If this is your first time to use Womble EasyDVD you might want to check a complete guide on how to use Womble EasyDVD to create your own DVD movie.

By default Womble EasyDVD will automatically create a chapter point at start of each video clip(s) if you add a Movie(Title) with one or more video clip(s). For example, I have added a Title with three video clips, select the Title(Movie 1) and your will notice there are three chapter points which are displayed as yellow-colored marks along the top edge of the video preview window's timeline.

There are two ways to create chapters in Womble EasyDVD.

1. Add equal length chapters

Select the Movie you want to add chapters, right click it and select "Add equal length chapters" from the context menu.

In the dialog window, select a number (or length), and press the OK button. Then Womble EasyDVD will automatically add the specified number of chapters to the selected Movie.

Note: this operation will replace all the previously set chapters.

2. Add chapters manually

Select the Movie you want to add chapters, the movie will appear in the right video preview window. You will notice the video preview window is in the Movie mode. (Due to the difference between an EasyDVD Movie and a video clip, the video preview window will switch between the Movie mode and the Clip mode, depending on whether the current selection of the Source is a Movie item or a video clip item. A quick identification for the two modes is the play button color: Movie: blue; Clip: yellow. )

Drag the slider to navigate through the movie and preview it in the video preview window. When you find the frame with which you want to start a chapter, click the "add/remove chapter" button or press "M" key on the keyboard to set a chapter point.

2.3. To remove a chapter, find the chapter marker you want to delete with the help of the "next chapter" and the "previous chapter" buttons or press the Page Up and Page Down keys on the keyboard, then click the "add/remove chapter" button or press "M" key on the keyboard.

More guides regarding Womble EasyDVD:

• How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?
• How to remove unwanted scenes from DVD movie without re-encoding?
• How to put(combine, merge) multiple DVDs on a single DVD?
• How to add an intro video to DVD before the main menu shows up?
  

Womble EasyDVD is a streamlined, easy-to-use DVD authoring program for those of us who don't want to deal with extraneous features and jargon that will leave us scratching our heads in confusion. Its step by step workflow and the self-explanatory functional layout makes DVD authoring as simple, quick, and intuitive as possible, enabling you to create your own DVD in a few clicks.

It is incredibly easy-to-use because it has simplified the DVD authoring process intosix self-explanatory steps.  Those who are new to the DVD authoring process are going to get the most of this program. But this is not to say that Womble EasyDVD is limited by its simplicity — imagine being able to burn two DVD titles onto a single disk, to convert MPEG video files to DVD movies, or to re-edit your movies to exclude unwanted scenes! And imagine being able to do all of this with the greatest speed and with no loss in quality!

Once you have all the elements added, you can preview your video, create the file and then, if you choose, burn it to disc or ISO. Conversion is relatively fast with Womble EasyDVD, and you can pause the process if you like. You can also save your DVD specifications as a template, to speed up the process in the future.

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Key features:

• Simple workflow and intuitive UI
• Edit out unwanted scenes with frame accuracy and minimal video re-encoding
• Can merge multiple videos into one movie title
• Can add multiple movie titles into one DVD
• No re-encoding when converting MPEG video files into a DVD movie(in free dvd output size)
• Full AC-3 audio encoder support
• Extensible menu templates
• Support multi-layer menu design
• Add background music, image, and video to your menu
• Can add intro video with First Play and End Action function
• Can save your DVD menu design to the menu template list for future use.
• Real-time video preview before DVD export
• Shrink Your Video to Fit onto Different Media
• DVD and ISO Burning

Here we will use Womble EasyDVD to do this job. It is not freeware, but don’t worry because you can try it for a month, without any limitations(no watermark, no function disabled or crippled). You can free download Womble EasyDVD here. You can also learn the other guides about Womble EasyDVD by following the links below:

• How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?
• How to remove unwanted scenes from DVD movie without re-encoding?
• How to put(combine, merge) multiple DVDs on a single DVD?

Now let's begin…

Step 1. Run Womble EasyDVD, below is the main EasyDVD window. First we need to create a new DVD project. To do this, click "New" button in the Start stage, we will be forwarded to the Source stage.

Note near the top of the main window, there is a navigation bar consisting of 6 buttons, "Start", "Source", "Menu", "Preview", "Output" and "Burn". These buttons represent the various steps in DVD authoring. Only Start and Source steps are accessible when we start EasyDVD, and the other steps are disabled since the project is empty. As soon as we add video files to the project, those other steps will be enabled, then we can jump to any step by clicking on the corresponding button.

Step 2. The Source stage is where you can load your input video files, perform some basic editing if needed, and create chapter points.

Before we add in our input video files, you might notice that there are actually two "Add" buttons here. Well, the top "Add" button(1), with the movie reel icon, is for adding what EasyDVD refers to as "Movies". The bottom "Add" button(2) with the film strip icon is for adding "Clips". A "Movie" generally contains one or more clips; and each clip can be a single video file, or a whole or a part of a DVD movie.

EasyDVD treats each Movie as a separate Title on the DVD(A DVD ‘Title’ is generally a logically distinct section of a DVD-Video. For example the main feature film on a DVD might be Title 1, a behind-the-scenes documentary might be Title 2 and a selection of cast interviews might be Title 3). In this example we will add three Movies – two main movies and a short intro video. First, click the top "Add" button in Movie Manager(the upper left window). In the pop-up Open window, find the first "Movie"(1) you want to add and click Open(2). "Open DVD Folder" can be checked(3) if you want to add a full VIDEO_TS folder, with DVD files ready to use.

After adding the first Movie, an icon named Movie 1 is added in Movie Manager window to represent the movie and you will notice that Movie 1 consists of 4 video clips in the Clip Manager window(the lower left window). If you want to add more clips to the Movie, you can click the  "Add" button in Clip Manager window and then add more video clips.

To add the second main movie(Movie 2)and the intro video(Movie 3), simply click the "Add" button in Movie Manager and repeat the steps above. Now you can see a Movie List with 3 Movies.

Since Movie 3 is the intro video, we will then select it as the "First Play" item so that it will play at the start of disc insertion, before any menus are shown. To do this, click the icon of Movie 3 and then click on First Play button, we have then selected the intro video as the First Play Movie. Notice that the First Play Movie is visually identified with an icon image distinct from a normal Movie icon.

Then you can edit the label of the movie, perform some basic editing, and create chapter points if needed. For details, check Step 2 of How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?

Step 3. Now click Menu at the top buttons. Here we will add DVD menu.

To quickly add DVD menu, you can click  and select a ready menu template from the list. You can also make your own one where you can change the background to a personal photo, add background music, reset the menu button style and so on. Here I will simply use the first template.

To apply a menu template, just select and double click it. Now we have added menu for the DVD, you will notice at the bottom of the right menu preview window there is a menu page list which consists of 4 menu page thumbnails. You can click on each menu page thumbnail to preview or edit the menu page. Here page 1 is main menu, the next three pages(page 2, page 3, page 4) are sub-menu pages (movie menus). On main menu page there are three buttons each of which is linked to corresponding movie menu.

Since we want the DVD to automatically return to main menu after completing the intro video playback, we  need to go Source stage and set an End Action for the intro video. Now in the Source stage, right click on the intro video, select End Action and Page 1(main menu). By doing this, DVD will return to main menu after finishing playing the intro video.

Now we go back to Menu stage, here we will delete the intro video menu page(page 4) and its button on the main menu page. First select the third button on the main menu page and press Delete on the keyboard to delete the intro video button on the main menu.

Then select page4 in the menu page list and press Delete key to delete the intro video menu page.

Step 4. The most critical steps of adding intro video are setting First Play & End Action in Source stage and deleting intro video menu page and its button on main menu page in Menu stage. When finishing the steps above, we can then go to the next three steps: preview, output, burn our DVD.  For details about the next three steps, you can check How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?

Done.

Womble EasyDVD is not freeware, but don’t worry because you can try it for a month, without any limitations(no watermark, no function disabled or crippled). You can free download Womble EasyDVD here. You can also learn the other guides about Womble EasyDVD by following the links below:

• How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?
• How to add an intro video to DVD before the main menu shows up?
• How to put(combine, merge) multiple DVDs on a single DVD?

Now transfer your DVD into your hard drive and insert the blank DVD disc into the drive. 

Step1. Run Womble EasyDVD, below is the main EasyDVD window. First we need to create a new DVD project. To do this, click "New" button in the Start stage, we will be forwarded to the Source stage.

Note near the top of the main window, there is a navigation bar consisting of 6 buttons, "Start", "Source", "Menu", "Preview", "Output" and "Burn". These buttons represent the various steps in DVD authoring. Only Start and Source steps are accessible when you start EasyDVD, and the other steps are disabled since the project is empty. As soon as you add video files to the project, those other steps will be enabled, then you can jump to any step by clicking on the corresponding button.

Step2. The Source stage is where you can add in your input video files, perform some basic editing if needed, and create chapter points. Before we add in our input video files, you might notice that there are actually two “Add” buttons here. Well, the top “Add” button(1), with the movie reel icon, is for adding what EasyDVD refers to as "Movies". The bottom “Add” button(2) with the film strip icon is for adding "Clips". A "Movie" generally contains one or more clips; and each clip can be a single video file, or a whole or a part of a DVD movie.

Here we click the top “Add” button in Movie Manager(the upper left window), check “Open DVD folder” in the pop-up Open window, then browse to DVD file folder and click Open .

Then the DVD reader window pops up and you will see all the titles and chapters. Notice that the first title has the longest time in duration and this is probably going to be the main movie you want to edit. Select the main movie and click OK.

Then the DVD movie will be loaded into Womble EasyDVD keeping the original chapter structure, you can see the 3 chapter points in the right video preview window(1). Also a movie reel icon named Movie 1 is added in Movie Manager window to represent the movie(2). You can change the default Movie name(Movie 1) into the real one by selecting “Edit label” in the context menu(or press ‘F2′ on the keyboard).

Note that if there are more than one main movie titles in DVD reader, you can select the first main movie title, click OK and load the first main movie into EasyDVD as Movie 1, then you can click the top "Add" button again and add the second main movie title into EasyDVD as Movie 2, you can repeat the steps to load more DVD movies. Now select the movie clip in the Clip Manager(1), drag the sliderbar(2) and preview movie in the right video preview window(3).

Drag the slidebar and preview the movie, press the Mark in button (or press 'I' on the keyboard)  when finding the beginning of the unwanted scenes, and press the Mark out button (or press 'O' on the keyboard)  when finding the end of unwanted scenes. You can use the mouse scroll wheel or arrow keys to step forward or backward to get the exact frame. Since we have marked the segment to be deleted, now we press the Cut button to remove the marked segment.

Note here you can press "M" on the keyboard to add a chapter point wherever you want.

Step3. Now we go to Menu stage to add menus for the DVD. To quickly add menu for your movie, you can click  and select a ready menu template from the list. Or you can make your own one where you can change the background to a personal photo, add an opening video before the menu displays, reset the menu button style and so on. I am not going to get into details here, I will just use the first menu template from the list(1), but you can fool around on your own with the advanced settings. While Womble EasyDVD will do its best to detect whether your source is PAL or NTSC, you should check to make sure that the right settings are selected here(2).

Step4. When you’re done with the menu, click Preview at the top buttons. Here you can do a final check on the menu design before outputting a DVD folder. If you don’t like what you see, you can go back to the menu window to make changes, and then come back to check it again.

Step 5. When you are ready to export the DVD project, click Output at the top buttons. You will notice that there are some output options on the left.

Folder path is where you want to store the DVD video – the “Video_TS” folder will be created under the path you specify here.

Output size is either a single layer or a dual layer disc – this option is useful when you want to reduce the size of the DVD movie to fit a DVD Disc(Please note Womble EasyDVD will either re-encode your video/audio to reduce the file size or it will do a “stream copy” which means the quality stays the same. You cannot “increase” quality by choosing the 7.92 GB option for a single layer project).

Action after export is to define the action to execute after export completion – if you want the editor to automatically start burning your DVD after finishing the authoring process, you can set “Start DVD burning” as the “Action after export”, but here we will just use the default setting(None) in case of disc waste.

Note at the bottom of the window there is a project encode map – the blue area shows the part of the video that won’t need re-encoding (stream copy), the red areas is the parts that need to be re-encoded. See the screenshot below, we will export the DVD without re-encoding.

Once all that’s done, click on the “Start” button to start the authoring process and sit back and wait.

Step 6. After finishing the export, you can preview the exported DVD folder using a DVD player software such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. If everything worked great, then you can click Burn at the top buttons to enter the final step of your DVD project workflow.

In the Burn stage, change the folder path to where you outputted your DVD files (should be selected automatically for you), and then choose your DVD burner(You may also choose to output to an ISO file for later burning) and then click on the Burn button to start burning your DVD video to a DVD disc. For the burning speed, it is recommended you burn at the slowest speed available to minimize the burning errors.

Done.

Possible uses for this guide:

1. Taking 2 or more different movies  and  creating 1 DVD out of them

2. Combining 2 or more DVD's to 1 DVD-R or DVD+R

3. Joining a double sided DVD (meaning you have to take the disc out and flip it over to watch the rest) to a single sided DVD-R or DVD+R

Tool: Womble EasyDVD. It's not freeware, but don’t worry because you can try it for a month. You can free download it here. You can also learn the other guides about Womble EasyDVD by following the links below:

• How to create a basic DVD with Womble EasyDVD?
• How to add an intro video to DVD before the main menu shows up?
• How to remove unwanted scenes from DVD movie without re-encoding?

Now transfer your DVDs into your hard drive, insert the blank DVD disc into the drive and run Womble EasyDVD.

Step 1.  Create a new DVD project

Click "New" button in the Start stage, then the editor will automatically jump to the Source stage.

Step 2.  Import DVD files

The Source stage is where you can add in your input video files, perform some basic editing if needed, and create chapter points.

Before we add in our input video files, you might notice that there are actually two "Add" buttons here. Well, the top “Add” button, with the movie reel icon, is for adding what EasyDVD refers to as “Movies”. The bottom “Add” button with the film strip icon is for adding “Clips”. A “Movie” generally contains one or more clips; and each clip can be a single video file, or a whole or a part of a DVD movie.

Here we click the top "Add" button in Movie Manager(the upper left window), check "Open DVD folder" in the pop-up Open window, then browse to your first DVD file folder and click Open . In the pop-up DVD reader window, select the main movie(which has the longest time in duration) and click OK.

To quickly add menu for your movie, you can click  and select a ready menu template from the list. Or you can make your own one where you can change the background to a personal photo, add an opening video before the menu displays, reset the menu button style and so on. I am not going to get into details here, I will just use the first menu template from the list, but you can fool around on your own with the advanced settings.

 

Step 5. Output

When you are ready to export the DVD project, click Output at the top buttons. You will notice that there are some output options on the left.

Folder path is where you want to store the DVD video – the “Video_TS” folder will be created under the path you specify here. Output size is either a single layer or a dual layer disc – this option is useful when you want to reduce the size of the DVD movie to fit a DVD Disc(Please note Womble EasyDVD will either re-encode your video/audio to reduce the file size or it will do a “stream copy” which means the quality stays the same. You cannot “increase” quality by choosing the 7.92 GB option for a single layer project). Action after export is to define the action to execute after export completion – if you want the editor to automatically start burning your DVD after finishing the authoring process, you can set "Start DVD burning" as the "Action after export", but here we will just use the default setting(None) in case of disc waste.

Once all that’s done, click on the “Start” button to start the encoding and authoring process and sit back and wait.

After finishing the export, you can preview the exported DVD folder using a DVD player software such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. If everything worked great, then you can click Burn at the top buttons to enter the final step of your DVD project workflow.

In the Burn stage, choose your DVD burner(You may also choose to output to an ISO file for later burning) and then click on the Burn button to start burning your DVD video to a DVD disc. For the burning speed, it is recommended you burn at the slowest speed available to minimize the burning errors.

Done.

• How to add an intro video to DVD before the main menu shows up?
• How to remove unwanted scenes from DVD movie without re-encoding?
• How to put(combine, merge) multiple DVDs on a single DVD?

Now insert a blank DVD disc into the DVD writer and run Womble EasyDVD.

Step1. Click "New" to create a new DVD project, and this will bring you to the Source stage.

Step2. The Source stage is where you can add in your input video files, perform some basic editing if needed, and create chapter points.

Before we add in our input video files, you might notice that there are actually two "Add" buttons here. Well, the top "Add" button, with the movie reel icon, is for adding what EasyDVD refers to as "Movies". The bottom "Add" button with the film strip icon is for adding "Clips". A "Movie" generally contains one or more clips; and each clip can be a single video file, or a whole or a part of a DVD movie.

- Add movie

Now click the top "Add" button and add your movie(Here we add two video files with the help of Ctrl key). "Open DVD Folder" can be checked if you want to add a full VIDEO_TS folder, with DVD files ready to use. After adding the video files, an icon named Movie 1 is added in Movie Manager window to represent the movie(You will also see your video clips added in the Clip Manager window). You can then right click on the movie icon to edit its lable. If you want to add more clips to this movie, click the  "Add" button in Clip Manager window and then add more video clips.

EasyDVD treats each movie as a separate Title on the DVD(A DVD 'Title' is generally a logically distinct section of a DVD-Video. For example the main feature film on a DVD might be Title 1, a behind-the-scenes documentary might be Title 2 and a selection of cast interviews might be Title 3. There can be up to 99 Titles on any DVD).

If you want to add the second Title, just click "Add" button in Movie Manager and follow the steps again.

- Trim unwanted scenes if needed

If you want to remove some scenes from one clip, you can select the clip icon in Clip Manager window, use Mark in and Mark out button to mark an unwanted segment, then use the Trim button to remove the segment.

- Set chapters

Now you can add chapters to your movie so that you can easily watch the part you want. By default EasyDVD treats each clip as a chapter. Click the movie icon in Movie Manager window, you will notice there are yellow-colored marks along the top edge of the video player's timeline slider, which represent the chapter points of the movie. To change this, you can click the movie icon in Movie Manager window and then press "N" on your keyboard. In the pop up window, you can specify a different number of chapters or chapter length value.

Or you can press Add chapter button(or 'M' on the keyboard) to manually add chapters for this movie.

Step3. After finishing with chapters, click Menu at the top buttons.

To quickly add menu for your movie, you can click  and select a ready menu template from the list. Or you can make your own one where you can change the background to a personal photo, add an opening video before the menu displays, reset the menu button style and so on. I am not going to get into details here, but you can fool around on your own with the advanced settings.

Step4. When you're done with the menu, click Preview at the top buttons. Here you can do a final check on the menu design before outputting a DVD folder. If you don't like what you see, you can go back to the menu window to make changes, and then come back to check it again.

Step5. When you are ready to export the DVD project, click Output at the top buttons. You will notice that there are some output options on the left.

Folder path is where you want your output DVD folder to be present – the "Video_TS" folder will be created under the path you specify here.

Output size is either a single layer or a dual layer disc – this option is useful when you want to reduce the size of the DVD movie to fit a DVD Disc(Please note Womble EasyDVD will either re-encode your video/audio to reduce the file size or it will do a "stream copy" which means the quality stays the same. You cannot "increase" quality by choosing the 7.92 GB option for a single layer project).

Action after export is to define the action to execute after export completion – if you want the editor to automatically start burning your DVD after finishing the authoring process, you can set “Start DVD burning” as the “Action after export”, but here we will just use the default setting(None) in case of disc waste.

Once all that's done, click on the "Start" button to start the encoding and authoring process and sit back and wait.

Step6. After finishing the export, you can preview the exported DVD folder using a DVD player software such as WinDVD or PowerDVD. If everything worked great, then you can click Burn at the top buttons to enter the final step of your DVD project workflow.

In the Burn stage, choose your DVD burner(You may also choose to output to an ISO file for later burning) and then click on the Burn button to start burning your DVD video to a DVD disc. For the burning speed, it is recommended you burn at the slowest speed available to minimize the burning errors.

Done.

Note: You should save (update) often to protect your current working project from any accidental loss, this can be done by clicking on the upper left of the software and choosing Save in the drop-down list.