It was surprisingly easy to use, although I made an error here and there. To test the user friendliness of PowerDirector, I started to use the Full Feature Editor right away, without viewing any help files or video tutorials. A transition is an animated effect in between 2 images or video clips to smooth out the changes which otherwise would be quite abrupt. Since there are many transition effects, you can produce an engaging video with PowerPoint screenshots, for example. It is also possible to make a video just using images and sound. Out of the box, the software has a lot of features on board which help you to create videos using a mix of video footage and images.

In this article, I share my findings using the software.

Notwithstanding the low pricing, it is a good alternative for those who are not acquainted with video editing yet, because the learning curve is much lower than the professional packages like Adobe Premiere or FinalCut Pro. PowerDirector Ultra is a low cost video editor which is quite easy to use.

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