I've only had nero for a short while, so i am still a bit of a noob, but here goes. Depending on what version of nero you've got, open up nero start smart and select (under the video menu) Make your own DVD-video, or alternatively, open up nero vision direct from the start menu. Both open up the same thing.

What you need:
your downloaded .avi file
nero (this uses version 7 premium)
a DVD write drive

Nerovision is what you'll need for avi releases. In the right hand there's a menu of options. Click add video files and browse for your avi download file. At the bottom there is a bar telling you how much space has been used and a drop down menu that will say DVD as default. Choose your type of dvd here, it should change thequality automatically to match the disk space available.

Click next. You will come to a menu create window. If you don't want to make a menu, go to the top right hand corner drop down box and select do not creat a menu. If you do, start off with title menu only (it's easier, and all i've done so far). Double click on the menu preview to get into the editing section. Create the menus etc with titles, change the background fonts etc. Just have a go mess around you'll come up with something.

Then click next until you come to a window with a remote control (should be next twice). In here you can preview the menu you've created. A rather neat thing i reckon.

Click next again, select the burn drive, give the volume name the name of the film or something similar. If you want to back up or create later click write to hard drive (from which just create a data disk with the files) or close other unimportant stuff down and click burn. Then wait until it's finished.

Hope that mini guide helps you for the basic stuff for now. Mike

PS If nero produces a film that is too big for your standard 4.7 GB dvd-r, do not fear, write to image file (.nrg in nero) and use DVD Shrink to reduce it to the standard size.

Alternatively go here Burning DVDs, use the other software and ask them how to use it lol

Great TUT Teebs!!

This will help me and probably others with burning AVi's to DVD

Thanks!

how long does this take i currently use avi2dvd....

A while, depends, but it's not overly fast, but the faster you get the shittier the quality.

Nice guide Teebs...

nice one mate,despite all the people who knock it i still think its the best allrounder

plantz

is there a tutorial on how to do this but with a vcd?? because im trying to do the same thing as this tut but with a vcd or even a svcd but it isnt fitting on the disc??

I am loading videos that are WAY WAY under 700mb for a standard cdr but they arent fitting on the project.. ???

I used to burn VCDs all the time. A single CD can only hold about an hour of video as a VCD

you have 2 options:

1 split the avi in half and have 2 svcds. you can do it with nero. convert half the avi at a time with the cut function (scissors) keep track of the times you cut on. (of course i did a terrible job of splitting in half..lol)
part1

part2


2 download DIKO and try to convert the avi to ksvcd which will be around 800mb and fit on a single cd.

u r prob useing nero 7 i had the same porb but a easy fix is to after u add fill go to more at the bottom then go to video options then click on dvd-video tab then next to quality setting drop down the drop down bar and select standard play and click ok and a box will pop up and ask u if u wont this to be your default click yes and your prob will be solved i hope this will help it fixed it 4 me but i now use nero 8 and have had no probs on nero 8 make sure u disable nero scout so u dont get the pirate mes. have a good one

in nero vision when i add 1 .avi file it shows 4.7 GB space accupied by that single file, so how its possible to make a dvd from atleast 4 .avi files?

um taht i knw of i usally put 2 but like the dude above said make an image of it then shrink with dvd shrinker

and also um when i burn with nero, the video near the ends starts to stuff up on the cd's is it how im doing it or is it my burner??

mind updating it a bit and show how to add subtiltes in the burning?
i need some help with that

How come with some of my aXXo rips, it says the file will be 4.36/4.37gb for my DVD, but when the actual burning takes place, after it's transcoded it and stuff, it ejects my disks saying there isn't enough room.

How can i get around this? And why does it do this?

thanks

Corel,
From my limited experience an average ~700MB (~1.5hr) .avi file, when copied on to DVD will use nearly all the 4.7GB available (but this single file can be played on any DVD player).

If you want to stick 4, 5 or even 6, ~700MB .avi's onto a DVD disc you have to make a DATA DVD (Nero Start Smart) but these files can only be viewed on a compatible player... your computer and some DVD players (Philips 5980, etc.).

There's a turtorial hereabouts somewhere but I can't find it at the mo. Edit: try here... avi-DVD

Dunno if this helps?

Steve

Also I notice you don't mention how to add chapters. For some this is a definite must have as it is a real pain if you don't have chapters and you can't sit through the entire movie in one sitting. ;-}

To add chapters in Nero 7 - In the window where you added the video file on that same screen the last menu item is create chapters. Click on it. Under the big box on the left there is a blue line click on it where you want your chapter the click on the last blue botton continue to do this until you have as many or as few chapters as you like (I usually only put 7-8 on mine). You can also let Nero auto detect the chapters by clicking the second to last button shown (I used to do it this way but it takes a lot longer and usually end up with 18 chapters)

After you have your chapters click on next and proceed as previously instructed.

I hope this helps for those of you who want chapters on their disks.

Holyterror

Erm this is a problem I had, and largely I found it was the burner (presumably the nero rom) because when i moved the images across to my mac to burn them they worked a treat. But yeah, if that is a problem, try saving as an image, double checking with dvd shrink, and then trying again. Alternatively, go for Nero 8 which to myknowledge no long has this problem.

thanks teebs helps alot

depend on what kind of avi (Xvid, Divx) but yea that was a good explanation of nero burning

AVI TO DVD USING NERO.....

This procedure will work with almost any file type you like.

Because there has been so many requests asking how to burn .avi files to DVD, I thought I would take a few minutes and detail this procedure using Nerovision 4, that comes with Nero premium 7. If you have a different version, I assume the procedure is similar. By default, Nerovision displays a “tips” menu with each step, this is helpful for new users, but for the purpose of the tutorial, and keeping it simple, I’m going to ignore them.

Start Nerovision 4

Select “make DVD”

Select “DVD video”



On this screen you select what video files you want to be burnt on your DVD, select add video files, a file browser will appear, simply click on the desired file/files. You can repeat this process to add more files from a different location.
You will now see a display of the files, with details and at the bottom, you will see a bar graph showing the amount of space the project will use to make a DVD.



You will now see a "create chapters" button on the bottom right hand side. This is NOT a necessary step, so I'm not going to get into details here, but its very easy to let nero automatically detect chapters.


Now, On the Bottom, you will see "video options", click on this...

Select NTSC for region code 1 (most of north america and asia), or region code 2 PAL for europe.

You will also see an option for "smart encoding". I have found that this option is anything BUT "smart", and can lead to audio snyc problems, so I always disable this.


Now, if you select the "DVD video" tab, you can select the "fit to disc" setting, which will automatically adjust bit rate to make your videos fit the dvd disc you selected.

You will also see an option to select single pass, or two pass encoding. Two pass will give better quality, but will take longer.



click "Next"

Now, if you double click on any of the video files,

A menu will appear on the right where you can select options, the top item lets you choose the layout, how many items appear on the page shown, the size of the icons ect. You can also have multiple pages in your menu, which is nice if you have a large amount of files on the DVD.

There are many ways to customize your project, I’m not going to explain all the options here, just the basics to get you started.

This screen show will show how to browse for an image to use for background (I like to use a screenshot from the video.

Going down to “Header/Footer text”, you can change the My Disc (the default name used with my version of nero) to what ever you want displayed, and add text to the bottom of your menu.

You can also double click on the files listed and change the text from the file name, to what ever you like.

After you have your menus setup the way you like, you can then, Select Next until you get to “Preview page”.

Now you can either use the remote control pictured on the right, or just click on the file icons to view your project. Once you are happy with its setup, you can select Next again.



You may now get a warning saying your project contains more pal then NTSC, but will be burnt in NTSC, do you want to change the settings to PAL. Select no, unless your DVD player is setup to play PAL discs. (if you don’t know what this means, check the DVDs you use, for example, north America uses NTSC, or Region 1.)

On this page you can select the device to burn your DVD. I prefer to burn my project to "image recorder" which will make a nero disc image (disc.nrg), which can then be burned to a dvdr as many times as you like, and will will prevent the need to start the entire project over if the burn should fail.



You will now be prompted to enter a name for the dvd disc image...


FOR BEST RESULTS SHUT DOWN ALL RUNNING PROGRAMS.....

Click OK and the encoding will begin.

At this point your almost done, but the computer is just getting started

This screen shows two bar graphs showing progress of current file being transcoded, and the total progress of the project. You can also select the priority the computer gives the project. If you are not going to use the computer until it’s done, select high. In any case, if burning to a disc, I don’t recommend any other programs be running during the burning stage.

Also, don’t be surprised if it takes a long time to transcode. I have seen projects take anywhere from one to ten hours, depending on your system and the files being used.

I hope you find this useful.

MEV........

THANKS GOES TO SUSPECT FOR THE ORIGINAL GUIDE....