When it came to zooming in on a character, the camera becomes more unstable and it's much tougher to smooth out. In PowerDirector 15 however, the implementation was more clumsy and inconsistent. Some functions are a bit more intuitive in Premiere Elements and work as expected for the most part. I used a mix of on screen text, zooming in on a character in the distance, video overlay, transitions, motion tracking and overlaying a short section of ambient music at the end. I created a test project in which I created the same video twice, once in each editor since this thread was about 2 of them, that's all I'm focusing on for this. At one point it also randomly decided to use up so much resources that my pretty powerful could barely cope with turning caps lock on and off on my keyboard and just flat out stopped my GPU from functioning. The multicam editor in PowerDirector 15 is far less than ideal, taking more of a livestreaming style approach to it plus you can't really do some editing before you go into it. PowerDirector 15 is good and it is a little faster to use once you know what you're doing but it is rougher around the edges whereas PeE has much more polish. Personally, Premiere Elements 15 ended up suiting my style better than the others. I'm half tempted to just up and grab Premiere Elements 15 simply because of how widely accepted it is.ĮDIT: I downloaded the trials for both and the trial for software recommended to me. There's even less out there when it comes to editing for stuff like let's plays or other kinds of gaming videos. I've had a good look around everywhere I can, including on Reddit and thus far I've been unable to find good direct comparisons or recommendations between the two. I'm looking at opportunities elsewhere and the ability to learn without being too restricted.Īny input and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. By versatility I mean the ability to scale up and stretch out to potentially doing somewhat professional level editing.
So, I'm looking at what's best for general usability, overall feature set and versatility. I can't justify the extra £33 a month on the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite. In either case, I'm putting care into what I edit so I will be doing a bit more than just cutting together clips quickly and throwing that out.įor myself, I want the best overall software for what I can currently afford. I'm at a loss as to whether this should be something I consider or not. In the case of multiple people playing the same game and giving me the recording, multcam editing would be ideal for switching between views while keeping everything all synced up and tidy.
If I can, networking a bit would be great too.
Because it's relatively unknown, it makes me a tad hesitant to buy it.įor my uses, I'll primarily be working alone but I am hoping to be recording stuff with a friend from let's plays to podcasts. PowerDirector seems to be relatively unknown in comparison and it wasn't until recently, when a games journalist and video creator I follow randomly mentioned they use it. I use Photoshop CC so Premiere Elements is likely going to be easier for me to use plus when it comes to editing gaming related videos, Adobe seems to have the market share down. Comparisons put them evenly though with reviews PowerDirector edges slightly ahead. Supposedly PowerDirector 15 Ultimate is the best for Windows whereas Premiere Elements 15 is better overall, which I took to mean platform agnostic. Looking at review sites such as PC Mag, Techradar and so on, they all seem to share the general consensus. PowerDirector is apparently quicker to work with and has a few more features, the main one being multicam editing. Premiere has the name recognition, is much more widely used (reliability) and it has tagging for editing videos. Thing is, I'm completely stuck on which one to buy. For a little while today, I have the option of buying either Adobe Premiere Elements 15 or CyberLink PowerDirector 15 Ultimate for around £55. I've finally decided to move up into actually purchasing video editing software and getting started. Hey! I've been planning to get into the whole video editing thing for a while.
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