dvdSanta

dvdSanta

DvdSanta is an All-in-One software that lets you copy, create, convert and burn your DVD movies. It can convert ALL video formats, including DivX/Xvid movies, MPEG movies, AVI, WMV, QuickTime, Real Video directly into DVD format. It can turn your photos into DVD movies with Hollywood style motion effects It can can transfer miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD video. dvdSanta is extremely easy to use, fast and powerful. dvdSanta has its own DVD burning engine and does require any third party API to do its job.

An all in one to create, convert and burn DVDs

dvdSanta is a useful, trial version software only available for Windows, that is part of the category Video software with subcategory DVD & DivX.

More about dvdSanta

dvdSanta is a light program that will require less storage than many software in the section Video software. It’s a software very heavily used in many countries such as United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.

The current version of the software is 4.00 and the latest update was on 2/6/2011. It’s available for users with the operating system Windows 2000 and prior versions, and you can get it in English, Spanish, and German.

Since the software joined our selection of programs and apps in 2011, it has managed to achieve 225,481 downloads, and last week it gained 33 downloads.

DVDSanta is a complete set of applications for the creation of DVD videos that unite various interesting features, although you cannot include menus on the DVD.

The program has various options:

– Copy a DVD or convert AVI, WMV, MPG, ASF and other files to a compatible format.

– Create a slide show of photos that includes background music

– Import files from an entry device like a video camera to convert them to DVD format

– Burn disk images or a VIDEO_TS collection to DVD format.

DVDSanta also allows you to add subtitles in .srt and .sub format to the final DVD video.You can create slideshows by using digital photos and by adding music, animations and transitions.

dvdSanta helps you save memory space, as it is able to copy 9GB double layer DVD movies to 4.7GB DVD-R discs.

Unleash your creativity and transform your photos into DVD movies, apply motion effects, copy your miniDV camcorder tapes directly to DVD and enjoy perfect convenience by converting your movies to various formats, such as WMV, AVI, ASF, VOB, DivX or MPEG.

dvdSanta was build with simplicity of use in mind. Anyone can burn DVDs using this application and, moreover, dvdSanta doesn’t need a third party API to function because it has its own burning engine.

dvdSanta offers support for the most common video formats, such as WMV, ASF, VOB, MPG and AVI; it works with popular image formats like JPG, BMP and PNG and it will also support almost any audio format you throw at it, including WMA, WAV and MP3.

Various format discs and burners are supported, such as DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW. The application accepts both the 4:3 and the 16:9 video aspect ratio and the NTSC and PAL video standards.

Other features of dvdSanta are converting and burning video files directly into DVD movies, synchronizing background music with slide shows, burning ISO images or VIDEO_TS files to discs and mixing multiple video files into one single DVD disc.

dvdSanta is recommended to any average user and even to beginners who want to burn DVDs the simple way. This utility is equipped with all the customization you need in order to copy, create and convert DVD movies fast and easy.

I had tried dvdSanta when it was still in version 2 and I must say that I was not excited at all. That changed when I gave v3 of dvdSanta a try! dvdSanta takes care of your converting needs, as you can now easily convert your DivX / XviD and any other formats to DVD using only one application. Everything is very simple as dvdSanta encodes the files directly to VOB files and then authors the DVD, so all you have to do then is to burn (again with dvdSanta!). That saves you the hassle and the time you need to use an encoding application, then an authoring program to create the DVD files and then another program to burn, as dvdSanta takes care all these at once!
The MPEG2 encoder is pretty good, as the quality was similar to the TMPGEnc one when running in 1-pass mode. But the speed was better as it took me only 1 and a half hour to have the DVD ready, when in other case you need 2-3 hours to encode then almost another hour to author and then burn. The encoder is very fast, maybe not as fast as WinAVI’s one, but this one offers better quality. Also the burning engine worked OK.
Besides all that dvdSanta has more features we will explore in future guide like, creating DVDs straight from your DV camera and creating a slide show DVD from your pictures.
You can download a trial version of dvdSanta here. If you wish to buy a serial you can do it here. So, grab the trial, install and let’s start the guide!

The DVD is still used by a lot of people, even though it was launched many years ago. The reasons for its popularity are various. For example, DVD discs can be played using a wide range of media devices and software players, they are cheap and can store a fair amount of data. But in order to create DVD discs with various content, you will need a specialized application. It is not enough to copy the actual file on the disc, as it may require converting before it can be written on the disc.

An application which can help you in this situation is dvdSanta. This Windows application allows you to create various types of DVDs, with different types of content. After launching the application, one will notice the graphical interface, which features several buttons. The first button allows creating video DVDs from the user’s digital video files.

A wide range of video formats are supported for this purpose and several files can be added at the same time in the program’s interface. After the desired video file is added, the user will only need to adjust the video quality and then he will be able to create the disc. The second button of dvdSanta allows creating photo slideshow DVDs, containing all the user’s photos. For this, one will need to select the desired photo folder, adjust the image quality and that’s it. Even background music can be included inside the photo slideshow.

Besides that, dvdSanta can even capture the video stream from digital cameras connected to the computer and can burn them to a DVD directly. In case the user creates a DVD image before or copies the DVD folder from a disc to his hard disk, he will be able to burn the content on a blank disc using dvdSanta, with a single mouse click.

Pros:
It allows you to create several types of DVDs with various contents. Besides that, the interface is practical and intuitive. Furthermore, a large number of media file formats are supported by the application. What’s more, DVD discs can be created from disc images or DVD folders.

Cons:
There are not so many customization options available in the interface.

dvdSanta offers you an easy way of creating various types of DVDs, using all your media files as source.