Burning a video is easy, but burning a playable DVD is a little time-consuming task but simple. Most modern Macs don’t have DVD drives so for this you’ll have to connect an external DVD to your Mac. If your Mac has one, then you don’t need to do anything. Just follow the procedure mentioned below:

Steps to Burn a Playable DVD from your Mac

There are different types of DVDs available in the market, you can use any of the blank DVDs to burn and make a video DVD. But the most successive is DVD+R, and the reason for this is that it is supported on a broad variety of players.

After that, you’ll need a program to burn the blank DVD. If you’ve already installed one on your Mac then jump to the process for burning.

Steps to download and install ‘Burn’ application

‘Burn’ is a program and it is used to burn MP4 files to DVD discs, and this application comes for free.

1. Navigate to the URL burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html from your Mac browser.

2. Now click the ‘Download Burn’ button. The Download Burn button is near the bottom of the page on the right side.

3. Open zip folder of ‘Burn’.

4. Click & hold the ‘Burn app icon’ and move it to the Applications folder.

5. Now, twice click on the ‘Burn app icon’.

6. Confirm downloading, if prompted to download the program.

Steps for Burning a DVD:

1. Open your Mac’s DVD tray.

2. And insert a blank DVD into it and close.

3. Close the Autoplay window, if it appears on your desktop after putting DVD.

4. Now, start ‘Burn’ applications. If you’re unable to find Burn program, then search for Burn through Spotlight Search.

5. On the Burn application home window, click on ‘Video’ tab. Video tab is at the top centre side of the screen.