Full Features:

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 in the burner, and drag any file or folder into the desktop icon.
  
• Creates audio or data CDs or DVDs to your preference.
  
• Check disc behavior with Smart Preview and display burning progress.

Capture from Any Device

• Capture TV transmissions with any TV tuner device.
  
• DBV-T digital transmissions supported.
  
• Set Auto Capture records your programs while you’re away.
  
• Camcorder support includes analog, DV, HDV and AVCHD camcorders – just plug in and capture!
  
• Direct to Disc - Burn an entire videotape directly from camcorder or VCR to DVD disc, without capturing to hard drive first.

New Video Editing Tools

• NEW: Exciting Theme Templates – Select a suitable theme which will add opening, titling and transition effects to enhance the mood of your video clips.
  
• NEW: Storyboard Mode – get an overall view of the clips in your production, and easily change the sequence of clips, and drop transitions and effects on them.
  
• NEW: Timeline Mode – For the first time in MovieFactory, you can now easily edit your captured video on an intuitive timeline with overlays, titles and music tracks.
  
• NEW: Fade-in and Fade-out Video – make you video clips fade in or out at the click of a button.
  
• NEW: Overlay Tracks – spice up your movies with overlay frames and objects.
  
• NEW: Transition Effects Between Videos – Drag and drop cool transition effects such as dissolves or wipes between your video clips for a smoother viewing experience.
  
• NEW: Insert Images to Video – Easily create mixedmedia “clipshows’ by combining video clips and photos on the timeline.
  
• NEW: Timeline Chapter Points – accurately place chapter points on timeline.
  
• NEW: Capture and Edit HDV – Editing and exporting HDV is now just as easy as working with standard DV video.
  
• NEW: Auto Subtitle Track – Automatically capture video file name, date, time, and EXIF (photo) data and view as a subtitle track.
  
• Video auto-enhance – with one click, you can fix the most common video problems with brightness and contrast.

Powerful Multi-Trim Functions

• AccuCut – The quickest, most accurate way to search and trim 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.
  
• Preview the results instantly.

Advanced Menu Authoring

• NEW: Button Moving Paths – Make your menus come to life with templates that contain animated menus, titles, navigation buttons, or other decorative objects.
  
• NEW: Distort Menu Objects – Rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fit into frames or other background elements.
  
• NEW: Extend Background Video and Image – Background video and images on your menus will automatically be stretched from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen when required.
  
• Easy-to-use menu templates give polish to your production. Select from motion menus, still menus or menus with Flash 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.
  
• Loop cue menus – On some templates a menu starts, plays a short piece first, and then loop from there.
  
• Menu transitions – 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 built-in Flash overlays that give a great sense of motion to your menus, independent of the background.
  
• Moveable objects – freely position text, frames and button objects anywhere on your menu, to match your composition with the background.
  
• Rotatable text – text can be rotated to any angle for more eye-catching menus.
  
• Simulation switch – preview menu behavior at any time in the authoring process.
  
• Motion filter will create movement even on a static menu. Select an image for a background, then bring it to life with ripples, spotlight effects or pan and zooms.
  
• 16:9 Widescreen menus and video is supported for that real Hollywood movie look.
  
• MPEG.Now Dual Core Rendering – get faster Smart Render times with dual core or dual-CPU machines.
• Direct to +/-VR in SD DVD allows for re-editing your video directly on a rewritable disc.
  
• HDTV – Supports files captured from DVB tuners, in frame sizes ranging from 352x240 to 1920x1088.

Photo Slideshows

• NEW: 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.
  
• Create slideshows on disc with transitions, music and pan & zoom on images.
  
• ExpressFix walks you through the simple steps for fixing common digital photo problems such as too-dark or toobright exposure, color cast, and skin blemishes.

Advanced Formats

• NEW: AVCHD Camcorder Support – Import and edit high definition footage from your AVCHD camcorder discs, and convert to other high-definition or standard definition formats.
  
• NEW: DivX Decode – Easily convert your DivX movies to DVDs, adding adding .srt files as subtitles.
  
• NEW: Auto Detect Disc Type – When you insert a disc, the correct program for the disc type will automatically open for authoring, editing or burning.
  
• HDV Capture - Seamlessly capture from high-definition video camcorders, such as the Sony HC3 and Canon HV-10.

Data

• Burn Data – drag-and-drop data folders into the Quick- Drop for the quickest data backup!
  
• Copy Disc – full-featured disc-copy function for all formats: CD, DVD and Blu-ray Discs.
  

Music

• 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

• NEW: Support 16:9 Widescreen PC monitor – DVD MovieFactory’s user interface and layout will automatically adjust to fit widescreen monitors.
  
• Disc-labeling module lets you print your playlist over your choice of graphics on to a CD label.
  
• LabelFlash – with appropriate burners and discs, you can burn a title or text directly on CDs or DVDs.
  
• LightScribe – burn a title or text directly on discs in LightScribe-supported drives.
  
• Dual-core support - Get enhanced performance from Intel® Core 2 Duo™ processors on desktop and laptop.
  
• WinDVD 8 Player – Trial version now included, for smooth, crisp playback of all your standard-definition video files and discs.

Minimum Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® III 800 MHz, AMD Athlon™ XP 1800+
  
• 512 MB RAM
  
• 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
  
• 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

File Format Support

Import:

• Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DV AVI, AVI, HDV, AVCHD, DivX, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, ASF, DVB-T, 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), Dolby® Digital, WAV, WMA, Ogg Vorbis Audio (OGG), MP3

Export:

• Video: HDV, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, ASF, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, QuickTime™ (MOV, QT)
• Audio: LPCM, MPEG Audio (MPA), Dolby® Digital Stereo
  
• Image: BMP, JPG
  
• Disc: DVD (DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR), miniDVD , VCD, SVCD, Audio-only DVD, Audio CD, MP3 CD/DVD, Data CD/DVD
  
• Media: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R, DVD+R (Single/Double Layer), DVD-RAM (CPRM)
  

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