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Free Tools: DVD Burning
While uploading videos to YouTube is the natural way to show off your kids' movies, it is also fun to create a DVD of the movies made by everyone in the class, or a DVD to showcase one child's work over the course of a year.
Or introduce your children to the concept of a "show reel" -- a short sequence showing their best work to be used as a portfolio.
Either way, you're going to want a way to burn the movie files, whether they are in AVI or MOV format, onto a DVD that can be played on a standard player.
There are two free, Open Source and very good applications I recommend for this.
1) DVD Flick
DVD Flick is notable for the large variety of file formats and codecs it is able to cope with, so no matter what output you've got from your various video-making programs, they can all be bundled together onto a DVD without hassle.
Burning with DVD Flick is easy, but it is not fast. Be prepared to spend some time waiting while your files are encoded and burned.
2) InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a very popular Open Source licensed program that not only can burn DVDs from digital file, but can create disk copies, rip DVDs, and save audio and data tracks to files. The only reason I have DVD Flick as my number one choice on this site is that version .50 of InfraRecorder doesn't burn DVDs for many people.
Or introduce your children to the concept of a "show reel" -- a short sequence showing their best work to be used as a portfolio.
Either way, you're going to want a way to burn the movie files, whether they are in AVI or MOV format, onto a DVD that can be played on a standard player.
There are two free, Open Source and very good applications I recommend for this.
1) DVD FlickDVD Flick is notable for the large variety of file formats and codecs it is able to cope with, so no matter what output you've got from your various video-making programs, they can all be bundled together onto a DVD without hassle.
Burning with DVD Flick is easy, but it is not fast. Be prepared to spend some time waiting while your files are encoded and burned.
2) InfraRecorder
InfraRecorder is a very popular Open Source licensed program that not only can burn DVDs from digital file, but can create disk copies, rip DVDs, and save audio and data tracks to files. The only reason I have DVD Flick as my number one choice on this site is that version .50 of InfraRecorder doesn't burn DVDs for many people.
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