Features:

Create Your Own Movie Masterpieces

• 6-track PiP effects - Create impressive animations, chroma-key effects, and masks, with up to 6 tracks of picture-in-picture objects. Select from our library of PiP graphics, or import a photo to create your own animated overlays. See the demo.
• Advanced key-frame effects - Design unique animations by setting the key frames for effects and object animations.
• Video freeze frame - Create dramatic shots to highlight people, objects and moments in your videos. Add text directly on the screen or animate your shot to intensify the emotion even more.
• Disc menu designer - Take your disc production to a new level of sophistication. Include menu navigation that gives the option to play all scenes or make a scene selection. You can move buttons, include animated chapter thumbnails, even import images as backgrounds. The designs you create can be uploaded to DirectorZone to be shared with other creators. Check our tutorial about tips for creating great menu designs.
• Pro-like subtitles - Add video subtitles by importing txt or srt files, or manually typing in the Subtitle Room. You can imprint subtitles directly on your video to appear like captions, or set them as a selectable feature on your output DVDs.
• Time code and date stamp - Turn your time code and date stamp into a subtitle on your video (requires DV or HDV camera to support this feature). Different from time codes saved during the capturing process, PowerDirector allows you to disable (hide) your time code subtitle at any time before final production. Supports the display of EXIF information for photos too.

Convenient Workspace

• Resizable Workspace - Change your workspace to suit your working style. Drag on your media libraries, the timeline, and preview window to give you more space to create.
• Better media management - Adapt the way you access photos, videos, and effects to your working style. Organize your media by creating new subfolders to sort and store photos and videos. Save your library for future use, or load an existing one for your new project.
• Easy sorting of media resources - Display your project content by name, duration, file size, date or type. View the details of your files, instead of thumbnails.
• Faster response times - Enjoy being more productive. You'll find importing photos and videos, and accessing effects libraries and DVD menu templates, is now quicker than ever.

Video Capturing and Production, Including High-Definition Content

• High-definition videos - Native support for high-definition content ensures exceptional results from beginning to end. Import or capture, edit and produce, video in AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD and WMV-HD.
• Bluray Disc Capture from anywhere - PowerDirector supports all kinds of content sources, including HDV camcorders, TV tuner cards, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, webcams, CDs, and more.
• Blu-ray Discs and DVDs - Authoring discs is one of the best ways to preserve your home movies; now you can store high-definition AVCHD content too. Support for Blu-ray Discs gives you even greater capacity for your high-definition videos. PowerDirector adds the final pro touch to your discs with its built-in authoring tools for Blu-ray Discs and DVDs.
• YouTube Direct publishing to YouTube™ - Get your movies online fast with direct uploading to YouTube. With easy steps you can name and tag your video so you are easily found by millions of viewers online.
• Output for iPod, iPhone or PSP - Produce movies that you can watch everywhere via iPod, iPhone or PSP. Output files are optimized in a size and resolution that plays best for each device.
• Writing back to HDV and DV tape - Camcorders don't just record, they are an extremely convenient way to connect to a TV, PC monitor, or projector, so you can show your movie to others. PowerDirector lets you write your finished movie directly back to your camcorder.

Magic Video Editing Tools

• Magic Style - 12 popular themes let you automatically edit your movie, add effects, and insert a title and credits. Particle effects, alpha-blended PiPs, and slick transitions are inserted according to the style of your selected theme.
• Magic Movie Wizard - Create complete movies in minutes using PowerDirector's step-by-step approach to movie production. Select your content source, your music, a theme, and duration, then the wizard does the rest.
• Magic Fix - Stabilize shaky videos with even greater precision and check results with the convenient split screen preview. PowerDirector analyzes your video to decide which sections of video need most improvement.
• Magic Motion - Animate photos with PowerDirector's 21 pre-set motion templates, or customize by setting your own motion path. Apply the same template to all your photos with just one click.
• Magic Clean - Ensure all your precious moments are able to be seen by eliminating the effects of bad lighting. You can apply multiple enhancements at once to fix these common problems: low lighting, extreme backlighting, poor white balance, inaccurate colors.
• Other Magic Tools - Save time and get great results with these two other magic tools.
  • Magic Cut - Keep your best footage and cut out the rest automatically!
  • Magic Music - Create a quality soundtrack that automatically syncs with the duration of your video.

Professional Slideshows

• 7 styles - 3D, highlight, motion, cell, collage, scrapbook and normal offer cool ways to turn photos into a movie. PowerDirector's 3D engine creates a classic 3D room-like effect. You'll be amazed at how stunning photo slideshows can be.
• Editable slideshows - Change the order and position of individual photos with the cell slideshow style.
• Beat-detection technology - Automatically sync your photos to display to the beat of your music. Change the music and you instantly change the mood of your slideshow.

Acquire Resources Online and from Built-in Libraries

• Quick access to your Flickr account - Retrieve photos you have already uploaded to your Flickr™ account to use in your video projects. PowerDirector allows you to search by tags, description and title. Browse for the photos you want, then download directly to your media library.
• Creative commons photos and audio - Don't limit yourself to your own photos and sound clips. Now you can directly import photos from Flickr™ and audio from Freesound. Creative Commons licenses allow you to use other people's work for free as long as you follow the wishes of the artist, such as provide attribution or use it for non-commercial projects. Each artist has their own terms of use.
• 4 effects libraries - Explore your creativity by working with hundreds of transitions, effects, titles, and objects that are all available within PowerDirector's built-in libraries. Together with what's available for free on DirectorZone, you have all you need to turn your video clips and photos into movie masterpieces.
• Audio recording and mixing - Creating pro-like soundtracks for your videos is extremely easy with built-in tools for recording voice-overs and other sounds. You can also adjust the audio levels of individual project resources item by item, including those on your video, PiP, music and voice tracks.
• Color boards - Designing colorful backgrounds for title sequences, animated objects and fade effects is made simple with a full palette of color boards. Simply select a color panel and drag to your timeline.

Connect with other PowerDirector Users on DirectorZone

• Downloading from DirectorZone - Expand your creative options by downloading effects and menu templates. You can rate each effect you like and nominate the best as one of your many favorites.
• Sharing your effects via DirectorZone - Now you have a way to share your killer effects with other PowerDirector users. Save your customized motion objects, DVD menus, and other effects, then upload to your DirectorZone account.
• Subscribe to the work of other artists - See what other DirectorZone users are doing by subscribing to your favorite members. You will receive a message every time they publish new effects and menus.
• Create effects for other CyberLink applications - Share effects with users of other CyberLink software too, including PowerProducer (DVD templates), and YouCam (frames and PiP objects).

* Output to Blu-ray Disc and support for AVCHD and other high-definition formats is available in the PowerDirector 7 Ultra version. Please check the version comparison for a complete outline of the features available.

System Requirements:

Operating System:

• Microsoft Windows Vista, XP, or 2000 (Windows XP Service Pack 2 is required for HDV capture)

Screen Resolution:

• 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above

Microphone

• Required for recording voice-overs

Processor:

• AVI Capture/Production: Pentium 2 450 MHz or AMD Athlon 500MHz
• VCD Quality (MPEG-1) Profiles: Pentium 3 600 MHz or AMD Athlon 700MHz
• DVD Quality (MPEG-2) profiles: Pentium 4 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 2200+
• High Quality MPEG-4 and WMV, QuickTime, RealVideo Profiles: Pentium4 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon XP 2400+
• AVCHD and MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+

Memory:

• 512MB required (2GB DDR2 above recommended for editing HD videos)

Hard Disk Space:

• 5GB required minimum (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library)
• 10GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
• 60GB (100 GB recommended) for Blu-ray Disc 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 IEEE1394
• 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)
• 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

Burning Device:

• A CD or DVD burner (CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn VCD/DVD/SVCD titles.
• A Blu-ray disc recordable drive is required to burn Blu-ray Discs.