Ulead Digital Media Center

flyboy · Post by **flyboy** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:36 pm

I have 2 copies of this that came with my Maxtor hard drives. It includes a bunch of Ulead products, but not a serial number on either CD sleve or the CD. I checked all the stuff that came with the hard drives and not a serial number there either. Are these "lite" versions that can't be up-dated? I am having trouble with Windows XP media player 11, as it says this software is not supported by windows and plays my vidio's on an almost black screen. I tried to register the software at the Ulead site, but cannot find the CD key or serial to do so??? Any help would be appreiciated or if you could point me to the correct forum to post this. The CD contains Ulead MovieFactory 3.5 suite Deluxe. Ulead VideoStudio 8 se DVD. DVD Player 1.5. Photo Explorer 8.5se. CD and DVD picture show 3se. Ulead Photoimpact 10se. My Scrapbook 2. Nova Backup 7.1 Thanks for any help.
Lyle

flyboy · Post by **flyboy** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:42 pm

Me bad, this Ulead product came with 2 Hammer Storage internal 16X DVD Writers, not the Maxtor hard drives. Sorry for the mis-commuication.
Lyle

Post by **Ken Berry** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 10:09 pm

Yes, I am afraid they are all crippled (and now rather old) versions. 'SE' is the giveaway. But they should all work fine minus one or two functions.

Have you actually installed any of them yet? If so, did they ask for a serial number? (Often, the SE versions do not.)

If they installed OK without inserting a s/n, then usually you can find the s/n when you go the Help menu (click the ? sign up in the top right corner) and select 'About' at the bottom. On the new screen, there is usually a large graphic of the program, and immediately under that, to the left, is the name of the program and under that, the serial number.

If they did ask for a s/n during installation, then I am afraid you will have to go to the seller/manufacturer of the hardware the programs came with.

SE versions qualify you for upgrades at a reduced price.

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:39 am

1. The Ulead softwares you have are Special Editions of Ulead products. SE products usually do not have serial numbers and you cannot register them on Ulead website. And when you install them, the installer will not ask you for a serial number.

2. If you wish to update them, all you can do is to buy upgrade versions.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory - Upgrade Policy:
http://www.ulead.com/store/dmf/upgrade.htm

Ulead VideoStudio - Upgrade Policy (you can wait for VS 11 Plus which will be released soon):
http://www.ulead.com/store/vs/upgrade.htm

Ulead DVD Player: this product is now no longer offered. You could consider InterVideo WinDVD instead. However, not as upgrades.

InterVideo WinDVD:
http://www.intervideo.com/WinDVD

Ulead DVD PictureShow - Upgrade Policy (if you purchased DVD MovieFactory then you can skip this one):
http://www.ulead.com/store/dps/upgrade.htm

Ulead PhotoImpact - Upgrade Policy (if you buy PhotoImpact then you will get PhotoExplorer 8.6 Full edition as a bonus):
http://www.ulead.com/store/pi/upgrade.htm

Ulead My Scrapbook 2: You might not need to upgrade. You could also consider to check Ulead PhotoExpress 6:
http://www.ulead.com/store/pe/

Nova Backup: Nova Backup is a third party product for Ulead and is from NovaStor. To get the updates for NovaBackup you could check http://www.novastor.com/pcbackup/backup/n_backup.html

Or you might want to try the data burning component, Ulead Burn.Now, which is included in the Plus edition of Ulead DVD MovieFactory.

Hope this helps.

H.T.