VSO ConvertXtoDVD is a paid Windows application for turning video files into DVD-Video discs with menus, chapters, audio tracks and subtitles. It accepts formats such as MP4, MKV, AVI and MOV, converts the content into a DVD structure, and can burn the result or save it as folders or an ISO image. Its authoring tools control both the videos on the disc and how a viewer navigates between them.
Joining clips and cutting segments
A project can contain separate videos or several files joined into one continuous title. In the Merge tab, you can append clips and rearrange their order. Each joined file introduces a chapter point, so a collection of short recordings can play consecutively while retaining places to jump between them. ConvertXtoDVD allows up to 99 files in a merged title.
The Cut tab removes selected portions from the conversion. You mark the beginning and end of an unwanted segment, then refine those boundaries using time intervals or individual frames. The preview can skip the marked sections to show the resulting sequence. These cuts leave the original video file intact.
Picture adjustments
ConvertXtoDVD provides brightness, contrast and saturation controls with a preview of the changes. Rotation corrects sideways or upside-down footage, while image filters offer a split-screen comparison between the original picture and the processed result. A watermark editor adds text or an image with controls for placement, appearance and opacity.
Framing controls determine how a source fits the DVD picture, and the preview shows how each choice affects it:
- Letterboxing: retains the complete image and adds black bars.
- Pan-and-scan: crops the image to fill the frame.
- Stretching: fills the frame by changing its proportions.
- Manual padding and cropping: let you set the boundaries yourself.
DVD menus
Menu structures reflect the contents of the project. Series layouts present multiple videos, while Movie layouts emphasize one film and put additional videos in a Bonus section. Open Style allows more extensive layout changes. A project can also omit the menu and use the player’s controls to move through titles and chapters.
The menu editor lets you reposition and resize elements, change text styling, and replace backgrounds with pictures or video. Video backgrounds and thumbnails have their own starting points and durations, and background audio can be selected separately. Reusable themes preserve a menu design for later projects.
ConvertXtoDVD includes a remote-control preview for checking how the menu behaves during playback. Its menu checker can flag overlapping objects and text that is too long, helping identify navigation and layout problems before conversion.
Chapters
Chapter markers provide jump points within a title. ConvertXtoDVD can import existing chapters, create them at intervals, or let you position them by timestamp and timeline. The DVD format limits a title to 99 chapter points.
For menus that support chapter selection, each chapter can have a thumbnail taken from the video or supplied as a separate picture or clip. Its starting time can differ from the chapter’s actual position, allowing the menu image to identify the scene without changing where playback begins.
Audio tracks
You can add, remove and preview audio streams for a title, name them in the disc menu, assign language identifiers and choose the default playback track. A timing offset moves a stream forward or backward when it does not align with the picture. Volume adjustment and normalization are separate controls, and both can be heard in the preview.
Audio output choices include AC-3 stereo, AC-3 5.1 and MPEG audio. The automatic option normally converts audio to AC-3 but can copy compatible AC-3 without converting it again. Selecting a channel layout can mix the source down or up to the chosen number of channels.
Subtitles
Subtitle files can be added manually or detected automatically when they share the video’s filename and folder. ConvertXtoDVD supports formats including SRT, SUB/IDX and ASS/SSA. Timing offsets correct synchronization, while language labels and a default selection determine how subtitle streams appear and start on the disc.
SRT and single-style ASS/SSA subtitles allow changes to their font, size, color and positioning. Styling controls are more restricted for formats that already define their appearance. Subtitles can remain selectable through the DVD menu or remote control, or be embedded permanently into the converted picture. Embedded subtitles cannot be switched off and do not appear as a separate menu choice.
Encoding and burning with VSO ConvertXtoDVD
ConvertXtoDVD offers PAL or NTSC output and 4:3 or 16:9 display proportions. DVD resolution settings affect how much content fits on a disc: lowering the resolution saves space at the cost of image detail. Conversion options include two-pass encoding, hardware decoding and multicore processing.
The finished project can be saved as a DVD folder structure containing the video, navigation and backup files, or as an ISO disc image. The built-in burning engine writes recordable, rewritable and dual-layer DVDs. Copy-protected commercial DVD and Blu-ray material is not supported as input.
