Make DVDs from video, music and photos too with ViaDVD, a feature rich easy to use Windows PC program for DVD authoring and disc burning.

Create and record your own DVD movie titles directly to CD-R/RW and DVD (+ or -) R/RW disc. Turn your family videos, favorite sports event, TV programs, and more into DVD movie discs. Make copies for families and friends. Convert existing AVI, DV, MPG, Quick Time and other file formats to DVD.

Capture the moment using your Digital Still or Digital Video Camera. Save the moment forever using your ViaDVD equipped PC.

As you already know, DVD is the perfect media to store video, movies, audio and photos. DVD recorders are available for all PCs; DVD recorders have very reasonable cost of entry, often less than $200; DVD recordable media is available at less than $1 per disc; DVD stores high quality video, photos, music and movies; and DVD is playable on PCs, Macs and DVD players attached to the home entertainment center, to automotive entertainment centers and moblie personal video systems. Simply put, DVD is the perfect storage media for video, movies, music and photos.

There is no easier way to create DVDs on a PC than with ViaDVD. Share your video, photos, movies and music with friends and family. Promote your product, ideas, success stories and business. Educate, train, enlighten and bestow knowledge onto others. Capture, archive, document and save history in the making. Offering a choice of user interfaces, tightly integrated drag and drop facilities and a complete suite of the tools required to make breathtaking DVDs, ViaDVD also includes new options, high quality long length DVD video and trend setting organizational tools.

ViaDVD Main Features:

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Unlimited menus using any mix of photographic still or video backgrounds with or without audio, from 1 to 36 buttons per menu, either flat and hierarchical menu systems, menu linking by use of Next, Previous and Return buttons, menu times outs, highlighted roll over button effects, text and highlighted text buttons and much more.

Automated Transcoding of non-compliant content files to DVD ready format with filtering if necessary is provided for. Filters for frame rate conversion, sample size conversion, sample rate conversion, color space conversion, and frame size conversion are built into this automated process.

Visual video chapter editor with automated scene detection feature speeds and simplifies the task of assigning chapters to video streams. Enhanced chapter features allow chapter ommision, out of sequence chapter play, random chapter play, shuffle mode chapter play, and exclusive chapter play are a few of the chapter programming capabilities.

Multiple video tracks to the maximum of 99 allowed by DVD, subdivided into 1 to 99 chapters. Address tracks and chapters from any point within the title and link menu buttons to tracks or chapters. Play chapters sequential, randomly or shuffle mode. Use chapters as entry points or as exclusive (independent) play items.

Create hybrid DVD discs comprised of both a DVDVideo title authoring using ViaDVD and other DVD-ROM content files authored using suitable 3rd party tools. A must have feature for the creation of WinDVD and WebDVD titles.

Write directly to all DVD R and RW recorders, to most CD R and RW recorders and to all DLT tape drives. Use CD R/RW to create miniDVDs. Use DLT to transport titles to mass replication plants. By default all compiled titles are written to hard disk thus allowing use of DVD emulator software on the PC (such as WinDVD) for title testing.