All you need to convert AVI to DVD is a DVD Creator or Mac DVD Creator ( Free Download )

While movie downloaded from the internet and recorded with digital camcorders is always AVI format, how to take it from your hard drive and burn it to DVD disc so that you can watch it on a standard DVD player is an important question for most of us.

You can simply burn the movies to DVD folder or ISO files to share with friends and family who have computers, but if the people you want to share the movie with don't have a computer, what will you do? With the right software, creating a DVD for them is not that difficult.

In this tutorial we will show you the most easy-to-use way of converting and burning AVI movie and video to DVD using DVD Creator.

Step 1: Download DVD Creator and install it ( Free Trial )

Meanwhile, you can insert DVD +R (DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW) into DVD-ROM (The DVD-ROM should have writing and recording functions).

Step 2: Add video files

Click "Load Video" or select "Load Video" under the "File" drop-down menu to load videos or movies from your hard drive. Multiple video files could be added at a time. After the video files have beed added, they will appear in the main interface. Display the loaded video files by a simple click to choose the video file which you want to convert.

Step 3: Convert video to DVD directly

If you don't want to add any special effect, of course you can convert video to DVD directly.

Drag and drop video files from the main interface to the storyboard below, click the video file which you want to burn and click "burn" to burn it to DVD directly.

Jump to step 7: Start burning DVD

Step 4: Organize a slideshow

Organize: Drag & drop the loaded video files from the main interface to the storyboard to start organizing your slideshow.

Order: You can sort the order of the video files in the storyboart by dragging and dropping.

Transition: Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the triansition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two video files in the slideshow storyboard.

Edit: Select a loaded video in the storyboard, click "edit selected video file", you may see a window with a box below for settings. There are five tabs here for you to crop the size, to trim the length, to adjust the video effect, to design your watermark and to plug-in subtitle.

Click here to learn more about how to edit video effects

Step 5: Customize DVD menu

Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.

Step 6: Preview video slideshow

Click "Preview" to preview your slideshow. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.

Step 7: Start burning DVD

For DVD disc: Click "Burn", select "DVD" option in the "Burn to" field, specify a temp folder (used to save the generated temporary files), select your DVD drive and burning program (either built-in or your own burning application), select your TV Standard and output Aspect Ratio, and click "Start" to burn your project.

For creating DVD file or an ISO file: Click "Burn", select the "DVD Folder" or "ISO file" option, specify a folder to save them, and click "Start" to generate DVD files or ISO onto your computer.

TV Standard: "NTSC" is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan; "PAL" is 25fps, which is used in Europe and Asia.

Note: The used disc space is shown on the disc space bar underneath the storyboard; You can select the size of burning DVD between "DVD-R4.5G" and "DVD-R9.0G"; The output quality is also up to your choice, you may select "Low video quality", "High video quality" or "Highest video quality".

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