Even after all these years
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Mary Jolens
10 years of power director and with this new implemented process they still did not change a thing for the better. You would think better upgrades with better UI would come back. What is Cyberdink doing?
Where's the better and old design? Power director still is unoptimized! All these patches... What are they fixing? More stickers? More bugs? Why?
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Michael Küpper
Well, I think you're right. There are significant improvements in the user interface in particular. That's why I canceled the subscription and got PD 21 Ultimate in the lifetime version instead. I'm good at working with it and there's no more tampering with the user interface.
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Elaine B.
Michael Küpper, I agree. I have PD20 Ultimate lifetime and honestly, the only issue that it has ever given me is the one I posted about yesterday, and just now went back to in order to report what fixed it. So yes, the oldie-but-goodie PowerDirector versions can have their quirks (who would have guessed that my Preview pane would be allergic to using a 'better' graphics card??) but overall, it's a workhorse. Not fancy but it gets the job done without fussing with AI and can run on any halfway decent computer.
That said, I do plan to someday learn how to use Davinci Resolve because if my next computer, running Windows Whatevernumbertheyareupto, is something that PD20 Ultimate cannot run on, at least I'll be familiar with it.
Michael Küpper
Elaine B. I also watched Da Vinci Resolve when I still had the subscription. Back then, at the end of 2023/beginning of 2024, there was an update that was definitely impossible to work with. I wanted to get away from PowerDirector. But Da Vinci is so different that I've given up trying. Instead, I bought the lifetime version of the well-functioning PD 21 Ultimate - a good idea, even looking back.
Back then, I had completed a few films with the subscription version (PD 22). But then I realized that I can no longer open these projects - not even with the lifetime version of PD 22, which I bought just for that reason. --> Once a subscription version, always a subscription version...
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Koen Wagenaar
Mary, it's a matter of taste... I think.