I have Premiere 6.5 and now I'm looking for a dvd authoring product so I can burn my edited movie to a dvd thats playable on our dvd player.
I like the look of Ulead but, even after looking through their website, I'm confused as to what the difference is between some of their products. In particular I want to understand what the difference is between Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5 and Ulead DVD MovieFactory 4 Disc Creator. MF5 seems to offer more, but its cheaper, so I guess theres something i'm not understanding here.
Can anyone advise me or even recommend a different Ulead product if you think it more appropriate.
Thanks
Which DVD Authoring tool to buy?
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sjj1805
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Please view:
http://www.ulead.com/dmf/compare.htm
Or you may be interested in the more flexible DVD Workshop 2 but is overdue for a service pack or version 3
http://www.ulead.com/dws/runme.htm
http://www.ulead.com/dmf/compare.htm
Or you may be interested in the more flexible DVD Workshop 2 but is overdue for a service pack or version 3
http://www.ulead.com/dws/runme.htm
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talacrush
Thanks but I saw that and am no wiser. It seems MF5 offers far more but its cheaper. That doesn't make sense to me hense why I said there must be something I'm not understanding. In simple english what is the difference between MF5 and MF4 Disc Creator? What can you do with one that you can't do with the other and visa versa?sjj1805 wrote:Please view:
http://www.ulead.com/dmf/compare.htm
Thanks for any help.
OK, to summarize...
MF5 offers more features for DVD authoring than MF4, like menu-in and -out transitions. MF5 will support HD, MF4 will not.
MF4 has disc creation features other than DVD video. You don't need this stuff because you're looking for DVD video authoring.
I think it's very dumb that MF4 has more content (backgrounds, buttons, frames) than MF5. If I was in marketing, I would never have made that decision!
MF5 currently has some problems that need to be fixed. I am doing the trial again (now version 5.0.0189.0) because I had tested the original trial (5.0.0.0). These problems remain:
MF5 offers 2-pass VBR encoding. But VBR (variable bit rate) encoding is currently broken, because it puts the chosen bitrate in the header, but the data is never better than about 4200 and never peaks anywhere near the chosen value.
Certain menu transitions are broken.
BTW I encode my video from DV to VBR MPEG2 with Canopus software, so MF does not need to encode my video (the VBR bug would be a showstopper otherwise).
MF does the authoring, encodes the audio (to Dolby stereo), and creates the DVD output (I put it in a folder and check it before burning).
MF5 offers more features for DVD authoring than MF4, like menu-in and -out transitions. MF5 will support HD, MF4 will not.
MF4 has disc creation features other than DVD video. You don't need this stuff because you're looking for DVD video authoring.
I think it's very dumb that MF4 has more content (backgrounds, buttons, frames) than MF5. If I was in marketing, I would never have made that decision!
MF5 currently has some problems that need to be fixed. I am doing the trial again (now version 5.0.0189.0) because I had tested the original trial (5.0.0.0). These problems remain:
MF5 offers 2-pass VBR encoding. But VBR (variable bit rate) encoding is currently broken, because it puts the chosen bitrate in the header, but the data is never better than about 4200 and never peaks anywhere near the chosen value.
Certain menu transitions are broken.
BTW I encode my video from DV to VBR MPEG2 with Canopus software, so MF does not need to encode my video (the VBR bug would be a showstopper otherwise).
MF does the authoring, encodes the audio (to Dolby stereo), and creates the DVD output (I put it in a folder and check it before burning).
Henry