Create DVD from AVI files on Mac

Have a lot of AVI files on your Mac and want to burn them to a DVD and play on your home DVD player? In the following tutorial, we will tell you how to create DVD from AVI files on Mac OS with iSkysoft DVD Creator for Mac - a powerful DVD creator software which can help your create DVDs from all kinds of video files.

Step 1: Add AVI video files.

Click the Add button to add video files to the program.
Note: you can also add files from the program menu: Click File and then select Add Video.

Step 2: Edit Video Files

You can trim and crop the video files and adjust the effects before burning the videos to DVD on Mac OS X.
1. Trim files
This program allows you to trim a clip from your video and burn it to DVD.
You just need to drag the two sliders ( and ) on the process bar to set the beginning and the end of the part which you want to capture when the video is playing. And the trimmed length will be displayed under the file name on the right file list.

2. Cropping Files
Select a file and click , and then you will get the following cropping window.

You can specify an area either by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right. On the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can preview the video in the select aspect ratio on the main interface and during the conversion process.

After you select an output aspect ratio and finish the settings, the result can be previewed before you start burning. You can click the Reset button to remove all the settings.

3. Adjusting Effect
Click Effect to get the following window to adjust the video's effect.

You can adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation of the video.
You can choose special effect from the Filter drop-down list. There are six special effects: Grey, Emboss, Negative, Black White, White Black and Old Film.
If there are some lines, pixels, mosaics or stripes on the picture, you can choose the suitable option from the interlace drop-down list to adjust the picture. The available options are: Repeat Odd, Repeat Even, Odd Interpolate and Even Interpolate.

Step 3: Edit DVD Menu

This video to DVD creator for Mac allows you to create your own DVD menu with various built-in resources. Click the Menu button on the bottom right of the main interface to edit the DVD's menu.

The added files are the titles displayed on the menu. The first frames of each video will be set as the thumbnails of the titles as default.

You can choose a pre-set template from the right list. Just double click on one of the templates and the selected one will be applied in the left Preview Pane. If the template which you have selected does not have enough frames for the titles in your project, there will be more than one page. For example, if you have six titles in your project but the template which you have selected has only two frames, there will be three pages with two titles on each one. You can click  to go to the next page and click  to go to the previous page.

You can even add a text on each page. Click Text and you will see the Text Editing Window appearing on the right. Then you can type some words in the Text Content Field, set the font, color, size of the input text and apply text effects including Bold, Italic, Underline and Strikethrough. The text can be dragged to any place on the page.

Step 4: Burning Video Files

Before burning your DVD, you can select your DVD type and the output quality at the bottom of the main interface. When you choose different formats or qualities the recoding time of the DVD is different. The table below shows the recoding time in different situations.

After you choose the correct DVD disk and the suitable video quality, you can click the Burn button to set burning settings and burn your DVD project.