How to Burn Digital Camera Photos and Videos to DVD

Digital camera is the great gadget to capture important events, such as wedding (wedding slideshow), anniversary, baby shower, travel, holidays, etc. Next, people will sit back and import recorded photos and videos to computer and get more from these media sources. For example, people can print out favorite photos, share them to popular social networking sites, burn digital camera photos and video to DVD and watch camera photos and video on TV. For the former, Facebook, Youtube, and Myspace is the best choice. To impress digital camera photos and videos to DVD, what you need is only the digital camera DVD software.

Make Camera Photo/Video DVD by Yourself

Instead of making camera DVD slideshow yourself, you could also send your camera photos and videos to some digital service companies. They help you convert camera photos and videos to DVD for you. The quality is always guaranteed. However, if you don't want others see your private photos, or if you would like to enjoy the process of saving precious memories, do it yourself.

Part 1: Save Camera Photos and Videos to Computer

a. 1394 FireWire cable or USB cable

Many cameras use the IEEE 1394 FireWire for importing digital camera photos and video. Before importing, check out the camera battery status and connect your digital camera to computer with 1394 FireWire. Then switch Power button on. The windows computer will automatically detect your camera device. First, appropriate drivers would be installed if required. Next, the Auto Play dialog will prompt up. Finally, select the task and follow on-screen instruction to complete importing camera photo to computer. Generally, you could find the connected camera in your Windows Explorer.

b. Camera Memory Card

There are also many camera, which saves recorded camera photos and video to camera memory card (SD, CF, Mini SD, Micro SD, etc). Therefore, by using a universal camera memory card reader, you can easy read and save camera photos and videos to computer. To do so, plug camera memory card into card slot on memory card reader, similarly to cable connection method, the appropriate drivers will be installed by windows system. Subsequently, you can operate files on memory card like usual files on your system.

Tips

1. After imported digital camera photos to your computer, turn off your camera and remove the connection cable from your PC.
2. If you know how to import digital camera photos to computer, skip this part.

Part 2: Burn camera photos and video to DVD

Now that camera photos and videos have been saved to your computer. You should then find some favorite songs to go with camera photo slideshow. Next is to pick out one digital camera DVD software to combine photos, videos, music, transition, motion and titles into camera slideshow. As described above, I will use Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder because it is compatible with both Windows XP and Vista. Moreover, tons of transitions and DVD menu templates allows you to easily make excellent camera video DVD for TV.

Burning Camera Video DVD to Watch and Deliver

Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder helps you make and burn camera videos to DVD, without any other software. The DVD video quality is beyond expectation. And by some special customizing and time consuming, you could get higher quality camera photo slideshow on DVD. Once the camera video DVD is burned, play it on TV with stand-alone DVD player or portable DVD player. It's also a good idea to share with friends and family by delivering camera video DVD copies to them.

Digital Camera Video DVD Making Tips

1. Built-in DVD burning engine comes with Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder. However, you could also create camera video ISO image and burn camera video DVD with your favorite DVD burning program, say Nero, Roxio and the free DVD Flick.
2. Enhance Camera Video Quality by switching to Best Quality option in Options dialog.
3. You can skip Menu tab if you only make camera video slideshow for blog and website. To do so, just convert camera video to MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, MPEG-I, MPEG-II format under Create tab.
4. Refer to more detailed camera video DVD tutorial.

Download free digital camera DVD software

Related Tutorials:

How to Scan Photo to DVD

Best Photo DVD Maker

Make Photo Movies to DVD

Create MySpace photo slideshow for business

Burn Youtube Videos on TV