Hello Everyone,

I've been filming family vacations and events on my Canon HG10 for the
past 2 years and have come to realize that it's time to copy these films to
a more stable long-term medium than the storage drive next to my PC.

So..I've decided to learn how to transfer the videos to DVD in a good
quality format that can be played on any standard DVD player. Over the
past week, I've been trying various video editing programs from vendors
who have enough confidence to offer free trials. Thankfully, Cyberlink
was one of those. Of the four that I've tried, the Power Director 8 is the
only software that wasn't quirky. It's well laid out and has fastest
rendering (I think that's the word) time. There are many other pluses
which I'm sure the members are already aware of..including this
wonderful help forum.

Anyway, here my question. I downloaded the PD8 trial a few days ago.
The size of the download is approx. 235mb. On top of the "Buy Now"
button at http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html
it says that the download is 690.74mb. Since the "full" (non-trial) version
is 3 times larger than the trial I downloaded, should I uninstall the trial,
purchase the PD8-Ultra and then download the full version from whatever
link Cyberlink provides in the confirmation e-mail?

Also, I noticed during research that the PD8 was discounted 25% in
December. During this month of January, it's discounted 15%. Does
the discount alternate each month between 15% and 25%? If so, I'll
wait until Monday 2/1/10 to purchase the Ultra @ the 25% savings.

Thanks in advance for any guidance. I'll look forward to reading this
forum and learning how to make good DVD videos from this hi-def
camcorder. Cheers! -Allen