Me too - DVD-Lab

Ian G.

Ulead Movie Factory - It's great !
Only thing I'm missing is the possibility to have the menu background or thumbnails animated.

/Ch

For now I'm using Ulead Movie Factory, and that seems stable and easy to use.

I tried DVD-Lab, and I like the look of what it can do - much more powerful. However, in trying to create my first DVD it crashed on me twice. Once the application just dissapeared (no error or anything), another time the app was still running but suddenly all my data was gone (and lost). Maybe just bad luck, or some interaction with something else on my PC, but I don't have a lot of time for things that crash.

Mark

Ulead Movie Factory 3.0 is now out - it includes motion menus, extra audio features, and other stuff.

Also a premuim version (disk creator) with AC-3 support.

I was just about to purchase 2.0! I'll now download the trial of 3.0 and give it a try.

Mark

What do you think about Movie Factory 3.0? It seems much better than MyDVD 5.

IMO Ulead Movie Factory is MUCH better than MyDVD. Very easy to add real chapter points and create menus.

I'm not so sure about Movie Factory 3.0 vs. 2.0 though. 3.0 adds motion menus, but it is doing funny things with the filesizes. I have a 2.6 GB mpeg 2 file, encoded in Screenblast MS. When I pull this into MF 2.0, it shows me the size is 2.6 GB, which rises to 2.7 GB when I add the menus. Fine. When I create a DVD, the actual size of the image is about 2.9 GB. Still fine - some extra overhead or something.

In MF 3.0, importing the same mpeg2 file, it tells me it is 4.3 GB! When I create a DVD, the DVD is 3.5 GB!

So, for some reason, in MF 3.0:

1. The actual size of the disk is 20% larger
2. The file sizes the application tells me are even larger, and not at all accurate.

This makes me not trust that 3.0 is quite ready yet, quality wise.

Mark