DVD Movie Factory 2.0

grunfel · Post by **grunfel** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:00 am

I have used this program for years and it ALWAYS takes hours to burn DVD's. Is it the processor speed that takes it so long?

Whats the minimum requirements so I can buy a new Dell and have it run the software the way it was meant to be run.
Currently have 2.0GHZ 512 RAM Video card 512 MB and 200 GB hdd
Dell wants to sell me the $4,000 machine...well duh. I dont think I need to spend that much for home video and imageing.
sampleshere@yahoo.om.au,

thanks

Bo

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 2:19 am

Please view:
Dvd Moviefactory 2

grunfel · Post by **grunfel** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:05 am

I looked at that it only has updates/patches

grunfel · Post by **grunfel** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:08 pm

I am using the DVD Movie Factory 2 on this machine.
t3302 emachines
AMD Sempron 3300+ 2.0 Ghz
1600 FSB
128KB L2 Cache
512MB DDR SDRAM
160GB ATA HDD
From what I read this exceeds the minimum requirements but still itakes well over an hour to burn one 179MB AVI file.

Is this the norm for the hardware I have?
The actuakl burn time is about 10 minutes...its the encoding that takes forever.

Thanks ,
Bob
Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz, AMD Athlon™ XP 1800+
512 MB RAM
Microsoft® Windows® 2000 SP4, XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, XP Media Center Edition, XP Professional x64 Edition
900 MB hard disk free space for program installation
DirectX® 9.0c , Windows Media Format 9, Macromedia Flash Player 7, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or above
Windows® compatible sound card
Windows® compatible display with 1024 x 768 resolution or above
Windows® compatible AGP or PCI graphics card (overlay support is recommended)
Windows® compatible mouse or pointing device

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:43 pm

grunfel

$4000 / £2117 for a computer - I could buy about 5 for that price, look elswhere - forget about brand names such as Dell or Hewlett Packard or any other famous name.

I build my own but have gone along with plenty of family and friends to help them purchase their ready buiilt machines. Here in the UK and I would suspect they exist in the U.S. are what are termed Computer Fairs
also known as Computer Markets.

The website for the ones for my area is
http://www.computermarkets.co.uk/
I am sure that either a Google search or perhaps some of our U.S. members can point you in the right directions for these establishments in your region.

A computer fair is an indoor market where there are several stall holders selling new and/or used computer parts / systems. You can purchase complete systems ready for you to install your chosen operating system
(also there are stalls selling software) or you can buy the individual bits and pieces and build your own or upgrade your existing machine.

A decent Video Editing system would perhaps be about £250 plus another £150 for a 17" flat screen monitor - total approx £400. Thats $755.

You may not even need a monitor - your existing one might be adequate.
Complete computer systems nowadays are so cheap that often its not even worth upgrading.

Now we have that bit out of the way - system specifications.
Well if you follow my advice above, thats going to be very easy.
Decide how much you want to spend, toddle off along to a computer fair and then look at stall #1 and see what you can get for your money. Now amble along to stall #2 and see what you can get from that stall.

Guarantees? - yes they give you guarantees. I have bought the odd items that developed a fault and never had any problem getting an exchange or refund.