Theme Designer NEW
Create videos with 3D animated themes The NEW Theme Designer is an easy and powerful tool for converting your videos and photos into stylish 3D-animated slideshow videos. Simply drag and drop your videos and photos to a selection of over 20 built-in animated design templates, and youâ?™re ready to showcase your creation!
Step 1: Select a template
Step 2: Drag-and-drop media to the template
Step 3: Produce and share!
Design Studio Tools
Bring stylish design to your video creation PowerDirector’s Design Studio tools give your more freedom to design and control the PiP, Title, Particle effects in your video projects. Use the precise keyframe controls and maximize on full screen editing panel to create your own effects. When your video editing is done, you can produce them to DVD discs with stylish menus.
PiP Designer – Overlay graphics on your videos and design its animation with the convenient timeline interface.
Title Designer – Customize title designs with various font types, color gradients and animated effects.
Particle Designer – Design your own particle effects using your own graphic objects and use the built-in animated effects.
Menu Designer – Personalize menus with titles, chapters, particles and PiP objects to suite your own unique flair.
Video Creation Without Hassle
Whether you are skillful or novice video editor, PowerDirector 12 provides the easy yet powerful way to create videos. With over 100 video editing tools, you can fully control your video creation in a professional way. If you are new to video editing, you can also use the Easy Mode to create videos in minutes.
Easy-to-use Interface
Intuitive, easy-to-learn and powerful The NEW editing mode selection interface gives you total video editing control right upon starting PowerDirector.
* Full Feature Editor: includes 100-track video editing interface
* Easy Editor: features MagicMovie for instant video creation
* Slideshow Creator: creates stylish photo slideshows
Even if you are not a skillful video editor, you can still create high-quality videos in minutes with PowerDirector’s MagicMovie tools. Simply choose the videos and photos that you want to use, select a template and let PowerDirector handle the rest!
For beginners, it’s easy to learn how to create your very first video project. Simply import your media, place them onto timeline, add some fancy titles and effects, arrange transitions between shots and you are ready to produce your videos!
Powerful Editing Tools
The most complete editing tools to unleash your creativity If you are a skillful video editor, you will be happy with PowerDirector’s complete range of editing tools and the most productive environment, providing the utmost efficiency when producing videos.
100-track Timeline – Unleash your creativity with the 100-track timeline. Overlay footage, PiP objects, titles and particles to design unique visual effects.
Precise Keyframe – Edit effects within a single interface for easy timing and synchronization on the video timeline. A must-have tool to create unique visual effects.
Media Library – When viewing content from Media library, you can adjust the size of the thumbnail for easier organizing and searching of media content.
Effect & Transitions – Access over 300 built-in high-quality effects, transitions, titles and PiP objects to make your creations stand out.
Chroma Key ENHANCED – Take videos in front of a green sheet or blue sheet and merge with other videos to create special effects like they do in weather broadcasts or Hollywood movies.
Hand-paint Animation – Design your own hand-drawn artwork using an array of brushes, then record them or apply distortion effects, action and speed before integrating into your video projects.
Subtitle Room NEW – Customize your subtitle design by setting font, color and position. With easy-to-use subtitle room tool, you can quickly insert subtitles, import and export to SRT format.
Time-lapse Slideshow – Create amazing time-lapse or stop motion videos. Also includes complete tools to customize photo slideshows with animations and background music.
TrueTheater® Enhancement
Enhance your video for best viewing experience The award-winning TrueTheater® technology enhances and fixes the not-so-perfect footage, by removing its shakiness and video noise or by enhancing the lighting. You can even upscale SD videos to HD quality!
TrueTheater® HD – Upscale videos captured by your SD camcorders to HD-like quality with CyberLinkâ?™s TrueTheater® HD technology.
TrueTheater® Stabilizer – TrueTheater® Stabilizer technology automatically fixes shakiness for footage taken from a handheld camcorder.
TrueTheater® Lighting – TrueTheater® Lighting fixes lighting issues in your footage, such as. white balance and back light problems.
TrueTheater® De-noise – Use TrueTheater® De-noise to eliminate video noise, such as for night shots, to produce clean, smooth visuals.
World’s Fastest Video Editing
TrueVelocity 4 is the worldâ?™s fastest video editing engine. With OpenCL and multi-GPGPU support, you can fully optimize the hardware resource on your computer and experience the ultra fast rendering.
Optimized for Intel AVX 2 – PowerDirector 12 is optimized for AVX2 technology on Intel® 4th Generation Core Technology (Haswell), providing faster rendering speed with latest processor technology.
Hardware Acceleration – PowerDirector is optimized for the latest generation hardware from Intel ® Core Technology, AMD ® APU and nVidia ® GPU technology.
SVRT 3 – Intelligent Smart Video Rendering Technology (SVRT) analyzes an entire project to assess the types of media and formats used, then selects the best output profile for optimal production speed.
Multi-GPGPU Acceleration – With Multi-GPGPU support, you can maximize performance from both onboard GPU and external graphic card.
What is new in PowerDirector 12 to build 2930
-Resolves issue that video and audio become unlinked after loading a project that previously had its video speed changed and clips trimmed.
-Improves preview performance for PiP Designer under Windows 8.1 with an NVIDIA GeForce 700 series graphics card.
-Resolves the issue that shadow distance is altered every time the Title Designer is opened.
-Improves color detection accuracy for Chroma Key feature. Improves response time when opening Pixelan Transition plugins.
-Resolves the issue of the Glow transition’s value changing after re-loading a project.
-Resolves the issue of the program randomly crashing when editing the Color Adjustment in projects created with PowerDirector 10.
-Resolves issue where “Seek by” type is not remembered after selecting objects in library.
-Resolves issue where the program randomly crashes after updating information displayed in the timeline.
-Improves program stability when previewing timeline clips on some platforms.
-Fixes program hang issue when importing some MP3 clips. Resolves the issue that ColorDirector effect is re-applied after reopening the project.
-Improves program stability when opening and closing the PiP Designer.
-Fixes crash issue when playing back clips produced with NVIDIA Kepler hardware video encoder.
System Requirements
Operating System : Microsoft Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 3 is required for HDV capture).
Screen Resolution : 1024 x 768, 16-bit color or above
CPU Processor :PowerDirector 12 is optimized for CPUs with MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNow! Extension/HyperThreading/ Intel AVX2 technology.
AVI Capture/Produce: Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
DVD Quality (MPEG-2) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2
High Quality MPEG-4 and Streaming WMV, QuickTime) Profiles: Pentium 4 3.0 Ghz or AMD Athlon 64 X2.
Full-HD quality H.264 and MPEG2 Profiles: Intel Corei5/7 or AMD Phenom II X4
Memory : 2GB required – 3GB or above recommended for 32 bit OS
Hard Disk Space : 5 GB required minimum (note: 400 MB is for Magic Music Library) – 10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production
Languages : English, German, Japanese, Russian
