Professional Video Editing

PowerDirector Ultimate provides video film-makers and content creators with all the precise professional tools and features, as well as the high-end capabilities needed to take full control of the video production process and workflow - without a long learning curve.

Form Designer

Enhance your videos with fully configurable vector graphics and edit them with automatically customizable text and keyframe controls. Perfect for YouTuber and video tutorials.

Stunning animated graphics and titles

Combine graphic elements with the titles of your videos to make them stylish and modern.

1:1 video for Instagram and Facebook

Easily create and edit perfectly fitting content for social networks. Produce results in square aspect ratio (1:1) for Facebook and Instagram. Or edit and save your videos vertically - the perfect format for social media stories.

Nested projects as customizable BiB objects

You can use your project files repeatedly. Integrate them into scenes using keyframe control to scale, tilt, rotate and adjust transparency.

Audio Scrubbing

Listen to the sound as you drag the playhead across a project to find the scenes you want faster.

Multi-Key Sampling & Chroma Key Editing

Enhanced chroma key engine and multi-key sampling let you perform Hollywood-style green screen editing.

Advanced motion tracking

Ensure 100% accuracy of object tracking in your video clips with precise frame-to-frame motion tracking.

360˚ video stabilization

Blurred video is virtually unavoidable when shooting with a 360° camera. Our 360° VR stabilization technology delivers breathtaking VR video without jerking or shaking in no time at all!

Reversible track order on the timeline

Change the arrangement of tracks on the Timeline from top to bottom or vice versa to suit your workflow.

CPU/GPU performance enhancements

Don't waste time waiting for your software to respond! PowerDirector supports transcoding of video clips without full screen to a single timeline track. Plus: More performance on 8+ core processors with improved multithreading.

4K-quality video preview

Preview your projects in 4K quality and get the best impression of your final videos even before production.

Professional format and camera support

Import and edit video recorded with professional cameras and with HEVC & VP9 HDR10 & HLG, ProRes 10bit 4:2:2, XAVC 8bit 4:2:0 and MXF AVC 8bit 4:2:0 video format.

Plug-ins and effects

Find creative inspiration and realize your artistic vision with access to an ever-growing collection of high-quality plug-ins and content. Choose from a huge collection of animated titles, effects and BiB objects to enhance your projects.

Premium Design Packages

CyberLink's unique creative design packages are the ultimate accessories for film production. Each package includes a range of theme-specific effects, transitions, BiB objects or project templates. This speeds up the creative process.

• Professional effects for video

  Bring a more cinematic sound to your videos with additional third-party plug-ins and sound effects from world-renowned sources like NewBlueFX, proDAD and BorisFX.

  Minimum system requirements

  Operating system

  • Microsoft Windows 10, 8/8.1, 7 (64 bit only)

  Processor (CPU)

  • Intel Core™ i-Series or AMD Phenom® II and above

  Graphics processing unit (GPU)

  • Standard video:  128 MB VGA VRAM or higher
  • 360° video:  DirectX 11 Support
  • AI plug-in: 2 MB VGA VRAM or higher

  Memory

  • 4 GB required (8 GB or more recommended)

  Hard disk space

  • 7 GB

  Burning device

  • A writing drive is required to burn discs

  Sound card

  • Windows-compatible sound card required

  Internet connection

  • An Internet connection is required for initial software activation and for the activation of some file formats. An Internet connection and online registration are required to download updates (patches) and access DirectorZone services.

  Screen resolution

  • 1024 x 768, 16 bit color or higher

  Supported languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Spanish (Europe)
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Dutch

  Format and device support

  Video file (import)

  • ▪ H.265/HEVC (8 bit/10 bit/10 bit with HDR10 and HLG)
  • ▪ MOD
  • ▪ MVC (MTS)
  • ▪ MOV (H.264/HEVC/Alpha PNG/Apple ProRes 10 Bit 4:2:2)
  • ▪ Side-by-side video
  • ▪ MPEG-1
  • ▪ Top-under-video
  • ▪ MPEG-2
  • ▪ Dual stream AVI
  • ▪ MPEG-4 AVC (H.264)
  • ▪ FLV (H.264)
  • ▪ MP4 (XAVC S, XAVC 8 Bit 4:2:0)
  • ▪ MKV (multiple audio tracks)
  • ▪ DEATH
  • ▪ 3GPP2
  • ▪ VOB
  • ▪ AVCHD (M2T, MTS)
  • ▪ VRO
  • ▪ AVI
  • ▪ WMV
  • ▪ DAT
  • ▪ WMV-HD
  • ▪ WTV in H.264/MPEG2 (multiple video and audio tracks)
  • ▪ DV-AVI
  • ▪ DSLR Video Clip in H.264 format with LPCM/AAC/Dolby Digital Audio*
  • ▪ DVR-MS
  • ▪ WebM (VP9)
  • ▪ MXR (8 bit 4:2:0 H.264)
  • ▪ HDR (HEVC HDR10 and HLG) NEW
  • ▪ ProRes 4:2:2 NEW
  • ▪ MXF AVC 4:2:0 NEW
  • ▪ MXF AVC 4:2:0 NEW

  
  

  360° video: Equirectangular format MP4 (H.264). PowerDirector supports your film editing specifications with up to 4K resolution in 2:1 aspect ratio.

  Audio File (Import)

  • ▪ WAV, MP3, WMA, M4A, OGG, FLAC, AAC, AMR-NB, Opus

  Audio format (import)

  • ▪ AAC, Dolby Digital*, Dolby Digital Plus*, DTS, WAVE, MPEG-1 Layer III, FLAC, ALAC

  Photo file (import)

  • ▪ MPO, JPS, RAW, GIF, BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, Animated GIF, HEIC
    360° photo:
    Equirectangular format JPG/TIF in 2:1 aspect ratio.

  Look-up table (import)

  • ▪ 3DL, MGA, M3D, CUBE, CSP, CMS, RV3DLUT, VF

  Device support for video capturing

  • ▪ Analogue TV receiver
  • ▪ CI or USB recording device that complies with the WDM standard

  Video File Export (Production)

  • ▪ High Definition: AVCHD, AVCHD 2.0 (3D/Progressive) MPEG-2 HD, WMV-HD
  • ▪ 2K/4K resolution: H.264 AVC, WMV, H.265 HEVC, XAVC S
  • ▪ MKV H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC (MKV) with LPCM/AAC/DTS/Dolby Digital Audio
  • ▪ MPEG-2 (MPG) with LPCM/Dolby Digital Audio*
  • ▪ M2TS H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC (M2TS) with LPCM/Dolby Digital Audio
  • ▪ MPEG-4 H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC (MP4) with LPCM/AAC/Dolby Digital Audio
  • ▪ XAVC S (MP4 with AAC audio)
  • ▪ Windows Media (WMV)
  • ▪ Windows AVI/DV-AVI (AVI)
  • ▪ AVCHD2.0 for SD/SDHC/SDXC/MS memory card or flash memory
  • ▪ 3GPP2 for 3G mobile phones
  • ▪ 3D video: MVC, side-by-side, anaglyph
  • ▪ Image sequence (JPG/PNG)
  • ▪ 360° video: Equirectangular format MP4 (H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC)

  Audio file export (production)

  • ▪ AAC (M4A)
  • ▪ WMA
  • ▪ LPCM (WAV)

  Support for output devices

  The following list contains devices from leading manufacturers that have been tested by CyberLink. However, it is not exhaustive. Therefore, your device may be compatible with PowerDirector even if it is not listed here.

  • ▪ iPad, iPhone
  • ▪ Android phones
  • ▪ PlayStation Portable (PSP), PlayStation 3 & 4, PlayStation VITA & VITA TV
  • ▪ XBox 360 & One, Zune

  Supported formats for disc creation

  • ▪ Burn a 3D disc: DVD/AVCHD/BD
  • ▪ DVD
  • ▪ BD burn: BDMV
  • ▪ Burn an AVCHD disc
  • ▪ Burn DVD & BD disc with LPCM 2ch and DTS 5.1ch audio