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Power Director is one of a stable of Cyberlink products that includes Power Producer and Power DVD.
Its main selling point is that it’s extremely easy to use. It lacks the sophistication of programs such as Premiere Elements, Studio and Videostudio and its interface could be described as ‘no frills’, but it nonetheless provides everything you need to capture, edit and author DVDs.
The capture module can be used to acquire material from any connected source including analogue ones connected to a capture card, a digital TV tuner, webcam and microphone as well as a DV camcorder of course.
High definition video can be captured as well as standard resolution DV. There are automatic and manual batch capture modes and you can convert captured footage to mpeg2 on the fly if you plan to record a DVD video.
The workspace adopts what’s become pretty much a standard format, with a preview window on top and a timeline/storyboard strip along the bottom. A library window provides access to all your clips, effects, transitions, titles and other resources such as templates, voiceover recording and audio mixing.
The timeline provides four video tracks – a master for your video clips, one for picture-in-picture overlays, an effects track and a title track.
There are two audio tracks in addition to the native audio – one for a voiceover recording and the other for backing music.
Power Director automates some processes, providing buttons alongside the timeline/storyboard.
Magic Clean is a one-step enhancement filter that corrects tonal and colour problems and can also be used to remove audio noise.
Magic Cut requires a little more user input, but effectively makes editing decisions on your behalf based on criteria such as subject movement, scenes with zooming and panning, or scenes with dialogue. So you could use it, for example, to trim out all the excess footage from an interview.
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