Why I buy this one ?
- Capture, edit and burn high-definition and widescreen formatted video
- Edit at light speed with 6 magical tools
- Add multiple titles with the enhanced Title Designer
- Create movies in latest High-Defintion MPEG-2/4 formats
- Insert smart captions and preview DV tapes quickly using RichVideo file information

What our customer's say!

"power director 5 is very bad", I have been a power director user for quite some time. I started out using PD 3 then 4 then 5 and the trouble started. PD5 WILL crash. It was unusable. It WILL crash for no reason. It is very frustrating to put in hours and hours on a project and then crash and lose all your data. I think it is time that Cyberlink fixes it's product once and for all or refunds it's customers their money.

"Crash, crash, crash", I managed to make one 20 minute movie, but what a pain! It kept on crashing. I am now buying Adome Premiere and hope for a more stable program that has some cool editing features.

"Version 6 is just as bad - do not buy", I should have listened to the advice on version 5. I really wanted all the special effects so I took a chance and bought version 6 hoping they had fixed the problems. It is just as bad. It crashes within seconds every time I start it. Support sent me a generic response. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.

"First seems good, later sucks", It seems to be good and have everything, but later will slow down and give you glitches. Not as bad as pinacle studio 10 though.

"PowerDirector 5", I have read several forums and reviews on Powerdirector 5. In short I have to agree with what has been said, Save your money. The program crashes all the time no matter what you are doing. The features are ok but not worth $80.00. The computer system I am using far exceeds what Cyberlink recommends to run this program. It took me four hours to make a five minute slide show due to the constant crashing. I am sorry I did not continue to look further at other programs. I'll shelf it and just put it with other junk I have bought over time.

The disk will make an interseting glass coaster.

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"Avoid at all costs!!! Buggiest program I've ever used.", I bought Power Director 4 in May 2005. I loved it and made many projects with it. It is slow and so simple that after awhile you wish for something more to mess with but for the cost it was an incredible program.

I happily upgraded to Power Director 5 in August of 2006 so I could have more to mess with. It took me several weeks to put together a quality product and attempt to burn the DVD. The burn failed. First time for that to ever happen. I have changed nothing on this computer between PD 4 and PD 5.

I contacted Cyberlink customer support and they responded pretty quickly. Said to update several drivers, uninstall PD5, reboot, reinstall PD5 and let her rip.

This time the project burned. But when I played it, the audio and video were slowly getting more and more out of sync the longer it played. Another coaster.

I contacted customer service and was told to update my drivers, uninstall PD 5, reboot and reinstall PD5. And oh, yeah. Make sure nothing else is running and turn down my monitor resolution from high to average because PD 5 doesn't like really high screen resolution. What?

Fine. Another wasted evening, another coaster. Back to customer service. Try changing my DVD burner speed to as slow as it will go. And don't forget to turn off all other programs. Try turning off your internet firewall while you are at it so you can be sure that PD 5 gets all the attention your computer has. Am I on Candid Camera here?

But what the heck. Another coaster. Back to customer service. Who wrote on a Sunday by the way, that I should delete every other burning program on my system, reboot, and then try burning the project. Yes, that makes sense after all the success I have had so far. I'm going to delete programs that work for....what?

In the end, I produced the folder to a file as a very large .avi movie. I then downloaded ULEAD Video Studio 10 Plus and imported that .avi movie to ULEAD. I rendered it and burned 3 copies to disks that ALL worked!!! It was an amazingly slow process, but it worked!!

I loved Power Director 4 and am sad to see it go. But Power Director 5 is a bug ridden monster. If you buy it despite this review, make a quick project and try to burn it. Do not do like so many other have done (including me) and invest countless hours on a project that can't be burned to a DVD.

I'll let you know how ULEAD works out. I'm moving on.

"Don't do it!", Believe it, believe it, believe it! This program is rough and almost useless. I have installed it on a beefed up Dell as well as some other computers to make sure it was the program and not my computer. It is the program. This uses almost all of your resources on your computer and LOCKS UP, SHUTS DOWN, LOCKS UP, CORRUPTS FILES, AND LOCKS UP !!! It is the most frustrating thing ever. You are constantly saving your work and re-opening the program. It takes 5 minutes each time to shut is down and open it up. Their help is is non-existent. You have to email them and they will tell you each time that it can take up to 3 days to respond. Also, it is a canned response that sometimes doesn't even come close to addressing the question you asked. Is there and online update of fix to download? NO! To make it function, you have to shut down all other programs such as internet, firewalls and antivirus software as well as set your monitor setting to a lower resolution. Just what you want when you are making films and looking at photos right? As you tell the program to perform tasks you will have to go very slowly. If you get proficient and move too fast it will just lock up. I made files and saved them on one computer, installed the program on another computer and guess what? When I tried to open my saved files it gave me errors and won't open its own file. More hours lost. This program does exactly what you would expect (if it worked) it to do and nothing more. It is easy to use because it does not do that much. Oh, this is great, if you would like to save your work as the best quality output, just hit the button to produce it and it will give you a link to purchase more software to accomplish that task BECAUSE IT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THIS SOFTWARE! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I hate it and should have listened to the reviews. Maybe it works on a Mac or something else but definitely not a brand new beefed up Dell or any other computer I own. Trust me, just don't do it.

"Great Until I Tried to Burn or Produce ", In early July I started working on a project for my mother's 70th birthday in September - a photo DVD chronicling the life of my generation and the following generation. I did extensive research on available DVD creation software and kept finding PowerDirector 5 listed in the top five - often as #1 - so I purchased it on-line.

The creation process was easy, intuitive and fun; I was very pleased. The third week of August I tried to Burn my file into a DVD. The application crashed repeatedly. I then tried to produce an MPEG format - the application crashed repeatedly, although every once in a while I could coax it into completing the creation.

As of September 18, 2006 I have contacted CyberLink 17 different times trying to resolve my issue, with no luck. Although their web-based response is slower than molasses, they do respond eventually, and we've tried all kinds of things - including checking my computer's hardware and software for incompatibility - but we never found a solution.

The end result is that I was never able to burn my DVD using their software. I have a brand-new high-end Dell, with which they could find no fault, but as of last week CyberLink decided that the problem is with the operating system (Windows XP 2)...and they want me to perform a clean install of the OS. They've thus far not convinced me that they know what they are doing, so no, I am not going to take the time and go through the hassle of re-installing everything on my computer....

I found a workaround using another application that allowed me to burn an MPEG file into a DVD-compatible format, but unfortunately since PowerDirector doesn't add the "play" menu until the Burn process, my DVDs don't have a play menu, and cannot be watched on any home entertainment DVDs players that do not have AutoPlay.

It's unfortunate that this application has these flaws, because the things it can do are really amazing, but what good is it if you can't produce a DVD?

"Works pretty good", This program has many advantages and some disadvantages. Advantages includes easy to use and mix audio. You can add transitions to all your clips in one shot. Also there is a reasonable collection of Titles are available. Disadvantages are you cannot create multi layer menu. Special effects and Menu layouts is less. You have to satisfy with those. Also there is chance of getting errors but not always. I can say a 10% of probability is there. Overall this is a good software to create DVDs.

"BEWARE!", Tried the trial version & liked it. Especially liked the interface & the ability to add music easily. More importantly, it worked, so I bought the retail version. After spending upwards of 50 hours and a dozen emails to tech support trying to get the retail version to work, I've given up. Burned DVD video quality is extremely poor and, more recently, I can't even get it to import video from my camcorder. Email tech support is curteous, but absolutely usless. Most recently they wanted me to send them a screen shot of a 6 character windows error message that pops up when trying to import video (google "PDR.exe" and the first entry will be complaints about this product). I decided my time would be better spent trying to warn other folks about the flaws of PowerDirector. If you're still considering buying this product, please take a few minutes to review comments from other dissapointed customers that are posted on the web. Unless you've got dozens of hours to waste and enjoy throwing away $, I'd suggest that you steer clear of PowerDirector.