STEP1



The first need you need to do is load the video file. Locate the Add button and
click it to add the video file you want to convert.

STEP2



This dialog will come up, select your video file and click open.

STEP3

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This is how the main window will look after the video file is loaded. We are
going to need some calculations to find the bitrate so you should note the time
length (1). Next thing is the audio codec, where we can choose between Mp2 and
AC3 (Xilisoft Video Converter is one of the few programs that allows encoding to
AC3). AC3 offers better quality but needs a bigger bitrate. In videos that the
audio is Mp3 you should select Mp2 and 224 bitrate. For videos with higher
quality audio select AC3 and 448kbps. At the video settings you can select
between NTSC and PAL (3). Make sure you select the same format as your source or
you may experience problems. Now the next setting is the bitrate (4). Here
you'll want to make sure that the video will fill a full DVD. We have created a
very basic calc you can use to calculate this number here. Just add the movie
length and the bitrate of the audio you used and you'll get the right value.
Then put it in all three bitrate options (bitrate_size, max and min). Finally
set the output folder (5) and click encode (6). See the next window to review
the settings!

STEP4



Here we go, it's encoding! You can still have a look in the settings and see if everything is as it should be! In a short time you'll have a MPEG2 video file which you can author and burn to DVD using a program like Cucusoft MPEG to DVD Burner.