

Despite its depth of features, CyberLink PowerDirector is fairly simple to figure out and use.

PowerDirector is for serious amateurs who wants to create impressive videos but don't want to take a postgraduate course in editing and production. LUT support means you can apply a studio-like color language to your movie, and seamless transitions, speech-to-text transcription, and motion graphics make for captivating YouTube posts. The included Audio Designer lets you play with sound, with pitch shifts and radio effects, wind removal, and denoise options. Standout features include its Mask, PiP, and Title Designers, as well as a beefy selection of templates and stock content.

It won't break the bank and doesn't require an ongoing subscription fee like competitor Adobe Premiere Pro does.ĬyberLink PowerDirector has long been a PCMag Editors' Choice winner among Windows video editing software options, and the product made the jump to the Mac relatively recently, where it continues to excel.

Though it's a thoroughly professional-level application, Final Cut is nevertheless also suitable for amateurs who want to do impressive feats with their video projects. Its unconventional but brilliant "trackless timeline" is unique, and workflow features for media management and collaboration are aces up its sleeve. It also offers slick tools for multicam editing, color grading, and intelligent motion tracking. It leads in support for new standards like 8K RED RAW, ProRes 422, VR and wide-gamut color spaces. Since then, it's become far more intuitive, yet still remains among the most powerful and feature-full video editing applications available. Before a revamp several years ago, it was a daunting beast of a program, only suitable for dedicated professional editors.
