Movie Factory
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I presently use Video Studio 8 for editing and outputting videos to DVD. Is there any point in buying Movie Factory? Will it give me any additional features?
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Not if you are only doing simple DVDs and simple menus.
But Movie Factory/Disc Creator is more at the production end with some simple editing functions tacked on (while VS 8 is essentially an editing program with some simple production functions tacked on). Movie Factory gives you more flexibility with menus, for instance, including motion menus. And you can also mix videos on the same disc which have different field orders, which I don't think you can do with Video Studio. I personally also tend to use only Movie Factory for disc production for these reasons, and because for my home movies, I almost always include still photo slide shows, and Movie Factory prepares them with no problems at all (and the 'fancy' ability to set the show to the exact time of the selected background music if you want...) Even a simple search of this Board will show, by contrast, that a lot of people have a lot of problems assembling a workable slideshow using Video Studio...
But Movie Factory/Disc Creator is more at the production end with some simple editing functions tacked on (while VS 8 is essentially an editing program with some simple production functions tacked on). Movie Factory gives you more flexibility with menus, for instance, including motion menus. And you can also mix videos on the same disc which have different field orders, which I don't think you can do with Video Studio. I personally also tend to use only Movie Factory for disc production for these reasons, and because for my home movies, I almost always include still photo slide shows, and Movie Factory prepares them with no problems at all (and the 'fancy' ability to set the show to the exact time of the selected background music if you want...) Even a simple search of this Board will show, by contrast, that a lot of people have a lot of problems assembling a workable slideshow using Video Studio...
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