Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5

Georg · Post by **Georg** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:56 pm

Ulead announces MF5 !!!

http://www.ulead.com.tw/ulead/UDNews/pr ... e=News.htm

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:44 pm

Yes, it's been announced, and will be in store soon.

Georg · Post by **Georg** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:53 pm

I hope, I can see the full version at CeBIT

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:16 pm

Well, I think you can see it to be appeared in CeBIT in the next few days.

InterVideo Press Release - InterVideo and Ulead Showcase Cutting-edge Products and Technology at CeBIT 2006:
http://www.intervideo.com/jsp/Press.jsp?mode=03-07-2006

jcc · Post by **jcc** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:50 pm

$50 to buy. $40 to upgrade. Thanks for nothing.

ploggy · Post by **ploggy** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:42 am

at least the price is now down to $50 considering its equipped with HD/BD technology and Dolby.

keithm · Post by **keithm** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:21 am

How about a $10 upgrade for all of the suckers who bought MF4? Having said that, whose to say it won't be even more buggy.

On a more serious note: does this mean Ulead will give up trying to fix the bugs in mF4, and if they do give up maybe there is a case to get them to offer free upgrades?

keithm · Post by **keithm** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:18 am

erm, don't buy version 4: 5 is out! Why risk more buggy software when you can keep MF3 and use the very stable womble MPEG2VCR. If you haven't twigged by now, Ulead seems very happy to use customers as beta testers then abandon a product rather than improve and update it.

I have had, MF2, MF3, two version of MF4: I just wish they would build a product that has space to grow and add new features instead of a completely new version.

jdw · Post by **jdw** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 1:09 pm

I just bought version 4 a week ago.

keithm · Post by **keithm** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 3:53 pm

don't be sad.. if it works for you then it will be ok

jcc · Post by **jcc** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:00 am

jdw,

If you bought it online, I would be chasing a free upgrade with Customer Support.

ploggy · Post by **ploggy** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:36 am

keithm wrote: On a more serious note: does this mean Ulead will give up trying to fix the bugs in mF4, and if they do give up maybe there is a case to get them to offer free upgrades?

what particular bug are you referring to in DMF4? are you referring to the import DVD bugs (2394 and 2303)? they now have the fix for it.

imho, i would choose DMF4 over DMF3. Ulead has been fixing those bugs in DMF4 and you can see that by the number of patches that was released (and patch revisions) plus the DLL files that they send when you contact their tech support mail.

keithm · Post by **keithm** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:16 am

I've had several requests for tech support, intially I got a response but never a conclusion - the only way I found aout about patches was by looking at the website. The last bug I had was after installing the latest upgrade the software would no longer import DVD +VR from a dvd recorded on a stand alone recorder (worked before the upgrade).

I also had the you dead bug.

MF4 is much slower then MF3 and despite trying every tip I can find - it seems to have more audio sync problems than MF3.

So, unless I need AC3 support I stick to MF3.

The point is, I have had to make several big downloads to get the software even to work, I only have dialup at home and I would have been screwed if a friend didn't download them for me.

ruggy1 · Post by **ruggy1** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:13 am

MF4 works fine for me most of the time. I only hope they've fixed the bug relating to the size of joined MPEG files - this is where 2GB +2GB = 5GB! Any idea when I can buy MF5 upgrade??

neumannu47 · Post by **neumannu47** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:08 pm

Does Version 5 allow customization of templates, such as the addition or deletion of thumbnails? I'm told that Ulead has another program that can be used for this purpose. If that's true, what is the other program? I cannot seem to get an offical answer to this question.