The most recent Deluxe version introduces Express Projects, which helps novice moviemakers quickly whip up their first video. It also offers improved performance — when it is working with the WMV format — as well as new FLAC and H.264 import and export features.
Sadly, the low-end Deluxe version does not support new headliner features such as the Action Camera Center or Motion Tracking — for those, you’ll have to shell out $30 more. There’s no 4K or multicam support, either, unlike comparable consumer titles such as Adobe Premiere Elements and Corel VideoStudio Pro X9.
Nonetheless, the Deluxe version shares the improvements of the higher-end PowerDirector editions for important under-the-hood boosters such as TrueVelocity 5, SVRT smart rendering and Intel Skylake optimization.
On this page and the next you will find my CyberLink PowerDirector 14 review in all its long and rambling glory.
As much as possible in this review I have tried to restrict myself to just covering the important points, but each year that task gets more and more difficult.
Consumer level video editing programs like PowerDirector now pack so many features and functions inside them that going through them all can turn into a career instead of a review.
So whether you are a complete newbie, an existing owner of a previous version or someone that has been searching for so long and are so confused they are just staring blankly at a computer screen in a daze, hopefully you can find what you are looking for here.
If you are the person who has almost given up on trying to work out which editor to get and simply can’t bear reading another article on yet another product then relax.
You are totally safe to get this one knowing this Cyberlink product is still the best in its class and has been for years.
If you already have a current version and are trying to work out whether or not you should upgrade then keep reading this page of the review to see the new features.
Remember to keep your emotions in check and ask yourself whether these new features are something you would actually use and not just things that look really cool and awesome! (Because some of them are very cool and very awesome!)
If you have only just begun your search for a suitable video editor and want all the information, then just go through this page and the next to get a clear picture of CyberLink PowerDirector 14 and how it stacks up.
So before we get into it all let’s just cut to the chase.
My Overall Take on the Program
CyberLink PowerDirector has been my top choice for editing software for many years now and with this new release nothing has changed in that regard.
Everything you could possibly want in a video editing suite (and probably a bunch of stuff you never thought of) is available in PowerDirector and I find it hard to imagine anything they have left out.
It is kind of pointless to review the actual editing capabilities of the software because the program does it all and does it all very, very well.
It cuts, slices, dices and chops with ease and eats up the modern highly compressed video files effortlessly because behind the pretty face lies an editing and rendering engine with serious credentials.
In fact about four years after shooting to the lead in the speed stakes it still comfortably occupies first place.
These days however, no-one is expecting a video editor to just edit videos!
PowerDirector is a complete and self contained end-to-end multimedia solution that would serve anyone perfectly now and well into the future.
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