PowerDirector 8 Ultra

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Product Features

• PowerDirector 8 Ultra provides easy-to-use, powerful video editing for users of all levels
• Create pro results with 16 tracks, particle effects designer & more
• 5X faster video rendering with support for CPU/GPU acceleration
• Upscale SD video to HD-like quality; fix video problems instantly
• Share videos on YouTube and Facebook, output to mobile devices, and burn to discs

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.6 x 7.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002F1UNYU
• Item model number: PDR-E800-RPU0-00
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 17, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #253 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

More powerful and even faster, CyberLink PowerDirector 8 offers more video enhancement and editing tools, designer tools and more timeline tracks to let you create great videos. Spice up your projects too by downloading any of the 18,000+ free effects and templates already uploaded to DirectorZone by PowerDirector users.

Achieve Professional Results with New Design Tools.

Upscaling Video Quality with TrueTheatre Technology.

Faster Performance with Multi-Processing.

Upload HD Videos to Facebook and YouTube.

Share Your Creativity with DirectorZone Members.

Powerful Video Editing with Unlimited Possibilities.
CyberLink PowerDirector 8 Ultra is an easy-to-use yet powerful video editing software application. Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, PowerDirector makes video editing an enjoyable experience. It features many new video enhancement and editing tools to let you create great videos. Upscaling technology will help improve your video quality with just a click of a button. Designer tools and more timeline tracks offer even more power, and you can simply spice up your projects by downloading any of 13,000+ free effects and templates already uploaded to DirectorZone.com, PowerDirector's online community. With broad format support and the options to upload videos to YouTube & Facebook, or output to on-the-go media players, you can share your creations with anyone and everyone.

Quick and Easy Video Enhancing
A host of new tools and technologies are designed to save editing time and improve your video quality. Leveraging PowerDVD's video enhancing TrueTheater technology, PowerDirector delivers HD-like results from standard definition content by upscaling video resolution, smoothing out playback in slow motion and enabling virtual surround sound. With easy-to-use settings, PowerDirector's TrueTheater technologies fix common video shooting errors such as extreme backlighting, poor white balance, and inadequate lighting.

Achieve Pro Results
PowerDirector 8's suite of design tools--for creating titles, animated objects, and disc menus now offers a Particle Effects Designer, letting you experiment with movie-like special effects. As with PowerDirector's other design tools, particle effects can be uploaded and shared with other users on DirectorZone, PowerDirector's community website. Enjoy working with more editing tools such as Reverse, Crop, Speed and Rotate video tools. For precise trimming, retain frame-level control with the patented Zoom-In Cut. While the expanded 16-track timeline offers more creative possibilities including the ability to cut & paste sequences to other parts of your production.

Faster Performance
The first consumer video editing software to be optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream technology, PowerDirector delivers up to 5X faster performance for rendering effects and transcoding videos, with vastly improved editing and previewing speeds.

Share your creativity and learn from others
Ever wonder how home movies achieve memorable effects? Now you can by viewing other users' timelines and even sharing your own on DirectorZone.com. This unique glimpse into others' creative approaches is a remarkable learning tool, offering incredible insight for your own projects. PowerDirector's unique "open editing" experience also lets you share special effects, video editing secrets, and a chance to learn from other users. Download, upload, and share an unlimited amount of effects, DVD menus, particle effects, and PiP objects via DirectorZone.

Ways to Show and Tell
Video editing software, PowerDirector, provides direct HD video uploading to Facebook and YouTube, enabling easy sharing on today’s most popular social networks and video blogging sites. Or enjoy your finished movie in HD at home by producing Blu-ray Discs or AVCHD discs in high-definition resolution. If it's mobility you are after, you can produce playback files for your iPhone, iPod, or PSP.

Key Features

• Create pro results with 16 tracks, particle effects designer, & more
• 5X faster video rendering with support for CPU/GPU acceleration
• Upscale SD video to HD-like quality. Fix video problems instantly
• Learn editing tricks from other users on DirectorZone
• Share videos on YouTube and Facebook, output to mobile devices, and burn to discs
• PowerDirector 8 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows 7

Product Description

CyberLink PowerDirector 8 Ultra offers more power, greater control and convenient time saving technologies. New features include SD to HD up-scaling, advanced Power Tools, faster video rendering, and dramatic particle effects. Users enjoy total control over the editing process regardless of their level of experience.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Try before you Buy, November 12, 2009

By	D. Bacon - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Before I bought this software, I downloaded trial versions of several different video editing programs, including Adobe Premiere Elements 7, Corel VideoStudio Pro X2 and Sony Vegas MoveStudio 9 Platinum, as well as Cyberlink PowerDirector 8. Premiere was buggy, VideoStudio was slow, and Vegas had a complex user interface. I found PowerDirector to be the fastest on my hardware and to have the most intuitive user interface. I'm using a laptop with a P8600 Core 2 Duo processor and an Nvidia Geforce 9650M GT graphics card with 1GB of memory.

I'm converting several old VCR tapes to DVD. PowerDirector couldn't seem to capture video from my Canon HV20 in Analog->DV pass through mode, but I was able to capture with Windows Movie Maker or VirtualDub and then import the video files to a PowerDirector project. Scene detection (by content) worked quickly and well. I like the animated menus that it adds to DVDs. It also handles high-definition video I capture using HDVSplit with no problem, and I was able to join several files together, add titles, and output them as .mpg without reencoding most of the video, which was very fast.

Don't buy any video editing software without first downloading the free trial version and trying it out on your computer. If you purchase this software, be sure you also download the latest update from [...], it fixes a lot of bugs. Also check out [...] for a list of hardware requirements for increasing levels of video editing tasks, and visit their user forums to find solutions to problems.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the money!, October 27, 2009

By	Anthony Mayer "A. Mayer" (NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

I bought this new version of PowerDirector 2 weeks ago. Overall I like it a lot. The interface is still quite user-friendly. The features it supports meet what I want and expect. I especially like the new features they enable in this version, i.e. reverse direction of the video, crop videos & rotate the videos, etc.

Definitely worth every penny I spent!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great software, October 8, 2009

By	Teresa (California) - See all my reviews

I recently bought my first camcorder and PowerDirector along for all the editing that needs to be done. You usually hear that video editing software is difficult to use, and I expected to spend a lot of time with PowerDirector. However I was really suprised that only after a few attempts a was able to make a nice video. I really recommend this to anyone who wants to edit videos easy and fast.