CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate 21 Overview
PowerDirector provides top-notch editing tools and a user-friendly process to cut, enhance, incorporate effects, and release your content. You can effortlessly produce captivating material with its remarkable new effects, a simplified interface, and continuously expanding resource libraries. Regardless of your skill level, you can achieve impressive outcomes. Easily convey your message and save time using pre-designed motion graphic titles. Enrich your collection of effects with eye-catching transitions and particle effects.
Experience the ultimate combination of still images and video in your productions. PowerDirector seamlessly integrates with PhotoDirector, allowing you to effortlessly incorporate edited photos, graphics, or animated images. Enhance your assets in PhotoDirector and directly import them into your PowerDirector project, or export production stills and animated clips for a seamless roundtrip workflow. Take charge of your content's creative direction and inject vibrant hues into your videos using LUT color presets. Stay up-to-date and save valuable time with themed templates designed for holidays and special occasions.
Here are some features of CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate 21:
- 1:1 Square Video Editing & Production: Edit and produce videos in a square format, perfect for platforms like Instagram, ensuring optimal display on social media.
- 9:16 and 4:5 video import, editing & export ENHANCED: Import, edit, and export videos in vertical formats commonly used on mobile devices and social media platforms, with improved functionality and features.
- Produce 120/240fps High Frame Rate Video: Create videos with high frame rates of 120 or 240 frames per second, resulting in smooth and detailed motion playback.
- Color Presets & Look-up Table (LUT) Support: Apply pre-designed color presets or import custom LUTs to enhance your videos' visual appeal and aesthetics with ease.
- Audio Ducking: Automatically adjust audio levels to prioritize dialogue or narration over background sound, ensuring clear and intelligible audio.
- TrueTheater Color & Stabilizer: Enhance video colors for vibrant visuals and stabilize shaky footage, giving your videos a professional and polished look.
- Keyframe Opacity Adjustments: Fine-tune the transparency of video clips or elements using keyframes, allowing precise control over their opacity throughout the video.
- Screen capture (Screen Recorder v4 SE) ENHANCED: Capture your computer screen activity with enhanced features for recording and editing, providing comprehensive screen-capture capabilities.
- Built-in Audio Editor: Edit and enhance audio tracks directly within PowerDirector, enabling seamless audio editing without the need for external software.
- Action Camera Editing Tools: Access specialized tools designed specifically for editing footage captured by action cameras, including lens correction and motion tracking features.
- Apply Titles & Images to Motion Path: Add titles or images that follow a customized motion path, creating dynamic and engaging visual effects in your videos.
- AI Object Segmentation NEW: Utilize artificial intelligence to accurately isolate and edit specific objects within your video, offering advanced editing capabilities.
- AI Wind Removal NEW: Remove unwanted wind noise from your audio recordings using AI-powered algorithms, ensuring clear and high-quality sound.
- AI Speech Enhancement NEW: Enhance the clarity and quality of speech in your videos using AI algorithms, resulting in improved audio intelligibility.
- AI Sky Replacement NEW: Automatically replace or enhance the sky in your videos with just a few clicks, achieving dramatic visual transformations.
- Audio Smart Fit NEW: Automatically adjust the duration of background music to fit the length of your video, simplifying the audio editing process.
- Precision Design Tools: Have precise control over parameters such as alignment, rotation, and scale, allowing fine-tuning of video edits for pixel-perfect results.
- Selection Mask: Isolate specific areas of your video for targeted editing or applying special effects, enabling focused modifications within your footage.
- Keyframe Interpolation: Hold: Create smooth transitions by holding keyframe values for a specified duration, ensuring seamless visual continuity between video clips.
- Sketch Designer: Convert your videos into animated sketches with customizable styles and effects, adding a unique artistic touch to your content.
- MultiCam Designer: Sync and edit footage from multiple cameras to create dynamic multi-angle videos, offering flexibility and creativity in post-production.
- Video Collage Designer: Combine multiple video clips into a creative collage layout, enabling visually appealing arrangements of your footage.
- AI Powered Motion Tracking NEW: Automatically track and follow objects or subjects in your videos using AI technology, simplifying complex motion tracking tasks.
- Transition Designer: Customize and apply a variety of transitions to smoothly switch between video clips, enhancing the flow and visual interest of your edits.
- PiP Designer ENHANCED: Enhance picture-in-picture effects with improved customization options, allowing for more creative and engaging compositions.
- Shape Designer ENHANCED: Create and customize various shapes and graphics for overlaying your videos, adding visual elements to enhance storytelling.
- Adjust Particle & PiP Display Speed: Control the speed and timing of particle effects and picture-in-picture elements, adding dynamic visual elements to your videos.
- Customize Particle & PiP Ending Action: Define the behavior and animation of particles and picture-in-picture elements at the end of a clip, offering creative control over their final appearance.
- Snap Alignment: Easily align video clips, images, and other elements with precision, ensuring accurate positioning and layout in your projects.
- Theme Designer: Create custom video themes with matching title templates, transitions, and effects, allowing for consistent and visually cohesive productions.
- Mask Designer ENHANCED: Design and apply customized masks to selectively reveal or hide parts of your video, providing advanced masking capabilities with enhanced features.
- Motion Graphics Title ENHANCED: Access an expanded library of animated titles for adding professional-looking text to your videos, offering a wide range of dynamic text options.
- Title Designer ENHANCED: Design and customize titles with a wide range of fonts, styles, and effects, allowing for personalized and visually appealing title creations.
- Paint Designer: Create hand-drawn animations and effects directly on your videos, adding unique artistic elements to your content.
- Subtitle Room: Add and edit subtitles within your videos, ensuring accurate and synchronized text display for improved accessibility and understanding.
- Menu Designer: Design and customize menus for DVD or Blu-ray authoring, providing professional and interactive menu navigation for your video projects.
- Crop, Zoom & Pan Tools: Utilize tools to crop, zoom, and pan within your videos, enabling precise control over framing and emphasizing specific details or subjects.
- Audio Scrubbing: Scrub through audio tracks to quickly locate specific points for editing or synchronization, streamlining audio editing workflows.
- True360 View Designer: Edit and enhance 360-degree videos with specialized tools and effects, allowing for immersive and interactive video experiences.
- Professional Video Editing Features: Access advanced editing features and capabilities tailored for professional-level video editing, offering comprehensive tools for precise and polished results.
- Nested Project Editing ENHANCED: Edit nested projects within your main project, providing a more organized and streamlined editing workflow with improved features.
- Video pre-cut: Pre-cut long videos into smaller segments for easier editing and management, allowing for efficient handling of large video files.
- Color Match: Match the colors between different clips to ensure consistent color grading and visual harmony throughout your video project.
- Multi-sample Chroma Key: Achieve high-quality green screen effects with improved precision and accuracy, creating seamless compositing of multiple video layers.
- Split Toning & HDR Effect: Apply split-toning effects and HDR enhancements to your videos, adding artistic color treatments and dynamic range adjustments.
- Video Blending Modes: Apply various blending modes to combine multiple video clips or create unique visual effects, offering versatile and creative editing options.
- Produce Image Sequence: Export your video as a sequence of individual images, useful for specialized workflows or creating animated GIFs.
- 360-degree Video Editing: Edit and enhance 360-degree videos, including stabilization, color correction, and immersive effects, maximizing the potential of 360-degree footage.
- Advanced 360-degree Video Stabilizer: Stabilizes shaky 360-degree footage for smooth and steady viewing experiences, reducing motion sickness for viewers.
- Convert Titles & PiP to 360-degree Object: Convert titles and picture-in-picture elements into 360-degree objects, allowing them to be displayed correctly within the spherical video environment.
- Correct Distortions (lens, color): Correct lens distortions and adjust color settings to ensure accurate and natural-looking visuals in your videos.
- 4K Video Editing Preview: Experience a real-time preview of your edits in high-resolution 4K, allowing for precise editing and accurate visualization.
- Library Preview: Preview media files directly within the library for quick and efficient browsing and selection of content.
- Extra-Large Thumbnail Preview: View larger thumbnails of media files for easier identification and selection, speeding up the media management process.
- Hotkeys for Timeline Behavior: Customize hotkeys for specific timeline actions and behaviors, enhancing the speed and efficiency of your editing workflow.
- Reverse Timeline Order: Reverse the order of clips or elements on the timeline, providing creative options for storytelling or visual effects.
- Undock Library & Timeline: Undock the library and timeline panels for flexible multi-monitor setups or customized workspace configurations, improving editing flexibility.
- Clip/Timeline Markers ENHANCED: Add markers to your clips or timeline for easy navigation and organization, with improved marker management features.
- Performance & Formats: Benefit from optimized performance and support for various video formats and technologies, ensuring smooth editing and efficient file handling.
- 8K Video Import: Import and edit videos in ultra-high-definition 8K resolution, harnessing the full potential of high-resolution footage.
- AAC 5.1ch Output: Output your videos with AAC 5.1-channel audio, delivering immersive and high-quality surround sound experiences.
- Native 64-bit Support: Take advantage of native 64-bit architecture for improved performance and stability, allowing for more efficient use of system resources.
- Import.MXF (8bit 4:2:0 AVC/XAVC): Import videos in the.MXF format with 8-bit 4:2:0 AVC or XAVC encoding, expanding compatibility with professional video workflows.
- Import. MOV Apple ProRes (10bit 4:2:2): Import videos in the. MOV Apple ProRes format with 10-bit 4:2:2 color sampling, ensuring high-quality and lossless video import.
- Import 10-bit & 10-bit HDR video (HDR10 & HLG): Import and edit 10-bit and 10-bit HDR videos encoded with HDR10 or HLG standards, preserving and enhancing dynamic range.
- Auto-save Dual-screen Settings: Automatically save and restore dual-screen settings, allowing for seamless workflow continuity when using multiple monitors.
- TrueVelocity 10: Benefit from the enhanced TrueVelocity video engine, providing accelerated performance and improved efficiency in video processing.
- Multi-GPGPU Acceleration with OpenCL Support: Utilize multiple GPUs for accelerated video processing and editing, taking advantage of OpenCL technology for improved performance.
- Media Foundation GPGPU Transcoding (non-full frame acceleration): Use Media Foundation GPGPU transcoding for faster video encoding and decoding, optimizing video processing speed.
- Best Matched Profile: Automatically apply the best profile settings based on the characteristics of your source footage, ensuring optimal video quality and compatibility.
- 10th Generation Intel® Core™ Processor (Ice Lake) Optimization: Optimize PowerDirector for improved performance on 10th generation Intel Core processors (Ice Lake), maximizing hardware capabilities.
- AMD Ryzen 3000 Processor Optimization: Optimize PowerDirector for enhanced performance on AMD Ryzen 3000 series processors, leveraging the power of AMD's processors.
- nVidia, Intel & AMD H.265 (HEVC) Hardware Encoding & Decoding: Utilize hardware acceleration from nVidia, Intel, and AMD for faster H.265 (HEVC) video encoding and decoding, improving efficiency and speed.
- WebM/VP9 Support: Import and export videos in the WebM/VP9 format, a popular format for web-based video distribution.
- AVCHD 3D/Progressive and XAVC-S Camcorder Support: Import and edit AVCHD 3D/progressive and XAVC-S camcorder videos, expanding compatibility with various camcorder formats.
- Import, Edit, and Produce 120/240fps Video: Import, edit, and produce videos with high-frame-rate capabilities of 120 or 240 frames per second, enabling smooth slow-motion effects and detailed motion capture.
- DVD, AVCHD & Blu-ray Authoring: Author and create DVD, AVCHD, and Blu-ray discs with interactive menus and chapters, allowing for professional disc authoring and distribution.
- Volume Meter Display: Monitor audio levels with visual volume meters, ensuring accurate audio control and balancing.
- PowerDirector Mobile App Integration: Seamlessly transfer projects between PowerDirector on your computer and the PowerDirector mobile app for editing on the go, offering flexibility and convenience.
- Cloud Storage Integration: Access and store your projects and media files in cloud storage services, enabling easy collaboration and backup options.
These are just a few highlights of the extensive features and capabilities offered by PowerDirector for square video editing, advanced effects, audio enhancement, AI-powered editing, motion tracking, and more.
CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate 21 System Requirements:
| Operating System | Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 |
|---|---|
| Memory (RAM) | 8 GB |
| Hard Disk Space | 2 GB |
| Processor | Intel Pentium i3, Multi-core GHz or higher |