How to Burn Multiple Movies on One DVD with a Menu at Once

Are you troubled with tons of videos (like movies, TV shows, and anime episodes) kept on the computer and not willing to delete them? If so, you may be interested in how to burn multiple movies on one DVD with a menu to save more storage space. However, a DVD can't contain an unlimited number of videos. Before burning multiple videos to DVD at once, you should learn some basic knowledge.

 Cisdem DVD Burner

Best App to Burn Multiple Movies to DVD

• Burn multiple videos to DVD-5, DVD-9, DVD folder, and ISO
• Supported disc types: DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD+/-R DL, DVD-RAM
• Support numerous video formats, like MKV, MP4, M2TS, WMV, 3GP, VOB, etc.
• Edit multiple video files by cropping, rotating, adding watermarks/effects
• Import external subtitles to movies
• Offer beautiful and stylish menu templates of Holiday, Travel, Birthday, and other themes
• Manually customize the elements like background picture, music, text, etc. in menu templates
• Smart preview available before final modifications
• Easy to use for beginner

Free Download Windows 10 or later Free Download macOS 10.13 or later

Things to Know before Burning Multiple DVDs at Once

1) Common types of writable DVD

There are 3 common types of DVDs: DVD-5, DVD-9, and DVD-10. Currently, double-sided DVD-10 is not very popular. Most people are still using DVD-5 and DVD-9.

2) How many movies can a DVD hold?

It depends on the movies' length and quality, not size. As shown in the table above, a standard 4.7GB Single Layer recordable DVD is able to store around 120-133 minutes of video. And a Dual Layer 8.5GB blank DVD can hold video up to 240 minutes.

Movies typically run about 80-120 minutes. That's to say, a DVD-5 typically holds just one at standard quality, whereas DVD-9 can hold two movies. To burn multiple movies on one DVD, DVD-9 is more suitable. However, if you just want to burn multiple shorter TV shows and episodes to DVD, DVD-5 is a great choice.

3) Why not increase the DVD storage capacity (minutes)？

The video bitrate determines the capacity of the DVD. The lower the bitrate is, the more movies a DVD can hold. 1000 kbps helps you store approximately 9 hours in DVD-5 and 15 hours in DVD-9. 3200 kbps is 3 hours in DVD-5 and 5 hours in DVD-9.

Then, you might ask, "why not reduce the bitrate so that I can burn multiple movies to DVD-5".

DVD encoded with MPEG2 can't set the bitrate under 3000kbps. Otherwise, the DVD quality will be very poor with a significant amount of artifacts (especially the movies that have many explosions, action scenes).

Although a high bitrate improves quality, the encoded MPEG-2 video bitrate should typically not exceed 8.5Mbps to ensure stable playback and leave sufficient data space for audio and subtitles. Most DVD burning software often uses a default bitrate around 5Mbps when burning multiple videos to DVD.

4) AC3 VS MP2, Which one to choose?

To ensure universal playback compatibility on all DVD players, video must be encoded into the standard MPEG-2 format during the DVD authoring process. So, what’s the best audio codec to burn large video files to DVD?

Most commercial DVDs have AC3 as an audio stream choice, because:

• Encode 100% DVD compliant 5.1 Channel audio files
• Maintain high quality and compatibility
• Higher efficiency and can provide the same or similar quality as 192kbps AC-3 at a lower bitrate
• NTSC DVD players support AC3, but not MP2. PAL DVD players support both AC3 and MP2

Due to different coding principles, MP2 at 320kbps or higher may be better than AC-3.

All in all, a standard authoring program should specify codecs as MPEG2 at 5Mbps and AC3 at 192kbps in DVD encoding settings.

How to Burn Multiple Movies on One DVD with a Menu

Cisdem DVD Burner is an effective DVD authoring program to burn multiple movies to DVD. It features 6 quality presets - Fit to Disc, Best, High, Normal, Low, and Lowest - which utilize the standard MPEG-2 and AC3 codecs to intelligently adjust video bitrate (1.8-8.5 Mbps) and audio bitrate (128-384 kbps). Click to learn more.

Take 3 quality presets as an example. See how many 2-hour movies fit on a disc.

• Fit to disc: The bitrate fluctuates between 1.8M-8.5M according to the size of your video. It allows burning up to 5.5h to 4.7GB DVD and nearly 10h to 8.5GB DVD.
• Best: Bitrate is fixed at 8.5M. It can burn about 1.2h for DVD 5 and 2.2h for DVD 9, and preserves the highest video quality.
• Normal: Bitrate is 5M. It's the best option for DVD 5 to store videos less than 2 hours and DVD 9 to save files less than 4 hours.

The app also has the ability to create DVD movies from a wide range of video formats, like H264, RMVB DivX, MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, etc. You can also edit videos with the built-in tools and apply free DVD menu templates.

Although its interface only shows that the output DVD types are DVD 5 and DVD 9, in fact, except for Blu-ray DVD, Cisdem DVD Burner supports all writable and recordable DVDs, including DVD 10, DVD 18.

Steps to Burn Multiple Movies on One DVD with a Menu:

Step 1. Download Cisdem DVD Burner to Windows or Mac, and install it.

Free Download Windows 10 or later Free Download macOS 10.13 or later

Step 2. Import multiple video files.

Launch the software, and directly drag-n-drop multiple movies, TV shows, episodes, or others you wish to burn to the "Source" interface. At the bottom, select the quality level and TV standard you want.

Step 3. Edit video files (Optional).

Click under one of the video thumbnails to bring up the inbuilt video editor, from which you can edit and retouch multiple videos, such as tweaking effects and adding subtitles.

Step 4. Add a DVD menu.

Go to the "Menu" interface, and you will see all free templates on the right. Scroll the list and select a suitable one. Switch to the "Element" tab to group all elements in templates.

If none of them satisfy your needs, import your local image as background, button, or frame.

Step 5. Burn multiple videos to DVD.

Insert a blank 4.7GB DVD or 8.5GB DVD.

Go to the last "Burn" interface and complete the output settings. When everything is ready, click “Burn” to start burning large video files to DVD.

Cisdem DVD Burner can only burn multiple DVDs at once on Windows and Mac. To burn multiple audio tracks, you should use the CD burning software, like CDBurnerXP, BurnAware Free.

How to Burn Multiple Movies on One Data DVD

If you burn multiple movies to a data DVD, it won't be limited by the movie length but the data size (4.7GB for DVD-5, 8.5GB for DVD-9). Burning videos, music, documents, images, etc. to a data DVD is a good way to back them up. However, many DVD players are unable to play movies from data DVDs unless they are in special formats like DIVX. In addition, you can usually play the data discs on a games console or a computer with a DVD drive.

Below are the steps to burn multiple movies on one data DVD on Windows and Mac (no DVD menu added).

On Windows (e.g. Windows 10)

1. Insert a blank DVD into your disc drive.
2. Launch Windows Media Player. Click the “Burn” tab in the top-right, then select “Data CD or DVD”.
3. Click the “Videos” library from the left panel to display its file contents. Drag and drop multiple movies into the “Burn List”.
4. Click "Start Burn" to burn multiple videos to a data DVD on Windows.

On Mac

1. Place a blank DVD into the DVD drive.
2. Choose "Open Finder" from the pop-up menu. Press "OK".
3. Double-click the disc to open its window. Drag multiple movies you desire to burn to the window.
4. Click "Burn", and a dialog box will appear.
5. Give a title to your DVD. Select the burning speed, 4x is recommended.
6. Hit the "Burn" button.

Conclusion

This post has given you a clear picture of how to burn multiple movies on one DVD. You can try two methods. Method one is to burn multiple movies to a video DVD with a menu, which can be enjoyed on any DVD player. There is a limit to the length of the burned movie. The larger the capacity, the longer the time. Method two is to simply burn the movie files to a data DVD. The limitation here is the total file size (e.g., 4.7GB), not the runtime, but most DVD players can't play this type of disc directly.