DVD MovieFactory is a simple disc burning and authoring tool designed for the actual digital lifestyle requirements. Turn your standard or HD video and photos into DVDs with studio-quality personalized menus.

Here are some key features of "Ulead DVD MovieFactory":

· Polish Your Video in the "Edit Room"·
Theme templates for video
Select a template from a variety of styles, and watch as DVD MovieFactory create a cool opening sequence for you.
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.

Simple editing tools
Storyboard Mode and Timeline Mode gives you the flexibility to view your production the way you like.
Trim, enhance and polish your video to enhance the viewing experience.
Add transitions between video clips.
Customize pan & zoom in slideshows

· Music and Data Burning
Data
Burn data, pictures or documents to CD, or single- and double-layer DVD.
Secure data burning – create password-protected data discs.
Copy Disc – full-featured disc-copy function for CD and DVD.
Music
Music DVD-Video - create audiophile-quality audio DVD with MPEG, LPCM or AC-3 format, with menu.
Click and Hiss Removal – clean up recordings from tape or vinyl.
Rip Audio CDs – convert audio CDs to MP3 files, or make your own CD compilations to burn to disc.
MP3 discs provides many hours of uninterrupted MP3 music on a CD or DVD.
Audio CDs are a snap to create. Just drag your music in MP3 or WMA format, and it will be turned into an audio CD.

Extras
Disc-labeling module lets you print a CD label with your playlist over your choice of graphics.
Labelflash and LightScribe – with appropriate burners and discs, you can burn a title or text directly on CDs or DVDs.
Dual-core support - Get enhanced performance from Intel Duo processors on desktops and laptops.

WinDVD 8 Player
Disc-labeling module

· Easy and Fast
Easy Launcher
The elegant launcher is your doorway to the world of disc burning.
From one clear, simple interface, select any task.
The software will guide you through all the steps necessary for a perfect disc, every time.

Intuitive Quick-Drop
Simply put a blank disc into your burner, and drag any file or folder into the desktop icon.
Creates CDs or DVDs, to your preference.
Check disc behavior with Smart Preview and display burning progress.

· Capture & edit with ease
Capture from any device
Camcorder support – capture from any popular camcorder, including HDV, DVD and AVCHD
Capture TV transmissions with any TV tuner device.
DVB-T digital transmissions supported.
Set Auto Capture records your programs while you're away.
Direct to Disc - Capture an entire videotape directly from camcorder to DVD disc, without using any hard drive space.

Powerful Multi-Trim Functions
AccuCut – Search and trim out any video you don't want. Find the piece you want to remove, then zoom in on the timeline to see the exact in and out frame where you want to cut.
Ad-Zapper – for uninterrupted viewing of your favorite TV shows, you can cut all the commercials before burning your collection to disc. Ad-Zapper will automatically detect the ads and prompt you to remove them.

· Edit Room adds more creative tools
Theme Templates for video
Select a template from a variety of styles, and watch as DVD MovieFactory creates a cool opening sequence for you.
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.

Simple Editing tools
Storyboard Mode and Timeline Mode gives you the flexibility to view your production the way you like.
Trim, enhance and polish your video to enhance the viewing experience.
Add transitions between video clips
Customize pan & zoom in slideshows to make your still images come to life!

· Author Discs
Advanced Menu Authoring
Easy-to-use menu templates give polish to your production. Select from motion menus, still menus or menus with motion overlays, and modify as you wish.
Added menu templates for more creative options.
SmartScene Menus – Unique menus where project titles share a single large preview area, rather than appearing as separate motion buttons.
Text menus – Slick-looking menus with text that act as buttons.
Menu transitions – at last, you can create transitions just like Hollywood DVDs. Set menu-in and menu-out transitions to smooth over going into the next title or menu. A total of 41 transition effects are available.
Motion Overlays are animated buttons, text and objects that give a great sense of motion to your menus.
Moveable objects – freely position or stretch text, frames and button objects anywhere on your menu, to match your composition with the background.
Rotatable text can be rotated to any angle for more eye-catching menus.
Motion filters create movement even on a static menu. Select an image for a background, then animate it with ripples, spotlight effects or pans and zooms to bring it to life.
Widescreen menus and video is supported for that real Hollywood movie look.
MPEG.Now Dual Core Rendering – get faster SmartRender times with Intel Core 2 Duo or similar CPUs.
Direct to DVD +/-VR in allows for re-editing your PVR-recorded video directly on a rewritable disc.
Menu transitions
Moveable objects

Photo Slideshows
Create slideshows on disc with transitions, music and customizable pan & zoom on images.
Customize Slideshow Pan & Zoom - Now you can control precisely where to pan across or zoom in on picture details with customizable curved paths, transparency and zoom ratios.
ExpressFix walks you through the simple steps for fixing common digital photo problems such as red-eye, too-dark or too-bright exposure, color cast, and more.


Requirements:

· Minimum Requirements
Intel Pentium III 800 MHz, AMD Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB RAM
900 MB hard disk free space for program installation
DirectX 9 or higher compatible sound card and graphics card
Windows compatible display with 1024x768 resolution or above

· Optional Requirements
Intel Pentium 4 HT,2.8 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
USB1.0/2.0 or PCI capture devices compliant with WDM standards and PC cameras
EEE-1394 (FireWire) I/O devices compliant with OHCI standard cards for use with HDV/DV/D8 camcorders
PCI, TV tuner, or USB capture device for analog capture (WDM support)
Windows compatible DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive
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.


Limitations:

· 30 days trial.
· Nag screen.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Blu-ray Disc & High-Definition Disc Recording
· Capture video from either HDV or DV camcorders
· Author high-quality HD menus that behave just like familiar DVD menus
· Record to Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD discs that can play on next-generation players
· PureHD – High-Definition Quality
· HD DVD Authoring
· Collect your high- or standard-definition video and create HD DVD projects with professional menus.
· Auto Subtitle Track
· Automatically capture video file name, date, time and EXIF (photo) data, and view this information as a subtitle.
· Great for keeping track of when and where you shot your video and pictures.
· More Capture and Edit Options
Enhanced Format Support:
· AVCHD Camcorder Support
· Import high-definition files from AVCHD camcorders that shoot on either hard drives or DVDs.
· Plus DivX Support
· Convert your downloaded DivX movies to DVD. You can even download subtitle (.srt) files in the language of your choice, and DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus will automatically combine them to synchronize with the video.
More Video Tools:
· Video Theme Templates
· Select a theme and watch DVD MovieFactory 6 automatically create a high-quality opening sequence for you with picture-in-picture effects, titles and background music.
· Video Edit Room
· Do basic video-editing tasks with ease: add titles and background music, mix the audio levels and auto-add transitions at cut points.
· Storyboard Mode
· Get an overall view of your production so it's easy to rearrange clips for a better flow.
· Timeline Mode
· Enjoy more control over the positioning and length of titles, background music and overlays.
· Advanced Menu Authoring
· Menu Templates
· Get more creative with a new set of templates featuring eye-catching content. There are millions of possible combinations with the backgrounds, buttons and layouts provided.
· Motion Overlays
· Add motion to your menus with animated buttons, text and objects.
· Distort Menu Objects
· Rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fit into frames or other background elements for a truly personal touch.

· Better Photo Slide Shows
· Customizable Pan & Zoom
· Precisely control paths and zoom ratios to highlight picture details when creating slide shows.
· Enhanced Music & Data Burning
· CD Extra
· Add data files, pictures or documents to your audio CDs.
· Secure Data
· Burn data to both Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD.
· Password-Protect Your Discs
· Secure your videos, photos, documents and any other data from unauthorized access.
· Extras
· LightScribe Labels
· Burn a title or text directly onto CDs or DVDs.
· DVD Copy 5 Silver
· Import video from anywhere
· Shrink dual-layer DVDs onto one single-layer disc
· Burn any video format to disc
· WinDVD 8 Player Silver
· Enjoy smooth, crisp playback of all your standard-definition video files and discs