GoDVD Now Called ULEAD DVD PLUG-IN

[Jerry Jones]

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

Ulead dropped the GoDVD and is now calling it ULEAD DVD PLUG-IN.

[AndrewDV]

I wonder if this was done to make it sound MSP6-friendly? I'm holding off my purchase till MSP6 can utilize it. Hopefully, it'll be soon <grin>.

[wkulecz]

I'm wondering why Ulead put it out for VS5 first instead of MSP6. I'd wager a very high percentage of MSP6 users would plop down $40 for it in a hearbeat.

I can't see many VS4 or VS5 users who bought the cheapest firewire card they could find spending $40 + possibily the cost of upgrading to VS5, for it. ($29.95 for Digital Research 1394 card and VS4 from Microcenter -- TI chipset, worked great as a replacement for Orange Micro NEC based card -- see my thread on 1394 drive problems).

--wally.

[Jerry Jones]

My opinion (which is not necessarily true) is that Ulead strategists believe the market for more expensive video editing software is not "where the sales are" from a purely financial standpoint.

If you analyze Adobe's market share with Premiere, you can readily see how that leaves a smaller percentage of the $500-per-box market for Ulead where MEDIASTUDIO PRO is concerned.

(Ulead will continue to do battle, here, however because efforts are already underway on the next version of MediaStudio Pro.)

However, Adobe has *no* consumer-level video editing software to offer.

Adobe offers nothing in the sub-$100 price category for video.

Hence, Ulead is focusing development efforts on turning out the easiest-to-use, yet still powerful consumer-level, sub-$100 video software on the market.

Ulead has always focused on low cost, consumer-friendly software such as PhotoImpact, Cool 3D, & VideoStudio.

(In fact, Ulead sold an amazingly successful early product - called PhotoStyler - to Adobe for several million dollars a few years ago, as I recall.)

Could be wrong. But that's my two cents.

[Dr Mordrid]

I have to say that VS5 + the update (adds SVCD presets & Ligos codec upgrade) + the DVD Plug-in is not a shabby setup. In fact it's pretty darned powerful when you get down to it.

Talk about bang-for-buck...

Dr. Mordrid

[Nick Piercey]

Ah!


So that's where the Ligos update comes from....

Doc, you mentioned in http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum2/HTML/005492.html about the mpeg quality not being as good as TMPGEnc.. will this update help rectify that?


As ever,

Nick.

[Dr Mordrid]

By "not as good as TMPGEnc" I'm not meaning by a real wide margin as before. The differnece IS noticeable in problem sources, but it looks good for general use. Yes, it is much better.

Perhaps a more interesting question is - since the DVD plugin is only available for VS5 does this mean that the MSPro authoring support will be;

1. coming later as a separate version of the plugin

or

2. be built into an updated version of MSPro?

Time will tell....

Dr. Mordrid