CyberLink PowerDirector versions

Brings life to video projects with powerful editing capabilities
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 12, 2016
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Aug 25, 2015
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Dec 11, 2013
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Aug 11, 2013
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Jul 1, 2012
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Oct 11, 2011
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9.0
Dec 20, 2010
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6.5
May 30, 2008
Editorial review
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6.0
Oct 1, 2008
5.0
Feb 1, 2009
Editorial review
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5
Dec 9, 2005
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What's new

v14.0 [Aug 25, 2015]
Action Camera Center
- Lens Correction
- Color Presets
- Slow Motion
- Repeat and Replay
- Freeze Frame with Ken Burns effect
- 120/240 fps video import and production (with SVRT support)
Powerful Tools
- Add PiP/Titles/Effects to objects with Motion Tracker
- Express Project creates projects from easily viewed and edited building blocks
- Screen Recorder at 30 fps with audio
Better Easy Editor
- Add transformations, effects, and background music in Storyboard mode
- Quick access to Theme Designer and Express Projects
More Efffects
- Natural, non-linear motion path for titles and PiP objects
- Bezier motion path for titles
- Particle-based fade in and out for titles
- Geometric alpha transitions
Improved Performance
- Intel Skylake hardware encoding and decoding
- Enhanced WMV format capability
- Enhanced SVRT, with support for H.265, 120/240 fps MP4, H.264 open-loop GOP, and H.264 pull down
Format/Plug-in Support
- FLAC audio editing support
- proDAD VitaScene plug-in

v13.0 [Dec 11, 2013]
Unleash your creativity with PowerDirector 13's customizable design tools - create your personalized transition, titles and disc menu, and edit up to 100 multicam clips with the most powerful video editing software! Need more effects and templates? PowerDirector includes over 50 new effects and templates to polish your video creations. When your creation is done, you can backup your projects using CyberLink Cloud service, or create movie discs with our new Menu Designer!
New Features:
- 100 Track MultiCam Editing:
The new MultiCam Audio Sync feature allows you to synchronize up to 100 timeline tracks by audio. Which means you can easily create MultiCam collages by freely transform video tracks as a PiP (picture in picture) object.
- Customized Transition Effects
The new Transition Designer provides an easy way to customize transition effects from an image. Simple import a image, PowerDirector will create the transition effect basing on the image you choose.
- Video Effects on Animated Titles
You can apply over 120 built-in video effects to your titles, such as water reflection, tilt-shift or particle effects, to make your animated title creations look more unique.
- Enhanced Menu Designer
PowerDirector 13's menu designer greatly enhanced the usability - automatically align disc menu items when designing customized disc menu, you can also choose to display video thumbnails, or use a cleaner text menu without thumbnails.
- Enhanced Video Stabilizer
The enhanced stabilization engine smartly detects multi-axis and rotational shakiness, and remove the shakiness in sports videos.
- CyberLink Cloud Service
CyberLink Cloud is designed to work perfectly with PowerDirector to safely store your media creations and other files via the latest in cloud technology.
- Enhanced Media Library
PowerDirector's easy-to-use media library interface smartly put your source media, effects and tools in place. You can freely adjust the workspace to optimize productivity or search media library with keywords.
- H.265/HEVC
Designed to utilize substantially less bandwidth. H.265 provides same compression quality with 32% size of H.264 videos.
- XAVC-S
XAVC-S is the new standard of 4K and HD videos, widely used in latest Sony camera and camcorders.
- Over 50 New Effects & Templates
PowerDirector 13 comes with over 500 effects and templates, including over 50 brand new animated PiP objects, animated themes, titles and much more!
- Create On-the-Go
Edit video anywhere with PowerDirector Mobile your Android and Windows 8 tablets with intuitive timeline interface. Drag-and-drop videos and photos, overlay transition and title effects, just like editing on your PC!
- Export ISO Image File
When producing DVD or Blu-ray Discs, you choose to save the disc creation to ISO image format, which is easier to archive and retrieve your disc creations.

v12.0 [Aug 11, 2013]
- Theme Designer: experience an easy and powerful tool for converting your videos and photos into stylish 3D-animated slideshow videos.
- Chroma Key (enhanced): take videos in front of a green sheet or blue sheet and merge with other videos to create special effects like they do in weather broadcasts or Hollywood movies.
- Subtitle Room: customize your subtitle design by setting font, color and position.
- Auto Crossfade: applying smooth transitions between clips is easier with this feature that automatically inserts crossfade transition as you overlay 2 clips on timeline tracks.
- Import PowerPoint Files: import PowerPoint files (*.ppt, *.pptx) files.
- Dolby Digital Plus: PowerDirector now supports importing and editing 5.1 channel Dolby Digital Plus surround sound.

v11.0 [Jul 1, 2012]
-Title Designer
-Particle Designer
-PiP Designer
-Menu Designer

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