Preview: CyberLink PowerProducer 4 Previewed by: MegaDETH Provided by: Cyberlink Version number: v4.0.0.1024a Retail

We at CDFreaks would like to present a review of PowerProducer 4 from CyberLink. PowerProducer 4 is a powerful software application that can produce High-Definition Home Movies and Slideshows on Discs.  You can capture High-Definition videos and produce Blu-ray Discs, create HD DVDs and DVDs for playing on a home player, produce discs of your own widescreen (16:9) videos, enhance your videos with Magic Video Editing, personalize your discs with menus, music, and titles.

Company Information:

Let us take a look at some of the company information found at the Cyberlink Website:

Company Information

Founded in 1996, CyberLink Corp is the leader and pioneer in enabling digital multimedia on PCs and CEs. Backed by a group of high caliber software engineers, CyberLink owns its core codec and a number of patented technologies. Today, CyberLink has built a solid reputation for delivering high-quality, interoperable, and fast time-to-market solutions that keep our OEM partners on the leading edge. Our business partners include leaders in the IT industry: drive manufacturers, graphics card makers, and top-5 desktop and notebook brands.

CyberLink develops a range of award-winning digital media creation, playback, sharing, and enjoyment applications for home and business PC users worldwide. Our flagship products, CyberLink PowerDVD and PowerDirector, personify CyberLink's powerful but easy-to-use approach in enjoying high-definition movies and letting consumers achieve professional results from video, photo, and music projects with minimal effort.  

CyberLink recently has garnered many industry accolades including being named as one of Forbe’s Asia's 200 Best Under a Billion companies, as one of Business Week's ”Asia's 100 Hot Growth Companies” and received the Best Product Software at RetailVision 2006.
CyberLink's products are the best-selling products in their respective categories in worldwide markets. In additional to distributing products through a global network of major retailers, CyberLink products are available at leading online etailers, direct from CyberLink.com, or bundled with PCs from top-tier vendors including Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, and Sony numbering 200 million shipments worldwide.

Today, CyberLink Software Solutions include:

Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Solutions: CyberLink offers complete range of software to playback movie titles; capture, edit videos; author photo and video discs and burn all types of media to Blu-ray Discs and HD DVDs.

Digital Home Entertainment with focus on leading solutions to enabling TV on PCs and CEs, together with integrated solution for accessing and enjoying media within the digital home, including instant-on applications, Software DMA, Media server, TV server and a handful of plug-ins for Media Center PCs.

Mobile DTV Solution is one of CyberLink's major focus to enable TV on portable devices. With CyberLink's standard-agnostic player, CyberLink’s Mobile TV offers multi-band, and multi-standards to support the various mobile TV standards found in Europe, Asia and the US.

Media Collaboration is CyberLink's vision of extending media entertainment from PCs at home to anywhere via the web. Based on advanced streaming technologies and creative web applications, CyberLink enables new ways to enjoy media anytime, anywhere with friends and family.

With customers spanning from multi-national corporations to small/medium sized businesses and from power users to home users, CyberLink has enjoyed rapid and consistent growth leading to a record breaking IPO in October on the Taiwan Over The Counter Exchange (OTC: 5203). Currently, CyberLink is listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (ticker symbol: 5203.TW).

CyberLink's worldwide headquarters are in Taipei. To keep up with market demands, CyberLink has operations in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region including Japan. For more information, please visit CyberLink's website at www.cyberlink.com.

Software Specifications:

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Supported Formats

Let’s take a closer look at the Software features.

• Imports video files and photos

• Captures from a DV or HDV camcorder

• Captures from a TV or VCR

• Captures from a web cam or digital camera

• Video and Picture Editing

• Cuts, merges and splits video clips

• Matches slide show length to background music duration

• Adds transitions to slide shows

• Creates disc menus with video thumbnails and background

• Sets chapters within video content

• Adds background music to disc menus

• Burns CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs

• Burns video right to disc from a variety of sources

• Erases discs that contain unwanted content

• Copies discs and burns discs from a disc image

 

Let’s head to the next page where we will take a look at software installation.