Add your video files
First add the video files you want to convert to DVD so that you can
watch them on any standalone DVD player. Simply click on the green cross
to add your videos.
ConvertXtoDVD will automatically create a DVD
menu and each video file will become a separate titleset. Since a
DVD disk has certain space the more files you add the worst the quality
of the final DVD will be since ConvertXtoDVD will encode them to fit in a
single disk. Therefore you can have a look at the "Conversion advisor"
to see what the quality will be. For about 2h of video quality will be
excellent. For less than 4h you will have pretty good quality and you
can watch the movie without any problems. If you are converting TV
series episodes of 40 minutes each, 4 episodes are enough for a 4.7GB
DVD.
If you expand the "DVD Options" you can
customize the DVD Template, play videos one after another, rename your
DVD and choose the text style you like. A few more options were added
here from the previous.
ConvertXtoDVD comes with some very good
templates which you can see by double clicking on the Template option.
Unfortunately the templates are the same with the previous version.
In the next screenshot you can see the font
adjustments available which appear if you double click on the "All Menu
Pages text style editor". You can also access the same settings from
Settings -> Subtitiles -> Subtitle text rendering settings.
Titleset Options
In the titleset menu you can also add thumbnails of
each titleset for easier and faster access to them. By default the
thumbnail will be taken from the first frame of each video. However you
can change this by double clicking on the thumbnail option (1).
You can also add subtitles to each titleset.
If you had the subtitles in the same folder with each video file and
they also have the same name they will be automatically inserted, you
should see something like (1 stream) (1). If you don't right click on
the "Subtitle (0 stream)" and browse to where you keep them.
The video preview window which is available by clicking on
the preview button (1) allows you to see how your final DVD menu will
look like.
At this point you can also choose to create an
animated DVD menu with background music! You can choose a custom
video/image or a clip taken from the converted video. In the same way
you can add your own mp3 audio file playing in the background. You can
select background audio and video for Root menu, Chapter menu and
Audio/Subtitle settings.

Regarding the video settings of the output DVD
you can change its resolution, fps, aspect ratio (16:9 for wide screens
and 4:3 for full screen), and the video resize method.
General Settings
Let's take a lookt at the settings. You can access more settings by
clicking on Settings -> General.
Here in the "General" tab
you can change the location where all DVD files will be placed (1). Be
sure that you have many GBs of free space.
In the "Chapters" tab you can create Chapters in each
Titleset for easier browsing them. Default value is 5 minutes for
titlesets longer than 15 minutes.
Next in "DVD specification" you can select
between PAL (for Europe) and NTSC (for US and Asia), as well as adjust
the video resolution just in case you want to do this. Default values
are ok however.
In the "Encoding" tab you can adjust Encoding
Quality/Speed. Better quality means worst encoding speed. You choose.
You can also select the size of the DVD disk you are going to use, such
as DVD-5 or DVD-9. Here you are advised to select Two pass encoding
since the final DVD quality will be much better although it will take
longer to complete.
In the "Video processing" tab make sure you
set the maximum numbers of cores your processor has e.g. 2 for Intel
Core 2 Duo and 4 for Intel Quad Core. This will enhance the conversion
speed.
Convert your DVD!
When you are ready just click on the Convert button and wait whiel
ConvertXtoDVD encodes your new DVD!
When the conversion is over you will be prompted to insert a
blank DVD disk in your DVD burner and the burn process will start.
In the links below you can find three bonus menu templates
for using with ConvertXtoDVD! |