DVD Moviefactory 7 Standard and Pro available on Aus Web

Kaledi · Post by **Kaledi** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:51 pm

http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ ... bview=tab0

Seems DVD MovieFactory 7 is now available, at least in Australia. Going to try and buy the upgrade in a moment - can't understand why the other websites don't have it available yet.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:29 pm

Great news indeed, I look forward to hearing from our Aussie Friends what's new.

Kaledi · Post by **Kaledi** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:33 pm

Well I decided against immediately buying the upgrade to MF7pro mainly because the cost of the upgrade is actually quite a lot more than MF6plus was. So I decided to download the trial and frankly I'm glad I did this.
I have to say there are some incremental improvements which I've noticed, but Corel are asking a lot of money for the (little) added functionality. Unless you are authoring Blu-ray discs then I can't see any real upgrade from 6 to 7 and certainly not for ¢G55 (remebering that Blu Ray authoring was possible with MF6Plus).

So here are fratures I've noticed that have improved/been added
1. Multi-core processors are finally supported with MPEG2 encoding - this includes AMD quad/dual core processors (yet Corel continue to only market the encoder as Intel optimised, which I find rather ignorant). My Phenom quad core runs maxed out encoding now, and 30 min of MPEG2 video took about 7 min to encode to a different bit rate MPEG2. Menu encoding also makes use of all 4 cores, which also greatly speeds things up

2. AVREC is new output format, which I haven't come across, but appears to be similar idea to AVCHD, ie H.264 codec for authoring on normal DVDs for playback on blu-ray players - I haven't explored whether motion menus are possible and high bit rates (neither of which are with AVCHD currently)

3. In the menu creation section, you can preview the menus at any time by selecting the preview button.

4. There is what is called a 'notes' menu that can be created, which basically is additinal menu page that does not link to any part of the video on the disc, and can hold text

5. You can customise menus by adding 'decoration', including video, pictures etc

6. Blu-ray menus now offer some interactivity. Although I haven't actually authored a disc, I saw the option to creat an interactive menu, which appears at any time you want whilst the video is playing - i.e. it is an overlay on the actual footage. Sounds great and a sign of things to come with Blu-Ray, not much use to me at the moment.

7. Subjectively, the software felt more responsive than MF6plus

Thats about it when it comes to major differences I've noticed. The multi-core support is big plus for me, but not for an additional ¢G55.
Hopefully, VS12, will offer the same technical improvements? and I'll wait until Corel decide to stop ripping the loyal users and reduce the upgrade price

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:39 am

Here are some specs..
Sounds similar to using a dvd recorder in -VR mode.

http://www.blu-raydisc.info/format_spec ... _specs.php

Check this out:
Currently, there are Seven (7) types of Blu-ray Disc Format Specifications. (As of February 22, 2008)

http://www.blu-raydisc.info/format_spec.php

Link to the pdf file:
http://www.blu-raydisc.info/docs/Spec_I ... pril08.pdf

neonbob · Post by **neonbob** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:57 pm

I'm pretty satisfied with MF6. My only gripe is that there aren't enough menu templates and the ones that are there aren't too flexible. Has there been a large improvement in this area?

DiscCoasterPro · Post by **DiscCoasterPro** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 1:25 am

I wonder if it has a playlist feature?

harhash · Post by **harhash** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:37 pm

Does the new version support 24p clip import and authoring without reencoding?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:21 am

Sorry but there is no play list feature.
Haven't had chance to check the 24 fps query yet.

neonbob wrote:I'm pretty satisfied with MF6. My only gripe is that there aren't enough menu templates and the ones that are there aren't too flexible. Has there been a large improvement in this area?

There are quite a few new menu templates.
I don't have any release date details yet but hopefully it will be fairly soon.

Velojet · Post by **Velojet** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:11 am

Kaledi wrote:Seems DVD MovieFactory 7 is now available, at least in Australia. ...

DVD MovieFactory 7 is also available now on the Corel New Zealand site (http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ ... bview=tab0), but an upgrade is only available from the Pro version, for the same price ($NZ119) as the full Standard version.

I wonder if this is a deliberate upsell policy?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 2:30 am

Just to clarify the last post.

Prizes in New Zealand $
DVD MovieFactory Standard
Full $119.00

DVD MovieFactory Pro
Full $149.00
Upgrade $119.00

There is a comparison chart on this page

Velojet · Post by **Velojet** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:26 am

Thanks, Steve. Would you expect Corel to come through eventually with an upgrade to DVD MF7 Standard - or is this their normal practice, to upgrade/upsell users to the Pro version?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 3:49 am

Going by previous new versions of various products it seems the upgrade path is normally to the major product. This is of course only an observation and not something written in stone, like yourself I do not work for Corel.

harhash · Post by **harhash** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:47 am

I contacted corel and they assured me that the new version supports 24p mpeg2 files.... however when I downloaded the trial.. I get only upper of lower field order and no progressive frame... also the frame rate is fixed to 29.9 and is grayed out (can't be changed)
Another problem with the trial is that the encoding is fixed to variable bit rate and is grayed out so you can't choose constant bit rate the only thing you can do is to change the maximum bitrate....
Not sure those problems are due to the fact that it's a trial version and is for australia only (PAL country) or not.....
Did someone with the full version assess those problems???

etech6355 · Post by **etech6355** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 9:26 pm

Confusing, in MF6+ even now you can export frame based.
But in MF7 goto "Export -> Customize -> Options -> select "MPEG2", from there you have all the mpeg2 frame sizes & quite a few frame rates.

Most of my templates are VBR, when I goto create a new template the new ones are hardcoded CBR (constant bit rate).
So I guess on my end for variable bit rate I have to modify one of the templates.

Still have to play with this some more.

I wonder if when making a BDMV whether the program considers your 24P as compliant or not, so it doesn't get re-encoded.
You may have to check ON the "X-Disc" box under "Project Settings"

DLA · Post by **DLA** » Wed Jul 30, 2008 1:14 pm

Looks like the wording has just changed from DVD Movie Factory Plus to DVD Movie Factory Pro...

Alludo USER to USER Web Board

DVD Moviefactory 7 Standard and Pro available on Aus Web

DVD Moviefactory 7 Standard and Pro available on Aus Web

24p for BDMV?

Re: DVD Moviefactory 7 Standard and Pro available on Aus Web

Upgrade to DVD MF7 Standard?

24p