CyberLink PowerDirector 12 LE

PowerDirector 12 is a comprehensive video editor which is also extremely easy to use, and supports many different ways to present and share your media.

This starts with a capable slideshow creator. Import your favourite photos, and choose a slideshow style ("Camera", "Normal", "Motion"). Preview the slideshow to see its animations and effects, and when you're happy, export the results as a video (AVI, WMV, MP4, more).

An "Easy Editor" works in a similar way, only it accepts video clips as well as photos. Choose your source files, drag and drop to reorder them, select a custom style and preview the finished results. Again, your production can be saved as a video, ready to share with others, in just a few clicks.

If you need more control, though, the real power is in the full editor. Here you're able to import all the images and videos you need, before organising them on a multitrack timeline.

You can then trim your clips. Split them into separate scenes. Maybe improve them to fix lighting problems, stabilize shaky footage, remove video or audio noise. And there are a host of tools to adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, sharpness, vibrancy and a whole lot more.

Your project can be previewed at any time, making it easy to how you're progressing, and when you've finished your movie can be exported as a video, or uploaded directly to Facebook, YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo.

Please note, the PowerDirector 12 setup program is tiny at under 1MB, but that's only because it must download 450MB+ of other files. Make sure you install it on a system with a fast internet connection.