Reviewer’s Guide

Press Contact Amie Hoffner Corel Corporation (952) 294-2350 [email protected] Welcome

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 discs. Authoring tools simplify the process of producing or high definition discs with studio-quality menus. New “Edit Room” video editing tools let anyone enhance with sophisticated openings, titles, effects and . Direct-to-disc recording provides a streamlined 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 next generation DVD technology. DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus gives users an end-to-end solution for both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD 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 DVD MovieFactory 6 and DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus set the standard for easy-to-use disc authoring and burning that lets anyone do more with their digital photos and video.

Contents:

Product Strategy Introduction ...... 3 Version Comparison ...... 4 High Definition Workflow ...... 5

What’s New ...... 6

Product Tour DVD MovieFactory Launcher ...... 8 DVD and HD DVD Authoring o Capture Video ...... 9 o ‘Edit Room’ Video Editing tools ...... 10 o Multi-trim and Ad-Zapper...... 11 o Photo Slideshows...... 12 o Menu Authoring...... 13 o Dolby® Digital Surround Audio ...... 14 o Burning Options...... 14 Video Disc Recording o Straight Capture to DVD & Blu-ray Disc 15 Other Disc Burning Tools ...... 16 Bonus Software...... 17

System Requirements ...... 18

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Why Two Versions?

The latest release of Ulead’s award-winning consumer DVD authoring package is the first product to be launched from the recently merged 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 6 offers a complete, easy-to-use disc authoring solution for standard definition video. For users who need a more complete set of disc creation tools or are moving into High Definition video, DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus offers a broader toolset and end-to-end creativity for creating HD DVD and Blu-ray discs.

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus

This is Ulead’s simple and easy-to-use disc authoring software. The Plus version provides digital media enthusiasts with a It is aimed at the consumer who wants a simple way to get more complete disc burning suite. Most importantly, it offers videos and pictures off a camera and on to a disc that will play full High Definition capabilities. Users can capture and edit HD well and look good. It offers video theme templates that add video, author HD DVD projects, and burn video and data to HD polish to any video and slideshow. The authoring tools feature DVD or Blu-ray Discs. In addition to the same editing and professional-looking menu templates that are easy to authoring tools in the standard version, there are disc utilities personalize. DVD MovieFactory 6 makes it easy to turn video for copying discs, and creating audio DVDs or CDs password- and pictures into standard-definition DVDs. protected data discs, and more.

MSRP: $49.99 MSRP: $79.99 / $49.99 upgrade

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

Version Comparison Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus Page 3 Reviewer’s Guide DVD DVD MovieFactory 6 MovieFactory 6 Plus Capture/Import/Encode • Capture from HDV/AVCHD

• 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

End-to-end

UleadHD DVD Solution MovieFactory 6 Plus Page 4 Reviewer’s Guide DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus is a complete, end-to-end solution for consumers looking to take advantage of HD for producing personal video discs and data.

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

HDV /AVCHD Camcorder DMF Host HD DVD format on DVD media HDTV

HD Photos DVD

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

HDV BDDR Camcorder BD

HDTV

Burn.Now and Quick-Drop let users take advantage of high-capacity HD discs for large volume .

Data

Burn.Now & Quick-Drop

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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 an opening 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 opening titles or music, or use the timeline editing tools to personalize as much as you like.

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. Video Templates & Storyboard Mode • 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 grouped together: • 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. Timeline Mode • Add voiceover narration to introduce your video.

• Customizable Pan & Zoom – when creating slideshows, precisely control paths and zoom ratios to highlight picture details. • Add DVD chapter points directly on the timeline, so your viewer can skip between sections. • Automatically adjust for 16:9 PC monitors – make full use of all that extra screen space if you are using a monitor.

Customizable Pan & Zoom

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

• More High-Definition Menu Templates – sophisticated menu designs complement your HD video. Choose from 15 modifiable templates with themes 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 fit into frames or other background elements for a truly personal touch. Distort menu objects Any Camcorder, Any File Format

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

• AVCHD camcorder support – import and edit High-Definition footage from your AVCHD camcorder, either from disc or hard drive. • Dolby® Digital 5.1 support – DVD MovieFactory takes conventional 2-channel stereo audio and intelligently splits it out to 5.1 specification, for that immersive home theatre experience. • DivX® support – you can now convert your downloaded DivX movies to DVDs. Even download subtitle (.srt) files in the language of your 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. Great for 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 data the way they like.

• Complete HD DVD authoring solution – capture HD video, author menus and burn to HD DVD burners. • Output to HD DVD & Blue-ray discs – DVD MovieFactory’s disc burning support 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 one HD DVD disc. • HD DVD folders to disc – if you authored HD DVD projects in folders on your hard disc before, you can now burn those folders to HD DVD disc and play 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 can play on standard CD players, with extras like video clips, pictures or documents that can be access on a PC. Burn.Now offers flexible, hassle-free burning of data 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.

Step 1: Choose a task Step 2: Make a further selection

The Launcher automatically opens the needed module in the correct mode for the chosen task.

Settings and tools

Create Audio Disc Copy Disc Straight Capture to Disc

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Capture Video and Add Media

Capture Video Add Video Create Slideshow Add Video from DVD

Ulead DVD MovieFactory can capture video and import photos from many video and image sources such as DV and HDV camcorders and VCRs, analog devices, and TV tuners, mixing almost any format from any video device in one project. You can even set delay recording to record your favorite TV program while you are away.

Select output disc type

DVD MovieFactory main interface

Comprehensive import options • DV/DVD/HDD camcorders • Unrendered VideoStudio projects

Robust HD support • HDV/AVCHD • WMV HD, DVB-T HD

Analog & Digital TV Tuners • Repair TV signal loss in captured MPEG files

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Edit Room Video Editing Tools

Now for the first time, DVD MovieFactory 6 features timeline editing! Just select a video clip and click the ‘Edit Room’ button. Here you can select a Theme, and watch as MovieFactory builds a cool opening sequence with multiple animated overlays and graphics. The 6 tabs top left then provide access to the tools with which you can personalize and 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 generated using clips from your video.

Easy Video Editing Apply movie templates and edit your video in the Edit Room Edit your video on an intuitive timeline with overlays, titles and music tracks. Switch between Storyboard Mode for overall view, and Timeline Mode 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 clips for 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.

Timeline Video Editing gives you more control

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Multi-trim

With AccuCut scrubbing controls, you can zoom in to the frame-level to make your cut exactly where you want it. The oversized preview window makes it a pleasure to navigate through your clips and quickly take out what you don’t want.

Ad-Zapper

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

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Slideshows That Come To Life

Photo slideshows have always been a great way to share your photo memories with family and friends. Now you can vividly relive those memories by turning your photos into a slideshow that the family will love to watch. Easily add background music, transitions between slides and other effects!

Select slide transitions

Pan & Zoom effects are a great way to make photos come to life. Use the auto function or customize to zoom exactly where you want.

Customize Pan & Zoom with keyframes

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

Use ExpressFix to enhance exposure, color and skin tones.

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MovieFactory 6 gives you an impressive selection of customizable16:9 widescreen and 4:3 menu templates, simple click-and-type text entry, and the ability to create moving menu backgrounds and button labels.

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

16:9 Widescreen menus

Make your menus come to life with templates that contain animated menus, titles, navigation buttons, or other decorative objects with moving paths.

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

Stretch and rotate menu elements

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

Menu-in and menu-out transitions

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Dolby® Digital Surround Audio

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

Preview & Burn

Preview mode, with a large window and full navigation controls, makes it easy to check edits and menu behavior before burning a project to disc.

Preview menu behavior before burning to disc

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

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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 DVD MovieFactory arsenal. Just connect your video camera or VHS deck, put in a blank disc and you are just a few clicks away from a finished DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

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

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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 copies of your DVD movies, MovieFactory 6 Plus has all the tools you need. Burn.Now lets you burn all kinds of files and projects to CD, DVD, Blue-ray Disc, and HD-DVD. You can also perform multi-session burning of dual-layer DVD-R using Layer-Jump Recording technology.

Audio disc burning options

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 Burn any kind of disc with Burn.Now

Quick-Drop is the most convenient way to burn your discs. Just drag and drop video, pictures, audio or data files into the on-screen icon, and Quick-Drop analyzes your files and offers to burn a video, audio, slideshow or data disc, as appropriate.

Quick-Drop desktop icon

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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. It adds functionality for a wide range of disc burning options for digital media enthusiasts, is future-ready with HD support, and comes with a great set of bonus software.

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

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Minimum System Requirements • ® Pentium® 4 1.8 MHz, AMD Athlon™ XP 1800+ • 512 MB RAM (1GB or above recommended) • ® Windows® XP (SP2) Home Edition/Professional/x64 Edition, Microsoft® Windows® XP Media Center Edition , Microsoft® ™ • 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 • 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 Support Import • 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, , 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, Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3 Export • 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

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