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Originally Posted by Mike Lewis
Just ordered Cyberlink Power Director Ultimate which is very cheap at Amazon atm, to see what's wrong with that one!
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When you get it and install, before doing anything else be sure to go to
DVD Player Software, Video Editing, DVD Burner, Blu-ray Player and DVD Decoder - CyberLink and download the patch to the latest build. 2227c is the latest I know of and has "stomped" a lot of the "undocumented features" we refer to as bugs.
You were smart buying a retail version from an Amazon associated Vendor, you get the "box" version with a pretty good manual. The "build" is usually an older one, though and will really need updating before you attempt to use it because sometimes the updated patched version may not read project files you were working on in a previous "build" version (this is not uncommon with NLE's)
The website also has a pretty good forum for mutual support as long as we're nice. Register and take advantage of it.
PD7 has a different interface that on one hand is somewhat familiar but can seem a bit odd at times. It is quite a bit less demanding of computer resources and I am able to smoothly edit 1920x1080 17Mbps on a computer Pinnacle feels is a tad slow.
I think if you have the patience to deal with the learning curve you will find it eminently usable. The first thing that threw me was not being able to find a "fade to black" transition. The "fade" is a dissolve but used in conjuntion with color blocks also works as fade to "color". Things like that!
Youtube has a cyberlink power director channel with many video tutorials in place which really help. I did the one on titles and the one on creating a HDD file for playback on an HDD camcorder.
I use both Pinnacle Studio 12 and CyberLink PowerDirector 7 Ultra.