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    Cyberlink PowerDirector 9 Review Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Dustin Sklavos, Jun 1, 2011.

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    By Dustin Sklavos

    I've stated as much that I'm not a big fan of consumer grade video editing software. While skills adopted in Final Cut Pro are just as useful in Premiere or Avid, consumer video editors all require an unreasonable amount of adaptation. The learning curve winds up being worse than just going with the professional grade stuff to begin with. So that said, if I had to pick one out of a crowd of "meh," up until this point I chose Pinnacle Studio 14. The best of a bad bunch, Pinnacle Studio 14 actually did a pretty reasonable job of streamlining the video editing process. But if I say they're a bad bunch that means there's room for improvement.

    Enter Cyberlink PowerDirector 9.

    PowerDirector 9 makes me wonder where I was for entries one through eight, because at least on the cover, Cyberlink is leveraging some pretty awesome stuff for version 9. The checkboxes just in terms of the technology are impressive: Cyberlink claims first-to-market bragging rights on 64-bit consumer video editing software, and they bring support for GPU acceleration to the table -- from both AMD and NVIDIA. While Adobe is very proud of their CUDA-powered Mercury Playback Engine in Premiere Pro CS5, Cyberlink went ahead and got in touch with the competition, too. In many ways, this actually puts PowerDirector 9 ahead of the curve, though it still isn't quite as robust as professional grade kit.



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