In a word, "no".
It always seemed to me that Cyberlink was very standoffish with other "plug-in" companies and such, as far as pertaining to PowerDirector.
In the past couple of years, that has loosened up a little, and we now have New Blue to add to old Smartsound.
I have little doubt that another company will eventually crack the CL armor and we'll get another plug-in. We just have to wait. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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I hope they eventually "see the light" when it comes to opening up the program to third party development. It is almost always the right thing to do. I mean, why wouldn't you want potentially dozens of companies (and hundreds/thousands of users) developing new features for your program? The only thing I can think of is perhaps they are afraid that plug-in development could potentially undermine future versions/upgrades of the main program? But I don't think that would happen. Look at what plug-in development has done for other programs like After Effects.

The next best thing, I think, would be to have a scripting language interpreter within the program that can run user-created scripts to do various things to/with video/sound, etc using a python or BASIC-like language.

Anyway, I hope they do consider publishing an SDK at least.

I wonder how NewBlue got their PD documentation?

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First, let me say my opinions/statements are not facts, just what I think I see.
New Blue, a well-known plug-in company, struck a deal with Cyberlink that benefits both.
Same with Smartsound.
I just get the impression, if something goes wrong in a PD program, they want near total control. There's nothing wrong with that. But who knows where the ball rolls? Contact Cyberlink, and see what happens!
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Hi Russell1967,
The approach to CyberLink has to be made, a deal struck, products aligned and version release dates linked.

I have introduced software companies* and I look forward to their included products in forthcoming releases.

*I know a lot of software companies who are involved with various forms of add-on and such.

Dafydd

Ok, this is good to know.

However, I do wish they could see the benefit of releasing SDK and function docs to the general public. Heck, I'd like to see the SDK and appropriate documentation available on the install DVD! I'm not talking about making the program open source, just the proper information to expand the capabilities of the program within the confines of a plug-in environment. I don't see how this could do anything but benefit Cyberlink and its users.

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