DVD authoring & burning with full high-definition impact
Do more with your digital media with DVD authoring and burning tools that support the latest industry formats. Author and burn Blu-ray Discs* or HD DVDs* with studio-quality menus, add polish to videos and slide shows with titles, music and effects, and create audio and MP3 CDs and DVDs.
Also available: DVD MovieFactory 6
Which version is right for you?
Features
On this page:
- Easy & Fast Start to DVD Authoring and Burning
- Capture From Any Device
- PureHD™ – Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD
- Simple Video Editing
- Advanced Authoring Tools
- Smart Menu Options
- Music & Data Burning
- Photo Slide Shows
- Extras
Easy & Fast Start to DVD Authoring and Burning
Easy Launcher
- Select any task from one clear, simple interface
- Let the software guide you through all the steps necessary to create a perfect disc every time
Intuitive Quick-Drop
- Simply put a blank disc into your burner and drag any file or folder onto the desktop icon
- Create CDs or DVDs to your preference
- Check disc behavior with Smart Preview and display burning progress
Capture from Any Device
- Import video from any popular camcorder, including HDV, DVD and AVCHD™
- Capture TV transmissions with any TV tuner device*
- Receive DVB-T digital transmissions
- Set Auto Capture to record your programs while you're away
- Convert an entire videotape directly from camcorder to DVD disc, without using any hard drive space
*TV tuner device not included.
PureHD™ – Blu-ray Disc & HD DVD*
PureHD™ Capture
Seamlessly capture video from the latest high-definition Sony or Canon camcorders.
Burn to Blu-ray Disc
Capture from either HDV or DV video camcorder and burn directly to Blu-ray Disc to create a video disc that plays on your next-generation player.
PureHD™ Authoring & Output
Produce next-generation HD DVD productions with menus.
Simple Video Editing
Capture and Edit HDV
Import, edit and export HDV video just as easily as you would standard DV video.
Enhanced! Edit Room
Do basic video-editing tasks with ease: add titles and background music, mix the audio levels and auto-add transitions at cut points.
Exciting Theme Templates
Select a professionally designed theme that will add an opening sequence for you with picture-in-picture effects, titles and background music.
Storyboard Mode
Get an overview of your production so it's easy to rearrange content and include transitions between all the scenes or video clips.
Timeline Mode
Edit captured video on an intuitive timeline to control the positioning and length of overlays, titles and background music.
Fade-in and Fade-out Video
Quickly edit your video clips to fade in or out at the click of a button.
Overlay Tracks
Add interest to movies with overlay frames and objects.
Transition Effects Between Videos
Choose from an extensive range of transition effects for a professional, finished look.
Insert Images to Video
Create mixed-media "clipshows" by combining video clips, photos, music and narration on the Timeline.
Auto Subtitle Track
Display video file name, date, time and EXIF (photo) data as a subtitle track.
Powerful Multi-Trim Functions
- AccuCut – search and trim out 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 to use as your cut points
- Ad-Zapper – cut out all the commercials for uninterrupted viewing of your favorite TV shows. Ad-Zapper automatically detects ads and allows you to remove them
Advanced Authoring Tools
Easy-to-Use Menu Templates
Select from motion menus, still menus or menus with motion overlays and modify as you wish to polish your production.
SmartScene Menus
Discover unique menus that use both text and thumbnails while sharing a single large preview area, rather than appearing as separate motion buttons. When you roll over the titles, a preview starts playing in the Preview screen and changes every time you highlight the next title.
Text Menus
Add slick-looking menus with text that can act as buttons.
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
Give a great sense of motion to your menus with animated buttons, text and objects.
Moveable Objects
Freely position or stretch text, frames and button objects anywhere on your menu to overlay your composition on the background.
Rotatable Text
Position text at any angle when producing menus or adding overlay text.
Motion Filters
Create movement even on a static menu to bring it to life. Just select an image for a background, then automatically animate it with ripples, spotlight effects, or pans and zooms.
Widescreen Menus and Video
Create your own Hollywood movie look.
MPEG.Now Dual Core Rendering
Get faster SmartRender times with Intel® Core 2 Duo™ or similar CPUs.
Direct to DVD +/-VR In
Re-edit your PVR-recorded video directly on a re-writable disc.
Smart Menu Options
Button Moving Paths
Bring your menus to life with templates that contain animated menus, titles, navigation buttons and other decorative objects.
Distort Menu Objects
Rotate, stretch and angle menu motion buttons to fit into frames or other background elements.
Extend Background Video and Image
Change from 4:3 to 16:9 widescreen.
Customize Pan & Zoom in Slide Shows
Make your still images come to life. This advanced tool offers customizable curved paths, transparency and zoom ratios.
Music and Data Burning
Music
Music DVD-Video
Create an audiophile-quality audio DVD with menus using MPEG, LPCM or AC-3 format files.
Click and Hiss Removal
Automatically 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
Enjoy many hours of uninterrupted MP3 music on a CD or DVD.
Audio CDs
Just drag your music files, in MP3 or WMA format, onto the playlist and turn it into an audio CD.
Data
Burn to CD/DVD
Burn data, pictures or documents to CDs or single- and double-layer DVDs.
Plus also offers tools for burning data to Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD.**
CD Extra
Add data files to your audio CDs. For example, include lyrics or cover art on your CDs.
Secure Data Burning
Create password-protected data discs.
Copy Disc
Enjoy full-featured disc-copy function for CD/DVD.
Plus also supports Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD.
Photo Slide Shows
Entertaining Photo Projects
Create slide shows on disc with transitions, music and customizable Pan & Zoom on images.
High-Definition Slide Shows
Use your high-resolution digital camera images at their full quality, creating high-definition slide shows that are cleaner, crisper and sharper.
ExpressFix™
Let the software walk you through simple steps for fixing common digital photo problems, such as red eye, too-dark or too-bright exposure, and color cast.
Extras
Disc-labeling Module
Print a CD label with your playlist overlaid on your choice of graphics.
Labelflash and LightScribe Labels™
Burn a title or text directly on CDs or DVDs, with appropriate burners and discs.
Dual-core Support
Get enhanced performance from Intel® Duo processors on desktops and laptops.
WinDVD® 8 Player Silver
Enjoy smooth, crisp playback of all your standard-definition video files and discs.
**Appropriate hardware required. For more information, see System Requirements.
