![]() But this never made it to the shipping version, instead being replaced by a much more simple tool. PowerDirector 6 was due to include an elaborate Slideshow Designer, which we were shown in preview beta code. If you do log into your Flickr account, you can download your own photos. From within PowerDirector, you can search by subject to call up royalty-free sound effects from Freesound, or photos from Flickr. ![]() You can access Flickr without registering, but Freesound requires a login. The software links directly to the Flickr and Freesound online services, allowing you to import image and audio content from either, straight into your media library. This brings us to another new feature, which is unique to PowerDirector. Disc authoring menu templates can be shared in the same way. Now you can also post those presets directly onto CyberLink’s community sharing site, the DirectorZone, or download someone else’s creations. The previous version of PowerDirector already had a fairly powerful motion-control applet, with editable keyframes, onscreen motion paths, and the ability to save custom presets. The Magic Clean used to only allow one improvement method at a time, but now you can apply Lighting and Colour Adjustment, White Balance and Backlight Compensation all at the same time. At least these can now be added on top of effects without erasing them. You wouldn’t expect the automatic editing functions to have keyframing, but the image-improvement tools should. The Magic tools added in the last few versions also can’t be keyframed. The interface is easy to use, although unfortunately you can’t export your custom effects settings as presets. However, now you can vary the parameters of these effects over the duration of a clip using keyframes. Video effects could already be layered in version 6, and there is still a limit of up to seven at a time. This is still fewer than the competition, but there will be very few occasions where you need even six extra tracks. Where version 6 added a single picture-in-picture track, version 7 allows up to six of them. Where PowerDirector has made its biggest leap forward, however, is in its editing capabilities. Even MP4s from Toshiba’s new Camileo Pro HD were supported. We couldn’t find a single incompatible file format. In fact, it could handle both on the same timeline. We tried progressive Full HD AVCHD from Canon’s HF10 and the MPEG-2-based equivalent shot on JVC’s Everio GZ-HD6, and the software didn’t miss a trick. As with previous PowerDirectors, version 7 has adopted all the latest camcorder file formats.
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