MF 6 Plus Effects

[JoReneA]

I just purchased Movie Factory 6 Plus and am a little disappointed with its features. What effects should be available on the effects tab of Edit Video? It seems there are few effects other than fading in and fading out. I would like to be able to add transitions between video clips. Is that possible? I could do it in my previous video editing program. Thank you.

[Ron P.]

MovieFactory is primarily a DVD authoring program, with very little editing capabilities. It is not designed for editing videos. So edit your videos in your video editing program before inserting them into MovieFactory to create your DVDs.

[sjj1805]

Building upon the reply from Ron (Vidoman)
VideoStudio is the Corel Video Editing Program.

Whilst VideoStudio can also author a DVD
Whilst MovieFactory can do limited Video Editing

Many of us have both products, we prepare our video in VideoStudio and then save it in MPEG2 (DVD) format. We then open that up in MovieFactory and author the DVD.

[JoReneA]

If I were to have only one program, would Video Studio then be the better of the two to have? How do it's authoring capabilities compare with Movie Factory?

Right now, I'm having a problem even using the few editing capabilities than MF has, as when I try to bring a video file into the program, it gives me a file mismatch error and says it can't open the video. I am trying to bring in files that I had previously opened with no problems on the main screen of the program, so I can't understand why they suddenly will not open in the edit screen.

[Black Lab]

Well that sounds like something on your system has changed. Have you tried a System Restore?

As for the comparison between VS and MF, if you are looking for more robust editing features than VS is the way to go. The authoring features are not that bad. Depends on what you are looking for. Why not download the trial and give it a try.

[sjj1805]

My comparison of the various products on offer is here:
Comparisons

[JoReneA]

Trying to fix the problem with importing video files into the edt mode, I completely uninstalled the program and then reinstalled doing a clean install. I tried the import function and it worked as it should. Then I installed the update to the program that supposedly fixes many problems and makes the program work better. After the update, I again got the file mismatch error message when trying to import files into the edit mode window. So something about the update breaks the program. Does anyone have any suggestions on this?

[JoReneA]

Trying to fix the problem with importing video files into the edt mode, I completely uninstalled the program and then reinstalled doing a clean install. I tried the import function and it worked as it should. Then I installed the update to the program that supposedly fixes many problems and makes the program work better. After the update, I again got the file mismatch error message when trying to import files into the edit mode window. So something about the update breaks the program. Does anyone have any suggestions on this?

I solved this problem. I installed the update by right clicking on the install file and choosing "run as administrator". (After uninstalling and reinstalling the entire program.) Must be a Vista security problem that requires the administrator option to install correctly.