How to create a custom DVD using ConvertXtoDVD

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VSO ConvertXtoDVD is considered to be one of the best dvd authoring software. It combines high speeds, high quality and many options for your personalized DVD menus. In this guide we are going to focus on the menu functions of the program.

**Note: This guide refers to ConvertXtoDVD v.2. If you are using the latest v.3 you'd better read my new ConvertXtoDVD guide . There a lot of new features!

Step 1 – Adding the video files

First of all we have to choose which video files we are going to add in order to create our DVD. ConvertXtoDVD will compress our video files in order to full up the DVD disc. The “Golden Section” between the number of episodes per DVD and their quality would be four episodes of fourty minutes in each disc. Of course this doesn’t mean that if adding more than four episodes the quality will be much lower. Our suggestion would be to add four episodes of forty minutes in each disc. Let's start by adding some episodes in our DVD. We can do this by clicking on the first button on the right as shown in the picture below.

After adding the episodes we will see that five new elements have appeared (our four episodes and the menu). We can get some info about each element by clicking on the corresponding dagger on the left of the list as shown on the picture below.

You can change the order of the episodes by clicking on the arrow buttons on the right. Additionally you are able to change the text of each episode by double clicking on the “Menu text” field.

Step 2 – Adding subtitles

In case that you have your video files and subtitles on the same folder with the same naming, then ConvertXtoDVD will add the subtitles automatically. Of course you should check if the subs have been added before burning your disc.

In case that you have them separated, you will have to add them manually. Right click on the sub menu “0 Subtitle Stream”, hit “Add Subtitle Channel” and choose the subtitle file from the window that pops up.

Step 3 – Editing the Menu

First of all click on the “Menu” on the tree view list and then click on the last button on the right as shown on the picture below. A new preview screen will appear on the right side of CovertXtoDVD.

Title: You can change the DVD title by clicking on the arrow on the left.

Background: You can change the background image of the DVD by clicking on the arrow on the left as you already did for the title. All the types of images are supported.

Auto start playback, Loop playback, Sequential playback: Disable all of them in order to create a handier DVD.

Title Font: You can change the font type and size of the title from here.

Items Font: You can change the font type and size of the items from here.

Step 4 – Settings Inspection

Before hitting the “Covert” button, we ought to check some important settings. Go to the “Settings” menu and choose “General”.

On the first tab we have to select the folder that the program will use to store the needed files. Do not forget to select a folder on a drive that has more than 6GB free space. For the advanced users this is the folder where all the .VOB and .IFO files will be placed.

Next, go to the “Manu” tab. The only option that is really important here is the “Max entries per page” option, which declares how many episode titles will be shown in each page of the menu. If you set it on four and you add six episodes, then there will be two pages with four and two episodes.

Some really important settings have to be done on the “Subtitles” tab. Hit the “Text subtitles rendering settings” button and a new window will come up. Make the changes that are shown on the following picture.

You can preview your settings by clicking on the “Preview” button on the bottom of the window.

Finally choose the “Burning” tab. The only thing that you have to set here is to select the appropriate DVD drive and set the burning speed to “Max”.

For advanced users: In case that you just want to create the required DVD files on your PC and save them for a later use, you will only have to uncheck the “Burn result to DVD” box and the “Delete folder after successful burn” box.

Step 5 – Burning the DVD

The only thing that is left, is to burn our disc by clicking on the convert button on the main program. Do not forget that on the trial version of the program, a small commercial will be added on the center of your video. You can free download ConvertXtoDVD or buy ConvertXtoDVD.

**Note: This guide refers to ConvertXtoDVD v.2. If you are using the latest v.3 you'd better read my new ConvertXtoDVD guide . There a lot of new features!