07/19/2007 DVD Video

Sothink DVD EZWorkshop is an easy-to-use yet powerful DVD authoring tool. It integrates multiple utilities into one set, including DVD copying, video converting, CD/DVD burning and a software player.

Here I'd like to show you how to make a DVD movie from video files with Sothink DVD EZWorkshop. As AVI is increasingly getting popular on the internet, I will choose this format of video in this example.

First, download the latest version of Sothink DVD EZWorkshop and install it. Because currently the software only support running on Windows, your computer's OS should be Windows 98/Me/2000/XP. And DirectX 8.0 or above should have been installed on your PC. For encoding to DVD, 128Mb of RAM and 5 GB of free space (or above) are recommended.

 

Launch the program, and select "Movies to DVD". Using this function, you can convert and burn ASF/ WMV/ RM/ MPEG/ DAT/ MOV/ Xvid/ Divx/ AVI to DVD simply with just a few clicks.

 

Then add the AVI videos. To check if they are the correct files you want to burn, you can click "Play" to activate Sothink Player which is integrated in the EZWorkshop. The converted files will display according to the downward order shown in the "DVD structure". Use "Move Up" and "Move Down" to change the order. Select one file in the DVD structure list, you can see its video and audio streams in the window below. Users are allowed to remove the audio stream, but normally we just don't need to make any change of the streams.

 

The next step, specify a folder to store the converted files which is regarded as temporary files. After you finish burning the DVD, you can delete the temporary files to free disk space. You can also leave them in the disk. Because they are ready-to-burn, you can use these files to burn more copies by Sothink Burner (integrated in the EZWorkshop as well) without converting again.

 

And then set the conversion Bitrate for the video and audio streams. The higher the bitrate is, the better the quality of the created DVD movie will be. However you have to pay attention to the "Estimated Size" bar. If the bitrate is too large the size might exceed the capacity of your target DVD disk. Thus you need to reduce the bitrate to continue.

 

Now the converting process can be started. During the process, you can get detailed processing messages in the message window.
And there are several after-convert operations you can choose:
If "Start burning after conversion is finished" is checked, then the program will automatically go to the burning step after converting; unchecked, then you should go to the next step manually.

Select "Add more files to disk", then you can continue to add some files to burn before burning is started. These files can be videos, softwares (for example, a DVD player software) or data files. The created DVD can still be playable on a standalone home DVD player. But the non-video files on it can only be seen on PC.

Select "Specify the burning device and set the preference" to choose the burning device you want to use, check the properties of the burner and target DVD disk (if the disk is not empty you'll need to erase it or change for an empty one), and specify the burning speed. If you have only one burning device and get an empty DVD disk loaded in the device already, you can leave this option uncheck, and skip to the burning process directly.

 

After converting is completed, burning can be started.The available after-burn operations are: "Eject the disk" "I want more copies of this disk" "Shut down the computer after burning is finished".

"Eject the disk" is recommended. For some CD/DVD device can not read the disk just been burned, you should eject the disk and then insert it to let the device to recognize it.

If you want more copies of the same movie DVD, check the second box so that you don’t need to convert the movie again. The software will just use the converted files to burn more copies.

The third choice is useful when you don’t want to wait until the burning is over to manually shut down the computer.

 

It won't take you more than 40 minutes to convert a 700 MB AVI video to DVD movie using Sothink DVD EZWorkshop (And it cost less than 1 hour to convert two 700 MB AVI videos). And the burning process lasts around 60 minutes (This depends on the burning speed and the property of the target disk).

Want to backup your video collection to DVD? Author DVD movies all by yourself? Don't want to waste time on studying complicated DVD conversion tool?

Download Sothink DVD EZWorkshop now and experience how easy to use it can be.