[sotd] DVD Flick - Software of the Month [July 31, 2007]
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DVD Flick 1.2.1.4 - Software of the Month
For those with a pile of video files sitting on the back burner and fully
intending to transform that footage of Junior happily wearing his birthday
cake into something watchable on a stand alone DVD player, this month's
freeware for the Windows platform may be just what they need.
DVD Flick by programmer Dennis Meuwissen is a nicely configured, reasonably
reliable foray into the sometimes tricky land of video format conversion.
The current release of June 2007, is a Sourceforge project and incorporates
a number of essential ancillary applications under its umbrella. Handling a
broad range of formats, from the widely used .avi to the unpopular but
still frequently seen .mkv or Matroska files -- named after those little
Russian nesting dolls -- DVD Flick will handle a video project from start
to finish, including burning to DVD with the integrated program Imgburn.
Consulting the help file or HTML "Guide" as it is termed, is indispensable
for novices to video conversion projects. The Guide features a walk-through
for creating a simple DVD with images of dialogue windows and standard
recommendations about what to fill in the boxes. For those requiring a bit
more hand-holding, detailed tutorials for this program are available
elsewhere, at sites such as Videohelp.com.
After wrestling with the settings, users can move on to the encoding
process, which requires lots of free hard drive space and as fast a
processor as possible but is basically an automated routine. Users are
advised to allow the computer to chunter away overnight to complete the
encoding and burn the DVD to disc.
Those who may be reluctant to give a video conversion project a shot, might
keep in mind that the price of turning out a "coaster" has plummeted
dramatically over the past few years so a failed attempt usually costs the
princely sum of two-bits. The triumph of creating a DVD, viewable on a
stand alone player, is generally worth a few hiccups and quarters along the
way.
Sprint over to the site for additional information, a busy message board
and the download link at:
http://www.dvdflick.net/
A.M. Holm
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