I am thinking about moving from Windows Moviemaker to VS9 and have a few questions:
1. When VS9 auto-detects clips during imprt, does it allow me to view the date and time of each clip afterwards? I shoot home movies over serveral months and like to add a sub-title when the date changes.
2. Is there a reason to purchase Moviefactory 4, or is it built into VS9?
3. Can I create chapter points and have a separate DVD menu to each chapter?
4. For those of you who have used MovieMaker, would you recommend the $99 price of VS9? Does it really add that much more over movie maker?
Clip Detection Question
Moderator: Ken Berry
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rwindeyer
Hi there. Video Studio is streets ahead of Windows Movie Maker - I have used both.
1) VS saves clips in physically separate form on the hard drive, and names them according to the date of loading. and (I think) if you hover the mouse over a clip in the library, it will tell you the date of shooting.
2) Yes and no. VS is primarily an editing program, which by the way can burn DVDs as well (it does so fairly respectably). Movie Factory 4 is primarily a DVD burning program, with more design flexibility, different menu options etc, and it also has some rudimentary capturing and editing ability. You can manage with VS alone.
3) Yes.
4) Yes. Yes. Yes. Try the donwnload of the trial version of VS8 (don't think the VS9 trial is available yet). If you like it, get version 9.
1) VS saves clips in physically separate form on the hard drive, and names them according to the date of loading. and (I think) if you hover the mouse over a clip in the library, it will tell you the date of shooting.
2) Yes and no. VS is primarily an editing program, which by the way can burn DVDs as well (it does so fairly respectably). Movie Factory 4 is primarily a DVD burning program, with more design flexibility, different menu options etc, and it also has some rudimentary capturing and editing ability. You can manage with VS alone.
3) Yes.
4) Yes. Yes. Yes. Try the donwnload of the trial version of VS8 (don't think the VS9 trial is available yet). If you like it, get version 9.
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gr8vette
Sounds good... So just to confirm, (I am just about ready to click that order button...), you can display the date and time of each clip after the import?bobfrank wrote:There is an option in properties to show time and date on each clip during preview also.
Just to clarify, I want to be able to get the time the clip was shot, not the time it was imorted.
(This is a big show stopper for me if it can't do it...)
Mike
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BrianCee
YES indeed to clarify for you - you can view the date and time the movie was shot - , you can have the date and time of original recording being shown on screen (V9 only) - although not stamped on the video - you still have to use subtitles - or in V8 and V9 when you hover your mouse over the thumbnail in the library the recording date and time is shown. the name of your video file will carry the date of transfer to your PC so that is also available to you.
YES you can see the date the video was shot (Recorded) -- only provision - you must capture your video as DV-AVI - doesn't work with mpeg or other formats (No timecode on video)
YES you can see the date the video was shot (Recorded) -- only provision - you must capture your video as DV-AVI - doesn't work with mpeg or other formats (No timecode on video)
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gr8vette
PERFECT!BrianCee wrote:YES you can see the date the video was shot (Recorded) -- only provision - you must capture your video as DV-AVI - doesn't work with mpeg or other formats (No timecode on video)
Thank you all for your quick answers.... I just placed my order!
Went ahead an ordered a new PC also...
Dell 8400
3ghz P4
1Gig 533 RAM
320 Gig Raid 0 HD
Duel Layer 16x DVD Burner
6800 GeForce 256meg
IEEE Firewire card
Hope it can handle it!
Now... I need to decide if buying DVD MovieFactory 4 will add anything for me...
Looking forward to giving it a try...
I have used Windows Moviemaker and iMovie on an Apple... Videosuite 9 seems like a pretty sweet package...
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DougBrown
Date Time stamp
Hi new to all this, trying to put a video together off various clips off grandsons. Have aoriginal dv tapes, but would dearly like to have date stamp on finished dvd, is this possible ? not sure from previous postings.
I am usin v7, and would happily up grade to v9 if this handled the date stamp thanks
I am usin v7, and would happily up grade to v9 if this handled the date stamp thanks
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BrianCee
No version of Ulead VideoStudio date stamps the video - within UVS the best option is to create small subtitles and put them somewhere on your screen.
In version 7 there is no way to access the video RECORDING date
In version 8 recording date and time is visible if you hover your mouse over the thumbnail in the library panel
In version 9 in addition to hovering your mouse over the thumbnail there is an option in 'preferences' to display (but not stamp or incorporate) the recording date and time on screen, so you can use the information to create a sub-title
In version 7 there is no way to access the video RECORDING date
In version 8 recording date and time is visible if you hover your mouse over the thumbnail in the library panel
In version 9 in addition to hovering your mouse over the thumbnail there is an option in 'preferences' to display (but not stamp or incorporate) the recording date and time on screen, so you can use the information to create a sub-title
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Keith C
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BrianCee
If I let my mouse hover over a thumbnail in UVS version 8 I get a pop-up box containing full file path - file name - followed by "Recording Time with date and time" (of actual video creation - not capture) - this is with .avi type 1 files - one or two other users have commented that they do as well - don't know why yours should be different.
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DougBrown
Date time stamp
Brian ,thanks for response, i now understand and will try the trial version of v9