Intervideo WinDVD Creator is an application that makes it very easy to create custom DVD movies. WinDVD Creator will create DVDs from a wide range of video formats including: .avi, .mov, .mpg, and files created using Windows Media Center Edition. WinDVD Creator ships with some Toshiba notebook computer models. Intervideo also publishes a product called WinDVD, which is strictly for playback, not creation, of DVD titles.

Here is a screen shot of the top level of WinDVD Creator's user interface:

 Follow these steps to create a DVD with WinDVD Creator:

1. Insert a blank DVD disc into the DVD drive.

2. Click Start, then Programs, then InterVideo WinDVD Creator 2, then InterVideo WinDVD Creator.

3. On the screen pictured above, click the Import button.

4. WinDVD Creator will allow you to browse to the folder where your video clip files are stored. The default folder is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Recorded folder -- where Media Center places recorded TV programs.

5. Choose a video clip file to import, then click Open.

6. The file will appear in the Editing Pane shown in the screen shot above.

7. Repeat this procedure until you have imported all of the video clip files you wish to add to your DVD, bearing in mind that a DVD has room for approximately 2 hours of material.

8. Drag and drop the video clip files to the Story Board area (bottom of the screen) in the order in which you wish to have them recorded.

9. When you have the video clips satisfactorily arranged, click the Make Movie button.

This screen offers adjustments to four important settings :

    DVD Format: 1 hour or 2 hours

    TV System :

         NTSC (used in North America)

         PAL (used in European and Asian countries)

    Volume Name of Disc : a name for the DVD about to be created

    Movie Size: For each hour of video, approximately 2400MB of disk space is required.

10. Once adjustments are complete, click the right arrow at the lower right to continue.

The following screen will appear:

11. Select one of the following two options:

     Burn to Disc -- meaning write the complete 'image' of your video to the DVD disc now, without saving a copy of it to the computer's hard disk drive.

    Write content to hard disk for later burning  -- meaning save the complete 'image' of your video to the hard disk drive, for later 'burning' to a DVD disc.

    (The third option is not available in this version of WinDVD Creator.)

12. Click the right arrow at the lower right to continue.

The two options on this screen are fixed to the settings shown above.

13.  Click the Start button to begin the 'burning' process (writing the content to the blank DVD disc).

It will take approximately 1-1/2 times as long to write the DVD content as it does to view it -- a two-hour-long movie will take about three hours to write to the DVD disc. Audio will not be played during the writing process. The DVD disc will be automatically ejected when the writing is complete.

The finished DVD disc should be playable in most consumer DVD players and in most computers that have a DVD drive.

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