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abrogard
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_ 		23. November 2005 @ 20:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm trying to use Ulead Movie Factory to make home VCD's as quickly as possible of our digital camera little videos and snapshots. Send cd's of the kids and the dozens of pics/movies off to the relatives as quickly and easily as possible.

Movie Factory is pretty easy alright. Straightforward. But I've struck a snag.

I included a video I didn't want. So I went back and deleted it. But it was already on the menu. After the deletion it did not disappear from that menu. I can't get it to disappear any way I try.

Can anyone help?


A second question: I've heard it said that these 'simple' progs like Moviefactory don't do anything well and I'd be better off putting the cd's together myself using things like tmpgenc and whatever.

If that IS the way to go could anyone tell me what software I'd need and how much more complicated is it than this Moviefactory simplicity and what do I gain?

Third question: I'm just making VCD's and SVCD's because (a) I don't have a DVD burner at the moment (b) I don't know my computer is powerful enough/has enough space to handle making DVD's (c) some of the folks we'll be sending them to might not be able to handle DVD's.

And that seems to limit me to different menu choice for each little movie clip and slide shows for each set of stills. Anyone know any better format for this task?

regards,

ab
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vurbal
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_ 		24. November 2005 @ 08:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've never used Movie Factory, but IIRC it uses the MainConcept MPEG encoder internally (this is one of the 'Real Encoders' you'll see referred to around here) so you may be able to get excellent quality from it (depending on how good Movie Factory is at setting the options) so you may not get much in the way of quality improvement in that step (which is where quality loss typically happens).
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abrogard
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_ 		27. November 2005 @ 19:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No one got any clues about the menu thing? Probably doen't matter, I've struck another snag with it - it won't process a SVCD. It gets someway through it and then reports an error and aborts the whole process.

I just go for SVCD to try get better resolution than I'm getting with VCD. Maybe I should buy a DVD burner and go for DVD?

I don't quite follow you when you say I might not get much quality improvement in that step - which step?

regards,

ab
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vurbal
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_ 		28. November 2005 @ 03:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I mean in encoding. The biggest difference between most all-in-one programs and using individual pieces of software for each step is usually the MPEG encoder. Since Ulead uses the MainConcept encoder in Movie Factory the only advantage to doing each step manually (edit/encode/author) would likely be the amount of control you have over settings. As long as Movie Factory does a decent job of setting any encoding options your projects should turn out fine - assuming you can get around the problem you're having now of course.
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