Ulead DVD Movie Factory 2 SUCKS..... BRING BACK ULMF

[marvel2020]

For VCD Authoring that is.

Here's the low down..

I used to use ULMF to author 2 episode's of Star Trek Enterprise which where burnt to 90 mintue CDR, i created my main menu and my scene menu's, also included music to each menu and burnt to CDR using ULMF.

When ULMF2 was released, i decided to upgrade to it, simply because it had all the feature's on ULMF and a bit more including True Chapter Creation.

But, now i find that if i do the excact same procedure in ULMF2 that i used to do in ULMF, it adds on at least 100mb to the final image, making it to big to burn to a 90 mintue CDR. my burner is capable of burning onto 99mintue cdr's as well but i don't see the need to buy them.

There where no problems whatsoever burning to CDR in ULMF.

[Specialist]

Try one of the higher capacity CD-R discs.

That should work.

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[marvel2020]

I Know that 99 mintue CDr's will work, but why should i have to buy some of them, when ULMFworks with 90 mintue CDR's.

It's ULMF2 thats the problem.

[Specialist]

You might try registering your software and then log in to the Ulead Web site and fill out the official tech support form located here:

http://www.ulead.com/tech/Suppform.htm

Jerry Jones
http://www.jonesgroup.net

[MaximumIce]

Hey Man,

I had a similar problem....what I found is that my file sizes changed depending if I chose a PAL format or NTSC. Sometimes, if I had an NTSC setting, a 500mb file would turn into 900MB for a regular 74 min disc. Changing it to PAL shrunk it to what I was looking for, and it doesn't seem to alter the image. The file is already encoded...so it shouldn't matter.

Hope this helps.


-ICE

[marvel2020]

MaximumIce

I tried what you suggested, it actally pushed the final image out to 1.8gb.

It looks as if i will have to buy some 99mintue CDR's .

[arcorob]

Have you unchecked the box that say "Copy the source to the disk". This copyies the setup source to the disk wasting space (may be DVD only ) but worth a look. I gues sthat feature is so you don't have to recreate the whole thing if you want to copy it. Like redesigning the menu, etc.

[marvel2020]

Copy source to disc is not selectable in VCD mode .

Anyway it's not checked.

[MaximumIce]

Maybe not the help you were looking for, but...

Sometimes, depending on the film/show - the amount of action/sfx and so on packs a lot of information vs. let' s say a dialogue driven story.

Try just manually reducing the bit-rate in TMPEGEnc when you encode, that will shorten the file size if you reduce the bit-rate. 1 min SVCD = 1 min of CD time - so keep that in mind. If that wasn't any help, sorry, just thinking of ways to reduce the file size for you.l.

Ice