Ok so this is what I expected when I saw the announcement on the release of CyberLink PowerDirector 10.
I expected CyberLink to have sat back for a year and taken it easy knowing they had done better than everyone else with PowerDirector 9.
I expected PowerDirector 10 to be a cosmetic tart up of the existing program to make it look a) pretty and b) different enough from PD 9 to qualify as a “new” version.
Cynical aren’t I?
So with a resigned sigh I downloaded a copy of the new version and installed it. It was at that exact moment that I suddenly sat up a took a little notice of what was going on.
Video editing software programs are pretty big these days. In order to make them more manageable for downloading they are very heavily compressed. So the first step of the installation is to inflate those compressed files.
This usually takes a bit of time to accomplish… well not so with PowerDirector 10! It took seconds.
The next step is to actually get the installation process going.
Usually this is the time where you go make your beverage of choice and maybe read the newspaper or, sit there blankly watching the progress indicator crawl at a snail’s pace across the screen… again… not so with PowerDirector 10.
I was registered and open for business inside a couple of minutes.
To cut a long story short I was totally wrong about my predictions as far as PowerDirector 10 went.
CyberLink have made almost no cosmetic changes to the software but the changes they have made under the hood are astounding.
If you thought PD 9 was fast wait until you get a load of PowerDirector 10, it goes like a rocket!
They have added a bunch of useful and practical new features and well I could just go on and on.
In fact I already did go on and on with a full review here: CyberLink PowerDirector 10 Review
If the idea of wading through three pages of my rambling on about the software is too much for you to bear (I completely understand) you can take a look here at the latest version of CyberLink PowerDirector 10
Did I mention it goes really fast?
