I like to share my home-made videos with my relatives and friends. In
the days of tape recorders, it was never a problem. You would simply plug
your camera or your video player into another VCR and start copying. No
need to care about formats. Just use a proper cord and you're all set.
But, the digital millennium has brought brand new quality standards and
expectations of an even easier process of copying and distribution.
Unfortunately, while the quality is above all expectations, the process
of copying has became quite annoying!
My new CD/DVD burner supports 16(!) different disk formats. When I try
to burn some movies, I feel as if I'm back at school. Conversion
utilities ask me to select formats, codecs, compression levels and tons
of other options, the purpose of which is beyond me. They want me to do
complex math calculations in order to guess optimal parameters for
fitting my movies into a specific media.
I need something completely automated. This is why I ended up with
ChiliBurner from Movavi. This program allows you to copy your digital
videos the way you copied your video tapes. You can select any target
media. There are plenty of choices. You can burn a Video CD (VCD, a
common CD-ROM with low-res video that can be played even by a game
console) or its higher resolution but shorter brother, the SVCD, Super
Video CD. Or you can make a modern DVD Video disk. It doesn't matter how
many sides or layers your DVD media has. Just use what you have on hand.
Then select what you want to be burned on your disk. You can burn an
uncompressed avi file captured from your camcorder or TV Tuner, or avi,
mpeg, QuickTime and RealMedia files downloaded from the Internet or video
streams from another DVD Video disk. When you select the files you want,
you can see if there is enough space for them available on your media.
You'll see a progress bar in real-time.
Then just burn it! It's as easy as copying a tape.