Posted by Bob on 09/19/05 14:16

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 15:23:55 GMT, "SamSez" <samtheman@verizon.net>
wrote:

>[Somebody give this guy his money back so the rest of us redo users don't begin
>to think maybe we haven't been using it JUST FINE all along. Sigh....]

Redo does not work in every instance.

Anyone using Ulead MovieFactory 4 must apply the latest patch.

I recommend that users make a clone of their boot disk before
installing MF4. The reason is because you will have to uninstall it at
some point and reinstall it, so if you have a clone you can avoid the
uninstall process, which includes a thorough Registry cleaning by all
the major cleaners to get as much of the residue out.

I have been exercising MF4 over the past several days in as many ways
as I can think of. I have discovered something about how the
developers have attempted to patch the problems they have, It's an old
trick but it eventually can lead to serious problems which can only be
solved by the Ol' Uninstall/Reinstall.

What I have discovered is that in a futile attempt to cover over the
problems, they are keeping an environment which configures MF4 based
on what is believed to be the last stable configuration. They keep
this in the so-called "hidden" areas maintained by MF4, namely
Application Data under your user profile.

What happens is that eventually you can't do anything new without it
reverting back to some goofy behavior that you are trying to work
around. Even VideoReDo does no good. If you attempt to pass this along
to the Ulead forum, all that will happen is you will get fussed at for
ripping video DVDs.

If you find that MF4 is not behaving the way you want or expect it to,
based on the first few times you used it when you first installed it,
then the only thing I know to do is the Industry Standard
Uninstall/Reinstall, used by all the big boys when their applications
tie themselves in a knot.

In the meantime, I sincerely hope that Ulead expends the necessary
resources to fix MF4 because it is one of the more friendly
applications for simple DVD editing. Judging from the number of
patches that have been posted recently it would appear that they are
doing this. But I am afraid it is going to take a complete re-write
because this version has all the earmarks of a prototype being patched
to make it sorta work if not exercized too much.

Therefore we eagerly await MF5.


--

Greatest Movie Line Ever
http://home.houston.rr.com/rkba/MovieLine.wmv

"What is history but the story of how politicians have
squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
--Thomas Sowell

[Back to original message]