Corel DVD MovieFactory Pro - 7 Reviewer’s Guide

Reviewer’s Guide

Corel DVD MovieFactory

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7 Reviewer’s Guide

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Contents

1 | Introducing Corel DVD MovieFactory Pro 7 ...................1

2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3

3 | What’s Included? ..............................................................5

4 | Key Features .....................................................................7

Create Professional-Quality DVDs from Photos and Videos....................... 7

Design Stunning Hollywood-style Menus.................................................... 9

Enjoy Advanced HD Support ...................................................................... 11

Enhance Photos and Videos with Titles, Music, and Effects..................... 13

Burn and Copy Video, Audio, and Data CDs and DVDs............................ 16

5 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................17

Introducing Corel DVD MovieFactory™ Pro 7

Corel DVD MovieFactory™ Pro 7 is an all-in-one software solution for creating and burning professional-quality DVD, AVCHD video, and high-definition (HD) video. Users can easily design Hollywood-style animated menus and dazzling special effects for their DVDs. Simple tools help users create impressive pan-and-zoom slide shows or turn video clips into polished movies with opening sequences, titles, and music. In addition, users can record TV shows, or import photos and video clips from digital cameras, camcorders, set-top DVD recorders, and mobile phones.

Create Professional-Quality DVDs from Photos and Videos

With the intuitive, quick-start Launcher, DVD MovieFactory Pro 7 gives users fast access to its full suite of disc authoring and burning applications. The easy, stepby-step workflow helps users quickly turn photos into dynamic slide shows and work with standard or HD video clips.

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, and Blu-ray discs from photos,

Design Stunning Hollywood-Style Menus

A collection of more than 100 professionally designed menus in a range of styles and themes, easy-to-use customization tools, and high-quality effects help users personalize their discs. Users can add Hollywood-style menu effects, such as reflections, masked text, motion backgrounds, menu transitions, and animated overlay objects. With the new Note menu pages, users can combine photos, text entries, and decorations to produce one-of-a-kind DVD scrapbooks.

Enjoy Advanced HD Support

DVD MovieFactory Pro 7 provides advanced HD support to ensure that users can take advantage of the latest HD equipment and formats. Users can import HD video from all the current HD camcorders, whether they use tape, disc, hard drive, or memory card, in HDV, AVCHD, TOD, and Blu-ray Disc can also design advanced Blu-ray menu features, such as pop-up and slide-out chapter thumbnails that don’t interrupt disc playback. The unique Smart Proxy technology provides fast, smooth editing of HD content — without requiring a

formats. Users

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PC upgrade. In addition, users can burn HD projects to high-capacity Blu-ray discs or create AVCHD discs with standard DVDs and burner.

Enhance Photos and Videos with Titles, Music, and Effects

DVD MovieFactory Pro 7 includes simple video- and photo-editing tools that let users quickly trim video clips, remove ads from recorded TV shows, and add cool opening sequences with animated titles and music. With ExpressFix, a couple of quick clicks let users easily improve exposure, color case, color saturation, focus, and skin tones in photos. The slide show wizard makes it easy to rotate pictures or apply impressive pan-and-zoom effects. With titles, transitions, and background music, users can create stunning slide shows that are perfect for sharing.

Burn and Copy Video, Audio, and Data CDs and DVDs

As a complete disc-authoring solution, DVD MovieFactory Pro 7 lets users create data backups on CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc and burn audio CDs, DVDs, or MP3 discs. Users can compile TV shows from set-top recorders, burn downloaded

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movies to disc, and make quick copies of CDs, DVDs, or non-commercial Blu-ray discs. For unrivalled convenience, the Quick-Drop desktop icon lets users drag music, video, and data for automatic burning. With Label@Once, users can even design and print custom labels for their discs. What’s more, users can simply connect a source to capture TV, DV, or HDV directly to DVD, AVCHD, or Blu-ray Disc.

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Customer Profiles

Generalist: Casual Videographers

Casual videographers take both videos and photos, and seek straightforward ways to view and share their digital media. They enjoy using templates that require minimal editing or customization. They are most interested in software that enables them to get results quickly and easily.

Intermediate: Family Memory-Keepers

Family memory-keepers like to preserve family gatherings, social events, and milestones in photos and videos. They enjoy expressing their creativity and producing unique slide shows and videos that they can share with family and friends.

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