1. After loading your first video file into ConvertXtoDVD, right click on the titleset and select "merge more files to this titleset".

2. In the Titleset content editor that will appear, you will see the first video file in the queue list as #1. Now click on the merge button in the very right column to select a video file to be added/joined or drag and drop the video file to the corresponding place.

The added video file will now appear in the queue list as #2, right next to the first file #1, in the chronological order in which they will play. If you have additional audio tracks and/or subtitle files you can add them below the corresponding video file in this window.

Click OK (right bottom) once you're done, this window closes, and the added file(s) will appear under Source file(s) info in your project.

Note: Every merged file adds automatically an start chapter point in the titleset(all merged files make a chapter at merge point) and the maximum number of files that can be merged is 99. 

A: After you have added your video files, click the plus sign beside "DVD Options" to reveal all the options. Top option should be "Template Now Used". Double click "Template Now Used" option, a select box will appear. Click the box and select the "No menu" option in the drop down list of menu choices.

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You can free download ConvertXtoDVD here or buy it now(15% Off). If this is your first time  to use ConvertXtoDVD you might want to check a complete guide on how to use ConvertXtoDVD to create your own DVD movie.

There are two ways to add chapters to your DVD in ConvertXtoDVD.

1. Automatically add equal length chapters

After loading your video files into ConvertXtoDVD, click "Settings" and select "Chapters" in the drop-down menu.

In the Chapters window, you will notice the two options: "Create Chapter every" and "For titleset longer than". Default value is 5 minutes for titlesets longer than 15 minutes.

"Create Chapter every" allow you to automatically insert a chapter every X minutes or seconds.  M = minutes, S = seconds. If unchecked, no chapters will be added automatically. Always a chapter point will be created at start of a Title. You can not delete this first one!

"For titleset longer than" will insert a chapter at the value indicated above only if the video is longer than the specified duration (default set value is 15 minutes). Always a chapter point will be created at start of a Title. You can not delete this first one! For example this means that no additional chapters will be added if you would add a video that is only 10 minutes long, e.g. suitable for music video clips.

Here you can change the value to what you want and click OK. Then there will be a pop up window saying "Do you want to apply the new setting to the current project? This may override manually modified values", click Yes, then ConvertXtoDVD will automatically insert a chapter point every X minutes or seconds as you have set. Note this operation will replace all the previously set chapters and will apply to all Titlesets in this project.

If you uncheck both settings and use the Add function to make 1 or more Titleset(s), you will end up with a DVD with one or more Title(s) and only a chapter point at start of each Title.

2. Manually add chapter point

a. First method to add chapters

After loading your video files into ConvertXtoDVD, select the Titleset you want to add chapters(1), the video will appear in the preview window. Drag the slider to navigate through the video and preview it in the video preview window. When you find the frame with which you want to start a chapter, right click on the cursor and select "Add chapter at cursor position"(2). The individual chapters are displayed as little pins () on the timeline.

To remove a chapter, select the chapter to remove on the timeline, right-click and select "Remove chapter at cursor position". To move a chapter, hold down the left mouse button on the chapter pin and drag it to move it along the timeline.

Note: The first pin (blank) can not be moved or deleted and a maximum of 99 chapter points can be created.

b. Second method to add chapters

After loading your video files into ConvertXtoDVD, select the Titleset you want to add chapters, click the + beside this Titleset(1), right click on "Chapters" and select "Add Chapter"(2).

Then enter the start time of the chapter, the new chapter will added at its appropriate place.

To remove a chapter, select the chapter to remove, right-click and select "Remove Chapter".

Note: The first chapter can never be removed and a maximum of 99 chapter points can be created.

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Now let's begin…

Step 1. Below is the main ConvertXToDVD window. It may seem a little too basic now but you’ll soon see how efficient it can be. For the beginning lets go to "Settings" -> "General".

First we will set the working folder, which is the folder that ConvertXToDVD will save the DVD video files before burning them to a DVD. Make sure that the drive that the folder is in has many GBs of free space and set the working folder.

In "DVD specification" tab 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.

Next in "Encoding" tab you can choose your target DVD output size: DVD-5 (Single Layer, 4.7 GB), DVD-9 (Double Layer, 8.5 GB), or a custom value (in MB).  This option is useful when you want to reduce the size of the DVD movie to fit a DVD Disc. ConvertXtoDVD will make sure during conversion that the output file size is small enough to fit on the type of target size you selected. 

Step 2. We are back to the main windows and it's time to add some files to our DVD. To do so, simply click on the green cross "Add" button (1) and select the video files you want to convert.

You’ll have then a video file list on the program’s interface. ConvertXtoDVD will automatically create a DVD menu and each video file will become a separate Titleset (2).

Since a DVD disc has certain space the more videos you add the worse the quality of the final DVD may be since ConvertXtoDVD will encode your video/audio to reduce the file size to fit on the single disc. Therefore you can have a look at the "Encoding option advisor" (3) to see what the quality will be. Please note that you can not "increase" quality by choosing the DVD-9 option for a single layer project. Keep in mind: ConvertXtoDVD cannot invent quality where it does not already exist. You cannot convert a mediocre file and expect to have even better quality after the conversion.

Step 3. ConvertXtoDVD comes with many menu templates. To get to the list of menu templates, click the + beside DVD Options (1) , you will see a "Template Now Used" option first(2).

Double click "Template Now Used" option and you will notice a select box will appear. Click the box and you will have the full list of available menu templates from ConvertXtoDVD (3). Here you can change the template used for your project. To do so, you can scroll through the list of available templates, select one preferred template, then click on the green check-box to apply the template. Note the template selected will be used for all Titlesets in this project.

Step 4. Click the + beside DVD Options (1) and Title Menu parameters (2) to reveal all options for the Menu item. Lets see the options one by one.

First you can edit the text which will be shown at top of the title menu by double-clicking on it and setting the name (3). By default it is set to "My DVD". Next you can select how the DVD should behave by setting DVD play options (4). You can also check the Video Preview option(5) to have the Video Preview window shown on the right hand side to have a preview of how the menu will look like.

Now you can customize the Menu with fonts and your music and background image if you want.

First you can edit the Title text for Title menu, just double-click on it and change your Title text for Title menu.

1) Enter the desired title text here
2) Shows if the title text will fit into the assigned text area/field (green = ok, red = text is too long/ large font size)
3) Text style (pre-defined) to be used for this text / select other text style (down arrow)
4) Click this icon/button to edit text styles
5) Click here to apply your changes.

Then you can change the Background video / image for Title menu. Double-click on it and change your background image/video.

1) Possible choices:

Use a custom file – allows selecting a video/image file to be used as background. If you use a image, it should have a size of  720*540 pixels / aspect ratio 4:3, to have no distorted picture.
Remove – no background video/image will be used.
Do not change – will use the default setting as defined in the menu template.
2) If a video has been selected as background, specify the starting time code to use from the video. Up to 30 seconds(depending on chosen template) of the video will play in loop here as the background from the starting time you indicated.
3) Click here to apply your changes once you are done.  You should see then these changes in the preview window.
4) Displays the path/name of the selected video/image file (only if Use a custom file is selected)
5) Specify the opacity for the background video/image (0 = transparent, 100 = opaque)
6) Click this icon to browse for an video/image file (only if Use a custom file is selected)

Finally you can change Background audio for Title menu in the same way as changing background image/video.

Step 5. Right next comes the video properties. First in the Titleset menu you can add thumbnails of each Titleset for easier and faster access to them. By default the thumbnail will be taken from the first frame of each video. However you can change this by double clicking on the thumbnail option (1). ConvertXtoDVD also allows you selecting an custom video/image file to be used as thumbnail.

You will notice the audio of each video has been automatically imported (2) as ConvertXToDVD supports almost all formats. But you can also add you own audio (for example commentary) by right-clicking on "Audio" and selecting "Add Audio". You can also click on each audio channel and set the language.

Then we move to the subtitle settings. 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 (3). If you don’t, right click on the "Subtitle (0 stream)" and browse to where you keep them.

Finally you can review the Chapters (4) and add more if you like as well as edit the Titleset name which is what will appear in the main menu as the title of this video. Follow the same steps to configure all your videos and move to the next step.

Step 6. We are finally ready to convert. You may want of course to see how your final DVD menu will look like. To do this click the Preview button (1) and you can take a look at the whole DVD, including the menus in the Video Preview Window (2). If you are satisfied with the result click Convert (3) to start the converting process!

Step 7. 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.

Finally burning finishes and your new DVD is ready for your player. Enjoy!

More guides regarding ConvertXtoDVD:

How to create a custom DVD with ConvertXtoDVD?
How to add / remove chapters to DVD in ConvertXtoDVD?
How to add subtitles to your DVD with ConvertXtoDVD?

Step1. This is the main ConvertXToDVD windows. May seem a little too basic now but you'll soon see how efficient it can be. For the beginning lets go to "Settings" -> "General".

First we will set the working folder, which is the folder that ConvertXToDVD will save the DVD files before burning them to a DVD. Make sure that the drive that the folder is in has many GBs of free space and set the working folder.

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. A chapter is an invisible mark in the video that helps you navigate through the film as you are watching it.  Instead of fast-forwarding to a specific point you can jumpat intervals, these intervals are chapter points that you can determine here.

"Create Chapter every" allows you to automatically insert a chapter every X minutes or seconds.  M = minutes, S = seconds. If unchecked, no chapters will be added automatically. Always a chapter point will be created at start of file. You can not delete this first one. In the main interface (Tree View) you can later manually add more chapters at specific places.

"For titleset longer than" means the program will insert a chapter at the value indicated above only if the video is longer than the specified duration. Always a chapter point will be created at start of file. You can not delete this first one ! For example this means that no additional chapters will be added if you would add a video that is only 10 minutes long, e.g. suitable for music video clips.

If you uncheck both settings and use the Add function to make 1 or more Titleset(s), you will end up with a DVD with one or more Title(s) and only a chapter point at start of each Title.

Next in "DVD specification" tab 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.

Step2. We are back to the main windows and its time to add some file to our DVD. To do so, simply click on the green cross button (1) and select the video files you want to convert. You’ll have then a video file list on the program’s interface. ConvertXtoDVD will automatically create a DVD menu and each video file will become a separate titleset (2).

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" (3) to see what the quality will be. For about 1h 30m of video quality will be excellent. For less than 3h you will have pretty good quality. You can watch the movie without any problems.

Step3.  ConvertXtoDVD comes with many menu templates. To get to the list of menu templates, click the + beside DVD Options (1) , you will see a "Template Now Used" option first(2).

Double click "Template Now Used" option and you will notice a select box will appear. Click the box and you will have the full list of available menu templates from ConvertXtoDVD (3). Here you can change the template used for your project. To do so, you can scroll through the list of available templates, select one preferred template, then click on the green check-box to apply the template. Note the template selected will be used for all Titlesets in this project. If you don't need DVD menu, you can select "No menu" from the menu template list to disable the current menu.

Step4. Click the + beside DVD Options (1) to reveal all options for the Menu item. Lets see the options one by one. First you can edit the text which will be shown at top of the title menu by double-clicking on it and setting the name (2). Next, you can customize the Menu with fonts and your music and background image if you want (3). You can also select how the DVD should behave by setting DVD play options (4):

* Auto-start Playback: If this is selected the menu will be skipped when the disc is inserted into a DVD player, the menu will be shown after the Title.

* Loop playback: Instead of going back to the Title Menu when the last Title (video) on the disc has finished playing, if this option is selected you will be returned to the first Title (video), instead of the Menu.

* Play titles one after the other: With this option selected, each Title (video) on the disc will play sequentially, that is when the first is finished, it will automatically play the second and so on, without going back to the Menu.

* Skip root menu initially: The Menu that will display when you insert the DVD is the "Title Menu". Each Titleset (video) also has its own "Root Menu". If this option is selected, then you will bypass the Root Menu when you select a video on the Title Menu.

* Return to the title menu after titleset playback: This is closely related to the above setting. In this case, one a titleset has finished playing, it will return straight to the Title Menu and bypass the Root Menu altogether.

* Don't create title menu for single video: If selected, any DVD you are making with ConvertXtoDVD that contains just one video will not have a Title Menu at all, as it really doesn't require a Menu.

Step5. Right next comes the video properties. First in the Titleset menu you can add thumbnails of each Titleset for easier and faster access to them. By default the thumbnail will be taken from the first frame of each video. However you can change this by double clicking on the thumbnail option (1).

You will notice the audio of each video has been automatically imported (2) as ConvertXToDVD supports almost all formats. But you can also add you own audio (for example commentary) by right-clicking on Audio and selecting Add Audio. You can also click on each audio channel and set the language.

Then we move to the subtitle settings. 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 (3). If you don't, right click on the "Subtitle (0 stream)" and browse to where you keep them.

Finally you can review the Chapters (4) and add more if you like as well as edit the Titleset name which is what will appear in the main menu as the title of this video. Follow the same steps to configure all your videos and move to the next step.

Step6. We are finally ready to convert. You may want of course to see how your final DVD menu will look like. To do this click the Preview button (1) and you can take a look at the whole DVD, including the menus in the Video Preview Window (2). If you are satisfied with the result click Convert (3) to start the converting process!

Step7. 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.

Finally burning finishes and your new DVD is ready for your player. Enjoy!

More guides regarding ConvertXtoDVD:

How to add / remove chapters to DVD in ConvertXtoDVD?
How to create custom DVD menu with ConvertXtoDVD?
How to add subtitles to your DVD with ConvertXtoDVD?

Here is small guide how to add subtitles to DVD – you got some movie file (divx, avi, mov, mpg…), you got some subtitles (sub, srt,…), and you want burn this movie and subtitles to DVD.

You can free download ConvertXtoDVD trial  or buy it now(15% Off).

Check more guides regarding ConvertXtoDVD:

How to create a custom DVD with ConvertXtoDVD?
How to add / remove chapters to DVD in ConvertXtoDVD?
How to create custom DVD menu with ConvertXtoDVD?