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How to Burn and Convert MKV files to DVD on Mac For Free? As we know, the iDVD cant convert and burn MKV to DVD. If you have a lot of MKV videos taken on holidays, festivals, vacations, you may run into the problem of saving these videos or sharing them with your friends. Wouldnt it be a good idea to burn them to DVDs? In addition, making vacation and family DVDs will be taken a lot fun. MKV to DVD Converter for Mac is the perfect solution for Mac users to burn MKV files to DVD. It has very high output quality and provides users with a customizable DVD menu.
You could free download this Mac MKV to DVD Converter,it's free to try.Then the following steps will guide you how to put MKV movie to a DVD.
Step1. Load MKV Video & Slideshow
Click the Add button to add the video files and picture slideshow you want to burn. The added files will be shown in thumbnails in the right pane. You can re-arrange the files by drag them (combine, split, up, down, add, delete).
Step 2: Edit MKV Movie & Slideshow
If you want to edit a MKV video, you can select the file by clicking on it, and click the Edit button. Then you edit video with crop, effect, trim, watermark and rotate functions; set transition, text and background music to slideshow.
1)Crop Function: this function helps you to remove the black borders around the video. You can crop the video display size by adjusting the crop frame on screen directly or adjusting the Position and Size slider. Four zoom size available: Keep Original, Full Screen, 16:9 and 4:3.
2)Effect Function: you can adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and volume of the videos. Select Effect such as Black White, Old Film to make your video special. Deinterlacing can improve some video pictures quality with suitable option if there are some pixels or mosaics on your video picture.
3)Trim Function: use Trim function to capture your favorite video clips. You can trim several clips out of the original video to combine your new video and preview after-trimmed video before done.
4)Watermark Function: text and image watermark are available to add to your video and protect your original video being used without permission.
5)Rotate Function: +90/ -90 degrees rotation or vertical and horizontal flip can help you adjust video display direction easily.
6)Transition: you can set slide duration, transitions effects and transition duration to your photo slideshow as you wish.
7)Text: add text to your slideshow photo to express your feeling and thought. You can change the Font, Font Size and Color of your text.
8)Background Music: add the suitable music to your slideshow as you wish.
Step 3: Customize DVD menu
Click the Menu button on the lower right corner to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu. If you want to edit an element (template, frame, button or text) on the menu, you can just click on the element and edit it in the right pane.
Step 4: Start Burning MKV to DVD
After you finish the three steps above, click the Burn button to make burning settings: set DVD name, optical driver when more than one, speed, copy quantity, TV Standard and video standard for your new DVD disc. Burn to DVD disc, DVD folder, .dvdmedia, ISO File or Project.
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