CyberLink PowerDirector Ultimate 15.0.2509.0 Keygen
Mazie Wingeier
I don't know. I've only used PD, now up to version 17, and nothing else, so I don't know what PP, and FCP, and Resolve have that I would need. Perhaps some of the graphical color correction displays and waveforms? I've produced over 500 videos for a very limited special interest audience using Power Director. But I'm guilty of using inexpensive cameras and 1080P as well, so my needs are much less demanding than a commercial professional requires. I may never need any more capability than I have from Power Director because I am an amateur hobbyist. And I'm old and don't want to change.
However, the base PD only has very rudimentary color grading tools. Even with the ColorDirector add-on, another problem is being able to consistently apply grading across clips. There's no easy way to copy-and-paste settings from one clip to another; you either have to save your settings as a preset and then manually apply them one-by-one, or use the overly-broad "apply to all" which most certainly will not be practical the moment your videos have mixed lightning and/or mixed cameras that require different color grading.
I briefly played around with Resolve, color grading there is much, much more powerful and you can easily take the same settings and... uh... "attach" (not sure if that's the right term) it to multiple clips, and even better making changes to the color later on affect all attached clips together. However the rest of Resolve was waayyy more complicated than I liked so I stuck with PD.
(edit) And since you already have PD16 you might as well just try using it first and see if it is sufficient for your needs. In the very broad, general sense PD17 is going to work the same as PD16 (at least in terms of interface, workflow, how certain things are done, etc). However I did notice they took some things out of PD17 that used to be automated in PD16, like it is no longer straightforward to rotate videos in PD17 and that you cannot just right-click on a clip and produce a freeze frame at the current position of the timeline. (Not saying they completely took it out, just that the convenient options are gone and you have to perform more steps to do that).
I have been using PD for a few months on and off and so far it is doing almost everything I want except a way to somehow adjust LUT intensity, better color grading (like for eg reduce magenta/red/orange from faces of people once you have applied a LUT) etc.
I also keep hearing that PP does previews a lot smoother than PD. My PD preview is okay because I use shadow files but as soon as a LUT is applied and maybe add stabilizer etc, the whole preview just craps out. I have a decent machine with i7 16gb ram, 6gb nvidia, ssd m2. etc so should be a lot smoother.
With that said though though... I really don't know how big of a difference PP will make. But IIRC they do have a 30-day trial so I guess you should really try before you buy. And besides that, there are also other ways to get by with PD, even though they may take more time and effort. For example, not applying effects until the basic cutting and editing is done, or spending time generating render previews. But as they say, time is money... so depending on what you are doing, that should dictate where your priorities lie.
With that said though though... I really don't know how big of a difference PP will make. But IIRC they do have a 30-day trial so I guess you should really try before you buy. And besides that, there are also other ways to get by with PD, even though they may take more time and effort. For example, not applying effects until the basic cutting and editing is done, or spending time generating render previews.
Sorry for lots of questions, what exactly do you mean by spending time generating render previews? Just Googled it, so it basically renders the applied effect for a selected portion of your timeline/clips and renders preview based on what resolution I have chosen for previews.
So for eg, I have 3 clips a, b and c. I apply a LUT, stabilizer, couple of effects to the clip b and do "render preview" for clip b, it takes time. Once done, I choose to preview the whole timeline, the whole a, b and c plays smoothly without lagging because I have already rendered the complex effects already. Am I on the right track?
And thanks for suggesting the 'render preview' option, now it is previewing very smoothly. I installed the trial version of PremierePro and comparing the Warp Stabilizer vs PDR stabilizer, powerdirector did a much much better job with it's "Enhanced Stabilization" option where it takes a lot of computational power but the end result is very smooth with minimal jello effect whereas the Premiere pro result is very jello-wy.
Adrian and GHF--thanks for an interesting and informative discussion. Told you my requirements were minimal. I don't do many special effects but I do a lot of PIP and that has been very easy to do in PD. I, too, struggle with Color Director at times.
I was ticked in PD17 when they moved the video rotation to crop/zoom/pan with a tiny window in the upper right with no indication of function and no update to the help files. But I found it. I had to--lots of inverted camera footage to deal with.
Instead, when I just want to do a simple right-angle rotation (i.e. in cases where my GoPro footage was accidentally upside down or in portrait mode), I'll just go to the keyframes and set the rotation angle to 90/180/270 as needed (plus scaling adjustments for 90/270 fixes).
Unfortunately, all three of them rendered / exported VERY SLOWLY once I did any kind of color adjustment or color grading (whether I used the internal enhancements of powerdirector or whether I used the ColorDirector to adjust the clips and then reload them back into powerdirector).
Once you apply a LUT, it is impossible to adjust the intensity of the LUT. I'm sure this ability will be added in the future but been waiting since PDR 15. Or am I missing something? Is this feature already in powerdirector and I'm not seeing it?
Even with the ColorDirector add-on, another problem is being able to consistently apply grading across clips. There's no easy way to copy-and-paste settings from one clip to another; you either have to save your settings as a preset and then manually apply them one-by-one, or use the overly-broad "apply to all" which most certainly will not be practical the moment your videos have mixed lightning and/or mixed cameras that require different color grading.
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