ConvertXtoDVD 4 is out! I believe you all know ConvertXtoDVD. Just in case, ConvertXtoDVD is a top video conversion software that makes it easy for you to convert any video file and author your own DVD, create personalized menus with many templates, add subtitles, add effects to your videos and burn them directly to DVDs. ConvertXtoDVD version 4 has many improvements, although its interface has remained the same. Conversion quality has become better thanks to the new 2 pass encoding feature. Moreover new resizing filters were developed by VSO so that you can upscale/downscale your videos with the best result. Furthermore since conversion speed is as important as conversion quality ConvertXtoDVD has now multicore support. Of course the new Windows 7 are supported.Video formats supported: avi, divx, xvid, mov, mkv, flv , mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg-, nsv, dvr-ms, ts, ifo, vob, asf, wmv, realmedia, rm, rmvb, ogm, existing files from digital camcorders, TV/Sat, capture cards, etc. No external codecs needed like avi codec download.
You can free download ConvertXtoDVD or buy ConvertXtoDVD. Just install it and run it so that we can move on with the rest of the guide!
Add your video files
First add the video files you want to convert to DVD so that you can watch them on any standalone DVD player. Simply click on the green cross to add your videos.

ConvertXtoDVD will automatically create a DVD menu and each video file will become a separate titleset. Since a DVD disk has certain space the more files you add the worst the quality of the final DVD will be since ConvertXtoDVD will encode them to fit in a single disk. Therefore you can have a look at the "Conversion advisor" to see what the quality will be. For about 2h of video quality will be excellent. For less than 4h you will have pretty good quality and you can watch the movie without any problems. If you are converting TV series episodes of 40 minutes each, 4 episodes are enough for a 4.7GB DVD.
If you expand the "DVD Options" you can customize the DVD Template, play videos one after another, rename your DVD and choose the text style you like. A few more options were added here from the previous.
ConvertXtoDVD comes with some very good templates which you can see by double clicking on the Template option. Unfortunately the templates are the same with the previous version.
In the next screenshot you can see the font adjustments available which appear if you double click on the "All Menu Pages text style editor". You can also access the same settings from Settings -> Subtitiles -> Subtitle text rendering settings.
Titleset Options
You can also add subtitles to each titleset. If you had the subtitles in the same folder with each video file and they also have the same name they will be automatically inserted, you should see something like (1 stream) (1). If you don't right click on the "Subtitle (0 stream)" and browse to where you keep them.
The video preview window which is available by clicking on the preview button (1) allows you to see how your final DVD menu will look like.

At this point you can also choose to create an animated DVD menu with background music! You can choose a custom video/image or a clip taken from the converted video. In the same way you can add your own mp3 audio file playing in the background. You can select background audio and video for Root menu, Chapter menu and Audio/Subtitle settings.
Regarding the video settings of the output DVD you can change its resolution, fps, aspect ratio (16:9 for wide screens and 4:3 for full screen), and the video resize method.
General Settings
Let's take a lookt at the settings. You can access more settings by clicking on Settings -> General.
Here in the "General" tab you can change the location where all DVD files will be placed (1). Be sure that you have many GBs of free space.
In the "Chapters" tab you can create Chapters in each Titleset for easier browsing them. Default value is 5 minutes for titlesets longer than 15 minutes.

Next in "DVD specification" you can select between PAL (for Europe) and NTSC (for US and Asia), as well as adjust the video resolution just in case you want to do this. Default values are ok however.
In the "Encoding" tab you can adjust Encoding Quality/Speed. Better quality means worst encoding speed. You choose. You can also select the size of the DVD disk you are going to use, such as DVD-5 or DVD-9. Here you are advised to select Two pass encoding since the final DVD quality will be much better although it will take longer to complete.
In the "Video processing" tab make sure you set the maximum numbers of cores your processor has e.g. 2 for Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 for Intel Quad Core. This will enhance the conversion speed.
Convert your DVD!
When you are ready just click on the Convert button and wait whiel ConvertXtoDVD encodes your new DVD!
When the conversion is over you will be prompted to insert a blank DVD disk in your DVD burner and the burn process will start.
In the links below you can find three bonus menu templates for using with ConvertXtoDVD!
**Note: The downloads are in DVD format and therefore in better quality than the preview provided here:
- aura lights (preview)
- autumn breeze (preview)
- blue water (preview)
- crackling fire (preview)
- cylindrical_dream (preview)
- falling hearts (preview)
- featurepresentation (preview)
- featurepresentation2 (preview)
- fireworks (preview)
- impluse vortex (preview)
- money (preview)
- pumpkin (preview)
- purple haze (preview)
- rain drops (preview)
- snowflakes (preview)
- starfield (preview)
- time tunnel (preview)
- time tunnel2 (preview)
Congratulations you have just authored your own DVD. Now you can watch it on any standalone DVD player. If you liked ConvertXtoDVD you can free download ConvertXtoDVD or buy ConvertXtoDVD!
Comments (68)
Subscribe to this comment's feedCan i make a seperate section on my DVD menu to play PM3 files?
i have a question though
i made a Cusum DvD fore my movie(thanks to your guide
) but i also have the soundtracks of my movie in MP3 format so i would like to make a seperate section in my DVD menu to play those files kindof like a Extras section i gues
is there a way to do this?
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It would be a nice feature to be able to burn mp3 files on the DVD as well, but I don't think that ConvertXtoDVD supports this.
convert x to dvd on ubuntu????
i really liked using it in the windows vista environment and have just recently switched over to the linux platforms.
any help would be great.
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Alternatively take a look at those guides. You might like one of those two programs for authoring DVDs in Linux.
How to author a DVD using 2ManDVD in Linux
How to create a custom DVD using DeVeDe
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with convertx to dvd a file converted from avi to dvd format still stays around the same size.
is there a reason for this??? just curious
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Audio out of sync when converting mkv files on older versions
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I haven't tried converting an mkv file with ConvertXtoDVD v.4. I took a look at the ConvertXtoDVD changelog and it mentions
ConvertXtoDVD - 3.6.6.162
- 0002648: [Bug] Some MKV files with h264 and aac streams, are out of sync after conversion. (wesson) - resolved.
Your ConvertXtoDVD version is newer than that. What kind of mkv file (video and audio codecs) are you trying to convert and you experience out of sync problems? I can give it a try with a similar file in v.4. Of course you can download a trial version and check it on your own. What ever you prefer.
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How's it going? The video and audio codecs associated with the mkv files I have tried to convert are ... video x264 - audio DTS and video x264 and audio ac3. I have converted many mkv files with ConvertXtoDVD and have had to offset the audio by 200ms on all of them. Not much of a hassle at all. After much reasearch and a ton of googling I found that most people converting mkv files with ConvertXtoDVD had to offset the audio by 200ms to get it synced up. I have tried many other programs out there and they ALL end up with the audio out of sync as well. I am definitely going to try version 4 and will post back the results. Thanks again for all your hard work!
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Tried version 4 and it does the same thing. Acutally, I offset the audio by 195ms and that syncs it up perfectly! Thanks!
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well it seems that those 195ms sync in matroska files is something you will have to live with.
Anyway, since the audio syncs perfectly everything is ok.
convertxtodvd
Dvds are alive and many people still use them...
Using your programme my questions are:
1) I always ask for a final DVD size of 4300gb, (input = "mkv" files) but i never have it !!!
2) And I don't see any option to put the video-bitrate i want ,manually.
Is this possible?
Will this be possible in the future?
Thank you.
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I am not the developer of ConvertxToDVD. I've just written a few guides about it since I consider it a very good DVD authoring software. You could find more info at the official VSO site.
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What happened?
What happened..I was using the newest version of Convert x to DVD. I've used other versions and had no problems.
RASAP
Babyjane
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I have a problem getting a 4 gig disc to fill up
Could you please tell the proper settings
Thanks in advance
Bot
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Subtitle settings
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Subtitles
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Subtitles
"Custom"
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my file are less than 4GB and don't fit to the disc.
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It seems to me that your DVD didn't burn correctly. Have you tried burning it again?
Also it's good to have the latest version since many bugs are corrected.
VSC Convertoxdvd Software Question
issues
Is there a way to create multiple lines in menu? And burning DL disks
I wanted to create a two line menu title (centered) like:
Spring 2010
A-team Hockey Highlights
And could not figure out how to do that other than pad the title with spaces so that it word wraps. But then it would not show properly in the preview.
Any suggestions?
Is there something special that needs to be done to create DL disks? I have tried this and other programs and seems that they work on the computer but will not in the DVD player. I also used imgBurn to burn the DVD. It said that the layer break was good, but somehow DVDs won't play in player. Any ideas? Are +R discs not compatible to some DVD players?
Peace and Blessings
Background
Split burn
Thanks for your help.
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audio skips
Background image
Thanks, one question only??
My question is how I can know if my videos or not exceed the capacity of DVD? The program can tell me somwhere? I await your prompt response. Thanks from mexico
easy to use
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thanks
burn already converted dvd
please help. i have already burned a copy of a film, and when i want to make another copy, i have to download it all again on there! surely there is a way to convert an already burnt copy without having to convert it again.
thank you
How badly was set to play automatically.
re: burn already converted dvd
Sometimes I want to test the movie before burning it and I do that by not burning it onto a disc. I make the changes through Settings/Burning-- Burn result as an ISO file to working folder and the drop down window to ISO image to working file. Then once my conversion is completed, I go to Action/Burn an already converted project. This way I have an ISO file that I can burn onto several discs.
Hope this helps you out
Start and end with Root Menu
I have convertXtoDVD4 and use only the Black Mirror template. I insert only 1 titleset and subtitle into my project. When I insert my dvd into the player, I only want to see the Root Menu and when the movie ends, I want to return to the Root Menu. I do not want to see the title menu at all.
I can't seem to start and end with the Root menu. With playing around with different options, I seem to be able to either start or end with it.. not both.
Can you (or someone else) help? Many thanks
re: burn already converted dvd
Been trying to insert a picture at title menu ?????
Warren
Inquiry about subs and such...
If the subs are .srt or .vob files... There are no problems after convertion...
Have no qualms about the quality of the resulting video and audio as end results for these are one of the best for my DVD player...
Already updated to latest version and still having same subtitle issues with MKV videos that has softsubs...
Also... Why does ConvertXtoDVD adapt the chapters already included in MP4 and MKV files...? Its really a hassle to enter the chapter intervals one by one...
Hope some tweaks are available for such issues... Since I've been waiting so long for an update to address such issues...
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Won't even pretend that its trying to convert...
Woe is me...
DVD capacity
Please help. Thank you
Output Screen size
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SLOOOOOOOW
Thanks
iso file
Thanks again for this guide
Menu's
I've just burnt 3 episode onto a dvd with a menu to select them. It works great when played on my laptop through the Windows Media Centre, but won't play on my dvd through the TV. There's a lot of whirring before being told there is no disc.
All other films I've burnt (without a menu) play on the dvd player without any problems. Any ideas why I'm having this difficulty.
Best Regards
Jaydee.
About convertion...
Have read about the 10-bit issue of ConvertXtoDVD... So one need to convert the mkv to a supported format first before having ConvertXtoDVD turn the file and its companion to a DVD video disc...
Well... Do you have a good converter to recommend for such a task that converts superbly, even to avi or mp4 with a decent picture quality ...no matter how new the 10-bit file is...
Still uses XP Service Pack 2 for an OS... Because windows 7 gets so much errors with third party convertion softwares...
Any help is greatly appreciated...
menu duration
only half of DVD space used
Ms
Oratai
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