![]() ![]() Thankfully Power Director has the auto-save feature and if you set it to 5 minutes, you can almost always restart the app and get your work back without losing much. Perhaps if you happen to own/use the exact same hardware as found in the Cyberlink labs or get paid the same money that PCmag gets to ignore bugs, you'll never experience a crash, but I've used it on two different systems (1 Intel & 1 AMD) and it's just as crashy on both. They focus on coding new features but never make any sincere effort to stamp out bugs. It crashed when I was done editing and left-clicked on the "Produce" tab and while on the "Produce" screen, when I selected "online" and "Youtube", it produced a perfectly useless/blank/black 720p WMV file and after a long pause decided to automatically upload said worthless video to Youtube. The app crashed twice during this small job. PD11 looks like it has the same sort of bugs, except now it wants to GREEN-OUT some of your clips rather than BLACK-OUT. Often one or more video clips would just suddenly go blank/black and I could sometimes get them back by closing and restarting but usually I'd have to drag the original video source file back into the timeline and spend mucho grande time re-editing things back to what they were. With PD8 I was constantly maddened by the app just suddenly forgetting clips in the movie. It displayed on the 2nd monitor only when I played the primary video clip but would blank out when I tried to play all tracks in "MOVIE" mode. The dual-monitor option doesn't work properly. I have two monitors and two X-fired AMD Radeon 6770 graphics cards. So I decided to test my new PD11 app by editing a short 7 minute video. The activation key comes in the folder that the Amazon downloader will create on your desktop. My download from Amazon took a little less than an hour over my high-speed cable broadband. Then there are two content packs to install. It's a 3.21 GB download and after you install the main program, you need to download and install a free patch. I've used a few different versions of Power Director now (6,7,8 & 11) and they've all had an easy to use interface and good features but very crash prone. Considering the power that this editor has, it deserves serious consideration now. I still had a couple of app crashes doing a complex video but nothing like it was before. The latest patch seems to have improved the stability quite a bit. ![]()
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