New to VideoSuite ver. 7.0 Couple Questions

[thevanrat]

I am new to VideoSuite vers. 7.0 SE. I purchased a new Samsung Camcorder, recently, and this version came with on a DVD.

My initial experience with the software was pleasant. Less painful than Nero, much more capable than Windows Movie Maker, all good!

Question: I was able to compose and burn a couple of DVD's from my DV camcorder, they play on a DVD player, and with some fooling around, they play fine on all of my computers.

The question is, is there a way to burn them so that they will "auto play" when inserted into someone's computer? I want to be able to use the DVD's I burn for business, and some people may not know how to go to "My computer, find the DVD icon, open folders, and start fishing around for the proper icon. In Windows XP, I was surprised I had to go "fishing" in folders under the DVD drive, clicking randomly on icons in folders for the composed DVD to get it to play. Once I found the right icon, they plan just fine.

Is there a setting I need to be aware of to make them Auto-play on a PC equipped with a DVD player?

Second question, I registered my VideoSuite ver. 7.0, and was kind of sad to see that it is no longer supported, the web site says its "outdated" and wants me to upgrade. Uh, I just bought the camcorder, and the software came with it, and it's already outdated and not supported?

OK, I understand the underlying marketing tactic in that, my question is, what will I gain by upgrading to the recent version, and what is the recent version?

You can e-mail direct to crossfiles@charter.net thanks

[Ken Berry]

As far as I am aware, Video Studio does not have the capacity to insert in a disc made by it the ability to initiate AutoPlay on a computer. AutoPlay properties in an XP computer are set in XP itself. If you go into My Computer or Windows Explorer and select one of your DVD drives, then Properties, you will see that the second tab which appears is AutoPlay. You then set what Windows will do when different sorts of discs are inserted into the drive. This has to be done separately for each CD/DVD drive in the computer.

Others may have some trick of installing an auto-play file on a DVD, but I am sorry I don't know how to do that if it is possible.

As for VS7 being bundled with your camera, that is Samsung's decision, not Ulead's. VS7 is about 4 - 5 years old now. Apart from it no longer being supported by Ulead, you will probably also find that it is an SE version with various aspects of it crippled. The current version is VS10 and VS10+. I started my video editing career with VS7 and loved it, but I have to say that VS10+ is streets ahead. You can read all you need to know about it at http://www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm

As far as I am aware, VS7, while no longer being supported, nevertheless allows you to get the discount price on an upgrade to VS10+ which IIRC is around US$59.99. If you can, buy the version that comes on a disc rather than just the download version.

You can also, if you wish to test it, download a trial version to see what it can do. But if you then decided to buy it, make sure you first completely uninstall the trial version as there appear to be some conflicts between the trial version and a full version installed over it.

[thevanrat]

Wow, thanks--all good and in English too!

I will try to pick the latest version, having fun now!