Burning HD Factory Corel Corporation's Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus software is an easily affordable way to create and copy DVDs and CDs and to perform simple but impressive editing and assembling of prerecorded clips. In its deluxe version, it's one of the first consumer editing programs to support HD DVD, even more remarkable considering its well-under-$100 street price. The program, developed by Ulead before it was acquired by Corel, is aimed primarily at the hobbyist who wants to edit home camcorder movies and save them to recordable DVDs, in addition to producing audio compilation CDs and data backup DVDs. DVD MovieFactory 6 is available in two flavors. The standard version retails for $50. A deluxe 'Plus' version sells for $30 more and adds full high-definition video capabilities, plus utilities for copying discs and creating audio DVDs, CDs, password-protected data discs, as well as other features.

It's this latter version that we're reviewing, which requires a PC with at least a 1.8MHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon XP 1800+ chip and 512MB (and ideally at least a gig) of RAM. Both versions are available boxed, or for immediate downloading from www.corel.com. Free U2 Live Downloads Lotus. 2020ja Premiumx Software Applications. There's also a trial version available on the Web site. First Walkthrough Once the software was installed and the PC rebooted, to get a sense of how intuitive DVD Movie Factory 6 would be for the neophyte user, I did a quickie walkthrough of the program without cracking the manual. First, I booted the program up and clicked on 'New Project.' The next screen took me to the program's timeline GUI. DVD Movie Factory Plus also supports capture of video directly from a camcorder (including HDV/AVCHD types), as well as the building of slideshows.