Capture, Import, and Enhance High-Definition Videos

DVD authoring and Blu-ray software PowerProducer 6.0 includes multiple capture modes and offers many enhancement tools.

Capture all, author all

PowerProducer is the DVD software solution for users of DV and HDV camcorders alike: whether you own a DV or HDV camcorder, prefer .mpg, .mp4 or .avi, your new software will handle it! Now you can also capture video in high-definition formats such as AVCHD.

Import any file format

With DVD authoring software PowerProducer, you can import existing files from your hard drive or scenes from discs, so that you can give a second life to older clips by including them in your new project.

Capture & author TV content

You are not limited to what you shoot with your camera: with PowerProducer 6.0, you can capture television content with a TV tuner card (digital and analog TV), so that you can enrich your projects with pieces from even more sources that you like.

Create amazing-sounding discs

Do so much more than the average DVD burning software. PowerProducer supports the encoding of video with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, so that you can retain the original sound quality of your recordings, and create discs that are compatible with your Dolby Digital playback devices. You can feel the movie theater experience right from your sofa.

Fix videos & pictures with powerful tools

Nobody said you had to shoot perfect videos in the first place. Whether it is a shaky video issue, poor lighting, noise, or red eyes, DVD software PowerProducer 6.0 helps you fix the lot.

• Magic Style will automatically create a movie for you, complete with your selected theme, music, and duration.
• Magic Fix instantly corrects shaky videos, sharpens blurry images, and removes red eyes in one simple step.
• Magic Clean automatically adjusts lighting and removes excess noise.
• Magic Cut analyzes video content to automatically keep the best bits.
• Magic Motion automatically applies pan and zoom effects to photos.

Create discs that revive your photos

PowerProducer 6.0 agrees with you: photos have a place in movies too! This is why you get to work with pictures in ways similar to videos.

• Display your photos in either a landscape or portrait layout, and rotate them to achieve the most effective orientation.
• Set which photo will appear as your thumbnail image on your disc menu.
• Choose a style and automatically create a stunning slideshow.

Produce Videos Faster with CPU/GPU Optimization NEW

Disc authoring software PowerProducer lets you take full advantage of multi-processing CPU and GPU computing technologies to output your video projects faster. Optimization for hardware acceleration technologies from Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD, enable speedier rendering of HD video content, saving huge amounts of time when authoring your videos to DVDs and Blu-ray Discs.

Optimized for Intel® Core™

PowerProducer's optimization for Intel Core i7 technology delivers higher performance and better energy efficiency while harnessing the full power of the CPU during processing of HD video.

Efficient CPU Utilization

With Core i7 and the Hyper-Threading technology, PowerProducer improves overall performance including previewing, format conversions, and burning to DVD or Blu-ray disc.

PowerProducer takes advantage of Intel's Hyper-Threading technology in Core i7 to enhance CPU performance and efficiency. The CPU can process 8 threads at one time leveraging each core's ability to execute operations from 2 software threads simultaneously. Allowing the CPU to execute multiple software threads at the same time results in an overall boost in performance for PowerProducer users when encoding videos.

Optimized for NVIDIA® CUDA™

NVIDIA CUDA technology empowers PowerProducer to encode HD video in H.264 format significantly faster by leveraging the power of the GPU.

The chart shows PowerProducer's performance gain in rendering an HD video with NVIDIA CUDA and without CUDA

Supported Graphics Card

PowerProducer supports the following graphics card series from NVIDIA for HD encoding, including GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla. See below for a detailed list of supported graphics cards:

NVIDIA GeForce

• GeForce 8500GT and above
• GeForce 8500GT and above
• GeForce 9800GT and above
• GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 500 series
• GeForce GT/GTS/GTX 200 series

Optimized for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing

PowerProducer ensures faster video transcoding for high-definition content by leveraging AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology to accelerate the conversion of standard and HD video content.

In conjunction with AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing technology, PowerProducer accelerates the conversion of standard and HD video into various video formats.

The chart shows PowerProducer's performance gain in rendering an HD video with AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing and without.

Note: PowerProducer also supports AMD Fusion E-series & C-series Accelerated Processors technology.

Supported Graphics Card

PowerProducer optimized for AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing supports the following graphics card series from ATI:

ATI Radeon HD

• Radeon HD2600 and above
• Radeon HD6800 series
• Radeon HD4600 series
• Radeon HD5600 series

Create Stylish Disc Menus

DVD authoring and Blu-ray software PowerProducer lets you dress your video projects with a disc menu theme to match the stories you want to tell and the precious memories you want to preserve. Now's the time to get more from your DVD burning software

Author your own discs

Start by choosing a menu template for your video. Blu-ray Disc and DVD authoring software PowerProducer offers a selection of finely designed templates for you to choose from. You can then add chapters to make navigation through your disc easier.

Create pro results with a cool choice of menu templates including your own video or photo backgrounds, and animated thumbnail buttons. Alpha-blended menus offer extra style and detail.

For even more professional results:

• Insert a video opening sequence by importing either a First Play Video; opening credits, a copyright notice, or a short video you've made yourself.
• Add background audio to your menu templates, such as a music track or dialog you've recorded yourself. You can set fade in and out, and edit the length directly.
• Type in a text title: set the color, size, alignment and font that best suit your menu design and video content.

Personalize your discs

Choose the number and position of chapter thumbnails. Edit your title and move your buttons to give a personal touch to your disc. DVD software PowerProducer 6.0 supports full motion menus, where your own video blends with built-in designs for a new disc navigation experience, so that your movie really keeps you and your audience excited.

PowerProducer 6.0 lets you make last minute adjustments to your movie in no time.

Make quick edits with trim and cut tools

PowerProducer is not just easy-to-use DVD authoring and burning software, it also includes easy video editing tools too. Cut, trim, merge clips - creating stories from your video content is child's play!

The following useful editing tools provide options for fine tuning the length of your videos. You can access these features directly from the authoring interface:

• AB Cut lets you trim the ends of a clip or cut out the middle and keep the end portion
• Merge will merge multiple clips into a single clip to permit smooth and continuous play
• Split can be used to split a long video clip into two or more clips for further editing

Burn Your Authored Video to Any Format You Like

DVD authoring and Blu-ray software PowerProducer 6.0 includes multiple capture modes and offers many enhancement tools.

The choice of authoring, the flexibility of burning

Create VCDs and dazzling DVDs, or author your own high-definition Blu-ray Discs. Whichever disc format you choose, PowerProducer ensures that playback of your creations is easy and fun.

File formats for your video content

• BDAV, BDMV
• DVD-Video, AVCHD, AVCREC
• DVD-Video, DVD-VR, AVCHD, AVCREC
• DVD-Video, DVD+VR, AVCHD, AVCREC
• DVD-VR, AVCREC
• VCD, SVCD

Disc types that you can burn to

• BD-RE, BD-RE (BDXL), BD-R, BD-R (BDXL)
• DVD-R, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+R DL
• DVD-RW
• DVD+RW
• DVD-RAM
• CD-R, CD-RW

Skip the menu design process and burn directly to disc (Right-to-Disc™)

You will like this if you have little time or disc space: with Right-to-Disc™, you can create discs directly as you record videos and photos on your high-definition or standard-definition cameras and camcorders. All DVD software should be this convenient.

Play discs anywhere

PowerProducer ensures that the discs you produce will play as remarkably on a PC as on a home disc player. Actually, you don't even have to carry a disc with you if you prefer to upload your movie to YouTube! That way, you are sure that you can enjoy your videos anywhere you go!

• Watch disc content on widescreen TVs and PC displays
• Upload video files to YouTube

Create beautiful slideshow discs from your digital photos

Blu-ray Disc and DVD authoring software PowerProducer brings your photos to life by creating slideshows featuring background audio, your choice of transition effects, and flexible duration.

• Let PowerProducer create a slideshow automatically.
• Retouch your pictures with powerful tools until you reach the results you desire.
• Set the order and duration in which your photos are displayed.

Part 1 - Creating a Photo Slideshow Disc

Welcome to part 1 of 3 tutorials on authoring discs with CyberLink PowerProducer 6.0, creating a photo slideshow disc. When creating a slideshow disc you can import up to 1024 photos into a single slideshow album, and up to 99 slideshow albums onto a single disc

Part 2 - Import and Editing Videos for a Disc

In part 2 of the CyberLink PowerProducer 6.0 tutorials on authoring discs, we will demonstrate importing and editing videos for discs created in the program. You can import videos in a variety of formats, perform minor edits on the video clips, and even add chapters to your video clips

Part 3 - Customizing Disc Menus

In part 3 of the CyberLink PowerProducer 6.0 tutorials on authoring discs, we will show you how to customize your disc menu. You can download thousands of menu templates for DirectorZone, import your own custom background into existing ones, and customize the text and layout to your specifications.