


Another click provokes another swirl through 3D space and finally I can start enhancing the photo. Very clever, except the program assumes I want to create a slideshow. Here you can click on function buttons along the bottom of the window: Auto Enhance (seems to do nothing), Red Eye Removal, Modify and Crop.Ĭyberlink MediaShow presents a good range of effective image enhancement functionsĬhoosing an image in Cyberlink's MediaShow and clicking on Edit causes the interface to revolve in 3D. Image editingĪfter selecting an image in Nero MediaHub, clicking on the Edit button opens that image file in an adjustment mode. Cyberlink offers a similar feature within MediaShow. A separate utility, Nero Recode, converts non-protected DVD movies to formats for other devices, such as mobile phones. Inevitably, the transitions, visual effects, frame clip art and silly animated titles are all ugly.

The program also had no problem at all in supporting my QuickTime DV clips. Scrubbing response is good with the curious exception of the Jog/Shuttle control, which is extremely jerky to use. Vision Xtra sensibly provides two video tracks for overlapping clips, plus separate music and narration tracks. Nero's video editing package is Vision Xtra, which sports a very clean interface with the preview panel on the left and an arrangement of media, effects and properties panels on the right. Nero Vision Xtra offers a sensible way to handle two simultaneous video tracks It was also unfortunate that the program did not support any of my hundreds of QuickTime DV clips. I found it a bit annoying that the videos I had added to MediaShow earlier did not appear in PowerDirector – I had to go find them again. You can also share your work online with other PowerDirector users at a site called DirectorZone. PowerDirector's Produce tab is brilliant, making it very simple to pick video formats without having to understand codecs, and to upload your work directly to YouTube and Facebook. You can add separate background music and narration tracks. The transitions, just like the 'special' effects and clip art, are hideous as expected from a home-user product. There is only one master video track, for some reason, forcing you to use the PiP track to handle overlapping transitions from one clip to another. Cyberlink PowerDirector makes video editing as uncomplicated as possibleĬonsumer video editing programs often perform sluggishly, but PowerDirector is quite responsive except when adjusting the main movie and PiP (picture-in-picture) track, which invariably causes everything to freeze for several seconds.
