Director Suite is CyberLink's most powerful post-production suite, which includes PowerDirector 14, PhotoDirector 7, ColorDirector 4, AudioDirector 6 and more than $1,000 worth of premium effects and templates.
As with previous releases, PowerDirector 14 provides everything you need to create professional videos, complete with soundtrack, transitions, special effects and more, before exporting your project to a file, sharing it online, or burning it to disc, complete with your own custom menus.
New features include the Action Center, a single module where you can stabilize shaky footage, correct fish-eye distortion, fix colour problems and apply slow motion, freeze and zoom effects.
Experts will appreciate the new support for intelligent motion tracking, while novices - or anyone in a hurry - can now create polished movies faster than ever with the Express Projects module.
Whatever you're doing, CyberLink's enhanced SVRT 4 (Smart Video Rendering Technology) and TrueVelocity 5 Rendering Engine, along with wider CPU and GPU encoding support, ensures the best possible performance - even when rendering 120/ 240 fps video.
The suite also includes PhotoDirector 7, a powerful tool for transforming regular images into polished, professional photos.
This now supports layer-based editing with a long list of tools - Pen/ Eraser/ Add Shape/ Text/ Selection/ Fill/ Gradient - and no less than 14 blending modes.
New Beautifier Tools like the Face Shaper, Eye Bag Remover, Eye Enlarger and Skin Shine Remover help you produce the perfect portrait.
There are smart new blur tools to create localised blurred regions, apply zoom or motion effects - with radial or focal zoom - as well as new Bokeh blur options.
Enhanced RAW support means the program can handle more file formats than ever, and 100+ lens profiles allow it to automatically fix a host of common lens flaws.
The suite also includes ColorDirector, a professional colour correction tool which uses advanced motion tracking to help enhance, correct and adjust the colour temperature and intensity of your videos.
Finally, AudioDirector is a capable and very complete sound designer which can apply special effects to your soundtrack, repair audio problems, record custom audio, mix tracks and more.
Verdict:
Director Suite is a significant release, combining the best of CyberLink's video and photo editing technology within a money-saving bundle.
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