Burn Flip Video to DVD

 

July 6, 2011 1:26 pm / Posted by Bill Smith to Camcorder Tips
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How to create flip video dvd movies with iDVD on Mac?

FAQ: How to burn flip video to dvd on Mac?
Have a flip video ultra(HD), mino(HD) or slideHD camcorder and hope to burn captured video to dvd so that can watch it on dvd player? Hope a fastest and easiest program to help you? Do not like use any conversion to DVD software and think most conversion packages either unreliable or unsuitable for novices? Never worried about these again, this article will recommend you some great free dvd burner(iDVD etc) to burn flip video to dvd and a easy-to use video to dvd converter to convert other formats to iDVD for burning home dvds.

Part one: Burn flip video to dvds using iDVD on Mac

iDVD is a DVD creation software of Apple, originally only available for Macs, included at all new Macs without additional charge, comparable to its Microsoft Windows alternative Windows DVD Maker. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movie, mov, dv, avi, mp4 etc video, mp3, wav, aiff etc audio and digital photos to a DVD for playing on DVD player.

Generally speaking, flip video record as hd mp4 formats can be accepted by iDVD directly. So you can import flip video to iDVD directly.

Step by step burn flip video to dvd on Mac:

1: Open and run iDVD software on your Mac

2: Click "Create a New Project", then, name your project and choose right aspect ratio(4:3 or 16:9)

3: Choose a DVD menu theme, Drag pictures and music into these blank boxes,
click Burn icon and iDVD will start burning your flip video DVDs.

Additional:1:make a one-step dvd: connect your digtal video camera to your PC using FireWire cable, then turn on your camera and make sure it is in VCR mode, click "Onestep DVD" it will complete automatically.

4: Making a magic dvd

Part two: Burn other video to dvd with iDVD on Mac

Idvd is great, but If the video is not the right formats for iDVD, say flv, what can we do then? In fact, we also can use iDVD just if you decode your video and encode to iDVD formats. Now we try a good helper-iorgsoft flip video to dvd converter for mac.

Flip video to dvd software Mac can convert flip video from flip ultra(HD), mino(HD), slide(HD) to almost all the common formats, say mov, mpg, mpeg, avi,wmv, 3gp, 3g2, flv, rm, m4v, swf etc, also can convert other video to idvd formats for burning dvds on Mac, say canon, sony, panasonic, jvc, kodak video to mov, dv, avi, mp4, flv to mov, dv, avi, mp4; etc.

Surely flip video to dvd converter can import any video to video player, editor, like, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Zune, mobile phone, Creative Zen Vision, iriver, Gphone, BlackBerry, Palm, FCE, FCP, Adobe Premiere Pro etc, and import any device video to iDVD without downloading any more codecs on Mac.

Additional, flip video to dvd software for Mac can extract audio from video and save as aac, ac3, amr, m4a, mka, mp3, wav, ra, wav, wma etc and edit video through trim, split, crop, setting, apply effect, merge, rotate, snapshot etc on Mac.

Three steps convert video to mov, dv, avi, or mp4: add files->set output->click start, then burn your video freely with iDVD.

FAQ about iDVD:
1: Can I play the idvd files on DVD player that's connected to my TV?
DVD discs created with iDVD are compatible with most standard set-top and computer-based DVD players.

2: Any movies and pictures can be burned with iDVD?
No, iDVD accepts movies in QuickTime format, pictures can be any QuickTime-compatible format, such as PICT, TIFF, or JPEG. Starting with iLife'04, you can send your photos from iPhoto or your project from iMovie directly to iDVD.

3:Does iDVD require special discs?
iDVD uses standard blank DVD-R discs, called DVD-R General. With some Superdrives, you can use DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, and DVD+R DL discs also.

4:How long can a single DVD disc hold?
A DVD-R disc can hold about 4.7 GB that allows up to 120 minutes.

5: Can i preview the video when burning?
iDVD has a preview function. You can also save your project as a Disc Image, which allows you to view it on your computer using Apple DVD Player before you burn a disc.