Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5

[filmjax]

Looks like there's a new version, half the price of the previous one.

http://www.ulead.com/dmf/runme.htm

[bobinga]

I recently purchased this, having owned MF2 and 3.
MF3 stopped working for me when I upgraded to SP2. At one time I reformated my hard drive and ran w/o SP2 for a while so I could use MF3. Tech support was unresponsive except for an auto responder message ( I thought about that hard before buying MF5. I was considering the TSUNAMI MPEG DVD EasyPack Suite at $79 ( $39 at Cicuit City in Atlanta , but can't get there just for that.)

The price difference with MF5 made up my mind.
I bought the non-upgrade ( could have saved $10 ) but I have had problems in the past with loading MF3 because it was an upgrade and needed the disk for MF2 to do it or the files. A full version eleminates that problem.

I have not had time to fully evaluate this program ,but was surprised and almost thought I had screwed up with this purchase when I loaded my first VR disk into it.

I loaded the dvd pressed a button in the program and POOFF!. The program disapeared, vanished, I was pissed. Well actually it was running in the background loading the disk onto my harddrive and came back in about 1.5 minutes. It would have been nice to have some warning, an hour glass, a message or something. It also requires a higher resolution than 800x600

I am running an Athalon xp 2600 and 512 mb Ram.