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How to create a custom DVD

Creating/authoring your own DVD is fun and easy. With the help of Super DVD Creator you can create a DVD movie from your collection of movies saved in your hard drive, video clippings, flash videos, movies created through Windows movie maker and recorded videos from your camcorder, phone or other video recording devices. You can also customize the menu background or even add background music and play them on your home DVD player.

Burning Requirements:

  1. DVD Burner/Writer
  2. Super DVD Creator 9.8 Software – [Buy Now] [Download Free Trial] [Read Review]
  3. Blank DVD – choosing the right media is one of the factors that contribute to a successful DVD burning.
  4. At least 10GB of free hard disk space – Temporary file storage during conversion/burning process

For system requirements and installation guide click Super DVD Creator Installation Guide.


Getting Started

Step 1: Load a blank DVD media into your DVD burner.

Step 2: Open Super DVD Creator 9.8 program.

Step 3: If you want to burn .VOB files click here otherwise click on DVD Disc Builder icon.

Step 4: Add the files that you want to burn by clicking on the “+” button. You can add as many video clips as you want as long as it will not exceed the maximum capacity of your blank disc. If you wish to use a double layer disc (DVD-9) click on the “DVD-5” button to toggle between DVD-5 and DVD-9 media.

Step 5: After adding the files click on the next button to continue to the next step which is customizing the DVD menu. If you do not wish to create a DVD menu uncheck the “Create DVD Menu” option to proceed directly to the burning process.

Step 6: Customizing title menu.

6.1 Changing the background – you can change the background of your menu by clicking on any of the images displayed in the right side or you can browse your own photos saved in your hard drive by clicking  button.
6.2 Adding Title Text - click on  button to add a title text to the title menu then double click on the text added to edit. To delete the text just simply right click on the text and click on Delete Text.
6.3 Adding background music - click on button to add background music to your title menu. To delete the background music added click on  button.


Step 7: Creating chapter menu.

7.1 To create chapter menu, put a check mark on the “Create DVD Chapter Menu” checkbox and a new Chapter Menu tab will appear beside Title Menu tab.

7.2 To customize the chapter menu, select what movie or video you want to change/edit its chapters by clicking on the thumbnails in the Title Menu and then click on the Chapter Menu tab. Just follow the steps in Step 6 if you wish to change the background, add title text or add background music.

7.3 If you wish to change the number of chapters click on button to open chapter property window. To delete a chapter highlight the time in the Current Chapter List window and click on delete button. To add a chapter just input your desired time in the Hour, Min and Sec fields then click on the "+" button. To edit the chapter time just highlight the time you wish to edit in the Current Chapter List window then type in the new time in the time fields and click the tool button to accept the changes. When you're done setting your desired chapters just click on the check button to apply the changes.

Step 8: Burning process. After configuring all the desired settings click on the “Next” button at the bottom right of the program to proceed with the burning process.

Check all the settings if they are all correct and click on the “Start” button to start the burning process. Make sure there’s enough disk space (at least 10GB) you set for the Output Folder. If you want to change the Output Folder setting, click on button and browse for another folder. Super DVD Creator needs to save file to this folder during the conversion process. Once the burning process is done DVD will automatically be ejected. Removed the DVD and close the DVD Disc Compiler window.

If for some reasons burning will fail try to do the following:

  • close all programs and restart your PC
  • replace the blank DVD
  • repeat the whole process
  • in the final step try to lower the write speed setting

Step 9: When burning is completed close the program and test the DVD if you were able to burn successfully. If you wish to burn another video file repeat all the steps from 1-9.

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