CyberLink ColorDirector 5 [for PC]

Reviews for CyberLink ColorDirector 5

1. FEATURED REVIEW

   Malik

   3 out of 5

   Dec 11, 2017 at 3:38 am

   Just like sounds, colors too have an emotional and psychological impact on the human mind. That’s why colors are so important for video projects too, as it can affects the mood and feel of a project, and how the viewers perceive it. Ignoring color grading and correction means you are not doing justice to your project of piece of work. There are many software applications available for this purpose nowadays, but not all of them work the same.
   CyberLink ColorDirector 5 is a powerful video editing software application, designed to help you enhance the quality of your video by adjusting color options. It also comes with various great presets, that can really make your work look great with minimal effort.

   Installation & Set-up

   The installer size is ~162MB which might require a stable and fast internet connection to be downloaded. The installation process is simple and straightforward, taking only a few minutes to complete. Before you can launch it, it asks you to enter the license key to activate the software. Once done, you can start importing you video projects and make use of the great options to really enhance their quality and overall feel.

   User Interface

   The UI of the application is clean, well-arranged, has a modern design with dark colors used as background. This helps users focus more on the project and less on the UI itself. There are three main section, namely Library, Adjustment, Production. The first section let’s you add videos and folders to the application, and view them or perform basic editing like trimming, detecting scenes, spliting sections, and more.

   The ‘Adjustment’ tab is where the real editing begins, it comes with plethora of presets and manual adjustment sliders. You can choose a preset and apply to a video straightaway, or the same can be done manually by using the sliders for different options. The enhancements can be applied to the whole video or a certain part of it, depending on your preferance. You can also see a histogram of colors on the top-left side, compare the before and after videos by using the split view.

   The ‘Production’ tab let’s you choose the output format, folder, country format, profiles, and more. Once you are done editing, this is where you export the videos from.

   Pros

   – The UI is simple and clean, making it suitable for all types of users.
   – High quality presets make the job easy.
   – Split view makes it easy to compare the edited project with the original one.
   – Supports all the common video formats to import and export videos.
   – Plenty of editing tools for advanced users that are meant for manual tuning.
   – Supports 120/240 fps videos.
   – Direct sharing to YouTube, Vimeo.
   – Round trip editing with PowerDirector

   Cons

   – Lags and stutters a lot even when processing smaller videos.
   – Preview are not smooth and stutter, even on a decent system.
   – The version provided here does not allow you to edit 4K and high frame rate videos.
   – High resource usage even when it is idle.

   Conclusion

   CyberLink ColorDirector 5 does good job at a editing, especially the presets that come packed with it look great and ca be used straightaway with little to no manual tuning. The applications lags and stutters while working with it, and the system resource usage is significantly high all the time.

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