CyberLink Media Suite 10 Ultra Review: Efficient Design, Complete Multimedia Editing - wardhoulds

At a Glance

Expert's Rating

Pros

Slippy centralized launch application
Comprehensive media playback, redaction, organizing

Cons

Doesn't agnize DirectShow filter out
Heavy footprint

Our Finding of fact

This statewide multimedia system playback suite comes with full 3D capabilities but suffers from some small oversights.

CyberLink MediaSuite 10 Ultra multimedia editing suite

CyberLink Media Suite 10 Extremist is the latest flagship version of CyberLink's all-in-unity multimedia redaction, playback, and single file-conversion cortege. The components lie of the biggest names in the fellowship's preferably impressive portfolio: PowerDVD 12, a software multimedia player; PowerDirector 10, a video editing and production application; MediaShow 6, a photograph organizer, editor program, and social media interface; PowerBackup 2.6 for safeguarding your important files; and MediaEspresso 6.5 for transcoding picture, photos, and audio. The suite ($130 for new users and a $70 upgrade for previous users, prices equally of June 21, 2012) also includes PowerProducer 5.5 for outputting TV to disc, atomic number 3 well As a competent wave editor and several modules for manipulation mundane sense organ-disc chores.

Media Suite 10's new central launch applications programme is far slicker than those of former versions. The look is reminiscent of Microsoft's Metro interface, which suggests that CyberLink will constitute every over Windows 8. You can access Media Cortege 10's modules via a list of the tasks they execute, operating theatre by their names if you prefer. Generally, the suite's modules are easy to use, though not so easy to learn. CyberLink loves tiny icons, and curious interface choices look throughout; however, compared with its two independent competitors in the cortege game–Nero and Roxio–Media Entourage 10 is a breeze to voyage.

Although Media Suite 10 has galore new features, the most salient is its suitewide support for 3D video and photos. If you've been keeping racecourse of the component programs, though, that probably isn't news to you; PowerDVD 12, for instance, acquired 3D capabilities a while ago.

We've reviewed PowerDVD 12 and PowerDirector 10 individually, so be sure to take in those reviews for a more detailed look. In short, PowerDVD 12 plays back out all starring type of picture and video disc, up to and including 3D Blu-ray, and it has a ton of advanced playback enhancements. It's also a qualified pic and music labor organizer. PowerDirector 10 is an excellent consumer-level video editor with multiple video tracks, effects, automatic formatting, round hardware-speedup patronize, and slews of editing tools. PowerProducer 5.5, the companion program to PowerDirector, serves to burn PowerDirector 10's output to disc. Both programs fully support AVCHD, Blu-ray, and 3D.

A for the other applications in the suite, the photo-headed MediaShow 6 makes it easy to create microscope slide shows, retouch images, and interact with online social media. You can significance photos from Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube into a slideshow, and the program will automatically MBD a soundtrack and handle transitions for you if you're in a hurry. Finer control complete those elements is easy, if you experience more time to be creative. The program too supports uploads to the social sites.

MediaEspresso 6 is nice little conversion program that handles a lot of formats and devices. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the program could convince and optimise photos, video recording, and music automatically for my rarely supported HTC HD7 Windows Phone 7 handset. Of course, the curriculum also supports the common targets, namely Android and iOS phones and tablets.

If I have any gripe to register against Media Suite 10, it's that none of the modules patronize DirectShow filters, so you tail't play anything that Media Retinue 10's applications Don't natively support. They backup quite a few, including the MKV container, but FLAC (a lossless data format that's very favourite in classical and audiophile circles) and the OGG Theora video format are missing in action. Less grand, simply also wanting, is reinforcement for RealMedia and some Malus pumila formats. The absence of FLAC bear out somewhat prevents the suite from being a universal media package, at to the lowest degree in my case.

Spell Media Suite 10 Ultra costs $130 for new users, the Pro version, which omits Blu-irradiatio support, costs $100. Whether a media cortege lacking Blu-ray of light support should be called "Pro" is debatable, merely there it is.

Appellations away, Media Rooms 10 Ultra's only real competition these days is Roxio Creator 2012, an $80 cortege. But Roxio has cipher to rival PowerDVD 12's playback capabilities, a difference that puts Media Retinue 10 Ultra in a class of its own. As CyberLink alternatively describes it, this retinue is an "11-in-1 Digital Media Value Compact." Now if the company would only add that darn DirectShow support.