How to Convert and Burn MP4 to DVD

Nowadays, many camera shots, mobile phones records, or downloaded videos come in MP4 format. If you want to watch these MP4 videos on large screen TV or home DVD player, it's advisable to burn them to a playable video DVD. To do this, Wondershare DVD Creator (DVD Creator for Mac)-an easy-to-use yet powerful MPEG4 to DVD Converter is directly recommended to burn mp4/mpeg4 files to a DVD disc quickly and easily.

Besides converting all source of MP4 videos to DVD with excellent quality, this program also provides comprehensive support to various popular formats like WMV, AVI, MTS, MOV, MKV, and online videos like YouTube FLV, HTML5. But in this tutorial, we'll only cover how to use this DVD burning software to covert MP4 to DVD efficiently with excellent quality. Below comes the step by step guide.

• Part 1: Easily convert MP4 to DVD for Win (Windows 8 included)
• Part 2: Easily Convert MP4 to DVD in Mac (Mountain Lion supported)

Part 1: Easily convert MP4 to DVD for Win (Windows 8 included)

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1Import MP4 files to DVD project

After installing MP4 to DVD burner, launch it and click "Import" to import MP4 videos to collections. To create another chapter, click the "Add title" button and add more MP4 videos, no limit here. But do notice the size indicator at the bottom, if exceeding the red line, you are suggested change to DVD-R 9.0G or remove some videos. 

2 Edit MP4 videos in Windows (optional)

When make MP4 into DVD, you can also make basic video editing in Windows version, including cropping, trimming, rotating, adding watermark, adding effects and so on.

By the way, in "Menu" window, there are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for you to choose from. After selecting a menu template, you can add text, background music and background images to author a personalized DVD menu.

3Preview and burn MP4 to DVD

Switch to the "Preview" tab to take a look at your disc - in real-time mode. If anything needs to be changed, go to corresponding tab. Once you're satisfied, go to the "Burn" tab to adjust settings like disc label, output target, TV standard, aspect ratio and DVD drive (if you have multiple DVD drives). Finally, hit Burn and the program will automatically to convert MP4 video to DVD.

Part 2: Easily convert MP4 to DVD in Mac (Mountain Lion supported)

To convert an mp4 into DVD in Mac using Wondershare DVD Creator for Mac, the steps are similar to Windows version. Here's how to do it in Mac OS X (10.6/10.7/10.8 included). Free download MP4 to DVD converter for Mac (free trial):

1Load your source MP4 videos

Run DVD Creator for Mac, and then click "Create a New Project" to enter into the program's interface. To import MP4 files for burning to DVD, you can drag them directly into the program window or click the "+" button to navigate your media files folder and then load them.

2Edit MP4 files and make DVD menus (optional)

Highlight a video clip and then click the Edit button, you'll come to the edit window with all common functions embedded. Here, you can crop, rotate, trim unwanted sections, add watermark, set special effects, and more.

If you want to convert multiple MP4 files to DVD format, choose an appropriate DVD menu will make your DVD disc to a new level. This program provides over 90 sets of free animated and static DVD menu styles, just choose what you like and customize it as per your needs. After finishing the modication work, you can also click the Play icon to preview it.

3Start MP4 to DVD burning in Mac (Mountain Lion included)

When everything goes as you like, just click Burn. In the pop-up drop-down list, choose "DVD Disc", design your new DVD name, choose the speed, TV standard, etc. and then click Save. Now you can rest assured to have a cup of coffee or tea.

When MP4 to DVD writing complete, the MP4 DVD disc will eject automatically so that you can directly insert it into a regular DVD player to watch MP4 videos on TV. Besides burning MPEG4 to DVD, you could also save MPEG4 to DVD folder, ISO image for later burning.

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