

It’s pretty nice but sometimes needs manual adjustments which is also pretty easy to do by CTRL + Left click to add audio points (see the white markers in the audio portion) to move up and down to your preference.

Which will bring up this fancy window with all the fancy settings.Īudio Ducking is a nice feature to make background tracks (such as music/sound effects) become quieter so the vocal tracks are heard as the loudest. You can mess with overall track sounds by right clicking on audio track and choose Audio Editor.

If you want to work with one set of audio tracks you can right-click on said track and a new window will pop up so you can wrestle with it to your hearts content. You get a nice little sample of every song and can also import other music as needs be. You can monitor your entire timelines audio and fiddle around to get it just right.īackground music is also ready for you to download right from the media tab.

I used Footage Crate, viewable here, to add the explosion special effect to the Wreckfest Lawnmower footage in my test vid. explosions, bombs and/or rain) from other sources. If you can’t seem to find an asset you want or like in Director Zone, you can also import (e.g. You can also import your own as long as they fit the standard formats required. PiP objects, which are vector images to lay over your existing video, you can make as big or as small as you want without losing image quality. PowerDirector 18 comes with all the standards you’ll need to start and you can also search for more free ones in their aforementioned Director Zone, viewable here. Transitions, examples viewable here, are effects which blend one video clip to another. EffectsĮffects can be added to your video (which can be easily edited to suit the vids needs) and you can preview them before adding to your vid timeline. Lets get into PowerDirector 18’s main features. That’s the overall gist of DirectorZone assets library, viewable here. There is also a collection of picture-in-picture images.Įxpress Projects gives you a base theme to work into your own project.Ī nice feature to be sure, and can also be used to figure out how to make similar settings/themes in the future, on your own, as you progress in your figuring out how to make videos. There is also a large collection of video transitions, viewable here.
