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MediaShow 5 Overview:
MediaShow 5
Preserve Your Memories & Share Your Stories
One-click fixes to preserve videos & photos for generations
Smart workflow to tag & search faces in archived photos
Combine videos & photos to create memorable slideshows
Convert videos up to 10X faster for iTunes and portable players
Share your stories on Facebook, YouTube, and burn to disc

CyberLink MediaShow 5 is a fast and easy way to preserve and share your life's best moments. One-click fixes, face tagging, uploading to Facebook and express video conversion, are just some of the convenient features available for organizing and sharing your photos and videos.

1. One-Click Fixes
MediaShow provides a range of tools to enhance your photos and videos with just one click. Impress your friends by making sure your photos and videos always look their best.

2. Memorable Slideshows
Turn your photos into video slideshows. New animated text and transition effects, plus easy-to-apply templates, let you combine photos and videos to create unforgettable slideshows in minutes.

3. Smart Face Tagging
MediaShow 5 helps organize photos by people. With FaceMe™ technology, MediaShow automatically identifies and groups faces in photos so you can tag your entire collection in a faster and smarter way.

4. Automatic Sorting
Automatic grouping of photos plus smart suggestions for tagging make sorting through your photos fast and easy. MediaShow automatically organizes your photos and videos by date too.

5. Speedy Video Conversion
Convert videos up to 10X faster by leveraging the full power of your CPU and graphics processor. Optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream, MediaShow isn't just convenient, it's ultra-fast too.

6. Easy Video Editing
MediaShow provides easy tools for editing videos. Choose from one of 12 templates to create a video theme, featuring music and effects, or manually trim your clip down to size in just a few clicks.

7. Ways to Share Online
Explore new ways to share your memories online. Upload tagged photos directly to Facebook. Add to your image collection on Flickr. Broadcast yourself via YouTube.

8. Memories for Keeps
Burn discs of your videos and slideshows to play on your DVD player. Add a navigation menu from your built-in library or download heaps more styles from DirectorZone.com.

9. Media On the Go
Output your slideshows and videos to mobile devices like an iPhone, iPod, PSP or Zune. Pre-set profiles eliminate the need for any complex settings.

MediaShow 5 Features:
1-Click Fixes
1. 1-Click Fixes for Videos IMPROVED
It's not easy to take the perfect shot every time, but you can fix your videos to make them look even better. MediaShow 5 enables a number of enhancements you can apply with just one click.

Remove "visual noise" from grainy videos
Stabilize the shakiness in video that often occurs when you take hand-held shots
Automatically adjust brightness, contrast and saturation to compensate for poor lighting conditions
Remove distracting noise from your recorded audio
The new Edit Log keeps track of the changes you have made, and you can compare changes with the original version. You can reset your video to its original condition at any time, or apply all the modifications you've made to a batch of other videos.

1.2 Automatic Video Editing
Sometimes you just want to let someone else work on the editing for you. MediaShow will do just that, offering 6 different styles that you can apply to a video with one click.

Each style applies a different editing method and range of effects and transitions to create its specific theme.

1.3 1-click Fixes for Photo IMPROVED
Just like for your videos, MediaShow 5 provides a quick and easy way to fix photos:

Remove red-eyes with one click
Fix brightness, white balance, contast and lighting
Stylize with a choice of 9 picture effects
Crop to predefined ratios or manually set your size
Straighten across with a quick drag of the slider
Apply a fix or effect to a group of photos with Batch Edit feature
MediaShow also includes easy-to-use sliders for manually adjusting brightness, contrast, saturation, white balance and sharpness. You can also rotate, display in a slideshow, or add to your favorites, with one easy click.

1.4 Quick & Easy Video Editing
Cut a lengthy clip quickly down to size with MediaShow's easy video trimming feature. Simply drag on the control bar and click to enter your In and Out editing points.

Several manual enhancements can be made to videos too, including adjustment of brightness, contrast, saturation, and white balance. You can rotate videos left and right with one click and can quickly mix your video with an imported audio track.

2. Face Tagging
2.1 Face Tagging NEW
CyberLink MediaShow 5 searches and organizes your photo collection using a sophisticated face recognition algorithm¡ªFaceMe™ Technology. FaceMe automatically groups similar faces and offers smart suggestions from your list of friends. It is a faster and easier way to organize your photo collection.

2.2 Precise Face Recognition Technology NEW
MediaShow's FaceMe™ Technology analyzes your photos and identifies the faces in them, even if they are slightly covered or out of focus. Advanced face-recognition technology ensures up to 95% accuracy and can identify people wearing sunglasses or shot at various angles.

2.3 Ultra-Fast Sorting
MediaShow 5's FaceMe™ Technology is optimized for NVIDIA CUDA technology to deliver faster sorting times. By leveraging the full power of your graphics hardware, you can analyze and sort through volumes of photos quicker than ever. Analyze 1000 photos in just 8 minutes. Once sorted, albums of people can be directly uploaded to Facebook, completing a seamless process of face tagging and sharing.

2.4 Search for People NEW
MediaShow makes it easy to search for people quickly using their name tag. Simply select the People Search icon, and you can choose from your existing group of tagged friends.

Either type in the person's name or click on the image of the person you are looking for. MediaShow will then locate all the photos that your friend appears in.

2.5 Other Easy Ways to Organize
MediaShow makes it very easy to organize your video and photo collection. Your media files automatically appear in folders listed by date. Individual folders and files can be manually renamed, tagged and described, allowing you to add information that makes it easier to search and reference at a later date.

3. Photo Slideshows
3.1 Memorable Slideshows IMPROVED
MediaShow 5 offers more memorable ways to share your photos, with new tools for creating and customizing dazzling slideshows. You can now combine videos with your photo slideshows, while a selection of 12 stylized templates and a myriad of transition and text effects make the design process fast and easy.

Give your slideshow an exciting theme. Choose from MediaShow's 12 style templates.

In between images or videos, try spicing it up with MediaShow's 30+ transition effects.

Add different types of background music to set the proper tone for your slideshow.

Select from 36+ text effects to convert them into funny thought bubbles, comic book dialog, credit sequences, or even TV captions to your slideshows.

If your slideshow is longer in length, try creating chapters within your slideshow using color boards.

The storyboard style workspace boasts an intuitive design, allowing easy drag-and-drop of photos to change the playback sequence of your slideshows.

4. Video Conversion
4.1 High Performance
MediaShow 5 helps you convert your videos faster by leveraging the full power of your CPU and graphics processor. Optimized for Intel Core i7, NVIDIA CUDA, and ATI Stream, MediaShow offers a range of video profiles that makes it easy to output to a media player, iTunes, and YouTube.

4.2 Optimized for Intel Core i7 and Multi-Threading Technology
Optimized for Intel Core i7, MediaShow delivers a breakthrough increase in performance for HD video conversion of 142% by channeling the full power of the CPU. By taking advantage of Intel's multi-threaded computing technologies, MediaShow allows users the freedom to focus more time on creating and sharing their HD videos and less time in idle.

4.2.1 Super Performance
Intel Core i7 technology enables MediaShow to improve overall performance including previewing and simultaneous conversion of multiple video file formats.

The chart displayed shows MediaShow performance gain in converting several HD videos for output to iPhone.With Core i7 and Hyper-Threading technology, MediaShow renders video significantly faster.

4.2.2 Efficient CPU Utilization
MediaShow takes advantage of Intel's Hyper-Threading technology in Core i7 to enhance CPU performance and efficiency. The CPU can process 8 threads at one time leveraging each core's ability to execute operations from 2 software threads simultaneously. Allowing the CPU to execute multiple software threads at the same time results in an overall boost in performance for MediaShow users when transcoding videos.

4.3 Optimized for NVIDIA CUDA & ATI Stream
MediaShow's support for NVIDIA® CUDA™ and ATI ® Stream™ technology delivers huge gains when transcoding high-definition video content. Delivering up to 10X FASTER performance, MediaShow leverages the power of the GPU to the maximum and produces faster results.

4.3.1 Optimized for HD Transcoding into H.264
With faster speeds for HD video transcoding, you'll spend less time converting home videos to H.264, and more time enjoying your movie masterpieces. MediaShow allows the output of H.264 content for playback on PSP, iPod, iPhone and PS3 and a choice of video profiles for high quality or small file sizes.

4.4 NVIDIA'S Supported Graphics Cards
NVIDIA CUDA technology enables MediaShow to achieve massive gains in converting video. MediaShow supports the following graphics card series from NVIDIA for transcoding video: GeForce, GeForce Mobile, Quadro, Quadro Mobile, and Tesla.

See below for a detailed list of supported graphics cards:

NVIDIA GeForce	NVIDIA GeForce Mobile	NVIDIA Quadro	NVIDIA Quadro Mobile	NVIDIA Tesla
GeForce GTX 280	GeForce 9800M GTX	Quadro FX 5600	Quadro NVS 360M	Tesla S1070
GeForce GTX 260	GeForce 9800M GTS	Quadro FX 4700 X2		Tesla C1060
GeForce 9800 GX2	GeForce 9800M GT	Quadro FX 4600		Tesla C870
GeForce 9800 GTX+	GeForce 9700 GTS	Quadro FX 3700		Tesla D870
GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce 9700 GT	Quadro FX 1700		Tesla S870
GeForce 9800 GT	GeForce 9650 GS	Quadro FX 570
GeForce 9600 GT	GeForce 9600M GS	Quadro FX 3600M
GeForce 9500 GT	GeForce 9500M GS	Quadro FX 1600M
GeForce 8800 Ultra	GeForce 9500M G	Quadro FX 570M
GeForce 8800 GTX	GeForce 8800M GTS	Quadro Plex 1000 Model TV
GeForce 8800 GTS	GeForce 8700M GT	Quadro Plex 1000 Model S4
GeForce 8800 GT	GeForce 8600M GT
GeForce 8800 GS	GeForce 8600M GS
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT

4.5 Accelerated Computing - ATI Stream

MediaShow's support for ATI ® Stream™ technology lets users leverage advanced hardware and software technologies that enable AMD graphics processors (GPU), working in concert with the systems central processor (CPU), to accelerate the video conversion process. This ensures more balanced system performance for faster handling of HD video transcoding.

4.5.1 Optimized for HD Transcoding
In conjunction with ATI Stream technology, MediaShow accelerates the conversion of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on various consumer electronics devices. Support is also available for UVD (Unified Video Decoder), a video decoding unit of ATI Stream that supports the hardware decode of H.264 and VC-1 video codec. Thus, MediaShow provides quick output of video content for playback on PSP, iPod, and iPhone platforms.

4.5.2 ATI's Supported Graphics Card
MediaShow optimized for ATI Stream supports the following graphics card series from ATI:
Radeon HD 4200 Radeon HD 4650 Radeon HD 4670
Radeon HD 4830 Radeon HD 4850 Radeon HD 4870 X2

5. Share Your Memories
5.1 Sharing on Facebook, YouTube, Flickr IMPROVED
MediaShow 5 provides a quick-and-easy way to share your photos and videos with your online contacts. In just a few easy steps you can upload to your Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube accounts.

Your Facebook friends will find your uploaded photos more quickly if you've used MediaShow's face tagging to sort through your photo collection. Facebook automatically recognizes your tag and allows you to see it online.

5.2 Output to a Media Player Device
With its ability to quickly convert all kinds of video files into formats designed to play on mobile devices, MediaShow offers an extremely convenient way to prepare your videos for watching on the go.

You can convert files for playback on iPhone, iPod, PSP, Zune, Xbox and more. While the option to sync with iTunes offers a convenient way to build your iTunes Library.

5.3 DVD Authoring & Burning
MediaShow 5 will have you creating DVDs in minutes. Simply select your video files, choose a name for you disc, add a menu, and burn. You can also add photos to your disc too.

The built-in disc menu library offers a selection of animated menu styles to choose from, while thousands of free menus are available at DirectorZone.com for you to download.

DirectorZone.com is the online community for users of other CyberLink software, such as PowerDirector, PowerProducer, and YouCam, and it is now available to MediaShow 5 users as a source of creative menu designs.

5.3.1 Other Ways to Share
Output your photos to a printer or email directly via Outlook. Customers in the US and Japan also have the option to order prints online via selected partners.

MediaShow 5 System Requirements:
Operating System
Microsoft Windows 7, Vista or XP (Windows XP Service Pack 2)
DirectX 9 or above

Screen Resolution
800 X 600, 1024 X 576, 16-bit color or above

CPU Processor
Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz CPU with hyper-threading or equivalent AMD CPU is minimal
MPEG-2 HD Profiles: Pentium Core 2 Duo E6400 or Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and above
CyberLink MediaShow 5 is optimized for CPU with MMX/SSE/SSE2/3DNow!/3DNow! Extension/HyperThreading/Dual Core technology

Memory
1 GB is required (2 GB above recommended for editing HD videos)

Hard Disk Space
1 GB required
10 GB (20 GB recommended) for DVD production

VGA
Minimum Intel 945 GM and above
Minimum Nvidia Geforce 6600 and above
Minimum ATI X1600 and above
64MB-VRAM and above
Some animation effects may be turned off or degraded for lower-end graphics system

Burner Device
A DVD burner (DVD+R/RW or DVD-R/RW) is required to burn DVD content

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