The digital photography industry today has several editing and enhancing tools to boast of for improvising the look of images and pictures and to augment their visual appeal. Similarly, video files also have a myriad of applications designed and developed for video editing and necessary alterations which also act as an aid for adding numerous effects and transitions to make the video more visually attractive and usually used for removing any ‘noise’ elements or any other unsolicited components. Such applications also have some extra add-ons for inserting designs and textures to make the video more realistic and intuitive. CyberLink PowerDirector 8 is one such tool that offers varied sort of features to edit and preview video files making it highly constructive and practical.

CyberLink PowerDirector opens with a vivid looking interface with the chief options located at the left and top panel and the dark background lending it an attractive appeal. The right side of the application interface includes the space for viewing the video and the bottom pane of the screen displaying the options for recording and adding effects. The PiP effects play an important role into the expanded 16 track timeline and aids in adding new particle effects into the movies with ease. The software also offers a myriad of numerous downloadable effects to make use of and the users can directly upload and share the creations with others through the mediums of YouTube and social networks. It can transform the plain looking videos into high quality and watchable edited movies with the help of its unique effects and in a much faster way and more optimally.

To conclude, CyberLink PowerDirector 8 definitely proves to be a highly practical utility owing to its elaborate tools and features and hence gets a rating score of four points for its superlative working and exclusive features.