How Do I Transfer Movies Onto DVDs?

There are multiple pieces of software, both free and pay, to burn DVDs.

Movies that have been downloaded or put onto your computer from another computer are perfectly easy to back up to a DVD, either to protect the data or to allow you to watch the movies in a DVD player. Recording files to DVD will vary greatly in terms of the amount of time it takes, because of both the size of files being copied and the speeds of different DVD drives and rewritable DVDs.

Things You'll Need

• Internet connection
• Rewritable DVD drive
• Rewritable CD

Instructions

Using Burn My Files

1. Go to the website contained in the resources section. Click on the "Download" icon to download a free 30-day trial piece of software.

2. Install the software by clicking on the icon once it has downloaded, and following the instructions.

3. Insert a blank DVD into your DVD drive.

4. Locate the file you wish to burn to a DVD. Right-click on it and select "Burn to DVD."

Using Infrarecorder

1. Go to the website for Infrarecorder, listed in the resources section. Click on the "Download" icon. Follow the instructions to install the software.

2. Insert a blank DVD into your CD drive.

3. Open the Infrarecorder program. Locate the file you wish to burn in the top half of the screen in the "Explorer" panel. Click on "Burn to DVD."

Using DVD Flick

1. Go to the DVD Flick website in the resources section. Click on the "Download DVD Flick" icon. Follow the instructions to install the software.

2. Insert a blank DVD into your DVD drive.

3. Open DVD Flick. Click on "Add Title" in the top right hand corner. Use the "Browse" box to locate the file you wish to write to DVD. Click "Open."

4. Click the "Project Settings" tab to edit the settings of the DVD. This includes region data, the amount of processing data the program can use when creating the disk, and the quality of encoding. Make the changes you wish to the settings in each tab.

5. Click on the "Create DVD" tab to write the video files to the DVD.

Tips & Warnings

• To ensure the highest quality final product you need to use the highest quality input. Bigger file sizes tend to indicate higher quality data. This also means that fewer movies can be placed on a single disk.

References

• DVDDemystidied: DVD FAQ

Resources

• BurnMyFiles: Download Page
• Infrarecorder: Download Page
• DVDFlick: Download Page