The Best DVD Burning and Recording Software

Nero Video

Intended for the "best resolution and highest video quality," this relatively inexpensive DVD burner from Nero is a great choice for anyone interested in creating simple yet professional videos and slideshows. Nero lets you burn 4K, full HD, and SD videos, and it includes a disc menu creator to help you create a navigation screen for the disc's content.

Creators will appreciate the suite of editing tools—including an old movie effect, slow motion, transitions, and keyframe animation, and the ability to remove black bars from the sides of a video file.

Nero Video also supports vertical video from smartphones, and can create movie titles and posters for your content. There's dozens of built-in movie templates and galleries to help streamline the video creation process for those included to edit everything themselves.

Roxio Creator NXT

Roxio's line of powerful, easy-to-use CD and DVD burning software is a solid fit creators and professionals who would prefer a full suite of editing tools. Roxio Creator NXT offers CD and DVD burning, video capture, video editing with motion tracking, photo editing, sound manipulation, and DVD authoring. The package includes 15 other software tools and apps—all for a surprisingly affordable price. Roxio is definitely a more hands-on option for DV burning and creation.

Adobe Premiere Elements

Adobe Premiere is a high-end video editing program. Premiere Elements is a pared down version of the same software, offering both video editing and DVD burning in one package. It's a great program for novice-to-intermediate video editors, as well as budget-conscious buyers.

Premiere Elements includes step-by-step instructions for all kinds of tasks, making it accessible even if you're new to video editing. There are transitions, themes, effects, video collage tools, and a GIF maker. Some of the more advanced tools include a shake reducer for unstable videos, motion titles, face detection with pan and zoom, and photo blending.

Because Adobe has so many similar creative tools, you can expect tight integration with their other programs. If you already use other Adobe Photoshop or Flash, we recommend Premiere Elements for video editing and DVD burning.

Roxio Easy Video Copy & Convert

Another DVD burner from Roxio, Easy Video Copy & Convert is more of a video converter tool. It's a bit easier to use than other programs on this list, but it's also one of the least expensive.

This DVD burner can convert to and from many different video file format, allowing you to play video on your phone, computer, or tablet. You can add multiple video files or video sources to the queue (including YouTube), adjust the video compression to work with your DVD size, alter audio settings, and create a DVD menu.

If you're using Roxio Easy Video Copy & Convert to burn a DVD movie, you can schedule it to run at a specified time so that it doesn't hog your CPR load when you need it for other tasks.

Finally, it's also capable of ripping discs—that is, copying Blu-rays, audio CDs, data discs, S-VCDs, and DVDs to your computer. Another option is to share your video creations on Facebook and YouTube from inside the software.

VideoStudio Pro

VideoStudio Pro is a basic but affordable video editing and disc burning tool for casual editors and home video enthusiasts. It works with Blu-ray, DVD, and other disc types, and allows you to rip (copy) disc media to your computer.

If you're looking for a really quick way to burn videos to a disc, you can use the included Quick-Drop desktop gadget. Just drag and drop the videos, music, and other data you want to burn and VideoStudio will do it for you.

You can import HD video from pretty much any disc or file format, including HD, 4K, and 360 videos. Some of the DVD menu options allow you to add reflections, rotating objects, animated icons, and masked text. The auto-align feature makes it easy to structure your menu to look professional.