I recently used CyberLink ColorDirector to edit some video clips and I was very impressed. The program was very easy to use and the features were great. I was able to easily split, join, merge, rotate, mirror, crop, and pan the visuals and add various effects to change the colors, sharpness, contrast, and enhance the lighting. I also found the different types of transitions between sections to be very useful. I would definitely recommend this program to anyone looking to edit video clips.
Cyberlink ColorDirector is a professional tool specifically designed to help you deal with any color-related issue that your videos may show. You can either apply any of the numerous color presets provided, or make your own corrections manually. All the tools provided are neatly structured into specific sections – white balance, tone and color enhancements, dynamic exposure, etc.
Its attractive and intuitive interface comes also with a video timeline for you to add as many files as needed. Actually, you will soon find out that opening your video files is not enough – you will need to drag and drop them into the timeline to be allowed to edit them. ColorDirector comes with a large video player, making it much easier for you to identify and correct issues that affect only to a small area of the frame. Another display option is the “comparison view”, which will give you a snapshot of both the original and the edited frame, so that you can preview the results.
A section that I find particularly appealing is the “regional adjustments” section. Here you can apply various color adjustments to a specific area of the screen or a specific object only. This will let you create interesting and creative accent effects, change the color of the background, make a figure or object more prominent, etc.
The program offers you an extensive list of color presets that will allow you to apply the most incredible color effects to your videos with just one click. You can use them as the basis for other more specific corrections that you may wish to apply manually, or they may turn out to be just the color combination you were looking for. Either way, all the changes you apply to your videos will not become permanent until you decide to make them so. “Non-destructive editing” means exactly that – all your adjustments are taken like simulations until you are sure enough about the results as to save them to disk.
The list of features offered by Cyberlink ColorDirector is simply too long to reproduce here – suffice it to say that whatever adjustments or enhancements you decide to apply to your videos using this tool, its professional-looking output will never disappoint you.
v2.0 [Sep 18, 2013]
1. Ultra HD 4K Video Support
- Import a wide range of popular formats for recorded video, including MP4, WMV, FLV, AVI, MPEG-2, AVCHD and now ultra high def 2K and 4K video.
2. Live Histogram
- See at a glance where all of the brightness levels contained in a scene are found. Values are arrayed across the bottom of the graph from left (darkest) to right (brightest).
3. Dynamic Keyframing
- ColorDirector's powerful and intuitive keyframe features let you quickly adjust color effects and dynamically animate selection masks with great detail and precision.
4. Look-up Table (LUT) Conversion
- LUTs are useful for matching footage from one source to another, for visual effect, or for output previewing. ColorDirector supports .3dl, .mga, .m3d, .cube and .csp format LUT files.
5. Make Precise and Subtle Curve Adjustments
- Manually setting the tonal values of the shadows, midtones and highlights in a video is a great way to achieve exactly the look you’re after. Adding bit more blue to the shadow areas while tinting the highlights to warmer tones and removing green from the midtones is where RGB tonal curve adjustments can really be used to best effect.
6. Bring Out Detail in Low Light Videos
- It can be frustrating shooting video in low light conditions. The lack of light can suck the life out of your image, leaving you with grainy, under saturated, low-contrast and muddy video footage. ColorDirector features two tools to help you to improve the videos you’ve shot in poor light by reducing noise artifacts and grain while at the same time making the video look sharper without any amplification of noise.
7. Dual Monitor Configuration
- Revolutionize the way you work and make the color grading process easier by expanding your workspace over two screens. A great way to compare before/after in full screen.
8. 64-bit TrueVelocity 4 Grading Engine
- ColorDirector now offers native 64-bit support and the award-winning TrueVelocity editing engine for improved system efficiency and faster loading of HD video footage.
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