Product Code CYB02018
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 1000s of free effects...
Product Information
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 1000s of free effects and templates already uploaded to DirectorZone by PowerDirector users.
Video Upscaling and Fixing
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.
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. Learn more about creating pro results
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.
PowerDirector is also optimized for efficient hardware decoding, enabling faster production of home videos that are captured using MPEG-2 and H.264 formats.
System Requirements
Operating System
- Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture)
Screen Resolution
- 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above
CPU Processor
PowerDirector 8 is optimized for CPUs with MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNow! Extension/HyperThreading technology.
- AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or Athlon 64 2800+
- VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 64 3200+
- DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 4000+
- High Quality MPEG-4 and WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo Profiles: Pentium 4 2.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+
- AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
Memory
- 512 MB required (2 GB DDR2 above recommended for editing HD videos)
Hard Disk Space
- 5 GB required minimum (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library)
- 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
- 60 GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc/AVCHD production
Video Capturing Device
- PCI or USB 1.0/2.0 capture device compliant with WDM standard (i.e. PC Camera and TV tuner with WDM driver)
- DV camcorder connected via OHCI-compliant IEEE 1394
- DVD camcorder connected via USB 2.0
- Sony MicroMV camcorder
- JVC Everio camcorder (GZ-MC100, GZ-MC200)
- Sony HDR-FX1 (HDV)
- Sony HDR-HC1 (HDV)
- JVC GR-HD1U (HDV)
Supported AVCHD camcorders
- SONY HDR-SR1
- SONY HDR-UX1
- SONY HDR-CX7
- SONY HDR-SR7
- Panasonic SX5
- Canon HF10
- Canon HF11
- Canon HF20
- Canon HFS10
- Canon HG10
- Canon HG20
- Canon HG21
- Canon HR10
- Canon XLH1S
Burning Drive
- A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD/AVCHD titles
- A Blu-ray disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs
