PowerDirector's magical family of tools speeds up the editing process dramatically by tackling the most time-consuming tasks and producing instant results. Six magical tools assist users' movie-making in all facets:

• correcting videos and photos
• applying instant movie themes
• rectifying background noise
• adding motion to photos
• composing music to synch with videos

Below is a technological summation for all magical tools, a glimpse of the mechanisms behind the underpinnings of PowerDirector's video editing prowess.

 Magic Style Applies Movie Themes Instantly
Magic Style applies a preset style to raw footage for an instant movie. 12 cool themes are available for selection with a diverse combination of effects, screen frames, and clip length.

Vacation	Birthday	Party	Romance	Baby	Christmas
Graduation	Wedding	Fast Motion	Old Movie	Original	Slow Motion

Magic Style starts out by analyzing the source video. After initial analysis is complete, an opening video and movie title are inserted in the beginning of the movie. Depending on the style, transitions, special effects, and PiP frames will all be added. Chosen effects for each style will either be random, conditional, or static.

After a style has been applied, users can modify any of the elements.

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 Magic Fix Corrects Videos and Photos in All Formats

Correcting Videos
Magic Fix automatically fixes wobbly videos into clearer and more stable videos. Users can also adjust range parameters including horizontal, vertical, and angular criteria.

Broad Video Stabilization Support
Magic Fix technology allows users to stabilize all formatted types of video files that include non-interlaced (progressive) and interlaced video content. Progressive video is non-interlaced formatted, usually used when recording video with digital cameras (.AVI format). Interlaced content is employed for recording video with DV camcorders.

In today's market, many video editing software support only one type of video format (e.g. MOV), or only one type of video such as progressive video. CyberLink PowerDirector's Magic Fix supports all types of video formats.

Refocusing Photos
Out-of-focus photos usually arise because of misjudging the distance when photos are taken. Nonetheless, Magic Fix can still model this blurring effect as a mathematical process. In doing so, Magic Fix derives the inverse formula and then applies the inverse operation (i.e. division) to fix photos if the blurring effect is not too severe. Thus, Magic Fix acts like a corrective virtual optical lense for refocusing users' photos.

 Magic Clean Enhances Videos and Photos
A magical tool that enhances videos, photos and audio instantly, Magic Clean allows users to adjust white balance if there is insufficient lighting in the original source. CLEV-2 may also be utilized to enhance videos and photos.

Correcting Videos with CLEV-2
For video files, to achieve instant video clarity or reduce artifacts, Magic Clean applies the world-renown technology used in PowerDVD, CyberLink EagleVision (CLEV™). CLEV, in its 2nd generation, automatically balances the brightness and contrast and dramatically heightens insufficient colors resulting in a more pleasurable viewing experience.

Correcting Audio with CLNR
For the audio content inherent in video files, CyberLink Noise Reduction (CLNR) will be applied to a user's audio. Flexible settings, such as reducing levels of audio noise that may include filtering out outdoor or wind noise, are available.

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 Magic Cut Condenses Videos to Amplify Action
For those with gigabytes of videos, Magic Cut condenses hours of uneventful clips into an action-packed movie. It also synchronizes background music with cut scenes. This technology is accomplished by selecting key scenes via weighing the following factors hidden in video content:

• camera shots with zooming/panning
• peoples' faces and moving objects
• color histogram
• background dialogue

When combining these factors, Magic Cut automatically calculates and tallies each factor according to a preliminary set of parameters, and then generates the key scenes essential for the new movie according to settings.

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 Magic Motion Gives Life to Photos
Dynamically transform still images into an animated slideshow with pan/scan & zooming effects. Magic Motion provides a choice of automatically or manually applying motion effects according to image specifications.

For automatically applying effects, Magic Motion technology utilizes image analysis to locate the main subject(s) of a photo (e.g. subjects' faces)—whether it's a portrait, group photo, or a specific object—and pans/zooms to heighten emotional intensity. Setting an automatic focus will apply the following effects to different types of images (portrait or landscape):

• panning will be applied to portrait images
• zooming to landscape images

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 Magic Music Composes and Syncs Harmoniously with Videos
With a library chock full of royalty-free tunes, Magic Music is magical in the sense of composing and perfectly synchronizing music according to video duration. Background music for DVD menus are also supported.

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