This lets you take stereo audio and create 5.1 surround effects in the mix. The headline new feature here is the Surround Sound Panner. There’s a new 64-bit GPU-accelerated rendering engine underneath, too.ĪudioDirector has reached its fourth incarnation. You can also apply colour look-up tables (LUTs) created by third-party applications, such as DaVinci Resolve. If you purchase the PowerDirector 12 Ultimate Suite or Director Suite 2, you also get ColorDirector and AudioDirector, both of which have seen significant new feature additions.ĬolorDirector is now on version 2, and this adds a new faux HDR effect, alongside its existing powerful motion tracking and colour replacement toolset. Since the previous version, PowerDirector hasn’t been about what is new only in the main app, either. Another enhancement appears when you drag a clip over another clip, where your are presented with options as to whether you want to overwrite, trim, crossfade, or even speed up a clip to make it fit. You can now select a portion of the timeline to render out as a file, which is great for quick full-resolution previews. There are a number of welcome usability tweaks, too. We edited some 4K footage from a GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition without an issue.

Although this is hardly a necessity yet, there’s extended support for 4K video resolutions in all but the Deluxe version, too. Another new 64-bit-only feature is Motion Blur for picture-in-picture and title effects. All of CyberLink’s applications now have 64-bit versions, which bring some great benefits, such as 40 per cent faster H.264 video rendering. The Deluxe version doesn’t include the Multicam Designer, either, and a number of other new features too numerous to mention here, primarily because it is actually 32-bit only.ĬyberLink has continued to tweak the underlying engine of PowerDirector. The different versions of PowerDirector come with a smaller or greater number of presets for the Theme Designer, which come as part of the content packs, with the Deluxe version not offering the Premium pack. CyberLink PowerDirector 12 Ultimate Suite ReviewĬyberLink PowerDirector 12 Ultimate: Performance.

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