Features Include:

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.
  
• HDTV Capture from any HD source – cable, satellite or broadcast.
  
• DVB-T digital transmissions supported.
  
• Set Auto Capture records your programs while you’re away.
  
• Camcorder support includes analog, DV, DVD, 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 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: Add DVD chapter points – accurately on the 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 can be rotated to any angle for more eye-catching menus.
  
• Simulation switch – use this to 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.
  
• HD Slideshow lets you use your hi-res digital camera images at their full quality, creating high-definition slideshows that pop right off the screen.
  
• 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.

PureHD™ - HD DVD, Blu-ray & DivX

• NEW: Create HD DVD discs – Author and burn HD DVDs with menus just like standard DVDs!
  
• NEW: Blu-ray Movie Discs – Burn your HD video directly to Blu-ray Discs that will play in your Blu-ray burner or player.
  
• 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 DVD, 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
  
• NEW: Dolby® Digital 5.1 support – Your stereo audio can be upsampled to 5.1 Surround Sound for that Home Theatre experience.
  
• PureHD™ Capture - Seamlessly capture from the latest high-definition video camcorders, such as the Sony HDRHC1 and HC3.
  
• PureHD™ Authoring - Produce next-generation Blu-ray and HD DVD productions with professional menus, and save on Media Center or PC hard drive to play on highdefinition playback devices.
  
• Blu-ray Direct-to-Disc
  - Capture from either HDV or DV video camcorder
  - Convert in real-time to High-Definition BDAV format
  - Record directly to BD-R/RE discs in one pass, with no need for extra hard drive space.
  
• Burn captured HD or even DV video to Blu-ray to create a playable disc.
  
• Append Video – Make full use of Blu-ray disc’s 25 or 50GB capacity by continuing to append BDAV video until it’s full.

Data

• NEW: Burn HD DVD folders to HD DVD disc – Just open and import HD DVD folders and burn them to disc for viewing on set-top players.
  
• NEW: CD Extra adds Data Files to Your Music – Create audio CDs that you can play on standard CD players, with added files like video clips or documents that you can access through your PC.
  
• NEW: Secure Burning on Data Discs– Passwordprotect your videos, photos, documents, and any other data from unauthorized access and viewing.
  
• NEW: Output to HD DVD-R/RW & Blue-ray BD-R/RE discs – You can now burn to all Blu-ray and HD DVD disc formats.
  
• Burn data, pictures or documents to CD, or single- and double-layer DVD or Blu ray Disc.
  
• Span Disc – Burn files that are over 4.7GB to multiple DVDs.
  
• Bootable Disc – create bootable discs for ghosting system files and recovery discs.
  
• Copy Disc – full-featured disc-copy function for all formats: CD, DVD and Blu-ray Discs.
  

Music

• DVD-Audio – create audio DVD with hours of LPCM format music.
  
• Music DVD-Video - create audiophile-quality audio DVD with MPEG, LPCM or AC-3 format, with menu.
  
• Audio Effects – Make your audio sound better with various filters, before burning to CD or DVD.
  - Volume Normalize – equalize the level of all the numbers on a CD
  - Vocal Removal – remove the vocals from a song so you can karaoke along!
  - 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

• 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 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 desktop and laptop.
  
• DVD Copy 5 - Silver version: simple, easy to use disc copying
  - Get video from anywhere
  - Shrink dual-layer DVDs on to one single-layer disc
  - Burn any video format to disc.
  
• WinDVD 8 Player – Silver version now included, for smooth, crisp playback of all your standard-definition video files and discs.

Minimum Requirements:

• Intel® Pentium® IV 1.8 GHz, AMD Athlon™ XP 1800+
  
• 512 MB RAM (1GB or above recommended)
  
• 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
  
• Windows® compatible display with 1024x768, 16-bit color graphics card; 24-bit or 32-bit true color recommended
  

Optional 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
  
• USB1.0/2.0 or PCI capture devices compliant with WDM standards and PC cameras
  
• IEEE-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 HD DVD, Blu-ray, 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, HDV, AVCHD, AVI, DivX, WMV-HD, WMV-SD, DVB-T HD, 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), WAV, Dolby® Digital, WMA, Ogg 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-Video, 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/-R(Single/Double Layer)/DVD-RAM (CPRM), HD DVD-R, BD-R/RE

Educational Pricing:

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