- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $69.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
- Date added: August 06, 2009
- Total Downloads: 1,004,619
- Downloads last week: 9,245
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- Average user rating: stars out of 111 votes
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Publisher's description
From CyberLink :Being a professional movie director is easy with PowerDirector 8 from Cyberlink. Simply capture your handycam HD footage and start editing on your computer with simple software features that make the whole process seamless. You'll find all sorts of ways to manipulate videos while getting support for the popular AVCHD, MPEG-2 HD and WMV-HD formats. Add thrilling special effects to your movie projects, including new particle effects that can react to direction and gravity. PowerDirector also provides magical editing tools that can automatically edit your video with stunning results or create professional looking image slideshows that sync with sound or music.
What's new in this version:
Version 8.0 increases standard video quality output to near-HD and adds animated movie-like particle effects.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 111 votes
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Version: CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0
Pros: Speed when used on a i7 920 processor with Nvida GTX260 Video Card.
Cons: It just crashes, crashes and crashes,and no support period. If the trial doesn't work for you, live with it. It will not get fixed anything soon. I test version 2220. tested on a i7 920 12GB Ram Nvidia GTX260 Window 7 64bit.
Summary: This software is beta software and you will pay to test this software for Cyberlink.
Bad marketing. eg Software regular price $99.95 Nov 13 with $15 off special. Nov 26 special $30 off. But regular price up to $119.90. you now pay $5 more, bu... read more >> -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0
Pros: -I found out in 20 minutes that it would not work. Didn't have to waste a lot of time playing with the trial.
-I did not pay any money for thisCons: I wasted 20 minutes of my life on a thoroughly undertested mess
Summary: Usually bad reviews for a product on Cnet are a little bit overblown. In the case of PowerDirector, they don't seem to go nearly far enough. It took a full 5 minutes to even load on my new Windows 7 machine. When it finally loaded, nothing worke... read more >>
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Version: CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0
"So much potential and sooo flawed."
Pros: 1. Stabilisation module when it works is a dream.
2. Video noise reduction good.
Look there are soo many good things about this program, if they could just fix it.Cons: Does not support i7cpu unless you disable 6 of the 8 cores, this solution is from Cyberlink support!!!!
Does not fully support HD 1080 video or for that matter any video if you really push the program with multiple pips, or especially video enhance.Summary: Bottom line is I have been fighting with this program through PD7 and now PD8 and have only stuck with it because it has so much potential and has a fantastic help forum full of very good people.
My advice though if you want to keep your ... read more >> -
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0
"When will they fix the memory leak?!?"
Pros: UI looks good
Cons: The longer you work, the more memory it requires. You have to save/close/restart it at least every 5 min which is very annoying especially if you work with large video projects and have to reload the large video files.
Summary: This is junk!!! Don't even waste your precious bandwidth downloading the trial!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: CyberLink PowerDirector 8.0
"Crapola Don't believe the hype"
Pros: I liked it when it worked, which is about 10% of the tijme
Cons: bugs galore
You can't make a movie from beginning to end without miserable problemsSummary: You can't make a movie from beginning to end without miserable problems. There support is the worst
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