How to create my first DVD: (work procedure)

Step 1: Lanuch and run the software

At first of all: launch WinX DVD Author; you will see the follow UI.

Four chooses are at your hands: We pick Video Disc Builder as an example:

Main function enables you to create VCD/SVCD/DVD from converting format, creating DVD menu to burning disc

Enable you to convert other format files to vob and save the converted files in your working folder

Enable you to create DVD format directory with menu from the current vob, and the directory contains three types of files: ifo, vob, bup

Enable you to burn the completed VCD/SVCD/DVD format directory to VCD/SVCD/DVD

Step 2: convert video to vob

You can choose the output disc format, and then click icon to save the setting, the following window will pop up. If you want to back to the main window, please click icon

Add source clips to source list.

Do some options as your need: preview, set the begin point, set the end point and save picture, and please click to go to next step. (DVD menu creator). 

Step 3: Create DVD menu

Choose background and design the arrange of these clips

Edit menu and text's title, double click the icon or the title clip property window will pop up

Step 4:video disc builder

Additional Notice:

1 : There are two options in the Convent Engine (preference picture quality and preference conversion speed), if you choose preference speed that will ignore image exact quality and use less hard disk space after conversion task. But there will be few mosaic image existing when you play it. If the source film is clear, big and need to save more films with less space, you can choose speed preference. By contraries, you can choose quality preference.

2: Working folder is very important for WinX DVD Author, the software need to save some files when converting before burning and the target DVD will be saved in the working folder which you choose to burn to disc directly. 

So, you have to make sure that there is enough free disk space in your hard disc. Generally speaking, to create a 4.2G DVD you need 8.4 G free disk space? When all the jobs are finished, the software will release the free space. You'd better set the largest disk root for the working folder. (Better lager than 5 GB)

3: Select the output DVD in NTSC or PAL format. The resolution of DVD film is720×480(NTSC) or720×576(PAL)

4: Select the burner device, you need to install burner device before using this software so that you can run the software successfully.

5: Please click Start icon after above work, if you can't start the burning job, please check your burner whether ok or not.

DVD: Officially known as the Digital Video Disc, though marketers unofficially refer to it as the Digital Versatile Disc. DVD uses a 5-inch disc with anywhere from 4.5 Gb (single layer, single-sided) to 17 Gb storage capacity (double-layer, double sided). It uses MPEG2 compression to encode 720:480p resolution, full-motion video and Dolby Digital to encode 5.1 channels of discrete audio. The disc can also contain PCM, DTS, and MPEG audio soundtracks

SVCD: SVCD is an extended version of VCD developed by a Chinese government-back committee of manufacturers. It was designed to exert pressure on DVD player prices in China , and to attempt to sidestep the DVD technology royalties. SVCD quality is between that of VCD and DVD, and the images possible with an SVCD are roughly two times better than that from a VCD. The resolution of SVCD is 480x480 for NSTC or 480x576 for PAL.