How to Create DVD Labels

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to show you how to create DVD labels. Let's go to our computer. Now your original equipment manufacturer or OEM which sells you your laptop which will be Dell or HP or, or your computer, it's going to usually put CD burning software on it if your computer comes with a DVD and CD burner and that software will usually have labeling software bundled with it. In this case, mine came with Roxio and in my start menu you can see they have express labeler. Now you might have Sonic or easy CD creator; they're all going to follow the same basic principles as this one will. So I'm going to click on express labeler and this particular program warns me that some paper levels can damage CDs and DVD players so I'm going to click okay on that. Now, I'm going to choose that I'm doing a disc label in this case; I can also do a case for my DVD or a jewel case. I'm going to do disc label and it gives me the options to basically edit what my label will look like. I'm going to click on options; it allows me to choose how I'm going to label it. You can do one of the HP printers; this one actually has a light scribe which is, will burn onto the face of the CD and label; that's cause my hardware supports it. And also for DVD cases, you get to choose what you're going to print in that manner. So I'm going to click on disc titles after that. I'm going to title my disc, "My DVD"; I get to choose a font that I will like for it to appear in. I'm going to go to blue highway; I'm going to make it very large; 24 point; sub-title will be, "By Dave Andrews" and I will leave that fairly small. Click okay. So as you can see by clicking edit, then disc titles, it has already arrange this on the editor to where the best go around the label of the CD. You can then go to tracks; I'm going to create new track; let's say, "Wedding Video", then I have another one, "Reception Video" and click okay and those would appear on the jewel case if I was to print one of those out as well. Now I can select several different layouts for how I want it to appear. As you can see there's many built into it and then I can also choose the background effects that are going to appear on my DVD. It's that easy to create your own label for your own DVD. My name is Dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to create a DVD label."