New User and contrary to what I'm reading......I'm Happy!!

[JPH1589]

I just bought and downloaded Moviefactory Disc Creator 3.0 about 2 weeks ago. Running on a Sony Vaio XP home system. The sony software kept getting stepped on by XP patches and they just dont stay up with it so I needed something more stable.

I still use my Sony GigaPocket TV tuner to capture analog video from my camera and convert it to DVD compliant MPEG. Then I use Moviefactory to trim/clip and enhance video and audio and then burn. I created a fantastic highlight DVD for our school basketball teams with very little trouble. I put a slide show in the beggining and then joined tons of clips with random enhancements in between and Alan Parsons in the background. Then I burned 27 of them in an afternoon and they are all perfect. I also recorded a 3 hour movie and cut the commercials and burned it in very short order.

For the price, this software is TOPS!!!!

[ruggy1]

It just goes to show that at least one of the millions of PC hardware and software combinations actually works with DVDMF3. Transitions have never worked for me and editing MPEG files is a real battle zone - and you don't even get A/V sync problems - Wow!! Whatever combination you have - patent it!

[JPH1589]

I do know that the transitions seem to be picky about the length of clips that you join together. I found something somewhere that said 3 minutes minimum. That isn't cast in concrete though because some of my clips on that one DVD were only 11 seconds. The only place I had trouble was with the 3d transitions if the clips were short.

I've always liked the capture card on the Vaio so I probably would never use the capture feature on DVDMF. I also like the Sony product DvGate for rough editing and creating the mpeg files before i get to MF. I really only bought this because the DVD authoring software that Sony puts out was so fragile.

By the way I've also been very impressed that I dont have to stop every other process on my machine while i'm running MF. The buffer under run protection while burgning seems to really work. I actually did all this work with all my network connections open and norton plugging away. Before I had to stop everything to burn a DVD.

[thecoalman]

Transitions have never worked for me and editing MPEG files is a real battle zone -

Yep and always will be, use AVI if possible. MPEG is not meant to be edited, can be but not meant to be.