One of the most popular video formats of downloaded movies is AVI. Some digital camcorders also record videos in AVI format. Therefore, for those DVD movie lovers, it's important for them to know how to convert and burn AVI video to DVD for playback on DVD players.

Below is a simple step-by-step guide of converting AVI video to DVD, read it, I'm sure you'll get it.

 

Step 1: Download Aimersoft DVD Creator and install it

Meanwhile, you can insert DVD -R (DVD+R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW) into DVD optical drive(DVD burner). The DVD burner should have writing and recording functions.

Step 2: Add AVI video files

Click "Load Video" or select "Load Video" under the "File" drop-down menu to load AVI videos or movies from your hard drive. Multiple video files could be added at a time. After the AVI video files have been added, they will appear in the main interface. Display the loaded video files by double click to choose the video file which you want to convert.

Step 3: Burn AVI video to DVD directly

If you don't want to add any special effect, of course you can convert AVI video to DVD directly. Drag and drop AVI video files from the main interface to the storyboard below. If you want to convert just one AVI video file to DVD, select it in the storyboard, and click "Burn" to burn it to DVD directly; If you want to convert all AVI videos in the storyboard to DVD, simply click "Burn". The menu and transitions will be set by default.

Jump to step 8: Start burning DVD

Step 4: Customize AVI video slideshow

Order: You can sort the order of the AVI videos or movies in the storyboard by dragging and dropping.

Add a Slide: Right click mouse in left of the storyboard and select "Add Slideshow" to add a slide, then you can load and add AVI video files to this slide.

Edit: Select a video file in the storyboard, click "edit selected video file" tab, you may see a window with a box below for settings. There are five tabs here for you to crop the size, to trim the length, to adjust the video effect, to design your watermark and to plug-in subtitle.

Transition: Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the transition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two video files in the slideshow storyboard.

Menu: Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.

Step 6: Preview video slideshow

Click "Preview" to preview your slideshow. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.

Step 7: Start burning DVD

Burn AVI to 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.

Burn AVI to ISO or DVD folder: Click "Burn" tab, 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, which is used in Europe and Asia.

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".

For converting QuickTime movies to DVD, please refer to this guide-how to convert QuickTime to DVD?

 

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