I love the black interface - that's in essence what sold me on the upgrade. I find it really makes the material stand out.

I tried out the two issues which had bothered me in PD6:

1. This was a rendering issue affecting AMD Semprons and I am please to see the fix given to me then has been successfully incorporated in to the new version. Full marks to Cyberlink.

2. I found trying to put fades in to audio painfully tricky in PD6 and am glad to see here too that they now seem to work better in the audio mixer control area.

However in the audio editor, the window for trimming says "Analyzing waveform for display" but in fact there is no display within the box. I am assuming there should be a graphic display of the music here, or am I mistaken.

There is also a hilarious typo in the Directorzone sign-in page. On the side that says "Yes" to the question 'do you already have a Cyberlink account' it then goes on to say:

Use the following account details to sing in...

I can just imagine Dafydd singing something suitably Welsh. Suggestions on a postcard, please!