Review by Jacob and Kiki Hantla

I have used PowerDirector for some time now and found that the transition to Power Director 10 was seamless. Version 10 is noticeably quicker and I am not seeing the crashes that I saw with the previous versions. PowerDirector 9 was buggy on my 64 Bit Windows 7 i7 system with 16 GB of RAM (PowerDirector 9 ran perfectly when I first installed it and overtime started crashing. Reinstall didn’t help. Customer support was clueless. Hopefully 10 maintains it’s great performance). PowerDirector 10 runs like it was built for my hardware. The good news is that PowerDirector is so easy to use and intuitive that you would be up and running quickly even with minimal experience in video editing.

My video editing is pretty basic, splicing together shots, trimming videos, importing stills, adding transitions, and messing with audio. Basically, I want software that just works quickly and does what I want, which is why I bailed on Adobe Premiere. I love Adobe Photoshop and generally think that in every category Adobe beats the competitors…except video for my basic purposes. I can get done in 5 minutes on PowerDirector what might have taken 15 on Premiere (granted I have an old version of Premiere so it may not be a fair comparison).