Burn any PC Video Format into DVD for Free
DVD Flick does its job admirably well
for an open source program. If you're serious about producing DVDs from
PC Video files, then this is the program for you.
You don't have to click on new project to get started
with DVD Flick.
Let's start the tutorial by adding your clips (Add Title)first to DVD Flick and choose Save Project. It's advisable you do this as soon as possible after loading your clips to avoid redoing the task in case your computer
DVD Flick supports the formats below.
If you have a file whose format is unlisted, then you can try loading it under All files *.*.
Edit File
After you have loaded the file you can choose the edit title mode where you can set chapters for your title and even tweak the output aspect ratio.
DVD Capacitor Indicator
On loading the files, DVD Flick will
reveal info related to it. You should note the length of the clip to see
it doesn't exceed the DVD capacity.
DVD Flick provides a vertical indicator bar to your left to see how much disk space will be taken up.
The yellow bar shows that you have sufficient space in your DVD to accommodate your chosen files. If the bar turns red, then you should remove some files to free some space.
Project Settings
Before you start burning your DVD, you
could tweak the project settings so that you could obtain the desired
result.
General
You can set the target size to DVD or DVD Dual Layer and DVD RAM among others. If you want a high quality output albeit longer rendering time, then you could choose High under Encoder priority.
Video Settings
Target format could be chosen as PAL, NTSC or NTSC-film. Encoding could be Normal, Fast, Fastest or Best. Target bit rate should in most cases be left at Auto-fit. Let DVD Flick set the bitrate according to the size of your DVD disc.
Audio Settings
You may want to up or lower the volume of the original or leave it as it is at 100%. If you have a home theater system then you could opt for 5.1 surround.
Playback Settings
If you have many titles added, then you
would want to choose play the next file. However, if you have only one
title, you can chose the Play it again option or Stop playing.
You can also choose Loop to first title when the player has finished
with the last title.
Burning Settings
The settings are pretty straightforward. But you may want DVD Flick to back up your project to disc for future use , in which case you tick near the blue icon. Otherwise you leave the setting as it is.
When you're done with your settings, click Accept and you can even use the settings as default if you don't want to make any changes for your next DVD Flick project.
Create DVD
You need to have enough space in your hard disk to store the encoded DVD file. Otherwise, you would have to remove some titles so that there would be enough space to proceed.
DVD Burned
I tried a ten-minute 24 MB FLV file and it took 14 minutes to encode and burn it to DVD. The resultant file had a size of 621MB. The quality of the movie, taking into account being encoded from the FLV format was to my satisfaction. Anyway, the quality of the output will depend on the quality of your source video.
