

After you've previewed the Magic Movie, the final step is to produce it by outputting to a file or burning to a disc.


The results were a bit hokey for me, but some will find them fun. After this, you get a preview, with transitions and effects added. A nice feature is a slider that lets you adjust the balance between the video and background sound. Other apps include more in the way of canned music to add to instant projects.
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The software can import pretty much every video file format you throw at it, and version 11 adds support for MKV, a flexible open source format popular with the BitTorrent crowd, and AVCHD 2.0, which adds 1080p and 3D video capabilities for Sony and Panasonic camcorders. You can permanently disable this prologue to the actual editor and launch the full editor if you prefer a checkbox at the bottom lets you bypass it. Above this, a smaller option control lets you set your video project for 16:9 HD or 4:3 standard definition aspect ratio. When you fire up PowerDirector for the first time, you'll see its Welcome window (pictured above), which features three big buttons – Full Feature Editor, Easy Editor, and Slideshow. I tested the Ultra edition, which includes the speedup of hardware acceleration and can handle 4K Ultra HD video – pretty impressive for a consumer package! After a 430MB download, the setup process took less than 5 minutes to install on my 3.4GHz quad-core test PC with 4GB of RAM. The software runs on Windows 8, 7, Vista, or XP SP3 there's no Mac version.
