Easily create professional-looking DVDs.

Windows DVD Maker, available in Windows Vista Home Premium and Windows Vista Ultimate, enables you to create professional-looking video DVDs of your home movies and photos that can be viewed on your DVD players, regardless of geographical region codes.

Transferring your Windows Movie Maker HD creations to a video DVD has never been easier. You can directly access Windows DVD Maker through All Programs, or use the Publish menu in Windows Movie Maker HD to transfer your videos to a DVD format. Because Windows DVD Maker is also integrated with Windows Photo Gallery, simply selecting Burn Video DVD enables you to select photos and videos to publish without leaving the Windows Photo Gallery.

DVD Maker in Windows Vista publishes directly to MPEG-2 format, enabling you to burn DVDs directly from your video camera. Windows DVD Maker also supports a variety of publishing styles for your movies, focused on highlighting your content and creating a customized look and feel. You can choose to customize the DVD further by adding a disc title and a notes page, and editing the menu text. In addition, Windows DVD Maker gives you maximum choice and control over the quality and size of your video files when you are encoding; you can even choose widescreen or standard format to publish a slide show or movie that looks best on your TV.

Use your remote to navigate through scenes.

With the built-in slide show support in Windows DVD Maker, you can share and enjoy photo and video slide shows, as well as home movies, using a consumer DVD player. Images added to the DVD are included as a slide show with fade and cut transitions between photos along with background music you provide.

A software development kit (SDK) from Microsoft enables third-party developers to create additional styles and transitions for even more creative DVD production.

Windows DVD Maker automatically creates intelligent chapter points by analyzing the photos and videos and creating compelling motion video thumbnails. Using your remote control, you can easily navigate between chapters when viewing the DVD.

Preview your DVD using the built-in DVD preview option, and then burn your video DVD. With just a few clicks, you can create a professional-looking video DVD to share with friends and family