Media Suite 8 includes PowerDirector 8 (Blu-ray support in Ultra and Pro editions only) to enable you stitch together your captured videos into more professional productions. You can seamlessly upload videos and photos directly to media sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube, as well as Facebook. MediaShow is also the main base for slideshow creation and video conversion, and supports hardware acceleration from Intel Core i7 processors and Nvidia and ATI graphics processors equipped with CUDA and Stream respectively. These tagged photos can then be uploaded directly to Facebook.

While it found all the faces in our test photos it didn't always correctly identify the person, so some manual editing was required. Face recognition and automated tagging is cleverly implemented, but not always perfect. It does an excellent job of managing your photos and vidoes, and provides for basic photo editing and enhancement. Photo management is provided by MediaShow 5, a £30 product in its own right. You can either use this interface to complete individual tasks or launch one of the full applications which are also available separately in the Windows Start menu. Tasks are themed, which makes it easy to find the right tool for the job, whether it's creating a DVD or ripping a CD.

The main launch interface has had a gentle revamp since the previous edition gone are the gaudy pictures, replaced by abstract light splodges and content-relevant icons. The difference between the three is in which of the supplied applications support Blu-ray (see here for more information).

The suite is available in three versions: Centra, Pro and Ultra. Although actually a collection of independent applications, Media Suite's programs all conform to a strict and appealing visual design, making it easy to find your way around, within and between applications. Shooting video of your family and friends, of holiday and important moments is all very well, but unless you actually do something with those clips and photos, they are destined to stay inside your camera, or perhaps viewed once and forgotten.Ĭyberlink Media Suite 8 provides all the tools you need to turn these fragments into a compelling story and share them either on disk or online.

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