Best DVD/BD creation software for 2017 MBP

[avon75]

Hi all

After spending months digitising my collection of dozens of home movies from various analogue, digital, SD and HD tape and disc sources, I'd now like to transfer these to DVD (and maybe blu ray) for family members who don't, like me, own a media player than can play the final MP4 files I've created and edited via iMovie.

Can anyone recommend reliable software for MAC that allows me to create titles, chapters, menus etc that I can burn to DVD (mostly) and blu rays (sometimes). I already have a Sony BD writer so I just need the software to create discs that my family can put in their DVD/BD players and watch.

I'm currently looking at Roxio Toast 19 Pro and Wondershare DVD Creator...

TIA

 

[lostless]

A good free program to make a no nonsense DVD is Burn. It’ll make dvds without a fancy menu. Toast does a pretty good job to make blue rays and dvds with decent menus. And allows HD blue ray data burned to a regular dvd as well. I Just got the cheaper version that does only video on the mac App Store called toast dvd. Another app that’s free and works well is dvd styler. It allows you to make some nice menus, but has a bug with 24p content. So don’t use it for 24fps material. The app won’t add the pull down flags causeing major play back issues depending on the player.
Also you can get apples compressor or FCP that both make basic bluray and dvds with simple to no menus.

 

[lostless]

Also As far as dvd, you can import encodes from other programs into toast or dvd styler and use them as menu creation programs without reencoding the video if it’s dvd compliant already.

 

[loby]

Also As far as dvd, you can import encodes from other programs into toast or dvd styler and use them as menu creation programs without reencoding the video if it’s dvd compliant already.

Another vote for DVDStyler.

Roxio Toast 19 Pro and Wondershare DVD Creator are also good (ok). I use all three, but Roxio Toast 19 and Wondershare DVD Creator is based on already generated templates (templates have not changed since the 1990's) that are locked making it hard to change text, sizes, fonts etc. Roxio Toast has a blu-ray option (costs) which makes this a consideration. You can change backgrounds and music, but everything else is limited or locked in templates. Wondershare DVD Creator is a little more flexible than Roxio Toast, but is basic and limited.

DVDStyler is free (open source) and nothing is really locked. You have the flexibility to basically customize everything. If you are more adventurous and if you know a little coding, you can basically do almost anything which makes it a great alternative to iDVD. DVDStyler is what iDVD could have been.