best video editing software

In terms of the best video software one can buy on the open market at a price that is actually affordable, CyberLink Power Director is probably the best there is anywhere. Top Ten Reviews, one of the best review websites for tech, gives this software the ‘Gold Award’ for qualities it calls “superior processing speed, which it attains by fully exploiting the hardware capabilities of contemporary computers.” The software company invented a backbone to the old software called “True Velocity,” which is how they are able to get the new level of speed and performance.

Just imagine a “turbo” button on your computer for video editing. It is almost that easy. If you are using video editing as part of the process to transfer VHS to DVD or another digital format, this digital editing software is the right one for you. If you have a 64 bit Windows computer, you will get even more speed if you spend a little more for the CyberLink PowerDirector Ultra. Read on, true believer. Read on. If you are a tech head and really must know the ins and the outs of this dynamic system, I deliver to you a detailed explanation of the True Velocity backbone built into Cyberlink’s new PowerDirector editing software:

1. True Velocity “Fast Render” is the name given to the part of the software that will improve your render speed. CyberLink made it possible to render just the part of the edit that is actually being changed – not the whole edit. This saves an enormous amount of CPU time right there.
2. True Velocity’s “Ultra Seek” speeds up performance as you manually “scrub” the cursor from left to right (or vice versa) through the horizontal editing “timeline.”
3. “Rapid Effect” makes use of something called GPGPU, which essentially speeds up rendering-intensive effects such as particles effects. If you have nVidia Cuda, AMD Radeon, or Fusion E-series or C-series processors, you could have even better performance since Power Director decided to use these processors as the basis for this part of the optimization they did on the software.
4. True Velocity “Accelerator” utilizes hardware encoding and decoding technology for much faster and reliable HD video editing. It will result in faster performance on any Intel, AMD and nVidia processors you have.
5. “Parallel” utilizes all of the computer’s CPUs for faster video production. This is commonly referred to as “Hyper-Threading” but CyberLink really does it with style.
6. Finally, if you have a 64 bit machine, you can really get a boost in performance by using True Velocity 64. The old 32 bit machines can only use up to 4 GB of RAM whereas 64 bit goes beyond and is able to take it to the max which is especially great when working with the largest and heaviest HD video files. So, if you don’t have a 64 bit computer, maybe you should.

Well, I am sure you are anxious to go buy your $69.95 copy of the standard version of Power Director or maybe that $94.95 copy for the Ultra if you have that 64 bit machine. Go ahead. You won’t be sorry.

The author, Marty Holthaus, worked for over a decade as a production coordinator on Hollywood visual effects films and now writes articles about computer and video hardware and other subjects that impact those who are converting old home movies and videos to digital. To read more aboutVHS to DVD go to his website. There you will find more information on how to preserve old movies and videos, convert VHS to DVD and 8mm film to DVD, and edit them on your computer.