Avi to DVDR

Twist86

Twist86

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My grandma has asked me to turn some Video Recordings of my cousin playing Basketball so she can send them out to the family. She wants it to work in a typical DVD player. So basically I would make a AVI file to a DVDR file.

Anyone have any good programs or advice? Thanks.
 
Are you talking about a proper dvd with menus (which is a fixed mpg format) or simply recording the avis in a format that will play on standalone players? The former is more universal since not all dvd players can handle the newer formats.

There are a few freebies around. You could check out the full list at VideoHelp. That covers the entire spectrum. Beware that you want something that is a "dvd author", not something that can simply record videos on to dvd-r.

I vaguely recollect looking at some free ones but found they are limited. The payware ones are not all expensive. I use TMPGEnc DVD Author but cheaper ones are more than adequate for Grandma!
 
voyagerfan99 said:
A good one to use is DVD Flick. It has a simple menu and works pretty good
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That looks quite good for free. From what I've seen, the main difference between the free and pay software is that you get a lot more menu presets and flexibility with the pay software. Mind you, DVD Flick has the "entertain me" Tetris during the burn!
 
Well doesn't need to be fancy. I tried a program called AVStoDVD and it worked fairly well. Will try DVD Flick and see which one is better. I usually burn with Nero as I find any other burning software gives me problems. Long as DVD Flick can save to ISO we should be in business.

Thanks for the assistance :)


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I am curious can you add your own background with Flick? I can't seem to figure that one out which is strange. So far it seems superior in every other regards except I can't seem to find a function to splice in 2 clips. It will auto play the next title clip but it wont actually merge them like AVS could.

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Nevermind I found the forum templates and how to make my own for the menu. I also will use a joiner software to bypass that little limitation :P
 
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I assume your Nero does not have the Nero dvd authoring? The earlier versions of Nero Ultra included DVD authoring. I'm fairly sure that's at least Nero 5-9.
 
No I have a lite version. It was cheapest at the time and I didn't need all the other stuff. It works well enough but perhaps I will demo it and test it out.
 
Well appreciate the help guys. I stole my buddies copy of Nero 10 and I dislike the Vision setup...there is very little customization (for the normal user) and DVD Flick kept giving me errors after converting a DVD. Gonna stick with AVS....while not as pretty I can choose custom backgrounds and not have any errors (least not yet)
 
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