Abiel: thanks for that. However, it will only help if he downloads Movie Factory 7 SE... His question related specifically to DVD Factory 2010...
Daddog: DVD Factory "Pro" 2010 is a sad little program, part of an even sadder suite, which Corel released last year, first as a stand-alone, and then incorporating the Factory 2010 part into Video Studio X3 as the burning module. They did away with the old burning module which had been an integral part of Video Studio since the year dot. "Pro" could not be further from the truth! It was a hopeless program/suite from the start -- extremely slow; far from intuitive, with most of the buttons and processes hidden in strange places on the screen; and prone to crashes. Worst of all, it was extremely limited, and dropped all sorts of elements of the previous burning engine which most of us used on a regular basis... Without any exaggeration, there was a universal outcry from VS users about this development.
Eventually realising the folly of their actions, Corel finally decided to resurrect one of the other programs in the former Ulead stable of programs -- DVD Movie Factory, which in itself was another sad tale, though not through any weakness in the program itself, but in Corel's marketing strategy. For some very strange reason, when the latest version of MF (version 7) was released, it was released only in limited places. I was living in Australia at the time, and so was lucky enough to be able to buy and install it. (This was DVD Movie Factory 7 Pro.) But it was not released, believe it or not, in the US or other major market areas. It seemed that Corel had decided to dump the program, as it was dropping a number of other very useful programs from the previous Ulead stable...
But with the abject failure of DVD Factory 2010, Corel decided to issue a cut-down SE version of MF 7 free to registered owners of VS X3. Essentially, it uses the old burning engine which previous versions of VS and, indeed, Movie Factory, used and with which existing users of VS were quite familiar. Being an SE version, however, meant a couple of things it could not do. As the code was written before VS X3 had ever been issued, it cannot -- unlike its predecessors, accept X3 project files (.vsp). Instead, you have no alternative but to follow what is our recommended procedure in any case of rendering your project into a new video file in X3, then opening MF 7SE and putting that new clip into it for eventual burning to disc. The other major drawback of MF 7 SE for some users is that, for licensing reasons, it does not include Dolby 5.1 output, only dual channel stereo.
But it is a major advance on DVD Factory 2010, and available, as I have said, free to registered owners of VS X3...
