Review by Thorvald

I am absolutely astounded by how much this video editing software does, easily and quite intuitively.

As others have mentioned, it takes a long time to load, and each individual piece needs to be registered and activated, so your initial setup will take some time. But, for me, every step was smooth and trouble-free.

I’ve used several other brands of video editing software over the years, plus professional editing platforms (30+ years in television production), and was astounded by what the Cyberlink PowerDirector 11 Ultimate Suite does, and how easily it does it.

The tools available let you range from very novice up to near-broadcast pro levels, depending on how you use it and what you want to do. The video editing offered a wizard that prepped and packaged a video with cutesy effects all with a few clicks. For putting together a birthday video for grandma of the kids, without much effort or editing knowledge, this was super. There were effects and packages for a large variety of occasions and events.

Going into more manual video editing, I found the functions extremely easy to use without any laborious training or reading (print manuals were included, which I appreciated). It’s drag-and-drop for most purposes–drag your video clips in in order, trim them, then drag in overlays, special effects, transitions, and titles. To alter something, like the titles, just double-click. It’s really that easy. There’s a ton of graphics and effects built in to use.

Stepping up to more advanced levels of use and editing capabilities, it’s all there, too. Color adjustments, audio mixing and editing… all extremely impressive, yet quite easy to figure out how to use.

This beats every other piece of video editing software I’ve ever used. Very impressed.