Differences between Corel Movie Factory and Pro X2?

dalemccl · Post by **dalemccl** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:16 pm

I see that Corel Movie Factory 7 is available.
http://corel.com/servlet/Satellite/au/e ... bview=tab0

For AVCHD, what is the difference in capabilities between Corel Movie Factory 7 (or 6 since 7 is new and no one may be familiar with it yet) and Pro X2? They both say they support end to end AVCHD, including wrting ACCHD to standard DVD+/-R discs.

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:37 am

I don't know about specific differences, but generally Movie Factory is primarily a DVD authoring program that has some decent editing capabilites.

VS is the opposite. It is a very good editing program that has some decent authoring capabilites.

It all depends what is more important to you, or as many do, you can use both. Why not download the trials and decide for yourself.

Post by **Ken Berry** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:47 am

I have had MF7 almost since its release (for some unknown reason, it was released here in Australia well in advance of elsewhere). I have only burned one AVCHD hybrid disc in it so far, plus several standard DVDs. With the hybrid disc, I noticed no difference between it and VS11.5+ in this regard. I have not yet tried X2 Pro on a hybrid disc, but would think they would be virtually identical, given that both have emerged from Corel at roughly the same time.

I know that our AVCHD guru, etech, had noticed some differences between the two (I mean between both MF 6 and 7, and VS11.5+) and recall him thinking that MF did a cleaner, more reliable job with AVCHD. However, I don't recall the details. I know that with both MF and VS, when processing AVCHD it is advisable not to use SmartRender or try two pass encodes...