New Power Director 8 Adds Useful Features for Video Editing

We were already pretty impressed with Cyberlink’s Power Director 8 video editing program (which is why it was number one in our review of video editing software), but Cyberlink has taken the opportunity to improve on itself with the latest version of Power Director.

Power Director 8 focuses on High Definition sources of video, offering more options for editing and mastering video on your computer or on Blu-ray discs. The full list of features from the press release is below, so take a look and see why it’s such a useful program.

• TrueTheater HD upsampling – (enhance your older standard definition video… a great feature when you are mixing SD and HD content for output in HD)
• Image stabilization – fix your shaky videos
• Video noise reduction – fix video shot in low light
• Auto white balance – just click a spot in your video that should be white, and everything will be adjusted automatically
• Audio noise reduction
• TrueTheater Motion frame rate conversion (creates new “in-between” frames for smooth slow motion)
• GPU Computing – tap the power of your graphics card, including full support for NVIDIA CUDA and ATI Stream video encoding, and 20 GPU-accelerated effects
• Facebook video upload
• Access thousands of menu templates and custom effects for free on DirectorZone
• New design tools for creating unique effects, animations, titles, and disc menus (including a particle editor)
• Pro effects – slow/fast motion, rotation, scale/crop
• Great photo slide shows, timed to the beat of your music (and you can customize slide show templates)

The user interface of PowerDirector 8 is easier to use than ever…

• Adjust your workspace - resize any panel in the user interface
• An enhanced, frame-accurate trimming tool zooms in to the portion of the timeline that you are editing
• 16 track timeline with 10 video tracks
• Dual monitor support
• Copy and paste sections of the timeline

Power Director 8 is available now at Herman Street.