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Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus Page 2Reviewer’s Guide

Welcome to the Reviewer’s Guide for Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 and DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory excels at making it easy to create personalized video discs. Authoring tools simplify the processof producing standard DVDs or high definition discs with studio-quality menus. New “Edit Room” video editing tools letanyone enhance videos with sophisticated openings, titles, effects and music. Direct-to-disc recording provides astreamlined path for recording from a video source. Convenient data burning tools and utilities help users create audio discs,data backups and more.

The arrival of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players and burners on the market is turning up the heat in the competition for nextgeneration DVD technology. DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus gives users an end-to-end solution for both Blu-ray Disc and HDDVD formats – and continues our promise of making it easy for anyone to take advantage of the latest technologies.

Award-winning ease-of-use, cutting-edge technology and unrivalled value are what Ulead are all about. Ulead DVDMovieFactory 6 and DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus set the standard for easy-to-use disc authoring and burning software thatlets anyone do more with their digital photos and video.

Contents:

Product StrategyIntroduction .............................................................................................................................................................3Version Comparison ...............................................................................................................................................4High Definition Workflow ........................................................................................................................................5

What’s New ....................................................................................................................................................................6

Product TourDVD MovieFactory Launcher ..................................................................................................................................8DVD and HD DVD Authoring

o Capture Video ....................................................................................................................................9o ‘Edit Room’ Video Editing tools ........................................................................................................10o Multi-trim and Ad-Zapper..................................................................................................................11o Photo Slideshows.............................................................................................................................12o Menu Authoring ................................................................................................................................13o Dolby® Digital Surround Audio .........................................................................................................14o Burning Options................................................................................................................................14

Video Disc Recordingo Straight Capture to DVD & Blu-ray Disc 15

Other Disc Burning Tools ......................................................................................................................................16Bonus Software .....................................................................................................................................................17

System Requirements .............................................................................................................................................18

Welcome


Why Two Versions?

The latest release of Ulead’s award-winning consumer DVD authoring package is the first product to be launched from the recentlymerged Corel/InterVideo/Ulead portfolio. It is also the first consumer-level product to offer complete HD DVD authoring and burning.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 is available in two configurations. For users getting started with DVD creation, Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6offers a complete, easy-to-use disc authoring solution for standard definition video. For users who need a more complete set of disccreation tools or are moving into High Definition video, DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus offers a broader toolset and end-to-end creativity forcreating HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6

This is Ulead’s simple and easy-to-use disc authoring software.It is aimed at the consumer who wants a simple way to getvideos and pictures off a camera and on to a disc that will playwell and look good. It offers video theme templates that addpolish to any video and slideshow. The authoring tools featureprofessional-looking menu templates that are easy topersonalize. DVD MovieFactory 6 makes it easy to turn videoand pictures into standard-definition DVDs.

MSRP: $49.99

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus

The Plus version provides digital media enthusiasts with amore complete disc burning suite. Most importantly, it offersfull High Definition capabilities. Users can capture and edit HDvideo, author HD DVD projects, and burn video and data to HDDVD or Blu-ray Discs. In addition to the same editing andauthoring tools in the standard version, there are disc utilitiesfor copying discs, and creating audio DVDs or CDs password-protected data discs, and more.

MSRP: $79.99 / $49.99 upgrade

What’s in the Box:DVD MovieFactory LauncherDVD MovieFactory 6.0DVD Disc Recorder 2.3Ulead QuickDrop 2.0WinDVD 8 (Trial version)

What’s in the Box:DVD MovieFactory 6 LauncherDVD MovieFactory 6.0BD (Blu-ray) DiscRecorder 2.7DVD DiscRecorder 2.3Burn.Now 4.5Ulead QuickDrop 2.0WinDVD 8 (Silver version)DVD Copy 5 (Silver version)

ProductStrategy

VersionComparison

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DVDMovieFactory 6

DVDMovieFactory 6

PlusCapture/Import/Encode

• Capture from HDV/AVCHD camcorder

• Encode/export HD DVD video

• Encode Blu-ray video format

• Import srt file to add subtitle track automatically

• Dolby® Digital (AC-3) audio encoding

• DivX decoding DivX encode/decode

EDIT VIDEO / SLIDESHOW

• Export/import HD MPEG-2 in 1440/1920x1080 frame size

• Customizable slideshow Pan & Zoom

• Edit Room – Timeline and Storyboard modes

• Edit Room – video theme templates

Complete DVD Authoring

• Straight-to-Disc burning - auto capture DV time code and date as subtitle.

• HD DVD authoring

• Output to HD DVD-R/RW & Blu-ray-R/RE disc

• Motion path animation for buttons & objects

• Distort menu thumbnails & objects

Burn/copy disc

• Quick-Drop data, audio & MP3 CD/DVD disc burning

• Burn music-only DVD-Video & DVD Audio discs

• Convert audio files to supported formats (MP3 & Dolby® Digital)

• Rip CD tracks and convert to supported audio formats (Unlimited)

• Burn HD DVD folders to HD DVD disc

• Create password-protected data discs

• Create CD Extra discs (CD audio + data)

Other Features

• Customizable disc label printing

• LabelFlash™ and LightScribe™ label burning

• InterVideo® WinDVD® 8 player. trial

• InterVideo® DVD Copy 5

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DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus is a complete, end-to-end solution for consumers looking to take advantage of HD for producingpersonal video discs and data.

The DVD MovieFactory 6 authoring module offers full HD DVD authoring and burning, including burning HD DVD content toDVD discs using standard DVD burners.

BD DiscRecorder offers a streamlined solution for burning HD content to Blu-ray discs in BDAV format either directly fromHDV camcorders or from captured HD files.

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Edit Room DVD MovieFactory 6 makes it easy to polish camcorder footage for a more professional look. Video Templates automatically add anopening sequence, titles and music. Simple tools let users further edit their video by arranging and trimming clips and customizing titles,transition effects and the soundtrack.

Exciting Theme Templates• One-click Theme Templates – instantly add professional style to your videos.• Variety of styles - choose from a style or theme to suit your video, such as

Wedding, Travel or Sports.• Simply select a template, and watch MovieFactory create a sophisticated

opening sequence with multiple animated overlays, using clips from your video.It also adds music and titles.

• Easy to customize - use a template as is, perhaps just changing the openingtitles or music, or use the timeline editing tools to personalize as much as youlike.

Easy Video and Slideshow Editing• Storyboard Mode gives you an overall view of your production, making it

easy to rearrange clips for a better flow.• Timeline Mode gives you more control over the positioning and length of

titles, background music and overlays.

• Step-by-Step Video Editing – all the tools you need are now groupedtogether:• Trim your video to make it shorter, and rearrange clips as needed.• Auto-enhance video with one click – fixes most common brightness

and contrast problems.• Add video clips and photos to create mixed-media video and

slideshows.• Drag and drop cool transition effects such as dissolves or wipes

between your video clips for a smoother viewing experience.• Add titles to suit your production. Title size, position and style can be

modified on-screen.• Change background music if you like, adding your favorite music.• Add voiceover narration to introduce your video.

• Customizable Pan & Zoom – when creating slideshows, precisely controlpaths and zoom ratios to highlight picture details.

• Add DVD chapter points directly on the timeline, so your viewer can skipbetween sections.

• Automatically adjust for 16:9 PC monitors – make full use of all that extrascreen space if you are using a widescreen monitor.

Video Templates & Storyboard Mode

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Enhanced Menu Authoring

Creative menus are at the heart of MovieFactory. Attractive designs and coolmotion effects make it a snap to produce discs that look every bit as good asHollywood DVDs.

• More High-Definition Menu Templates – sophisticated menu designscomplement your HD video. Choose from 15 modifiable templates withthemes like Kids, Travel, and Romance.

• Button Moving Paths – animated titles, navigation buttons,and decorative objects make menus come to life.

• Distort Menu Objects – rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fitinto frames or other background elements for a truly personal touch.

Any Camcorder, Any File Format

No matter what format your camcorder, or where you get your video clips from, MovieFactory hasyou covered for the latest in standard and HD formats.

• AVCHD camcorder support – import and edit High-Definition footage from your AVCHDcamcorder, either from disc or hard drive.

• Dolby® Digital 5.1 support – DVD MovieFactory takes conventional 2-channel stereo audioand intelligently splits it out to 5.1 Surround Sound specification, for that immersive hometheatre experience.

• DivX® support – you can now convert your downloaded DivX movies to DVDs. Even download subtitle (.srt) files in the language ofyour choice and DVD MovieFactory will automatically combine them to synchronize with the video.

• Auto Subtitle Track – automatically capture video file name, date, time, and EXIF (photo) data and view as a subtitle track. Greatfor keeping track of when and where you shot your video and pictures.

Even More Sharing Options

DVD MovieFactory’s wide range of output options means users can share movies, music, and datathe way they like.

• Complete HD DVD authoring solution – capture HD video, author menus and burn to HDDVD burners.

• Output to HD DVD & Blue-ray discs – DVD MovieFactory’s disc burningsupport has now been expanded to include HD DVD-R and Blue-ray BD-R/RE disc formats.

• Back up your data to HD DVD discs – Save up to 30 GB of data on oneHD DVD disc.

• HD DVD folders to disc – if you authored HD DVD projects in folders onyour hard disc before, you can now burn those folders to HD DVD disc andplay on next-generation players.

• Password-protect your discs - secure your videos, photos, documents,and any other data from unauthorized access.

• CD Extra - add data files to your audio CDs. Create music discs that canplay on standard CD players, with extras like video clips, pictures ordocuments that can be access on a PC.

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What’s New

Burn.Now offers flexible, hassle-free burning ofdata and audio discs.

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DVD MovieFactory Launcher Getting started is easy. The launcher's interface is simple and intuitive. The task buttons on the left activate the context-sensitive buttons on the right. The tasks – Video/Slideshow Disc, Audio Disc, Data Disc, Import/Capture Edit/Append Disc,Copy Disc and Disc Tools – cover the most common activities, while the buttons break down the choices for each.

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Capture Video and Add Media

Ulead DVD MovieFactory can video and import photos from mvideo and image sources suchand HDV camcorders and VCRanalog devices, and TV tunersalmost any format from any viddevice in one project. You candelay recording to record your TV program while you are awa

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Edit Room Video Editing Tools

Now for the first time, DVD MovieFactory 6 featurestimeline editing! Just select a video clip and clickthe ‘Edit Room’ button. Here you can select aTheme, and watch as MovieFactory builds a coolopening sequence with multiple animated overlaysand graphics. The 6 tabs top left then provideaccess to the tools with which you can personalizeand polish your videos even further.

Exciting Theme Templates• One-click Video Theme Templates –

instantly add professional style to your videos.• Sophisticated opening sequences with

multiple overlays are automatically generatedusing clips from your video.

Easy Video EditingEdit your video on an intuitive timeline withoverlays, titles and music tracks. Switch betweenStoryboard Mode for overall view, and TimelineMode for more control.

Apply a video template, and then personalize it:• Trim your video to keep only the good parts,

and rearrange as needed.• Video auto-enhance – one-click fix for most

common brightness and contrast problems.• Drag and drop cool transition effects such

as dissolves or wipes between your video clipsfor a smoother viewing experience.

• Modify the titles to suit your production.• Change background music if you like.• Add voiceover narration to match the video.• Add DVD chapter points accurately on the

timeline.

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Apply movie templates and edit your video in the Edit Room

Timeline Video Editing gives you more control


Multi-trim

With AccuCut scrubbing controls, you can zoom in tothe frame-level to make your cut exactly where youwant it. The oversized preview window makes it apleasure to navigate through your clips and quicklytake out what you don’t want.

Ad-Zapper

Ad-Zapper finds ad breaks in captured TV, giving you theoption to remove them. Run Ad-Zapper, and view theresulting clips. The ads are separated from the programcontent for easy deletion.

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Slideshows That Come To Life

Photo slideshows have always been a great way to share yourphoto memories with family and friends.Now you can vividly relive those memories by turning yourphotos into a slideshow that the family will love to watch. Easilyadd background music, transitions between slides and othereffects!

Pan & Zoom effects are agreat way to make photoscome to life. Use the autofunction or customize to zoomexactly where you want.

ExpressFix walks you through the simple steps for fixingcommon digital photo problems such as too-dark or too brightexposure, color cast, and skin blemishes.

Select slide transitions

Customize Pan & Zoom with keyframes

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Use ExpressFix to enhance exposure, color andskin tones.

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Breathtaking DVD Menus

MovieFactory 6 gives you an impressive selection ofcustomizable16:9 widescreen and 4:3 menu templates, simpleclick-and-type text entry, and the ability to create moving menubackgrounds and button labels.

Just choose a menu template, and personalize it as much as youlike. Easily produce DVDs that look every bit as good ascommercial discs.

Make your menus come to life with templates that containanimated menus, titles, navigation buttons, or other decorativeobjects with moving paths.

Rotate, stretch, distort and angle menu motion buttons to fit intoframes or other background elements, and rotate and resize text toyour liking.

Menu transitions – Create transitions just like Hollywood DVDs.Set menu-in and menu-out transitions to smoothly go frommenu to video and back.

16:9 Widescreen menus

Stretch and rotate menu elements

Menu-in and menu-out transitions

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Dolby® Digital Surround Audio

Dolby® Digital 5.1 support – Transform conventional 2-channel stereoaudio to 5.1 Surround Sound for an immersive Home Theatre experience.Under Project settings, choose “Change MPEG Settings … and then underCompression, select Dolby Digital Audio 3/2. DVD MovieFactory does therest!

Preview & Burn

Preview mode, with a large windowand full navigation controls, makes iteasy to check edits and menubehavior before burning a project todisc.

Choose the disc burner and select the folder where youwant to output folders or disc image files. Click on Burn,and DVD MovieFactory will encode the video andmenus, finally giving you a disc you can share withfamily and friends.

Preview menu behavior before burning to disc

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Video Disc Recording

Direct-to-disc recording offers the shortest path from tape to disc and is one of the greatest time-saving tools in the DVDMovieFactory arsenal. Just connect your video camera or VHS deck, put in a blank disc and you are just a few clicks awayfrom a finished DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

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Record HDV video on-the-fly to Blu-ray Disc. Watch yourvideos in amazing High-Definition on your PS3 or Blu-rayplayer.

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Burn Music, Data, and More

Whether it's making discs with your favorite tunes,archiving your photo collection, or making backup copiesof your DVD movies, MovieFactory 6 Plus has all thetools you need. Burn.Now lets you burn all kinds of filesand projects to CD, DVD, Blue-ray Disc, and HD-DVD.You can also perform multi-session burning of dual-layerDVD-R using Layer-Jump Recording technology.

Other Disc Burning Options

• Burn up to 50GB of data on HD DVD or Blu-ray Discs

• Span large file sets across multiple DVDs.• Create and edit password-protected data discs• Create MP3 audio discs with hours of music• Create audio discs• Create DivX discs• Create bootable discs• Copy any discs directly• Burn from disc images or folders• Append data or video to DVD or Blu-ray

Quick-Drop is the most convevideo, pictures, audio or data files inyour files and offers to burn a video,

Audio disc burning options

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Burn any kind of disc with Burn.Now

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nient way to burn your discs. Just drag and dropto the on-screen icon, and Quick-Drop analyzes audio, slideshow or data disc, as appropriate.

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Bonus Software

Buyers of DVD MovieFactory are treated to two full sets of bonus software!

InterVideo® WinDVD 8 Player(Silver version)

The World’s #1 DVD Playback Software• Universal Player• Superior Audio & Video Technologies• Visualizations & interactive panel• Play back AVCHD Camcorder discs or files

InterVideo® DVD Copy 5(Silver version)

Full version of simple, easy to use disc copy tools.• Get video from anywhere• Shrink dual-layer DVDs on to one

single-layer disc• Burn any video format to disc• Encode video to DivX format

Thank you

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus offers right-sized tools that make it easy to produce great-looking DVDs and HD DVDs. Itadds functionality for a wide range of disc burning options for digital media enthusiasts, is future-ready with HD support, andcomes with a great set of bonus software.

Thank you for taking the time to review Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus. For further information, pleasevisit www.corel.com

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Minimum System Requirements• Intel® Pentium® 4 1.8 MHz, AMD Athlon™ XP 1800+• 512 MB RAM (1GB or above recommended)• Microsoft® Windows® XP (SP2) Home Edition/Professional/x64 Edition, Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition , Microsoft®

Windows Vista™• 900 MB hard disk free space for program installation • Windows® compatible display with 1024x768, 16-bit color graphics card; 24-bit or 32-bit true color recommended

Optional System Requirements• Intel® Pentium 4 HT, 3.0 GHz, AMD Athlon™ 64 3800+ or higher is required when capturing and burning directly from DV/TV Tuner

to DVD discs• 1GB RAM or above recommended for HD projects• IEEE-1394 (FireWire) I/O devices compliant with OHCI standard cards for use with HDV/DV/D8 camcorders• Windows Media Player 10 or higher for Windows XP and Vista systems• 10 GB of available hard drive space or higher for DVD disc burning• 30 GB of available hard drive space or higher for 3 hours of HD-quality video capturing

File Format SupportImport• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV AVI, AVI, AVCHD, HDV, DivX, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, DVB-T HD, ASF, DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-

VR, DVR-MS, DAT, MPV, QuickTime™ (MOV, QT), Ulead VideoStudio 10 project (VSP)• Image: BMP,GIF,JP2,JPC,JPG,PNG,TGA,TIF• Audio: CDA, LPCM, MPEG Audio (MPA), WAV, Dolby® Digital, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3Export• Video: BDAV, HD DVD, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV AVI, AVI, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, ASF, QuickTime™ (MOV, QT)• Audio: CDA, LPCM, MPEG Audio (MPA), Dolby® Digital Stereo, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3• Image: BMP, JPG• Disc: Blu-ray (BDAV), HD DVD, DVD (DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR), miniDVD, VCD, SVCD• Media: CD-R/CD-RW/DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, DVD+R/-R (Single/Double Layer)/DVD-RAM (CPRM), HD DVD-R, BD-R/RE

SystemRequirements

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