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The previous version of PowerDirector did a reasonable job of dealing with badly-lit backdrops.

Getting a good ‘key’ in these circumstances can be difficult, resulting in jagged edges and green fringes around the foreground performer. Many of us do green-screening in our offices, studios or bedrooms, with very imperfect lighting. Most video editors provide some kind of Chroma Key facility to remove plain background colours and substitute an image or video into the background – but often this only works well if you have an absolutely perfectly illuminated green screen. The integrated audio editor gives you quick access to audio cleanup and effects optionsĬhroma Key (‘green screen’) has been improved too. This includes effects such as Reverb, Pitch-shift and Noise reduction. Now PowerDirector 17 now pretty decent audio editing capabilities in a popup editor window. In previous releases, if you wanted to do anything more than very basic edition editing (cutting, volume control and son on) you were obliged to launch the audio clip into a separate Wave Editor program, or another audio editor of your choosing. One of the most useful improvements is the integrated audio editing.

OK, but what’s new in this latest release? For a more in-depth look at its core features, refer to my reviews of previous versions: PowerDirector 16 and PowerDirector 15. In my experience, it can render videos significantly more rapidly than any other video editing package I’ve used.

One of the most striking features of PowerDirector is its production speed. Once you’ve finished editing, you can produce the final video in a range of common formats. You can change the colours of video clips, make them look like old black and white films or cartoons and apply a whole batch of other snazzy effects. You can apply ‘transitions’ to fade one clip into another with optional effects such as wipes, dissolves and so forth. This is a video-editing package that lets you import video and audio clips and edit them on multiple tracks arranged on a horizontal timeline. For those of you who are unfamiliar with PowerDirector, let me begin with a brief overview.