You can easily edit out “bad” words or speed up boring portions of gameplay, add speech bubbles, zero in on a funny happening, all of that and more can be done within PowerDirector 18. Especially if you want to start getting into making game vods. PowerDirector 18 is really great for beginners to medium leveled editors. Overall it’s a solid program with the features you’ll want when starting out making specialized vods of your game streams. PowerDirector 18 also provides video tutorials on how to use the different features, which is great when you can’t remember how to get to that ONE thing. It’s fairly easy to simply drag and drop effects as you will and then just as easily remove them. I found that the more I worked with it the more comfortable I got with how things worked. Though a lot of the DirectorZone assets felt clunky, there were some good ones in the mix you just had to hunt for them, OR, you can easily import from other source creators, like I did from Footage Crate. You can easily make up for that lower cost by purchasing all their additional asset packets, but they do offer a lot of free assets in the online library, so it’s the old saying “ you get what you pay for”. After spending about a weeks worth of time playing with it, I can say that it’s a solid program, that has all the main features, that other video editing software offers, but at a lower initial startup cost.

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