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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Windows Vista Owners Beware!!! Jan 27, 2008
By Ron V.
I used this product for a month on the recommendations of a video forum group. It was for the specific purpose of burning HD-DVD compliant videos onto standard 4.7GB DVD's using a standard DVD burner.
The biggest problem with this product is that importing files take a long, long, long time. Whether you choose your desired file from a dialog box, or drag and drop it onto the open Ulead DVD Movie Factory window, the program basically locks your computer up for the next hour. Note that this is BEFORE you do anything with the file.
It's not just with high definition videos either. Standard definition files also take a long time to load.
Technical support from the Corel website is basically non-existent save for some FAQ's and a users forum. Even if you click on the so-called "Technical Support" link it takes you directly to the FAQ's. You can't even get email support. I at least got that with Microsoft.
Looking through those forums I realize that others who use this product with Windows Vista have the same issues. The label on the box says "Works with Windows Vista", just not how well.
Hopefully I'll have better luck with Nero.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Makes It Easy But Lacks Options Mar 18, 2008
By S. E. Nelson
"NELZ"
Corel/Ulead DvD Factory is fairly easy to use if you just wish to do simple editing. Trimming, adding chapters, combining clips are all more intuitive with this program than the stripped down version of Nero. For half the price of Ulead's VideoStudio, you get fewer bells and whistles and a bit less creative control. But VideoStudio involves much of the same software as I learned. Attempts to get fancy that proved too much for DVDFactory and lead to the program freezing up had the same ill effect in VideoStudio. DVDFactory probably is no different from any other video program in that it will use up a large amount of hard drive space with its working versions of your projects. The first time it took me a few minutes to figure out where 30 GB of hard drive space could have gone to before realizing that DVDFactory pretty much puts the entire dvd project into one of its folders. That way it just pulls up the project instead of reapplying the edits to your original video when you open. The menu creation step restricts the user to only a few possibilities. This I found to be really frustrating. I searched for updates/enhancements on the Corel/Ulead website but this program seems to be the forgotten stepchild. I found out on the user forum that one can make their own menus but it is a lot of work requiring the use of Ulead's photo program. So after spending considerable time to get the movie just right, one then has to settle for some pretty awful menu graphic options. So if you are just starting out at editing your videos this program will empower you through your first 10 projects but after that you will be forced to rehash the same menus and themes that were rather tacky in the first place.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 It's OK, nothing great, kind of buggy Dec 28, 2007
By A. G. Crivello
I purchased this software along with Video Studio 11 Plus. It did get the job done but advanced DVD menu options would lock up the program even after a fresh install of Windows XP Pro (So all of my Menus are text based). Another issue that didn't exactly win me over was after editing my videos in Video studio 11+ I attempted to import them directly into Movie factory 6.0+. This seemed to be the most logical step, and even though they both work from the same extention DVD Movie factory will not open the files. I ended up converting the videos to Mpegs then back to Corel files. That added an hour to each DVD.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Movie Factory 6 plus is very good Aug 11, 2007
By Robert L. Bartlett
"Compteach"
I used this to create a compilation of 20 or so short movie clips. This program allowed me to create the menu, although I wish that I had a little more creativity with it but I can't complain about that. The DVD came out beautifully and reccommend this program for basic movie making. I may feel that more advanced editing can occur as I get more experience with it.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Good product, buggy installation, deficient support May 18, 2010
By Wingnut NYC
First the pros: I like this program. It's pretty simple and easy to use, yet gives you a decent amount of flexibility in creating attractive DVD menus, and a fairly full set of templates. With properly compliant mpeg2 files, import is fast and since there's no conversion in that case, producing a DVD is fast. So far I haven't worked with HD or tried importing avi, but previous versions were very slow to process anything but compliant mpeg2. (I use VideoReDo for editing mpeg2, btw - excellent product but the authoring is minimal.) There's support for motion menus, background music, custom still or video backgrounds, most of what you'd want to customize a menu. And you can save your own templates. There's a component for direct video capture which I've never used.
Now the bad parts - I'm using a Windows 7 64-bit computer and installation was a nightmare. Oddly enough, the Try Before You Buy version installed smoothly, but the real version didn't behave the same way. On my first attempt, it hung while installing codecs. I stopped the process, and after that it kept giving me a 'failure to load dll' error. Finally I got rid of that by using System Restore to go back to before the initial installation. Tried again, and it hung again - I waited about half an hour and it was really and truly hung. On a hunch, I went into Program Files (x86) and set the protections on the Ulead MovieFactory 6 folder to allow full control to the 'Trusted Installer' process, and it successfully zipped right through the rest of the install.
Incidentally (or not) during this whole mess I also tried installing it on my Windows XP system. It hung at the same point but then continued and completed successfully after a few minutes. BUT - when I rebooted my computer Windows wouldn't start. Lovely. Following instructions on the Ulead website, I booted in Safe Mode and used System Restore to undo the installation. That worked, but the permanent fix is supposed to be to remove Roxio from your computer. So - that's their answer to an incompatibility with a very popular piece of software - get rid of it?? How about fixing MovieFactory so this doesn't happen?
And that brings me to my final complaint - it's now been two days since I submitted email requests for support on these issues, and no one has gotten back to me. I could call or use live chat support, but only if I'm willing to take off from work since they're only available M-F 9:00 - 7:00 EST. They don't even have a toll-free number for installation support.
For the price here on Amazon, this is a great package. I don't know if I'd want to pay the list price of $50, though. I knocked off two stars for the ridiculously difficult installation and for Corel/Ulead's lack of support.
Edited to add: Corel customer support finally got back to me on the third day, but had no clue how to resolve my Windows 7 64-bit installation problem. I told them the solution, and I hope they added it to their database for other customers.
Another edit: recently I tried to make a DVD with chapters, and guess what - MovieFactory doesn't save the chapter thumbnails unless you download and install a patch which appears to have made the DVD preview mode extremely slow. I see the price has gone down and I guess it's still worth $15 or so, but sheesh.
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