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Converting the Movie:

Now it is onto the converting of the movie. All we have to do is to hit the Convert button. Once done, we can see the Convert button change to a Cancel button and a progress bar at the bottom will appear. Under here we will see the word Converting.

After a short period of time under the progress bar, the amount of time left will show up. This is a rough guide to how long it will take. We can also see at the very bottom of the screen what frame it is currently on, how many frames per second it is doing and the average bitrate it is using.

Once the conversion has been done and when the 'Burn result to DVD" option under burning settings has been enabled, then the application will automatically burn to the media in the drive. The following will appear if no empty media has been placed in the drive.

If we take a quick look in the working directory we will see the so-called VIDEO_TS folder. This is where you new DVD movie is stored. In case that the 'Add original files to DVD" option is enabled in the burning settings, then there will also appear a second folder called 'Original" and it will contain the original data.

If we go into the VIDEO_TS folder we will see the DVD files that will be burnt to the DVD. These are standard VOB, IFO and BUP files found on all DVD's.

Once the burning is stared, the movie the progress bar will reset itself to let us know how long the burn will take. This will depend upon the burner and the speed rating of the media.

Once done, a 'Operation complete" message will pop up.

The DVD is now made. It played fine on my DVD player and it looked just as good as the original DVD that was used for backing up. Obviously, the outputted movie will only be as good as your media files stored on your computer.

Besides XviD and DivX, We've also tried several other formats and we must add that the output was almost of excellent quality. We just noticed one major thing that could be annoying for some people, ConvertXToDVD doesn't handle QuickTime files correctly and this results in DVDs without sound.

Regarding subtitles, we must add that we were not always successful with idx/sub subtitle files, but we weren't able to verify if the problems came from ConvertXToDVD or form the subtitle files itself. However .srt subtitle (also 2 or more) files made no problems.

Let's take a quick look at the Positives and Negatives