AVI may be the most common format we use for videos. A large number of movies are in this format. However, it cannot be directly played on a DVD player. Therefore, it is usual for us to convert AVI to DVD in order to better enjoy the videos on DVD player.
For Windows platform, AVI videos could be easily convert and burn to DVD with most DVD burning software. Wondershare DVD Creator is one of the best video to DVD converter, which combines ease of use and high quality. If you want to burn AVI to DVD on Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included), you usually need to convert AVI to MOV (the most popular video format on Mac) first and burn DVD with another application. Alternatively, why not use AVI DVD burner that directly converts and burns AVI videos to DVD on Mac in the same application.
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Key Features of Wondershare DVD Creator
- 1-click to convert AVI (also DivX, MPEG) videos and burn to DVD on Mac and Windows
- Author a customized DVD menu from ready-made DVD menu templates
- Enhance AVI videos with special effects
- Add additional photo slideshows to save treasured memories
- Create DVD-Videos Disc, DVD folders or ISO image in high quality
Below are the example steps to convert AVI to DVD in Windows. When burn AVI files to DVD on Mac, the steps are similar (add, edit, burn). You can see here about how to make a DVD from AVI files on Mac with step by step instructions.
Easy Steps to Burn AVI files to DVD in Windows
Step 1. Load AVI to DVD project
After install AVI DVD burner, open it and in the welcome interface click 'Import' to import AVI videos to the source pane for your DVD authoring. Video editing tools like crop, trim, rotate, watermark, effects are included. See AVI video editing below.
Step 2. Author DVD menu
Go to 'Menu' tab to customize a menu for AVI DVD disc. There are different styles of built-in menu templates, frames and play buttons for your choice. After selecting a menu template, you can add text, background music and background image to author a customized DVD menu, on which all titlesets will appear as a thumbnail.
Step 3. Preview and burn AVI to DVD
Now go to preview your AVI DVD show to check if everything goes right before burning to DVD. When go to "Burn" tab, the most important thing is to make sure TV standard is right: "NTSC" is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan, while "PAL" is 25fps, used in Europe and Asia. AVI DVD disc in wrong TV standard may not be played correctly on your TV.
Lastly, click "Burn" button to convert AVI video to DVD directly. The conversion time generally depends on the video size, video quality and burning speed. Usually the large size or higher quality, the more time will be needed to convert AVI to DVD. When complete, you can watch DVD using any home DVD player with a TV set.
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AVI Video Editing before Burning AVI to DVD
Video editing is very important to DVD burning software. People will feel the serious convenient if they find out it’s possible to make minor changes to a video in the same software, rather than openning a video editing software, make changes and import video again to DVD burning software. This will also save you lots of time.
AVI Video Editing on Mac
The Mac version of AVI DVD converter is called Wondershare DVD Creator for Mac. To convert AVI video to DVD on Mac, the steps are similar to Windows version of AVI burner. Now see how to edit AVI videos in AVI burner. After added AVI video files, highlight a video and click "Edit" button to bring up editing dialog, where you can crop, rotate, split a video to trim unwanted sections, add watermark, set special effects, etc.
AVI Video Editing on Windows
Like AVI burner for Mac, you could also make basic video editing in Windows version, including cropping, trimming, rotating, adding watermark, adding effects and so on.
Tips to Convert AVI to DVD
1. What’s AVI? AVI, short for Audio Video Interleave, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. The AVI file format is a container format which can contain various audio and video codecs. AVI format is widely used to share high quality movies online to be downloaded by others. However, DVD is only a standard video format with at most 720x576 pixels. Therefore, while burning HD AVI to DVD, the quality will reduce, and unless you burn AVI to Blu-ray Disc (high definition format) with supported burner, the video quality loss is unavoidable.
2. Why not author AVI DVD with iDVD on Mac? iDVD is the default DVD burning app on Mac which totally supports MOV, MP4, M4V, DV, MPG, 3GP, but not AVI. As described above, if your AVI files contain special codecs and are not recognized by iDVD, you can’t burn AVI videos to DVD with iDVD. Then 3 options available: installing the right codec, converting AVI to MOV, otherwise, directly burning AVI files to DVD on Mac with another AVI burner supporting AVI format.
3. How to play AVI files? Because AVI is developed by Microsoft, the latest Windows Media Player is recommended. Another choice is the powerful VLC player, which supports both Windows and Mac. To play/burn AVI, one thing needs to be remembered: the codec. If you can’t find the right codec, try out a universal codec pack: K-Lite Codec Pack (Windows only). As far as I know, if you can’t play AVI on Mac, the best solution is to convert AVI to MOV.
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