![]() The collage designer lets you edit together multiple video clips and show them in split-screen views. And the Create Disc workspace is where you can, optionally, build a video complete with a menu system for DVD. The Produce workspace is where you select the video format of your final video and render it to disk. The Edit workspace is where you actually create your videos by arranging clips on a timeline, cutting and moving them, applying effects and transitions as required. In the Capture workspace you can capture video or audio directly from a connected camera, microphone, webcam, CD or some other device, Or you can start up the screen-recording tool to make a recording of activity on your computer screen – which is useful if you need to do ‘screencasts’ showing software being used. ![]() The user interface remains much as it was previously: there are tabs across the top that let you switch between four workspaces: Capture, Edit, Produce and Create Disc. PowerDirector’s demo of some of its 360 degree capabilities Consequently, for the sort of video editing that I do, which doesn’t need fancy effects such 360 degree panoramas and collages, the new features are not hugely important. In fact, in terms of its core editing and production capabilities, it is really not vastly different from PowerDirector 14 (see my review from 2015). In spite of these additions, the essential software hasn’t really changed very much since the last release which I reviewed about a year ago. You may need to experiment with various options to get good results however. Even so, automatic audio-ducking is a lot faster than adjusting audio the hard way so it may be useful in some circumstances.Īudio-ducking automatically decreases the volume of a backing track when there is foreground dialog. The end results were still not as good as when I made audio adjustments by hand. I had better luck when I adjusted the settings in the audio-ducking dialog to increase the sensitivity and ducking level. Then end result was a wild cacophony of loud music blasting out at unexpected moments. It then made adjustments to the background music by increasing the volume in the pauses and decreasing it during speech. ![]() I applied the default settings to a backing track and let PowerDirector analyse the other tracks (principally the main video track containing dialogue). My first attempts at audio-ducking were not entirely successful. This automatically lowers the sound on a ‘background’ track containing music or some other kind of ‘background audio’ when there is some dialogue on a ‘foreground’ track. If you regularly make use of musical backing tracks in your videos, the new ‘audio-ducking’ tool might be of use. And there are all kinds of new or improved add-ins for creating titles and applying effects (only with some editions – see below). For example, there is improved stabilization that irons out any camera wobbles, even in 360 degree clips. There are numerous other new or enhanced features too. ![]() The PowerDirector 16 editing environment – clips imported into window at top-left, the multi-track timeline at the bottom, the preview window (showing three videos combined into a ‘collage’ at top-right) These are split-screen videos with clips arranged in predefined ‘patterns’ all on the same screen. This latest release adds in some useful capabilities such as enhanced tools for creating panoramic 360-degree videos (assuming you have an appropriate camera) including ‘little planet’ videos (where panoramas seem to wrap around to form a sphere) and titles that stay ‘inside’ the 3D space, better colour matching and grading tools to change the colour ‘temperatures’ of clips and match the tonal ranges of one clip with another. Cyberlink PowerDirector is a fast and well-featured video editing suite that is, in my experience, far more powerful than its relatively low cost might suggest.
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