Although for many DVDs can be considered outdated in favor of external hard drives or USB sticks, they are still widely used to store important films and videos, even by customizing the menus. In the end, the DVD also remains an easy solution (not the most practical) to watch a video that was saved on the computer on TV.
The only thing you need to know is to burn the DVD, a beginner's job that can get complicated for those who use the wrong program.
There are many programs to choose from, both free and commercial, some with more features and others with less, some easier others more complicated.
Among the best programs to burn DVD, the simplest one, still today, is DVDFlick, a rather old, open source and free program.
In a few simple steps, let's see how to burn any video on your computer into a DVD that can be played by any player.
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First of all, download and install DVD Flick, free and without limitations.
The download is redirected to the Soundforge website and ensures that it does not contain sponsors or installation deceptions.
To make a DVD playable on any player, video files must be encoded in the MPEG-2 format.
DVD Flick manages the conversion to MPEG-2 from any other format, be it AVI, MPG, MOV and WMV or other.
Then open DVDFlick and, before pressing the button at the top left to create a new project, go to the Settings to make sure it is configured according to our preferences.
By default, you probably won't need to change anything, but it's still important to know what you can do.
On the General tab you can choose the size of the DVD we are using which is usually a 4.3 GB DVD-R.
From here you can choose to use the settings for a Dual Layer DVD, a Mini-DVD or a CD-R.
The video card allows you to set the format supported by our DVD player, which can be NTSC or PAL .
Those who live in Europe will have to use the PAL setting, while in the USA it is NTSC.
From here you can also set the encoding quality in the Encoding profile, which can be improved by choosing best instead of normal.
The Burning tab allows you to choose the settings of the final DVD and you can choose to create an ISO file (if, for now, you do not have a DVD available) which can then be burned later with programs such as IMGBurn.
DVD Flick allows you to add practically any type of video file to your DVD project .
The easiest way to do this is to open the Windows folder containing the files and drag them into the DVD Flick window (or by pressing the Add Title button at the top right)
The yellow bar on the left shows how much space is being used.
The amount of videos that can be burned to a DVD varies based on the length and quality you choose.
DVD Flick, at this point it is extremely simple even if a little spartan.
The created DVD is organized automatically by creating a chapter for each file inserted by default.
To better organize the chapters, click on the added video and, in the Chapters section, choose how and when to create chapters for the DVD, every how many minutes and the number of chapters (or even choose not to use the chapters).
If available, you can also choose from this menu the audio track to be used instead of the original one and to add subtitles.
Before burning the video DVD, check, from the bottom line of the main window, the folder where the files will be saved in the transcoding process.
In fact, some space on the computer is needed to make DVDFlick work, at least as much as the space of the DVD itself (4.7 GB or higher).
You can delete the files saved in that folder after the DVD is ready.
Now that everything is set, press the Create DVD button at the top and wait until it completes without ever having to take action.
Transcoding videos takes some time and CPU power so it would be best not to use the computer during the burn process.
If you are working on the computer, it is better to save the project and reopen it to complete it when you are not using your PC, perhaps at night.
In conclusion, I would like to point out other equally simple alternative programs, of which I have already spoken:
- CDBurnerXP, best program to burn CD, DVD, ISO and Blu-ray on Windows
- Copy DVD to PC (ISO) or burn them to a 4.7 GB DVD5
- 15 ways to use the recorder to create and record CD and DVD discs
- Best video converter, free video file converter programs on your computer
