Ulead releases DVD Moviefactory 2.0

by News Editor

Published on Nov 19, 2002 12:00 AM
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DVD MovieFactory 2.0 offers advanced Disc-Direct™ capture technology to let users save time by authoring a DVD straight from a camcorder or other video source to a DVD disc without writing to the computer hard drive. In addition, DVD MovieFactory 2.0 leverages the DVD+RW video recording standard endorsed by Sony, Hewlett Packard, Phillips, and others, to equip users with flexible "on-disc" editing tools for archiving and reusing video and photos on DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs time and time again, right on the disc.

The DVD technological advances provided in DVD MovieFactory 2.0 go beyond those offered by other consumer-level DVD creation products to give users higher-quality video, faster capture to disc, and optimal flexibility when re-editing discs. DVD MovieFactory's Disc-Direct technology lets users rapidly capture video on the fly from a TV, DVD player, VCR, DV camcorder, and other devices directly to a DVD or CD disc. After choosing a menu template and scene detection type, the video is directly burned onto the disc, altogether bypassing the user's hard drive. Competing DVD creation products lose time storing the video to a user's hard drive before burning the DVD. Furthermore, they do not offer multiple options for scene detection and menu navigation, nor the ability to add multiple videos to a project.

Unlike other DVD creation products that support the proprietary format of Open DVD™, DVD MovieFactory uses the DVD+RW video recording format. This format facilitates archiving and editing of video on DVD discs, giving users myriad options when editing and re-editing projects. Besides adding and deleting videos, such flexibility lets DVD MovieFactory 2.0 users trim and cut video as well as add and hide chapters -- options that are unavailable in other DVD creation software.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2.0 will be available for download from Ulead's Web site at www.ulead.com starting in early December 2002 for $44.95. Registered DVD MovieFactory users will be able to download the upgrade version for $34.95. The retail product will be available in North America retail stores and catalogs starting in January 2003 for $49.95 for the box edition and $39.95 for the box edition upgrade.