PowerDirector Pro Offers Total Digital Video Solution from Capture, Edit, Author to Burn for Easy Creation of Home Movies and Photo Slideshows on CDs and DVDs
Taipei, Taiwan----February 7, 2002----CyberLink Corp., a leading software developer of digital video entertainment applications and e-Training solutions, today proudly ushers in its latest software advancements with the launch of PowerDirector 2.0 Pro and Standard. PowerDirector 2.0 Pro not only improves upon the previous version's award-winning video capture and editing capabilities, but through the new easy-to-use wizard-style authoring and burning guide, now also offers users the ability to make custom movies and photo slideshows on discs playable from any consumer DVD player.
The Pro edition of PowerDirector 2.0 offers a newly enhanced, advanced video editing engine, slick special effects and an improved, simple-to-use storyboard interface allowing users of any level to create compelling videos quickly and easily. PowerDirector can capture video from DV and analog sources, perform high-quality digital file conversion and output finished movie productions into the latest file formats or back to DV tape. Plus, with a new automatic scene detection feature and the ability to instantly create movie chapters, PowerDirector can transform digital images and video footage from camcorders into polished multimedia slideshows and professional-looking home movies on CDs and DVDs.
"PowerDirector 2.0 Pro offers a simple step-by-step process to assemble video clips on the PC, transform them into a compelling movie production, and then quickly output the final creation in formats suited for sharing on CDs and DVDs," says Alice H. Chang, CEO of CyberLink Corporation. "Consumers now have a complete, turnkey solution for creating movies on CDs and DVDs whereby previously users needed advanced skills and multiple software applications. Users no longer have to deal with the complexity of capturing, editing, authoring and burning with PowerDirector 2.0 Pro, which handles all of these jobs to make working with digital video a painless, and entertaining process."
PowerDirector 2.0 Pro and Standard editions are two unique packages with different benefits for video novices and movie making enthusiasts alike. The Pro version includes the complete set of video capture and editing tools from PowerDirector 2.0, plus a unique Disc Wizard that eliminates the complexity of authoring and burning DVD videos. Now adding an interactive DVD menu, creating chapters and adding photo slideshows is a simple affair. Users can even add background audio and apply templates to interactive menus that allow viewers to jump to chapters created on movie productions outputted in DVD, VideoCD or Super Video CD formats. Furthermore PowerDirector's disc making functions fully support CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW and DVD+RW disc media.
For users without Recordable-DVD/CD drives, the Standard edition packages all of the flexible video capture and editing functions of PowerDirector 2.0, but without the Disc Making Wizard providing authoring and burning capabilities. PowerDirector 2.0 offers an advanced level of speed and simplicity in video editing software with SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology) and InstantMPEG technologies. Additionally this new version is able to encode video in all the major file formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, Windows AVI, DV-AVI, DVD/SVCD/VCD), perform high-quality video transfer and output finished video productions with minimal CPU power requirements.
Versions
and Availability
PowerDirector 2.0 will be available in retail and OEM bundled versions in February
2002. For up-to-date official information on PowerDirector 2.0 please visit
the CyberLink Web site at: http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/compare_en_US.html
PowerDirector
2.0 Standard and PowerDirector 2.0 Pro are members of the PowerDirector series.
This series currently consists of the following retail versions:
? PowerDirector 2.0 Pro - US$119.95 Download purchase/ US$124.95
Retail box purchase
? PowerDirector 2.0 Standard - US$79.95 Download purchase
? DVD Creation Pack for PowerDirector 2.0 (PowerDirector 2.0 Standard
add-on pack with DVD/CD Disc Wizard) - US$49.95 Download purchase
About
CyberLink Corp.
Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp. is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced
digital video and audio software products to market. The products are categorized
into two major lines: Digital Video Entertainment and E-Training Solutions.
Digital Video Entertainment products offer complete digital video entertainment
solutions from video capture, edit, author, burn and playback capabilities.
These award-winning software applications are ideal solutions for turning today's
mainstream computers into powerful home theaters and digital video centers.
The company's E-Training Solutions offer breakthrough technologies to stream
and manage high-quality, media-rich contents over corporate intranets or the
Internet. As a result of the company's solid growth and profitability, CyberLink
became a public company in October of 2000 and is listed on the Taiwan Over
The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). To keep up with market demands, CyberLink
has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including
Japan. CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei and its Web site is
located at www.goCyberlink.com.
CyberLink programs are available for press evaluation. Please contact Ty Ung or Manal Ma at press@gocyberlink.com or by phone at: +886-2-8667-1298, ext. 301 or 303 for more details. Additional press information is available locally in the USA and Germany through the following contacts: USA Press Contact: Kristen Stonecipher, kristen@sspr.com or by phone +1-888-275-5878, ext. 28. Germany Press Contact: Cornelie Elsaesser, c.elsaesser@konzept-pr.de or by phone +49-821-34 300-20.
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