Product Description

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus is the award-winning consumer DVD authoring package. It's the first consumer entry-level product to offer HD DVD burning capability. Capture digital media from numerous sources, to create artistic, original-looking video and slideshow discs. Its easy-to-use Storyboard and Timeline editing tools help you personalize titles, music and other project elements. With the enhanced "Edit Room" users can polish camcorder footage for more professional home movies. DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus supports all of the latest industry formats -- import, edit and convert HDV, DivX or AVCHD and output in HD DVD, Blu-ray or traditional DVD-Video. It even has a complete set of tools for burning to CD, DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc. Breathe new life into videos, photos and create Hollywood-style menu motion effects - Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus does more than make it possible. It makes it easy. Overlay frames and objects in different tracks Make mixed-media clipshows by combining video clips and photos on the timeline Capture and edit HDV as easily as working with standard DV Auto Subtitles - Select video file name, date, time, and EXIF (photo) data as a subtitle track Rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fit into frames or other background elements Customize your slideshows with Pan & Zoom Supports 16 - 9 Widescreen PC monitors Open and import HD DVD folders and burn them to disc Secure Burning - Users can password-protect videos, photos, documents, and any other data from unauthorized access Output to HD DVD-R/RW & Blu-ray

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4558 in Software
• Brand: Corel
• Model: DMF6PLENGPC
• Released on: 2007-04-06
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: DVD-ROM
• Dimensions: 2.25" h x 8.00" w x 9.50" l, 3.00 pounds

Features

• Easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software
• Choose from 70+ motion menu styles for DVD menus that pop
• Plug-and-go DVD recording; end-to-end HD DVD disc creation
• Use the Edit Room to add polish to videos with titles, music, and effects
• Archive, share, and play music, data, photos, videos, and more

From the Manufacturer
DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus is easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software that lets you do more with your standard or High-Definition digital media. Create HD or standard discs with studio-quality personalized menus. Use the new Edit Room to add polish to your videos with titles, music, and effects. Archive, share, and play your music, data, photos, and videos on CD, DVD, HD DVD, or Blu-ray Disc.

Create Breathtaking DVDs
Create DVD menus that pop. Choose from over 70 motion menu styles with freely modifiable text, objects, or buttons, and add cool menu transitions and filters.

Plug-and-Go DVD Recording
The simplest, "no-editing" way from tape to DVD. Connect your camcorder, VCR, or TV tuner to your PC and burn directly to standard or high-definition playable discs.

The HD Disc Experience
End-to-end HD DVD disc creation lets you capture from HD sources such as HDV or AVCHD camcorders, author HD discs, and burn to HD DVD discs in full high-definition. Capture direct-to-disc from your DV or HDV camcorder to Blu-ray Disc, or back up your data.

Music, Backup, Playback--and more!
Compile hours of Hi-Fi music on DVD, or create music CDs and MP3 discs. Copy, span, or shrink any kind of disc and make quick-drop backups of your data and pictures. Play back all your videos and movies with WinDVD.

Customer Reviews

Windows Vista Owners Beware!!!
I used this product for a month on the recommendations of a video forum group. It was for the specific purpose of burning HD-DVD compliant videos onto standard 4.7GB DVD's using a standard DVD burner.

The biggest problem with this product is that importing files take a long, long, long time. Whether you choose your desired file from a dialog box, or drag and drop it onto the open Ulead DVD Movie Factory window, the program basically locks your computer up for the next hour. Note that this is BEFORE you do anything with the file.

It's not just with high definition videos either. Standard definition files also take a long time to load.

Technical support from the Corel website is basically non-existent save for some FAQ's and a users forum. Even if you click on the so-called "Technical Support" link it takes you directly to the FAQ's. You can't even get email support. I at least got that with Microsoft.

Looking through those forums I realize that others who use this product with Windows Vista have the same issues. The label on the box says "Works with Windows Vista", just not how well.

Hopefully I'll have better luck with Nero.

Movie Factory 6 plus is very good
I used this to create a compilation of 20 or so short movie clips. This program allowed me to create the menu, although I wish that I had a little more creativity with it but I can't complain about that. The DVD came out beautifully and reccommend this program for basic movie making. I may feel that more advanced editing can occur as I get more experience with it.

Makes It Easy But Lacks Options
Corel/Ulead DvD Factory is fairly easy to use if you just wish to do simple editing. Trimming, adding chapters, combining clips are all more intuitive with this program than the stripped down version of Nero. For half the price of Ulead's VideoStudio, you get fewer bells and whistles and a bit less creative control. But VideoStudio involves much of the same software as I learned. Attempts to get fancy that proved too much for DVDFactory and lead to the program freezing up had the same ill effect in VideoStudio. DVDFactory probably is no different from any other video program in that it will use up a large amount of hard drive space with its working versions of your projects. The first time it took me a few minutes to figure out where 30 GB of hard drive space could have gone to before realizing that DVDFactory pretty much puts the entire dvd project into one of its folders. That way it just pulls up the project instead of reapplying the edits to your original video when you open. The menu creation step restricts the user to only a few possibilities. This I found to be really frustrating. I searched for updates/enhancements on the Corel/Ulead website but this program seems to be the forgotten stepchild. I found out on the user forum that one can make their own menus but it is a lot of work requiring the use of Ulead's photo program. So after spending considerable time to get the movie just right, one then has to settle for some pretty awful menu graphic options. So if you are just starting out at editing your videos this program will empower you through your first 10 projects but after that you will be forced to rehash the same menus and themes that were rather tacky in the first place.