the other major features provided by PowerDirector.

You can capture video and audio from your computer’s built-in or supplementary audio devices in the Capturetab, output the video to a video file or to a number of video hosting websites such as Youtube or Vimeo in the Produce tab, or create a fully-featured DVD complete with menus in the Create Disc tab.

You can accomplish 99% of what the program has to offer in these four tabs, and only need to stray into the drop-down menus at the top of the screen if you’re interested in playing around with the default settings — something I fiddled with myself only to test out the software but was never actually necessary in practice.

In the Edit tab, the majority of the effects and modifications you’re likely to apply to the video can be found in the leftmost tab pictured above. By hovering your mouse over each tab you can see the type of content you can expect to find in that tab, as well as the default keyboard shortcut to navigate there without using the mouse.

Here I’ve navigated to the transitions tab, which as you may have guessed provides the transitions you can use to link two clips together. As you also may have guessed, applying a transition to a clip is as easy as clicking and dragging it to the clip you would like to transition out of. Many of the tabs, including the transitions tab, provide you with a “Free Templates” button to download additional content for free from the Cyberlink website.

Here I’ve applied the “Color Edge” effect to a portion of my video by dragging it into the FX portion of the timeline below my clip. I can click on the edge of the effect to adjust the length of time the effect will apply to my video, or double click on the effect itself in the timeline to bring up a window which allows me to adjust the effect’s settings.

Virtually everything in PowerDirector’s editor functions the same way – locate your desired effect in the leftmost tab, click and drag it into your timeline, and double-click on the content to edit its settings – a very elegant design.

The more “advanced” video tools, such as color correction, blending options, and speed adjustment can be found by right-clicking on your video in the timeline and navigating to the Edit Video/Image submenu.

I was able to find every feature I needed within these submenus without ever having to use Google or look at an online tutorial for where to find them. I certainly can’t say the same for when I was learning how to use other video editors.

The last feature of the editor I’d like to highlight is the capture tab. Simply by clicking on the tab, PowerDirector was able to automatically detect my laptop’s default camera and microphone, enabling me to capture audio and video clips from my hardware in seconds. This tab can also be used to capture the audio and video output from your desktop environment – perfect for recording how-to videos for youtube.

Some More Cool Features: The 360 Video Editor and Slideshow Creator

Two major selling points for the program which I haven’t yet covered are the 360 video editing tools and the slideshow creation feature.

As I mentioned before, I wasn’t able to test out the output quality of the 360 videos on an actual 360 viewing device such as Google Glass, but I was still able to easily edit and view 360 videos by using a feature in PowerDirector which allows you to explore panoramic environments with your keyboard arrows. Editing these videos uses the exact same process as editing normal videos, coupled with some additional features to adjust the angles of the camera in the 3D environment and the depth of field for objects such as 3D text.

I can’t guarantee that everything works exactly as promised when it comes to the output of 360 videos, but the CyberLink team has given me no reason to imagine that it wouldn’t work as intended. In my experience with the program, it was extremely reliable and easy to navigate. I’d imagine that 360 video is just as easy and painless as everything else is in PowerDirector.

Another nice feature in PowerDirector is the Slideshow Creator tool. As you’d probably imagine, all you need to do to create slideshows is click and drag a group of selected photos into the media window, organize them into the order you’d like them to be presented, then select a slideshow style.

It took me one minute to create an example slide show with some pictures I took of my girlfriend.

Is PowerDirector Good for Making High-Quality Videos?

As you may have noticed from the example videos I’ve provided above, most of the default templates and styles provided by PowerDirector don’t appear to be professional quality. Unless you’re creating an ad for a used car lot in 1996, I simply wouldn’t feel comfortable using anything but the most basic effects provided by PowerDirector in a professional environment.

If you stay away from the bells and whistles and stick to just the basic tools, it is possible to create professional quality videos in PowerDirector. If you’ve recorded some video content which can stand on its own and just need a program which can overlay some basic text, do voice overs, edit lightning, and splice in some basic intro/outro screens, PowerDirector can easily tackle these simple tasks.

The Reasons Behind My Review & Ratings

Effectiveness: 4/5 stars

PowerDirector offers a thorough and complete suite of tools for doing basic video editing but comes short of offering some of the more advanced features you’ll find in other video editing programs. It can do everything it advertises quickly, powerfully, and in my experience completely bug-free. The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 for effectiveness is because of the noticeable difference in the quality of its video effects between this program and some of its competitors.

Price: 3/5 stars

Regularly listed at $59.99 for Ultra version and $69.99 for Ultimate version, PowerDirector is available through a number of third party vendors for a little bit less. It isn’t the cheapest video editing tool on the market but isn’t the most expensive either. Final Cut Pro will run you $300, while Nero Video is much more affordable on Amazon. VEGAS Movie Studio, a much more fully featured video editor, is widely available online for a similar price to PowerDirector.

Ease of Use: 5/5 stars

Bar none! PowerDirector is the most intuitive and easy to use video editing tool I’ve ever seen, as well as one of the most elegantly designed and well-programmed pieces of software I have ever used. Major props to the CyberLink UX team for creating such an amazingly streamlined program.

Support: 3.5/5 stars

There are numerous video tutorials available on the CyberLink support portal to teach you how to use the PowerDirector software, but if you’d like to talk to a human to solve your problems you need to pony up $29.95 USD for two months of phone support.

This rating comes with a caveat, as I didn’t actually get in contact with a CyberLink employee over the phone or by email. My rationale for the rating is the fact that there is no method of contacting CyberLink with questions about how to use the software outside of paying them $29.95 for two months of phone support.

Other video editing programs, such as VEGAS Pro, offer free customer support via email for all kinds of technical assistance. With that said, the documentation and video tutorials on the CyberLink website are thorough and the program itself is amazingly intuitive, so it’s entirely plausible that you’ll never actually need to contact their support team for technical assistance while learning the program.

PowerDirector Alternatives

There are a number of great video editors on the market, varying greatly in price, ease of use, advanced features, and quality.

If you’re looking for something cheaper, try out Nero Video. Not as elegant or fully featured as PowerDirector 15, I prefer the library of video effects in Nero to PowerDirector.

If you’re looking for something more advanced:

• If you’re in the market for a more professional quality video editor, you have a number of good options. The gold standard of video editors is Final Cut Pro, but a full license will run you $300. My weapon of choice is VEGAS Movie Studio, which is priced at $49.99 and is a popular choice among many YouTubers and videobloggers.
• If you’re a fan of Adobe products or are in need of the ultimate program for editing your video’s colors and lighting effects, Adobe Premiere Pro is available for $19.99 a month or comes packaged with the entire Adobe Creative Suite for $49.99 a month.

Conclusion

PowerDirector is thoughtfully designed, quick and efficient, and one of the most intuitive programs I’ve ever used. As a moderately experienced video editor, it was never necessary to search the internet or read documentation on where and how to use the numerous features in the program. It really is that easy to learn. If you’re a first-time video editor or a relative technical newbie in the market for a quick, easy, and relatively affordable tool to cut together home movies and simple videos, look no further than PowerDirector.

With that in mind, it feels like the CyberLink team focused all of their efforts on ease of use and intuitive design at the expense of the overall quality of the program’s built-in video effects. The effects, transitions, and default templates offered by PowerDirector don’t come close to cutting it for professional quality videos, and the program doesn’t offer many of the advanced video editing features its competitors do. If you’ve already taken the time to learn a more advanced video editor or are aspiring to make a hobby out of video editing, you can do better than PowerDirector.

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Interface:

The user interface of the program is as clean and simple as it can be with many options, but it can be great even when you are deep in the weeds of fine-tuning video or audio effects. It’s not as friendly as Adobe Premiere Element or Ashampoo Movie Edit Pro. You start with the Welcome screen, which offers full options of full mode, storyboard mode, and slide show creator buttons. Two additional options include Auto Mode and Learning Center. All of these procedures are self-explanatory.

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Pro Video Editing:

Shape Designer

Apply and edit custom vector formats with AutoFit text and precise keyframe controls. Perfect for YouTubers and Tutorials.

Inspirational motion graphics and animated titles

Combine dynamic graphic elements to make your videos’ titles, stylish and modern.

1: 1 Square Video for Instagram and Facebook

Creating content for social media has never been easier. Create videos in square (1: 1) output ratio, or create vertical videos for social media stories!

Quick Create:

Amazing videos in a few clicks

Choose full ready-made templates with effects, titles, and transitions in Express projects. From there it’s a matter of adding your clips and clicking on the product.

Video Collage Designer

Create fully customizable collages with effects, including dynamic holes and endings.

Formats and Performance:

CPU and GPU performance increases

PowerDirector supports the trans-coding of non-full frame video clips in a single timeline track. Plus, enjoy better multi-threading performance on 8+ core processors.

Professional format and camera support

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Music and sound effects

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PROS:

Speed ​​Features:

“PowerDirector supports 64-bit triviality for video engine OpenGL and multiple graphics cards. Activating shadow files of HD video downloads during the setup process speeds up the editing but the preview is corrupted, although the final video quality is not affected.

User Experience:

PowerDirector’s quick launch screen lets us choose the full-featured editor, easy editor or slideshow creator. The Full Feature Editor packs a lot in an efficient, customizable setting with its four main tools: Capture, Edit, Production and Burn Disk. Room to display: Media room, Particle room and so on.

Extra:

Ultra Suite bundles a number of tools and extras, including Smart Sound for audio tracks, Apple’s QuickTime, and a menu of magic tools for quick fixes.”

CONS:

Download:

“It took some time to download PowerDirector 13’s 6GB RAR file and requires third-party software to extract it. Installation (and re-installation) can be easy with Boxed CD Editions.

Additional startup entries:

QuickTime’s automatic Apple software update option adds an entry to your StartUp menu that may delay boating.”

What’s new?

For longtime PowerDirector users, here is a list of the new features in version 18. I will discuss each in the appropriate sections below. Shape Designer Vector formats and edit your videos with AutoFit text and keyframe controls.

Motion graphic and animated titles.

Animation title templates can reduce any video production. You will pay a lot for similar third party plugins.

Square video.

This format is useful for people who like to post videos on Instagram and Facebook. This saves you from planting and sizing.

New transition.

The program offers 18 exciting new geometric effects. You can never have enough transitions, and these include fade, wave, and slide transitions.

Audio scrubbing.

PowerDirector, like top pro video software, now lets you listen to fast audio when you rub back and forth. This is useful if you need to identify a place in the clip based on a sound event. As a PEP household video the final version introduced the capability.

home project.

You can now combine clips and edits as image objects in a friable image for reuse in other projects.

4K preview and dual preview.

Previously you could only preview at low resolutions. Dual previews will show you the contents of the window library and another for project results. This is something that pro editors expect.

Pro format and camera support.

• PowerDirector now lets you import and edit videos in the following formats:
• HEVC 10bit HDR10 & HLG, ProRes 10bit 4: 2: 2, XAVC 8bit 4: 2: 0, and MXF AVC 8bit 4: 2: 0.
• Reverse track order Some editors arrange upper-level tracks and some overlays go down.
• Now you can customize it to your liking.

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• Operating System: Windows 7/8/8.1/10
• Memory (RAM): 2 GB of RAM required.
• Hard Disk Space: 7 GB of free space required.

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