CyberLink Director Suite is a Windows subscription bundle that combines CyberLink’s video, photo and audio editors so one project can move between them. The standard plan includes PowerDirector 365, PhotoDirector 365 and AudioDirector 365. Director Suite Pro adds Promeo, a design tool for product visuals and marketing content. It is a paid subscription. An account that cancels falls back to the free Essential version and keeps its projects.
What each plan contains
| Application | Purpose | Director Suite | Director Suite Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| PowerDirector 365 | Video editing, screen recording, live streaming | Yes | Yes |
| PhotoDirector 365 | Photo editing, RAW processing, compositing, image generation | Yes | Yes |
| AudioDirector 365 | Recording, restoration, editing and mixing of audio | Yes | Yes |
| Promeo | Product images, ads, social posts and banners | No | Yes |
Building videos in PowerDirector
PowerDirector is the center of Director Suite. Users arrange clips, photos, titles and audio on a timeline. They can change speed by dragging a clip, while keyframes control effects, animations and masks over time. Multi-cam editing lines up footage from several cameras so the editor can cut between angles.
Color work ranges from one-click enhancement to Color Match, which copies the grade of a reference clip or image across the project. Chroma key removes a green screen, blending modes control how stacked layers combine, and lens correction fixes distortion and vignetting. AI motion tracking makes text or graphics follow a moving object frame by frame.
For text, PowerDirector offers animated titles, motion graphic templates and brand kits. Audio can be cleaned without leaving the timeline, including noise removal and automatic ducking, which lowers music while someone is speaking.
Text-based editing transcribes the speech in a clip, and deleting words from the transcript removes the matching video. Speech-to-text produces multilingual captions, and a voice translator dubs speech into another language with voice cloning and lip sync.
PowerDirector also records the screen, either a full display or a single window. Its live streaming mode sends a webcam, screen or game feed to Twitch, YouTube or Facebook.
Photo editing and generation in PhotoDirector
PhotoDirector handles both library management and editing. Photos can be imported, tagged and sorted. PhotoDirector edits RAW files non-destructively, so exposure, color and tone changes never overwrite the original. Batch editing applies the same adjustments to many images.
Beyond manual controls, PhotoDirector uses layers, masks and blending modes to combine images or isolate parts of a photo. Face and body retouching tools are included.
The AI tools in PhotoDirector remove people, objects, backgrounds and power lines, reduce motion blur and noise, and upscale images to a higher resolution. Generative tools create images from text, replace a selected object through a prompt and turn a still photo into a short video.
Sound repair and mixing in AudioDirector
AudioDirector covers the audio side of Director Suite, from recording to final mix.
Restoration is the program’s main strength. An AI restoration assistant scans a file, identifies unwanted noises and suggests the tools to fix them. Dedicated filters remove clipping, clicks, hum, hiss and reverb. Visual repair displays the audio graphically so users can select and remove a single noise without touching the rest.
For mixing, AudioDirector offers an equalizer, dynamic range control and automatic speech leveling. EQ Match copies the tonal balance of one recording onto another.
Promeo for sellers (Pro plan)
Promeo is aimed at online sellers and small teams who need product imagery and advertising. It removes or replaces product backgrounds, places items in realistic scenes with shadows, adds studio-style lighting and processes whole batches of product photos at once. Templates cover ads, banners and social posts.
For video, Promeo’s ad studio builds scenes, voiceover, subtitles and effects from a described audience and message. Auto reframe resizes the result for different platforms.
Round-trip editing between the apps
The practical reason to use Director Suite instead of separate programs is the round-trip workflow. Users can send a still frame, thumbnail or title image from PowerDirector to PhotoDirector for retouching or compositing, then return it to the timeline. In the same way, a soundtrack goes from PowerDirector to AudioDirector for denoising, restoration or mastering. It comes back with its cuts still aligned. Files move between the programs without an intermediate render or export.
AI agent, credits and local processing
PowerDirector and PhotoDirector include an AI agent that takes a plain-language description of the desired result, plans the steps and applies them. In PowerDirector, the results appear on the timeline while editing continues.
Some AI features run locally on the computer’s own hardware, offline and without using credits. Video generation and the heaviest image models run in the cloud and consume credits.
Stock media and subscription terms
Both plans include built-in access to a royalty-free library of video, photos and music from iStock by Getty Images and the Meta Sound Collection. The media is usable in personal and commercial projects without separate licensing. Users can cancel a Director Suite subscription from the CyberLink Member Zone. Premium features remain active until the billing period ends. The account then reverts to the free Essential version.
