Optimized for New 2010 Intel® Core ™ Family Processors

Optimized for Intel Core i3, i5 and i7, PowerDirector improves the HD video editing experience by making it faster and more efficient. PowerDirector utilizes hardware encoding technology to deliver higher performance and better energy efficiency during HD video editing.

Improved Performance Gains
Intel Core Family Processor technology enables PowerDirector to improve overall performance including previewing, effects rendering, format conversions, and burning to DVD or Blu-ray disc. With Intel Core Family Processors and Hyper-Threading technology, PowerDirector outputs your videos faster.

The chart shows PowerDirector's performance gain in rendering an MPEG-4 HD video file into MPEG-2 DVD HQ. The PC featured an Intel® Core™ i5 M540 2.53 GHz with 4 GB RAM and running under Windows 7.

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Optimized for NVIDIA® CUDA™

PowerDirector leverages NVIDIA CUDA technology to decode and encode HD video in the H.264 format significantly faster. This ensures you spend less time converting your files for your favorite player devices.

Optimized for HD Encoding to H.264
PowerDirector allows the output of H.264 content for playback on PSP, iPod, iPhone and PS3. A choice of video profiles, offering high quality and relatively small file sizes, is the perfect solution for creating content for today's media players.

The chart shows PowerDirector's performance gain in rendering AVCHD Full HD video to AVCHD DVD quality video with NVIDIA CUDA and without CUDA. The PC featured an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.66 E6750 GHz with 2 GB RAM, an NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT graphics card, and running under Windows 7.

Supported Graphics Card

PowerDirector supports the following graphics card series from NVIDIA when rendering effects: GeForce, GeForce Mobile, Quadro, Quadro Mobile, and Tesla. PowerDirector also supports a range of NVIDIA cards for effects rendering and HD encoding, including GeForce, Quadro, and Tesla. See below for a detailed list of supported graphics cards:

Optimized for ATI® STREAM™

PowerDirector ensures faster video decoding and transcoding for high-definition content. By leveraging ATI Stream technology PowerDirector accelerates the conversion of standard and HD video content.

Optimized for HD Transcoding
In conjunction with ATI Stream technology, PowerDirector accelerates the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing consumer electronics devices. PowerDirector thus provides quick output of video content for playback on PSP, iPod, and iPhone platforms.

The chart shows PowerDirector's performance gain in rendering an AVCHD Full HD video to AVCHD DVD quality video with ATI Stream and without. The PC featured an Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 2.13 E6420 GHz with 2 GB RAM, an ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics card, and running under Windows 7.

Supported Graphics Card

PowerDirector optimized for ATI Stream supports the following graphics card series from ATI: