Friday, January 18, 2008

In-house Director

CyberLink PowerDirector 6

The advent of affordable HDV cameras has given rise to a number of prosumer centric software and hardware. Now, users can easily produce a good quality movie or a holiday video with just their computers and a handycam and share it with their friends on their iPods and PSPs or even show them across the world through websites like YouTube. Cyberlink has recently updates PowerDirector with a new version that supports H.264 encoding and direct uploading to YouTube. It also has an easy-to-use DVD menu designer, a Slide Show designer, video overlay and PIP options, and new easy-to-use tools such as Magic Style, Magic Music, Magic Clean, Magic Cut, Magic Fix and a movie making wizard called Magic Movie.

The Magic Cut automatically edits video based on criteria like dialogs, pans, zooms, movement, or duration of scenes. There is Magic Clean that corrects levels; manages white balance, color adjustment on images, and video; and applies noise reduction when used on audio. Magic Fix can clean up red eyes and stabilize video taken with jittery hands. There is also Magic Style that converts slideshows to pan/scan type stylized videos and Magic Music that provides stock music that can be fitted to the user's video.

For: Lots of features at a low price, easy to use.
Against: Very basic controls.

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