VF + Movie Factory

Hammer wrote on 5/28/2002, 10:46 AM
Anyone else use Movie Factory to burn there author/burn there DVD's? I am testing it now, and one thing I noticed was that the MPEG2 conversion utility seemed to think the DVD standard calls for field order A, and I'm pretty sure that VF and TMPEGenc use field order B? Does this really matter if all you do is menu creation and burn with MF? Another thing I find interesting is the myDVD wants to transcode all of the audio, but MF takes the compressed audio just fine. I could live with myDVD recoding the audio but on certain files it just stops in the middle of the file, leaving the remaining portion of the video silent. When I started down the path of home video editing on the computer I had no idea how many different tools it would take just to produce a simple DVD;) I think I'm down to VF for editing encoding(plugin) and MF for burning DVD's, Nero for vcd/svcd.

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haydenj wrote on 7/5/2002, 10:38 AM
I found that the MYDVD 3.5 that came with my HP 200i drive will not work with Video Vegas 3c and I am getting a error message saying invalid media when it tries to burn to the DVD. I tried many diferent files from Video Vegas with different audio sampling rates and none of them will work with MyDVD. If I tell MyDVD to strip off the audio part MyDVD works just fine. It seems that MyDVD is very picky on what video files it will accept. Another thing about MyDVD that I did not like is the size of overhead files that it creates to make the DVD menus and others editable at a latter date without redoing the whole DVD. I like some of the new features of the coming version 4 but at this point I am not sure that the product is going to be stable enough for me.
I have no problems with Ulead Movie Factory.
BillyBoy wrote on 7/5/2002, 3:18 PM
I use Vegas Video with Ulead's DVD Movie Factory and get excellent results. I also have the HP 200i burner and found the included version of MyDVD almost useless. The full version that costs $300 may be good, the crippled version is something else not allowing chapers from existing files.

To easily make DVD menues with Movie Factory render using the MC MPEG-2 NTSC template then all Movie Factory does it add the chapters and background music/thumbnails if you like without rerendering. This method allows using the superior MC DV codec and is much faster. I'm just finishing up another DVD now, 6 videos, about two hours total each with fairly extensive sub menues.

You can also use Movie Factory to burn VCD and SVCD. There is no need to mess with field order. You should be aware some DVD Authoring software require a ready made compliant file, others take a AVI then render with their own rendering engine, some products do both. One of those cases where you need to read all the fine print.