Problems with ULEAD DVD Movie Factory 3

[Tanks4me05]

Ok, when I try to finalize my Sylvan Beach Video on to DVD (I have over a dozen others that I will eventually upload here in a few weeks that I filmed this year) the program gets the "(Not Responding)" disclaimer thing at the top of the window, and it doesn't even quit after the Ctrl Alt Delete combination (Windows Task Manager doesn't even open) and the only way for my computer to normally function is to restart it. Usually this happens about half a dozen times in a row, which takes up about 45 minutes. Now I have been doing the same thing for three days and nothing happens. I try even putting my empty DVD into the D drive instead of the J drive where my DVD Burner is, and that didn't work. Turning on the DVD Burner and inserting the DVD before I access Ulead avoids this problem a little over half the time, but this time it didn't work. I'm not willing to spend another $100 - $200+ on another program/system, and I don't want to potentially spend another year trying to learn all the shortcuts to get around to actually making a good DVD due to crap instructions. PLEASE HELP!!!

[mcjaco]

Sounds like a conflict between software and hardware????? I have the same problem with Roxio 8. It never works, and I gave up using it.

[Tanks4me05]

Nevermind. I solved the problem - all I had to do was change the discs, and it worked on the first try. I'll start uploading the pictures (421) and videos (13, but one of them will not be uploaded for a while because my best one will be entered in the TPR video contest, so technically 12) in a few days. ULead is temperamental, to say the least.

[Carnage]

and videos (13, but one of them will not be uploaded for a while because my best one will be entered in the TPR video contest, so technically 12) in a few days.

 

FYI there isn't going to be a video contest this year.

 

And even if there was, you still could post it to TPR and enter it in the contest.

[Tanks4me05]

Huh? I thought Robb said he was just going to delay it until the end of the summer...

 

We still plan on doing the contest, but we will be moving it to the fall so everyone will have a chance to shoot some video over this summer.

 

--Robb

 

Link to the thread:

 

http://www.themeparkreview.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35455&highlight=

 

And as Barry said right under Robb's reply, Fall would make it after all the TPR group trips are done for the year, and as far as I remember, (and based on the fact that no other 2007 events are on the events page) Japan (the one that they are on now) seems to be the last one of the year. I know they have been rather busy, especially with Kidtums, but still, they have been putting in that third disc with that contains the contest finalists since Coaster Expedition Volume 5 - their first Japan trip.

[Carnage]

I stand corrected then. I didn't think he was going to do one this year.

 

That being said, there's no reason why you can't post a video and then also submit it for a contest. You might even get some feedback that would give you time to re-edit.

[Tanks4me05]

^ Ok, here is my plan for that:

 

Some of my videos go to over 7 minutes in length because for the larger parks I use two songs instead of just one (although I do vary the shots a lot, make no mistake about that, and they got great reviews at coasterfuel.com) and since the max for TPR is usually 5 minutes, I would take out the second song/ second half of the video from my "best" video as I have a feeling it's one of the larger ones, and then release the full video online after the DVD is out (or if I find out I'm not a finalist) as a "Director's Cut" version.