PowerDirector 365 for Mac Professional editing tools, AI-powered effects, and an extensive library of creative assets, designed for macOS.
No camera, no crew, no problem. Create original video clips, animate still images, and build characters, within your editing workflow.
Remove backgrounds, enhance shaky or dark footage, and clean up common visual problems, all in guided workflows.
Start faster with intelligent automation, then fine-tune every cut, effect, motion, color, and export with complete creative precision. Broadcast-quality finishing tools without the learning curve.
Trim, split, layer, and arrange clips with frame-accurate control. Multi-track timelines, markers, snapping, and ripple editing give you every sequence exactly as intended.
Animate position, scale, opacity, effects, titles, masks, and transitions with detailed keyframe controls. Custom motion and polished animations, precisely the way you picture them.
Sync footage from multiple cameras, match color across every shot, and clean up audio before export. Professional finishing without professional-software complexity.
Clean up noisy audio, auto-generate captions from your footage, and enhance dialogue for clearer sound, all inside your video workflow without switching apps.
Access millions of stock assets, apply hundreds of transitions and effects, and design animated titles, without leaving your timeline.
Getty Images and Meta Sound Collection: millions of videos, photos, and music tracks pre-cleared for commercial and personal use. Search, preview, and drop into your timeline without switching tabs.
Hundreds of animated transitions for every cut. Drag and drop to apply, with adjustable duration and easing so every transition feels intentional, not generic.
Design professional titles with customizable fills, strokes, shadows, masks, and full keyframe animation controls. Every word worth watching, polished to match.
PowerDirector 365 for Mac is desktop video editing software for macOS that pairs a multi-track timeline with AI tools for generating footage, cleaning up video, and turning speech into captions. It's built by CyberLink, which has shipped video editing software since 1996. Download it directly from CyberLink, edit, and export up to 4K without leaving the app.
Yes. PowerDirector for Mac is free to download and the core editing tools have no time limit. Generative AI tools run on AI credits and are part of the PowerDirector 365 subscription, as is full access to the built-in stock library.
Yes, PowerDirector 365 for Mac runs on Apple M1 chips and later, as well as Intel Core i-series Macs. Full requirements:
▶ macOS: 12 or higher
▶ Processor: Apple M1 (or higher), or Intel Core i-series
▶ Memory: 8 GB minimum, 16 GB or above recommended
▶ Storage: 7 GB of free disk space
PowerDirector gives you multi-track timelines with frame-accurate ripple editing, markers, and snapping, plus keyframe control over position, scale, opacity, masks, effects, titles, and transitions. On top of that sit AI tools that generate video from a still image, remove backgrounds without a green screen, track objects frame by frame, and enhance dark or noisy footage. If you're editing on a Mac and want more control than a basic timeline gives you, that's the range it covers.
Both, and you can move between the two inside one project. Generate video from a still photo or a template when you need something fast, then take the same timeline into keyframe-level work with masks, effect control, and frame-accurate trimming when a client edit or a longer YouTube piece calls for it. A royalty-free library from Getty Images and the Meta Sound Collection is built into the editor, so sourcing footage and music doesn't send you elsewhere.
They cover three jobs:
▶ Generate: Turn a still photo into moving footage, or transfer a performance onto a character. These run in the cloud on third-party video models, and the lineup is updated regularly.
▶ Fix: Enhance dark, soft, or noisy footage, clean up audio, remove backgrounds without a green screen, and track objects frame by frame so text and graphics follow them.
▶ Transcribe: Generate captions from speech in English, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Generative and cloud AI tools need an internet connection and use AI credits, which come with a PowerDirector 365 subscription. The Features page has the current tool-by-tool list.
Export options include H.264 AVC, H.265 HEVC, and XAVC S at 2K and 4K, plus MKV, M2TS, MPEG-4, and AVCHD. On the import side it handles MOV, MP4, MKV, AVI, MXF, M2TS, WEBM (VP9), HEIC and RAW photos, and LUT files in CUBE, CSP, and CMS.
Yes. The built-in Getty Images and Meta Sound Collection libraries are royalty-free and cleared for commercial and personal use, so they can go into client work, monetized YouTube videos, and ads without separate licensing. A PowerDirector 365 subscription includes the standard library plus a monthly allowance of premium downloads; the separate Unlimited Premium Stock Content Plan lifts that cap.
PowerDirector 365 for Mac is a subscription, with two billing options:
▶ Annual: US$79.99/year
▶ Monthly: US$24.99/month
A bundle with PhotoDirector 365 for Mac and an Unlimited Premium Stock Content Plan add-on are also available. There is no perpetual or one-time-purchase Mac version, only the free download as the no-cost option.
Plans bought here are billed by CyberLink; the Mac App Store version is billed by Apple and managed in your Apple account. Promotional pricing runs periodically, so check the buy page for the current rate.
PowerDirector 365 for Mac and PowerDirector 365 for Windows are sold as separate subscriptions. If you edit on both, you need a plan for each. A subscription bought through the Mac App Store covers the Mac App Store version only.
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