Multimedia specialist CyberLink has introduced a new money-saving bundle in its latest media creativity suite, the Video and Photo Creative Collection 1.0.
The suite combines the company’s high-end video editor,PowerDirector 10 Ultra, with its excellent photography workflow package, PhotoDirector 2011.
The lead package here is plainly PowerDirector 10 Ultra. Not only does this deliver all the regular features you’d expect from a modern editor -- powerful import capabilities, lots of effects and options, excellent audio processing tools, direct upload to YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, DailyMotion and more -- but it also adds extras like direct AVCHD camcorder import, 64-bit editing, end-to-end 3D editing, full HD preview, and BD, BDXL, AVCHD and 3D disc authoring, amongst other goodies.
PhotoDirector 2011 isn’t exactly short on features, either. It’s a complete photography workflow package to handle everything from importing your images (including many RAW formats), to precisely and quickly editing them, tagging and arranging them in your library, and exporting the results to Flickr, Facebook or YouTube to share them with the world.
What you don’t get here is any form of additional software to unify the two, no front-end menu of anything similar: both program shortcuts will appear in a Video and Photo Creative Collection folder on your Start menu, but that’s about it.
This bundle really is all about the discount, then, but fortunately that’s worth having. Video and Photo Creative Collection 1.0 can be yours for around $99.95, essentially the same as buying PowerDirector 10 Ultra on its own, so you’re getting PhotoDirector 2011 virtually for free. A trial build is available now.