My 2TB HP disk failed completely, so I swapped it for a 500GB Crucial SSD. I then had to reinstall Windows 10 (64-bit) from Microsoft Media tool. I'm now trying to re-install Cyberlink PowerDirector from a backup of C:\SwSetup\SP74940\Setup.exe. This aborts with the message 'This is not a valid HP drive. Setup will now abort'. HP Support Assistant doesn't list any problems, and all my drivers are uptodate. How can I reload this software, that was originally pre-installed? I have no 'hp recovery partition' as this is a new SSD, and my old HD is unreadable.
Tried the suggested sp77573.exe. This creates the folder then 'dies' - nothing further. Tried running the setup.exe within the newly created folder (as Administrator), and this too just 'dies' - no error message, prompts or anything.
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There is no Constant Bitrate. At all. It's Variable Bitrate and there's no option to change this. Why though? Every other video editor in existence has this, yet it was intentionally designed without it. Name one video editor that doesn't have seperate "VBR" and "CBR" options. I can wait.
Transitions are fundamentally broken. Essentially, most transitions you see in the Transitions menu have an issue where the actual visual effect of the transition only takes place in the last 20% of the transition "clip" in the timeline, and this scales with the length of the transition. A visual example can be seen in this video I uploaded for support (which they ignored, I'll get into that later in this post): =TKAMPCT4I6E Notice how the transition only starts after the playhead has reached the last 20% of the transition? The start of the transition and the visual effects provided by the transition should happen at the exact same time, but they don't because Cyberlink boomer logic or something, who knows? This also happens if the transitions are placed on images or clips. Some work properly though, like Fade, but why can't all of them be properly programmed? The broken transitions can't be modified either, so you can't even attempt to fix this yourself.
You can't manually enter a resolution without editing the config file directly. For example, I can't create a custom preset that renders in 2560x1440 resolution, because I'm limited to a very strange selection of pre-made resolution options for custom presets. There's no field that lets me enter an aspect ratio or resolution, a very basic core feature that every other video editor has.
Bitrate has unnecessary added limits depending on resolution. Again, why? If I choose a 1080p preset, attempting to set a bitrate higher than 30000 kbps or lower than 5000 kbps will throw an error saying that it's outside the limits. But... why have limits in the first place? No other video editor has these artificial limitations in place. I can go into Shotcut, Vegas, Adobe, etc and create any resolution I want with any bitrate I want and there's no issues, there's quite literally no reason for these to exist, no exceptions.
There's no way to make an image slide across the screen. If you open Title Designer and go to the Motion tab, you can do this with titles. However, if you attempt to do it with an image, it'll disable that menu, claiming it's not available for images. Yet another strangely disabled basic feature, omitted for seemingly no reason. In any other editor this is stupidly easy. I don't mean complex motions, I mean just simple things like an image slowly moving from the left side of the video to the right side in a constant motion. Sounds easy right? Well go complain to Cyberlink, I'm sure they'll listen...
People who respond try as hard as they possibly can to say that any issue is on your end and try to prove there's no possible way that there could be even any slight issues with their software. They'll even cherry-pick things in reports, only commenting on things that they know they can prove you wrong about, all the while ignoring the actual issue you're reporting.
A good example of this is when I spent many months documenting a very serious bug that popped up in really old versions of PowerDirector and still exists to this day - if you import, let's just say, a video game recording that has a constant bitrate of 30000 kbps and is 1440p at 60 frames per second, importing this into the editor and producing with a resolution of 1440p, a framerate of 60 frames per second, and a bitrate of 30000 kbps causes the program to completely ignore the bitrate you set and absolutely destroy the quality, lowering it to 2000 kbps and making it look 20 FPS. However, if you go back to the editor and simply insert a text slide - just one, anywhere in the project, any length, even one millisecond - and produce the video again, it'll actually respect the bitrate you set, the output video will be 30000 kbps and still look correct. If I import the same clip into any other video editor and set the same exact settings, this issue doesn't happen, it's 100% confirmed a bug on a code level. I documented this and sent it to support - they got back to me, only to claim that "this is a feature, not a bug". It's very obviously a bug. This is the kind of thing that makes my blood boil, both when it happens to me and when I see it happening to others.
The last thing they do is cherry-pick parts of support threads to respond to, ignoring the ones that they can't respond to without slightly ruining their huge ego. An example of this is just recently when I went super in-depth about the fundamentally broken transitions, recording videos, giving examples, drawing diagrams, and showing that it was broken on text slides, images, AND clips. Their response? "You shouldn't use transitions on text slides" followed by radio silence. See how they cherry-picked the text slides part of the issue because it's the only part that they could blame my actions as being the problem, completely ignoring the fact that the issue is with transitions on everything and not just on text slides?
There's a lot more than this, but these are just a few major issues. I'm not sure where the issue lies - is support actually hired? Are they not allowed to give actual support because of an NDA just as unnecessarily limited as their software? Does the dev team actually not have any contact with PR/support so they're just left to guesstimate? Either way, these people seem genuine albeit not qualified for this at all. The sales model of "pay lots of money but later we release a "much better" version that you have to buy again" makes me think Cyberlink doesn't actually give a crap about their customers when combined with everything I've described here. I mean, imagine if other video editors had yearly re-releases instead of feature updates, each one having standard, pro, and ultra editions! I have 2 big video editing projects involving PowerDirector. After that, I'm abandoning Cyberlink entirely. In its current state, due to both the missing features and a joke of a support system, this editor isn't worth what it's selling for. In fact, making it free wouldn't do it justice as actual free open-source software does everything this does, but better, and isn't missing any core features.
CyberLink's PowerDirector 365 video editing software bridges the gap between professional editing power and consumer friendliness. This app is often ahead of competing software in its support for new formats and technologies. It's loaded with tools that help you make compelling videos with transitions, effects, and titles. Best of all, it's easy to work with and fast at rendering. PowerDirector is the prosumer video editing software to beat and a five-star PCMag Editors' Choice winner.
Recent updates to CyberLink PowerDirector 365 have added new artificial intelligence (AI) features while cutting down on interface complexity. As with Adobe's Creative Cloud, the 365 version of PowerDirector and the larger Director Suite 365, which includes photo and audio software, gets updated throughout the year. CyberLink adds features, effects, and improvements at a dizzying pace, as you can see from PowerDirector's new features page and in the video below.
PowerDirector runs on Microsoft Windows 11 or Windows 10, with a 64-bit version required. You need a minimum of 4GB RAM, 7GB of hard disk space, and at least a 128MB VGA VRAM graphics card (2GB for AI features). Any Intel Core i-series will work, but for AI features it has to be fourth generation or later; for AMD, those requirements are Phenom II or later, and for AI features, A8-7670K and later, AMD Ryzen 3 1200A or better.
The macOS version arrived in 2021 and requires macOS 10.14 or later and runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon-based Macs. The Mac version is close to parity with the Windows version with a lot of advanced features like speech-to-text, AI Object Detection, Wind Removal, and Motion Tracking, but it lacks some newer features like the AI Image Generator.
You can try PowerDirector for 30 days with a downloadable trial that adds brand watermarks and doesn't support 4K. A $139.99 Ultimate edition of the standalone video editor is the only version that's available as a lifetime license.
PowerDirector 365 (the version tested here) is a $74.99-per-year (often discounted) or $19.99-per-month subscription. Another option is to bundle PowerDirector with CyberLink's ColorDirector, AudioDirector, and PhotoDirector in the Director Suite option, which is only available as a subscription for $29.99 per month or $129.99 for a year. Both subscriptions get you regular updates with new effects, plug-ins, music samples, and stock media. Note that the subscription is the only option for PowerDirector for Mac.
The software comes with a bundle of third-party tools from the likes of Boris FX, NewBlue, and proDAD. And you get cloud storage. Ultimate (the perpetual-license option) includes 25GB for one year; PowerDirector 365 includes 50GB, and Director Suite gets you 100GB.
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