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Quick Guide: How to Enhance Video Quality in PowerDirector

Five steps covering shake, noise, lens distortion, soft detail, and AI Video Enhancement.

Updated Oct. 25, 2026 · 1 min read

Steps

1Steady a shaky shot

Choose Video Stabilizer in the list on the left, check its box at the top, and set Correction level.

To see how much the image is cropped, click the split view button at the bottom left of the panel. If one camera shot every clip on the track, click Apply to All at the bottom to use the same setting on all of them.

The split view button at the bottom left and the Apply to All button at the bottom of the PowerDirector Video Stabilizer panel boxed, with the original on the left and the stabilized version on the right in the preview.

2Clear up grain

Choose Video Denoise in the list on the left, check its box at the top, and set Denoise Degree.

Compare the original and corrected versions before settling on a setting. Too much denoising removes fine detail along with the grain.

The Denoise Degree slider highlighted in the PowerDirector Video Denoise panel, with the checkbox at the top checked.

3Straighten the lens

Choose Lens Correction in the list on the left and check its box at the top. Then straighten bowed lines with Fisheye distortion and brighten dark corners with Vignette amount and Vignette midpoint.

Judge the fisheye slider on the edges of a straight object, not the middle of the frame.

The Fisheye distortion, Vignette amount, and Vignette midpoint sliders highlighted under the Model dropdown in the PowerDirector Lens Correction panel.

4Sharpen soft detail

Choose Sharpness in the list on the left and drag the Sharpness slider. For a clip that's slightly out of focus, you can push it past 100.

Sharpness highlighted in the list on the left of the PowerDirector Enhance tab, with the Sharpness slider set to 66 and the split view button boxed, and Before and After side by side in the preview.

5Or let AI enhance the clip

Choose AI Video Enhancement in the list on the left and click the AI Video Enhancement button in the panel. In the window that opens, select any of the four options: Lighting, Denoise, Frame Interpolation, and Upscaler. Then click Enhance at the bottom right.

To enhance only part of the clip, drag the yellow handles at both ends of the bar under the preview before you click Enhance. A section can run up to 3 minutes.

The four options boxed under the preview in the PowerDirector AI Video Enhancement window, with Lighting and Upscaler selected and the Enhance button highlighted at the bottom right.

We tested these steps in PowerDirector 365 versions 24.0.7 and 25.0.10 on Windows.