DVD Flick [free DVD authoring software]

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Darrell Icenogle
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DVD Flick is a substitute for Windows DVD Maker for those who are working on Windows XP, and thus don't have a Microsoft-supplied DVD authoring tool available to them. It is also compatible with Windows 2000, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. Quoting from SnapFiles.com, where I found it:

DVD Flick is a DVD authoring software that enables you to create DVDs from your video files. You can select one or more video files (more than 45 formats are supported) to be included on the disc and the program will automatically convert them for you and burn the DVD. You can even choose a DVD menu design from one of the included templates and optionally include subtitles and/or custom audio tracks. DVD Flick offers support for more than 60 video codecs and 40 audio codecs.

I've provided one screenshot, below. 

I created a test DVD with it, exporting clips from FlipShare, and then using "Add title..." to add each one to the DVD, and it works quite well.  There is a forum where you can get help.  You can also find user-created menu templates, and even learn how to make one yourself, if you like to tinker.  You can even add a musical soundtrack to each title, but you need to make sure that it's the same length as the video itself.  (If it's too long, you get to look at the last frame of the video until the sound track is done playing.)

We can answer questions about how to use it, here, though its use is pretty intuitive if you have ever done anything of this sort before.  We can even create a repository of menu templates.

Here's what it looks like:

DVD Flick screenshot

Darrell Icenogle
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May or may not work on Windows 7

One of our members was having trouble making a DVD with DVD Flik, which I have previously noted as a good, free piece of software for DVD authoring.  I gave it another shot, and found that I, too, was having trouble getting the program to work, though it had worked fine for me just a few months before.  The difference is possibly that I have upgraded to Windows 7 in the intervening months, and DVD Flik hasn't been upgraded for that version of Windows.

At any rate, this sent me in search of another good, free piece of software that you can use to create DVD's from your Flip videos, and that does work on Windows 7.

I wrote a tip about it, which you can read by clicking this link.