By Debarshi Nayak
It was 21 years ago in March that two electronics giants, Sony and Toshiba launched a new home video format digital video discs or DVD as we know it. Looking at DVDs now, youd think theyre all but extinct with all the new forms of storage coming up portable hard drives, flash disks, SD cards, and SSD. But the feeling lasts only until you have to reinstall a version of Windows or install your network drivers with the optical disk that came with the modem, or have to stash something away offline, away from devices that are always connected.
You could argue that streaming services have quietly displaced DVDs, claiming a majority share in the home video market, but theres a lot amiss. Physical discs remain far superior to streaming in almost every way as a complete experience. This is because streaming media is dependent on the streaming speed, and most of the time, streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime have to compress the living daylight out of movies to be able to stream them without disruption. And this is where Wondershares DVD Creator, one of the best DVD burning tools available in the market, comes into the picture.
Wondershare DVD Creator A Comprehensive Review
The Wondershare DVD Creator is a powerful tool that, unlike its name suggests, can also burn Blu-Ray discs along with DVD Video discs.
The installation process is quite straightforward, and the files are fetched from their secure server during the installation process. As you fire it up, a splash screen greets you with three options:
1. Create a DVD Video Disc
2. Create a Blu-Ray (BDMV) Disc
3. Open an existing project file
As you select the first option, youll see a tabbed window with the first tab to select and import video titles that youd want to burn into the DVD. You can add titles, rearrange the video clips or remove a video clip if needed. There is a video player on the right side of the window that allows you to the play the clips right inside the tool. The first pleasant surprise youll get as you import video files is the plethora of formats supported by Wondershare DVD Creator.
Some of the major formats supported are AVI, MKV, MPG, MP4, WEBM among many others. As you import videos into the tool, you get an additional option to edit the tool, a rare occurrence in DVD creating tools.
The video editor is robust and packed with features, from enhancing the video by optimizing the zoom, deinterlacing, brightness, contrast, saturation and volume, to trimming the video and adding watermarks and subtitles before its sent to be burnt into the DVD.
The next interesting feature is the DVD Menu creator that allows you to create a menu for the digital video disk and define the structure of the video files in a certain order. After the videos have been added and the menu is created, you can preview the final video before you burn it permanently into your DVD disc. The final tab is the settings to burn the file into a DVD. You can label your disc as per your liking, and conveniently either save it as an ISO file or burn into a DVD. You can also define a particular TV format, namely NTSC and PAL for your new DVD. On the top right, youll find the help menu which will let you contact customer support or check for updates to the tool. If you want to keep working on the file later, you might want to save it the project format.
With Wondershares DVD Creator, you can now burn your favourite videos into a DVD in just 3 simple steps, making life a lot easier and faster for everyone who still uses DVD as their primary source of media consumption.