How to Enhance Video Quality in PowerDirector
Steady a shaky shot, clear up noise, straighten lens distortion, or hand all three to AI.
Updated Aug. 28, 2026 · 5 min read
In a hurry? Use the video enhancement quick guide instead.
Three faults account for most unusable footage: it wobbles, it is grainy, or the lens bent the building. PowerDirector keeps a fix for each in one place, and an AI option that attempts all of them at once when you would rather not diagnose anything.
- Select the clip and click Edit, or just double-click it.
- On the Video tab, open Enhance.
- Pick Video Stabilizer, Video Denoise or Lens Correction, tick it on, and set the slider.
Fixing Footage After the Shoot
Prefer to watch? The whole thing runs about four and a half minutes.
Find the Enhance Tab
Select the clip and click Edit at the upper left, or double-click the clip, which is the same thing with less aiming. Then on the Video tab choose Enhance.
Four entries sit in that list: AI Video Enhancement, Video Stabilizer, Video Denoise and Lens Correction. Each one has to be switched on with the checkbox at the top of its panel before its sliders do anything.
Steady a Shaky Shot
Video Stabilizer takes one slider, Correction level. Two checkboxes sit under it: Fix rotational camera shake for footage that twists rather than just drifts, and Use enhanced stabilizer.
Do not judge it from the preview alone. The two buttons at the bottom left of the panel switch to a split view, which puts the original on the left and the corrected version on the right in the same frame. Stabilisation always crops in slightly, and this is where you see how much.
One clip or the whole track. Apply to All at the bottom of the panel pushes the current settings onto every clip on the same track. That is a time-saver when one camera shot the lot, and a mistake when the track mixes handheld and tripod footage, because the tripod shots get cropped for nothing.
Clear Up Grain and Noise
Video Denoise is the fix for footage shot in poor light or at a high ISO. Its checkbox says what it covers, including high ISO and TV signal noise, and Denoise Degree is the single control.
Use the split view here as well. Denoising trades detail for smoothness, and pushed too far it turns skin into plastic, which is obvious in a comparison and easy to miss on its own.
Straighten What the Lens Bent
Wide lenses bow straight lines and darken the corners. Lens Correction handles both. A Model dropdown sits above three sliders.
| Slider | What it does |
|---|---|
| Fisheye distortion | Straightens the bow. Watch the edges of a building, not the middle of the frame. |
| Vignette amount | Under Vignette Removal. Higher brightens the four corners more. |
| Vignette midpoint | How far in the brightening reaches. Left widens it toward the center, right pulls it back to the corners. |
Or Hand All of It to AI
When you can see that a clip is wrong but not why, AI Video Enhancement takes the diagnosis off you. Four options: Lighting, Denoise, Frame Interpolation for footage that stutters, and Upscaler, which raises the resolution to 1080p or 4K.
Two limits worth knowing before you start. It accepts clips of up to three minutes, so anything longer has to be trimmed or split first. And it is charged per second of the selection, not per job: the window prints the selected length and the per-second rate, and that rate depends on which options you tick rather than how many. Select a short section and read the figure on the Enhance button before committing.
Haven't got PowerDirector yet? Shake, grain and lens distortion each have their own fix in PowerDirector, plus an AI option that takes all three in one pass.
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