Reviews of CyberLink PowerDirector

1. 
   TigerTou

   Reviewing 8 (Sep 18, 2009)

   Last year, we purchased a Compaq with PowerDirector 6 installed with Vista. Just a few days back discovered PD6.What a miserable mess. Spends 60% of its time in non responding/crashing mode. It took over 2 hours to simply create two title pages, one transition, and add one avi video to the story line. That is before creating the project or burning it. This application is absolutely worthless. Can't imagine why anyone would pay for it. Creation should be fun. CyberLink has made it frustrating to the point of pain. Pinnacle is much better.
2. 
   iMO

   Reviewing 7 (Dec 9, 2008)

   I tried to have this encode some DV video (13GB each) to DVD, no editing, no authoring, just import and burn. It failed beyond belief. First tried to include the 13GB .AVI in the project-file, moving it to the system drive. Then instantly started to spin up the drive for burning, while it tried to encode the dvd ON-THE-FLY WHILE BURNING. After 10 min of having the drive (philips) spin at full speed and without the progress indicator moving a slightest bit, i clicked cancel because the drive was about to overheat. Of course nothing happened. Waited 3 more min, the ended the task. Vista after that was not able to restart (first time ever!) and i had to push reset (first time ever) (drive was still spinning at max. speed). Vista after rebooting went mad on the hard drives for 10 minutes. I have tested many apps, but never seen a piece of s**t like this one. Did i mention the charge 120 EUR for it (being in a package with some other c**p). Worst coded stuff I have seen in a while. Made me sign up to betanews just for dissing it. Avoid at all cost.
3. 
   sokw

   Reviewing 2.5 (Nov 17, 2002)

   Particularly good in Video Capturing (with time marks and Audio) when comparing with DVD Factory 1.0.
   But the SVCD made with this program could not be viewed smoothly with my DVD player (AIWA) while the one made with DVD Factory could (even SVCDs were made with the same parameters).

Discuss CyberLink PowerDirector

1. Sep 18, 2009 - 4:39 AM
   TigerTou

   If anyone has actually made this thing work well enough to recommend it, please let me know your secret. Each change maade results in a lengthy delay, a non-responding notice, or aa crash.