As a free DVD and Blu-ray burning application, ImgBurn allows you to burn many types of CD, DVD and Blu-ray images on various operating systems like, Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 and so on. However, the popular DVD burning application also has its own limitations, and one of them is its inability to support Mac OS operating system. So if you are using a Mac PC, you are going to need an alternative application to burn your DVD. Today, let's talk about some good ImgBurn for Mac alternatives providing astounding DVD burning performances.

Part 1: Know about ImgBurn

As is known to all, ImgBurn is a great free DVD burning program that supports a wide range of image file formats, audio formats and video formats as well. As a free DVD and Blu-ray recording application, ImgBurn started as a pure image burner that could only be used to burn CD image files. But now ImgBurn has already been updated much further to be an optical disc authoring program which allows you to burn many types of CD, DVD and Blu-ray. As a powerful DVD burning software, it takes much less space than well-known Nero, offering more advanced features in burning DVD video discs at the same time. It is such a valuable tool for family users to install and run for DVD burning at any time.

Part 2: Why to Find ImgBurn Alternative

As you can see from the above part, ImgBurn is a great DVD authoring application that can help you do various DVD authoring works. However, the biggest disadvantage for ImgBurn is that the application doesn't support Mac at all. Although there is iDVD as the default DVD burning tool for Mac, there might be some problems caused by discontinued iDVD for unknown reasons. Thus, when you'd like to burn DVD on Mac, another ImgBurn for Mac alternative is in high demand. Therefore, the following will show you a list of top three ImgBurn for Mac alternatives which hopefully get you an ideal DVD burning program if you would like to abandon ImgBurn.

Now let's see what programs are good enough to be the ImgBurn replacement on the Mac OS.

Part 3: Top 3 ImgBurn for Mac Alternatives

1. Leawo DVD Creator for Mac

As one of the top ImgBurn for Mac Alternatives, Leawo DVD Creator for Mac is a professional DVD burner program, which is popular and prevailing by virtue of its superior functions and respected brand. With this powerful Mac DVD Burner, users will be capable of creating DVDs from all sorts of videos easily, such as homemade videos, movie clips, funny online videos etc. Besides, it burns DVDs at a high speed while the original quality will be retained. Apart from its basic feature to burn DVDs, it also provides a compelling option for you to create a DVD menu easily. Obviously, if you would like to dump ImgBurn for burning DVD, Leawo DVD Creator may come to the first place to do such a job with a high-quality performance.

Key features of Leawo DVD Creator for Mac:

* Convert videos in over 180 formats to DVD;
* 6X higher burning speed;
* Create DVD disc, folder or ISO image without quality loss;
* Create photo slideshows and burn to DVD;
* Built-in menu templates and edit disc menu with personal preferences;
* Easily editable effects, 2D to 3D conversion support;

2. iTunes

We have talked about iDVD in the beginning which is an Apple developing program to burn music and video to DVDs, there is another option you can get produced by Apple – iTunes. Actually, iTunes not only can offer music and video online enjoyment but also can be used to burn music to CD in several steps. The disadvantage of iTunes for burning is that it can only burn audio instead of video.

Key features of iTunes:

* Apple's Official digital media store;
* Great compatibility for Mac OS;
* Easy library management for various devices;
* High DVD burning reliability

3. iDVD

If you would like to burn movies to DVD, you can use iDVD for better alternative. As you know, iDVD is part of Apple's iLife software suite, which was often used to burn DVD movies from QuickTime videos, music and digital photos. Users can watch the videos in DVD on any home DVD player with your big screen TV. However, it was discontinued from Mac OS X 10.7 and unavailable on Mac OS X 10.9. Anyway, for some Mac users, this is a free choice as ImgBurn for Mac Alternative to burn video to DVD on Mac. However, iDVD is a discontinued [1] DVD-creation application for Mac OS X. So it would be troublesome if you meet some issues when burning DVD with it.

Key features of iDVD:

* Fully compatible with QuickTime
* Amazing DVD menu themes
* Great user interface

Part 4: How to Burn DVD with ImgBurn Mac Alternative

As the best ImgBurn alternative on Mac OS, Leawo DVD Creator for Mac provides a great DVD burning experience for its users. Not only is the application powerful and efficient, it’s also easy to use for both video practitioners and beginners. The following is a brief guide, showing you how to burn a DVD disc with the best ImgBurn alternative Leawo DVD Creator for Mac.

STEP 1: Add video files

Click "Add Video" at the left corner of the top bar to load a video file or video folder to this Mac DVD Creator. To directly drag the video file to this program is also workable. When videos loaded, at the bottom, select DVD-5 or DVD-9 and a suitable aspect ratio 4:3 or 16:9 for the burning videos. The burning speed can be selected here as well.

STEP 2: Mac DVD Creator Settings

In the menu bar, navigate to the "Preferences" option to finish the necessary settings for the program upon burning, including: "General" for program language settings, "Conversion" to enable Priority native codec or not, "Burn" for choosing default DVD video mode, and "Others" for adding external subtitle.

STEP 3: DVD burning settings

Click the green "Burn" to pop up a sidebar for burning settings which includes setting "Burn to", "Disc Label" and "Save to" options. Then, you need to insert a blank writable DVD disc into the disc recorder drive, and select it as target under the "Burn to" option.

STEP 4: Start to Burn video to DVD

After Inserted a blank DVD disc to your DVD drive and finished burning settings, you can start to burn video to DVD on Mac by clicking on the "Burn" button. Next, it will start video to DVD creation right once and complete in minutes. You can cancel the task anytime during the burning process, and schedule the action when the burning is done.

Part 5: Comparison between 4 DVD Bunring Tools

In today's article, we gave a brief introduction on the DVD burning application ImgBurn, as well as three other ImgBurn alternatives that you can use on your Mac computer. As great DVD applications loved by millions of users, all of the three applications have their unique advantages and disadvantages. If you want to know more about how these applications differ from each other, we have prepared a simple chart, comparing some of the key features of the three DVD burning applications. Take a look at the chart and I'm sure you will have a better understanding about the 4 products.

Feature ImgBurn Leawo DVD Creator iTunes iDVD
Supported Input Format 25+ including AAC, APE, FLAC, M4A, MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, WMA, etc. 180+ including MP3, MP4, MPC, OGG, PCM, WAV, MKV, AAC, APE, WMA, WMV, etc. MP3, standard CD and DVD 65+ including MP4 MOV M4V AVI WMV MTS TS MPEG MKV
Custom Menu Template No Diverse menus with 40+ preset disc menu templates and fully customizable No A few customizable menu templates
Supported Operating System Windows Windows / Mac OS Windows / Mac OS Mac OS
Basic Video Editing No Yes No Yes
3D Movie Creation No Yes No No
Photo Slideshow Creation No Yes No Yes
ISO Image Creation No Yes No Yes

 

As you can see, although ImgBurn is a popular DVD burning application, there are some curtail disadvantages which make other three applications better options in most of the situations. Leawo DVD Creator is no doubt the most balanced DVD burning application. It supports both Windows and Mac system, supports the most input formats, and also features a lot of advanced video processing functions. As the built in application in Mac OS, iTunes can efficiently burn a simple DVD for you, but the customization, the input and output options are strictly limited. iDVD is more professional than iTunes, but still not flexible enough comparing to Leawo DVD Creator for Mac.

Conclusion

ImgBurn is a great DVD burning application, but unfortunately not well supported for Mac users. If you are using a Mac computer and want to burn a great DVD disc, you can use the alternatives introduced today instead. Among 3 ImgBurn alternatives for Mac introduced today, Leawo DVD Creator would be the most ideal one for your choice, while iTunes and iDVD can also create simple DVD discs for you easily with basic functions.

With the ImgBurn alternative applications for Mac introduced today and the detailed comparison between the four DVD burning applications, I'm sure you can make your choice for the product you want to use, and burn an excellent DVD disc for yourself.