Newbie needs urgent help

mollymowler · Post by **mollymowler** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 10:30 am

Hi everyone. I've just bought Movie Factory 5 and have used AccuCut to edit out adverts in a tv programme I recorded on a DVD. In preview, it looks fine and has successfully removed all the advert segments. However, when you burn the video to a disk and play it back, one segment plays the audio and the edited-out advert segment, not the programme part I left in. If I reopen the project file, sure enough, the advert segment isn't there...but when you play the finalised disk back, however many times I burn a new one, it reverts to the edited-out segment. This is driving me crazy and there is no phone support for U-lead in the UK, which is very bad I think. Can anyone help? Cheers. James.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:35 pm

...a tv programme I recorded on a DVD.

Your source video is a DVD, right? I have had lots of problems when editing MPEGs. (I assume you know DVDs are MPEGs.)

But before I get you completely off track, you might be dealing with a completely different problem.... I haven't experienced that particular problem, and I don't have MF5. I was using Video Studio and earlier versions of Movie Factory.

MPEGs are not meant to be edited, Some people don't have any "MPEG problems", but I've had much better luck with a special-purpose MPEG editor (Womble).

If you can't get Movie Factory to work, here are a couple of special-purpose MPEG editors:
VideoReDo ($50 USD).
Womble ($50 - $140 USD).

These programs won't completely replace Movie Factory... You may still need MF to extract the MPEG from the DVD and to author and burn the DVD. (The top of the line Womble program can author, but not burn DVDs)

and there is no phone support for U-lead in the UK

AFAIK, Ulead doesn't have any telephone tech-support anywhere, but they do have Email support.