How to Edit and Burn Videos to DVD
Have taken lots of home movies of your travel, party, festival, and children's sports programs with digital camcorders? Have downloaded many spectacular torrents movies from p2p client like BitTorrent, uTorrent, Vuze? Well then, you may have encountered various kinds of video and movie formats: MP4, MOV, WMV, AVI, MKV, MPEG, MPG, TS, TP, MTS, M2TS, AVCHD, etc. Now you may ask how to convert and burn videos to DVD which can be viewed on regular stand-alone home DVD player? To burn your favorite movies to DVD disc is a great option to save and backup your happy moments.
Wondershare Video to DVD Burner will not only allow you to share your favorite with friends and family, but also allow you to burn your movies on playable DVDs and save space on your hard drive. In addition, you can edit your movies by cropping, trimming, etc. The various built-in DVD menu templates and transition effects help you to personalize your titleset easily. Check this tutorial for detailed guide on how to edit videos, convert and burn videos to DVD disc.
How to burn videos to DVD with Wondershare Video to DVD Burner?
Step 1 Download and install Wondershare Video to DVD Burner
Download and install Wondershare Video to DVD Burner. Once you've downloaded the program, double click it and follow the set up wizard to install it.
Burn Video to DVD 2:Load videos
Once you've downloaded and installed Video to DVD Burner, launch it. Click the 'Load Video' button to load video files you want to burn. Once imported, there will be thumbnails displayed on the left interface (or collections pane), the right interface allows you to view the loaded video. Drag and drop loaded videos to storyboard below to organize titleset.
Burn Video to DVD 3: Edit videos
The plug-in video editor lets you edit videos quickly and easily. Select a video file in storyboard and click on "Edit selected video file" button to crop, trim, add watermark, plug in subtitles or adjust video effects, according to your specific request within minutes.
Crop:
Click "Crop", you will see four tabs: "Zoom", "Left", "Top", and "Cropped area size". Area size of the video could be specified by either dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values under the later three tabs.
Below the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio among "Keep original", "Full screen", "16:9", "4:3", "Letter box" and "Pan Scan" by clicking "Zoom".
Tips: Drag the frame around the video to the video edge, select "Full screen" option under "Zoom" drop-down menu, then you will enjoy your movies in a full screen.
Set effects: Click "Effect", you can adjust video effects here. Simply drag each adjustment slider to set the video effects as you like: brightness, contrast and saturation. You can also select effect such as "Emboss", "Gray", "Negative", "Old film", or just "No effect", which depends on your choice.
Trim: Click "Trim", you can trim any segment or capture a clip of the video by setting the start time and end time. The selected length is shown.
Add watermark:Click "Watermark", and choose to startup watermark, you can design the watermark by using image or text. You can also set parameters such as "Transparency", "Vertical Space" and "Level Space" or just drag the watermark in the window.
Plug-in subtitle: This function is restricted to MKV files: if your video and the subtitle are separated into two files, this software helps you to plug-in the subtitle.
Burn Video to DVD 4: Set transition effects
For a better visual effect, you may want to set some transition effects to your titleset. Simply click on "Transition" tab and there will be more than 60 transition effects displayed on the left interface. The right window will display the visual transition effect by randomly clicking any one of these effects. Simply drag and drop the selected transition effect to the between of two videos in the storyboard to apply it. Or click on "Apply the selected transition" button to apply.
Burn Video to DVD 5: Customize DVD Menu
Also, you have many DVD menu options for you to choose from. There are more than 32 various built-in DVD menu templates. Double click the selected DVD menu template on the left interface to apply it, while the right interface will display the menu effect. In addition, there are many kinds of Fames, Buttons and Text in the menu drop-down list for you to choose from. You may double click the selected template, frame or button to apply it. Moreover, you could add text, customize background image and music to personalize your DVD menu.
Burn Video to DVD 6: Preview
When you are done with all settings, you may click on "Preview" button to preview the titleset.
Burn Video to DVD 7: Start burning video to 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 DVD folder 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 used in Europe and Asia.
Aspect Ratio: If your TV is a regular TV, just select 4:3. If your TV is a wide screen TV, you should select 16:9.
Tips: 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".
This guide also helps when you burn AVI to DVD, 3GP to DVD, MP4 to DVD, MKV to DVD and WMV to DVD.
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