Creating a DVD with a menu. Creating a DVD video disc in DVD Lab Pro

Most best way to organize files stored on your computer is to transfer them to physical media. In order to get this opportunity, you will need an effective one, for example, “Disk Studio” from AMS Software. After reading this article, you will learn how you can easily use it to write to DVD disc documents, music, movies and other information, and learn how to customize the interactive menu of the chapter disc. So let's get started!

Online recording of media

"Disk Studio" is a convenient and visual program for DVD recording and CD discs, as well as their varieties. Working with the application is as simple as two: you choose necessary files(movies, documents, music, etc.), configure the recording parameters, and then insert the blank media into the burner and start burning it.

It is also worth noting the fact that with the help of this software you can easily overwrite or completely erase any previously recorded disc. This is possible thanks to the presence of appropriate options in the editor. For example, if you find a little free space on one of the previous DVDs, it can be filled with new content (in other words, re-recorded). In this case, the same disk can be rewritten multiple times, eliminating the possibility of damage or loss of data.

Record movies and music in a couple of clicks!

The main function that the recording program has DVD discs, is to create musical and visual media. This is very useful when you need to copy to disk large number compositions/albums or video clips/films. This way you can create a home digital archive.

If you are interested, then simply select the format and add tracks. You will be asked to make not only mp3, but also wma, which will contain up to 10 hours of music with decent playback quality. This CD can be played both in a car radio and in a specialized player. You can also give it to someone as a souvenir if you wish.

"Disc Studio" is also an excellent program for burning DVD discs with menus. So, before you create a video medium, you can design its intro to your taste. For example, choose a beautiful background picture, come up with a catchy title, add bright photos and download music. The interactive menu you develop will subsequently be reproduced on any computer or multimedia player.

Convenient work with images and ripping discs

To insure yourself against accidental loss of certain data, it is strongly recommended to generate virtual image disk. In addition, you can create an ISO image of any media with the ability to further write files to it. All these manipulations are also easy to carry out using Disk Studio.

In addition, the program for DVD creation discs allows you to ripping - this is the name of the function of converting dvd and audio cd to high quality. It will come to the rescue if you need to quickly reproduce any disc with music or video (of course, if it is not copy protected).

Today I’ll tell you about a couple of programs with which you can quickly create any DVD menu without any special knowledge. If you thought it was difficult, then I can only say that you are deeply mistaken. The programs described below will make the process of creating a DVD menu easy and interesting! Now you can make your own collections of your favorite films with easy navigation through fragments, which is very important when watching DVD on a regular DVD player.

The developers of Super DVD Creator have built three utilities into the program:

Video file converter to VOB format, to create movie fragments. I would like to emphasize that you can convert existing ones VOB files— useful if you want to reduce the size of the film or trim it.
Creating a DVD menu, followed by burning to DVD and, of course, creating an auto launch for the menu
Burn movies to DVD. I think no comments are required.

So, let's launch the converter. There are a minimum of buttons and all sorts of bells and whistles, everything is clear - this is already good, but I would like to point out a drawback - you cannot adjust the pixel resolution for video, which would be useful for laptops or just home computers.

The beginning and end of the fragment, quality and screen format - that's all that Super DVD Creator offers to choose in its converter - it's not rich, but we need to create a menu and so we go to next stage and see how the program works there.

Click on the “DVD compiler” button. It’s even easier here; the developers of Super DVD Creator fit the entire process of creating a DVD menu in one window.

On the right, select a background screensaver for the menu (you can create your own), add movie fragments at the bottom and specify the screen format (16:9 or 4:3). Next, you should pay attention to the function of adding text to the menu and background music, this completes the process of creating a menu, all that remains is to burn the resulting DVD, which can be done both in the program itself and using any other DVD burner, for example Nero, but that’s up to you.

Specifications:

Weight: 10.2 mb

Interface: English Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/xp Vista

Main disadvantages:

There are few possibilities, you can only make a simple menu, nothing more. For home viewing you don’t need any more ;)

A more powerful solution for those who want to make a professional DVD menu. IN DVD-lab Pro the developers paid special attention fine tuning effects and unique menu items. The program has the ability to create beautiful animation effects, such as the movement of buttons when selected. You can make a slideshow of images, for example for a presentation or favorite photos for convenient viewing on TV. Also DVD-lab Pro can make a mode DVD reader disc in karaoke format. I won’t describe the capabilities of this program in more depth, but if you are confident in your capabilities, download, I’m always available for help, write in the comments what is not clear. I'll help.

Specifications:

Weight: 27.3 MB

Interface: English Systems: Windows 95/98/ME/xp

Main disadvantages:

Quite a complex interface. In general, everything you might need is available in the program.

Update from 03/26/2012! Review updated great program DVDStyler.

DVDStyler (added 03/26/2012)

DVDStyler - free application from the developer “DVDStyler Team”, which allows for DVD authoring. This is the creation of DVD images that can be played in a standard DVD player. With this program, anyone can create one DVD image with all the relevant functions from any video or series of videos.

The set of capabilities of the DVDStyler program primarily includes the ability to create an interactive menu through which the user gains access to the contents of the disc. For ease of use, the program itself has the ability to burn with a ready-made menu.

Simplicity of work is ensured by the fact that the user immediately has several templates to choose from, from which he selects the most suitable one. With their help, you can quickly create your own menu for the disc.

The list of supported formats includes AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, OGG, as well as some other file formats that users encounter in their work. Among the supported audio formats it is worth noting MP3, MP2, MPEG2, MPEG4, AC-3, DivX, XviD. Moreover, using this program you can mount an image using several files different formats.

The program interface is implemented based on the drag&drop principle, i.e. To use a particular file or template, simply drag it into the appropriate cell. The DVD disc menu is created based on vector graphics, you can also import other files to create backgrounds, etc.

The user independently chooses not only appearance created menu, but also the location of elements, active buttons and other things. He selects fonts, primary colors, button sizes, etc. at his discretion.

OS: Windows, Mac OS, Linux

To summarize, I will say that depending on the complexity, quality of the DVD - Menu it depends which program is better to choose. For simple and quick creation simple menus to help you - for others who want to do something more interesting to help or DVDStyler. By the way, DVDStyler was recently added to the review, for good reason - the application is completely free and multifunctional. I recommend!

Making a DVD from existing video files in AVI, MPEG, MP4 and other formats seemed like a simple task to me. But I did not imagine that you would also have to pay for conversion to a de facto standard. But videos shot with a smartphone or tablet can easily turn out to be an interesting video.

1.Windows DVD maker

Included with Windows 7, no additional cost. It understands a bunch of file formats, you can make both a disc from video files and a presentation from photos, you can create a DVD menu. But a huge minus is that the program immediately writes to disk. In my case, this turned out to be impossible, because... The drive in the laptop has long since outlived its usefulness. I just wanted to make a DVD project, and I wanted to burn DVDs on a desktop computer.

2. WinX DVD Author

WinX DVD Author is found by Google when searching for free DVD authoring software. And she even works for free. You can create a menu there. Only here is the program logo and a message that the DVD has been made free version, negate all the capabilities of the program.

3. DVD Styler

It turns out that there are still programmers who simply do good for other users. Alex Thuring has released a program called DVD Styler, with which you can create a DVD from a set of video files of different formats. The program contains several nice menu templates.

DVDStyler is free and simple program to create a custom DVD with video. Ideal for burning home video DVD - create a movie with a menu on laserdisc maybe even a layman. To burn a movie to DVD with DVDStyler you do not need any special knowledge, you do not need to be a programmer or video editing specialist. In a few minutes, thanks to the user-friendly interface of the application, you can create a movie in DVD format with interactive menu with buttons on beautiful background, add subtitles and sound, and burn the created film to a laser DVD disc. A disc recorded by DVDStyler will open on any DVD player. Also, using DVDStyler you can create a photo slide show.

How to record DVD video

After launching DVDStyler, a window will open asking you to create a new project or open an existing one. Here you can set the name of the disc, specify its size, select the audio and video bitrate, select the video format (PAL/NTSC), determine the aspect ratio (4:3 or 16:9) and set the audio format (MP2 or AC3). After this, all that remains is to select the background on which the menu will be located, arrange the navigation buttons, assign actions to the buttons when pressed, and select a video. The final stage of creating a video on DVD is compiling the project and burning the film onto disc.

Supported Formats

The program supports working with such common video formats as MPEG, AVI, MKV, MP4, MOV, OGG, WMV, FLV, and understands audio formats such as WAV, MP3, FLAC, DTS, AAC, MPEG, RL2, PCM. WITH full list supported formats can be found on the developer’s website. DVDStyler supports drag-and-drop functionality - video and audio can simply be dragged into the program from Windows Explorer.