Ulead DVDMovieFactory manual Video Disc

8 ULEAD DVD MOVIEFACTORY USER GUIDE

Video Disc

Ulead DVD MovieFactory's step-by-step interface makes creating movies simple and easy. To create a video disc, click Video Disc on the Launcher and select an associated task. To create a new project, click New Project. Select your output disc type in Create Video Disc and click OK.

•HD DVD (High Density Digital Versatile Disc) Developed as a standard for high-definition DVD, HD DVD uses a 120 mm diameter optical data storage media and 405 nm wavelength blue laser.

•DVD Abbreviation for Digital Versatile Disc, a popular format in video production because of its superb audio and video quality. It also holds several times more data that VCDs and SVCDs.

•VCD (Video Compact Disc) is a special version of a CD-ROM that uses the MPEG-1 format. The quality of the exported movie is almost the same, but usually better than VHS tape-based movies. A VCD can be played back on a CD-ROM drive, VCD player, and even on a DVD player.

•SVCD Abbreviation for Super Video CD, commonly described as an enhanced version of a VCD. It is based on MPEG-2 technology with either Variable Bit Rate (VBR) or Constant Bit Rate (CBR).

•DVD-RAM/RWLike random access memory (RAM), DVD-RAM/RW can be read, recorded on, and erased repeatedly.

•DVD VR A DVD recording format that allows you to produce a DVD movie that can be directly edited on the disc. DVD+VR is used on DVD+RW disks. DVD-VRis used on DVD-RW disks.

To edit an existing project, select Open Existing Project and browse for the project file. Creating a new project or opening an existing one takes you to the Add/Edit Media step.

Note: You can select other options to burn your video, disc image file, or DVD folders.