Computer: Mac & PC Software Tips : How to Convert DivX Format to DVD Format

Converting DivX format files to DVD format files involves dragging the video file into a program called DVD Flick and creating a DVD with a DVD burner. Home computers make DVD creation easier with tips from a computer specialist in this free video on computer technology.

Expert: Michael Jurkowski
Bio: Michael Jurkowski has been a computer expert since he setup a hand-me-down DOS-only PC when he was seven.
Filmmaker: Christian Munoz-Donoso

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You may have a couple of Divx video files
lying on your computer that you don't know
what to do with. Today we're going to talk
about how to put them on a DVD using free
software through Windows. My name is Mike
and I will be your guide. I'm using a program
called DVD Flick. What DVD Flick does is convert
any video file you can throw at it into a
watchable DVD. I have a DVD file right here,
I'm sorry a Divx file right here. It's a movie
trailer. All I'm going to do is just drag
it on to DVD Flick, painless operation, there
it is. And now I'm going to create DVD, it's
going to ask me if I want to proceed, I'm
going to hit yes. It's going to go through
the encoding process, which even though it
takes some times a little bit of a while,
it's worth it. Because it's pretty pain free.
Walk away, maybe burn it over night, but I
mean this is going pretty quick. We're already
at twenty percent done, when it done it's
going to be a file that you can burn directly
on to a DVD, using any software you want.
There's actually a way to burn it with this
directly so you don't have to do anything
else but click burn. Okay the conversion is
done, and we ended up with a file that got
pretty large. It went from a seventy-six megabyte
video Divx file to a ISO that is one hundred
and fifty-three megabytes. But it's ready
to be burned on to any blank DVD, and then
you pop it in any DVD player and it's going
to play. So all in all it does take up more
space, but you delete it when you're done,
and pretty simple operation. So that's the
basic way to convert Divx to DVD, it's a little
bit different on a Mac. But on the Windows
PC pretty painless. That's how you do it.