"I have 3 separate h.264 files (video has been graded and color corrected) which I want to put on a DVD as one seamless movie. My friend did the exporting and had to do it in smaller chunks because it kept crashing his computer, the format he used was h.264, now it's very important that I can create a DVD movie with these files to be viewed on a standalone DVD player. How would do I this? Most efficient method and preserve good quality?"

The question above is common in lots of forums. Lots of users might have tried some ways to attempt to burn H.264 files to DVD but in vain. If you have encountered such issue, here I would like to share an effective method to help to solve this problem. Keep reading and you will know how to convert and burn H.264 video files to DVD discs.

Part 1: About H.264 files

Firstly, let's get some knowledge about H.264. H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC, is a next-generation video compression format. It is developed to be mainly used in high definition systems such as HDTV, Blu-ray and HD DVD as well as low resolution portable devices such as Sony's PSP and Apple's iPod. And H.264 has been increasingly popular, especially for Web video files like TV shows and broadcast. As a video encoding standard, it offers better quality at substantially lower bit rates than the popular MPEG-4 ASP. And you will find that H.264 can be often used as format including MKV, MOV, MP4, AVI.

If there are some TV shows or movies in H.264 format are stored on computer hard drive, and you would like to watch them on big screen TV via DVD player with families, you might need a professional DVD burning program to burn the videos to a DVD. In the following, I will introduce an effective H.264 to DVD burning program to help you convert and burn H.264 to DVD without any quality loss.

Part 2: How to convert H.264 files to DVD with Leawo DVD Creator

The first solution that I am going to provide you to convert H. 264 files to DVD is by using the professional DVD burning program Leawo DVD Creator. Leawo DVD Creator can be regarded as an effective H.264 to DVD converter since it is able to convert and burn H.264 to DVD disc in high speed without quality loss. As a top-of-the-class DVD burner software, Leawo DVD Creator is able to burn videos of 180+ file formats to DVDs. Moreover, the burning speed is 6X faster than its rivals and the app provides more than 40 menu templates for users to try. Besides, it also supports users to make DVDs out from pictures or photos and add subtitles as they like. Its video editing features enable users to get DVD with special effects. The function of create 2D video to 3D DVD make the video show 3d effect. All in all, with those powerful features, Leawo DVD creator can be the best tool for you to burn videos in H.264 or other popular formats to DVD. Now let's see how to convert H. 264 files to DVD using Leawo DVD Creator.

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DVD Creator 

☉ Convert videos like MP4, AVI, MKV to DVD format fast.

☉ Create DVD-5, DVD-9 disc, folder or ISO image without quality loss.

☉ 1-click operation to create photo slideshows and burn to DVD.

☉ Easily editable effects, 2D to 3D conversion support.

☉ Built-in menu templates and edit disc menu with personal preferences.

Step 1. Import H.264 files

Launch Leawo DVD Creator, turn to "Burn" page. Click "Add Video" or "Add Video Folder" to add H.264 file. You can also directly drag and drop your H. 264 files to the main frame. After that, insert a blank DVD to the disc recorder drive. At the bottom of the Burn page you can set the disc aspect ratio and disc type based on the blank disc you just insert.

Step 2. Edit video (Optional)

Leawo DVD Creator provides some additional functions for you to burn a more personalized DVD disc. More than 40 templates are available on the app and countless online templates are also available if you want to create a DVD menu based on the beautiful DVD menu templates. If you want to do some further edits to your video, click the edit button on the video, you can trim, crop, add special effects, add watermarks, or turn 2D video to 3D in the built-in video editor.

Step 3: Set output directory

When you have done all the settings and edits and ready to start the burning, click the green "Burn" button to call out the burning setting panel, where you can set output format, whether you want to create an ISO file or folder, or you want to burn your video to an optical DVD disc. Then set an output directory.

Step 4: Start burning H.264 files to DVD.

Finally, click the "Burn" icon below to start burning H.264 files to DVD. The whole burning process may cost minutes to hours according to the files size that you are burning. You can preset the finish behavior of the system so that you don't have to wait for it to finish.

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Part 3: How to convert H.264 files to DVD with Program4PC Video Converter Pro

Although Leawo DVD Creator seems good enough to burn H. 264 videos to a good DVD, it's not the only solution. For those who wants to try something else and only wants basic burning functions when burning a DVD, there is another DVD burning program that can be used.

Program4PC Video Converter Pro is a video converter program, as the name suggests. It is claimed to be an easy, fast, and reliable video converter which supports and converts a huge array of video formats. Program4PC Video Converter Pro also provides the function of letting you change screen resolution, audio codec, and frame rate. Like Leawo DVD Creator, when converting the video, you can also trim, crop, adjust colors and applying effects. But it doesn't provide a 2D to 3D conversion. Program4PC Video Converter Pro claims to be able to convert video, audio and DVD between over 300 formats and devices. Now let's take a look at how to convert and burn H.264 files to DVD using Program4PC Video Converter Pro.

Step 1: Import files

To add files for conversion, Launch Program4PC Video Converter Pro and then click the "Add Files" button. The files you add will appear in the list of input files. Be noted that you can convert multiple files simultaneously using Program4Pc's batch conversion feature. To do that, just import multiple video files at same time in this step.

Step 2: Choose output format

After importing the videos you want to convert, the nest thing you need to do is to choose the appropriate format you want to change your video files to. Since you want to convert H. 264 files to DVD, now the option for you should be DVD. You can find presets for the DVD format under Preset option. You may further customize the preset with adjustments to values like frame size and bit rate by clicking the Setting button.

Step 3: Start to convert

All converted files are saved by default to the specific folder. If you want to change the default folder, click the Browse button next to the Output Folder field and choose an existing folder or create a new one. After you have done all the settings you want to do, click "Convert Now" button to start convert you H. 264 file to DVD format. Normally the conversion will take quite a long time so be patient. After the conversion is done, you may open the output folder and play the converted files if you have a Blu-ray/DVD player program installed on your computer.

Part 4: A simple comparison between the two programs

Today I introduced 2 programs for you to convert H. 264 files to DVD. Although Leawo DVD Creator and Program4PC Video Converter Pro can both do the job, there are some great differences between the two programs.

Firstly, as a professional DVD burning program, Leawo DVD Creator does an exceptional job in creating and burning DVD disc, ISO image and folder. It can convert all kinds of video to ISO image, and also directly burn any video to a playable DVD. Not only that, you can also create a functional menu for your DVD. That means with Leawo DVD Creator, you won't need any further operations to make your video playable on a real DVD player.

Program4PC Video Converter Pro on the other hand, is a video converter program. It does a good job converting video between different formats, but lack of the function of burning a real DVD. Although you can convert a video to a DVD video format, it would still be a digital file after the conversion. If you want a playable DVD, you still need another program to burn it.

So, now the conclusion should be clear. If you want to convert video formats, Program4PC Video Converter Pro is well enough for you. If you want to burn your video to a playable DVD with advanced personalization settings, Leawo DVD Creator is no doubt your first choice.