An acronym for Blu-ray Disc. A single-sided Blu-ray Disc can hold up to 25 GB of information.

Memory built into disc burning drives that is used to temporarily store data from your computer until it is ready to be written on your disc.

To process your video, audio and still photo content into formats that can be played on disc players, and to write the formatted content to a disc. Burning the disc is the last step in making your own discs.

To gather video from a video device for use in a project.

An acronym for compact disc. It is an optically encoded media for storing digital information.

Up to 5,000 characters of text written to an audio CD’s Table of Contents. When using a CD Text enabled player, this information is displayed when the disc is played back.

A reference point in a video that allows you to link a button to that point in the video.

Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc. A high-density optical, digital format for media and players. DVDs are similar in construction to compact discs, but they are able to contain more information (up to roughly 133 minutes of high quality video per side).

DVD-Recordable. Refers to DVD discs that can be burned (written to) one time using a DVD R drive.

DVD plus Re-Writable and DVD minus Re-Writable. Similar to DVD R, but DVD+RW and DVD-RW discs can be written to multiple times, allowing you to go back and make changes to discs after you burn them. The main difference between these competing formats for re-writable discs is that different companies are supporting each standard. Also, whereas DVD-RW discs can be written to 1000 times, DVD+RW discs can be written to an unlimited number of times.

The action of dragging an object from one location on the computer screen to another location.

Preparing a recordable disc for use. Formatting is one of the first steps in creating a new DVD or VCD. MyDVD automatically handles all of the formatting required as you create new discs.

A format for storing compressed CD quality audio files. M4A was developed more recently than MP3 and offers improved compression and sound quality. However, files in this format are not supported by as many music players. (Also referred to as MPEG 4 Audio)

A screen containing buttons that link to specific locations in a DVD-Video or VCD presentation. The viewer activates buttons to display the linked material.

A format for storing compressed CD quality audio files. (Also referred to as .mp3)

A set of standards for compressing video and audio, developed by the Moving Pictures Expert Group. The DVD-Video standard is based on MPEG-2 video compression; the standard also permits the use of MPEG-1 video. VCD uses MPEG-1 compression for both video and audio.

An editable DVD specification standard. The OpenDVD standard specifies technology that allows discs to be opened after they are burned without having to refer to any of the original source materials used to create the disc. OpenDVD discs have the full feature set of standard DVD-video discs. They are also compatible with DVD R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, and CD media.

A device capable of optically writing information to disc media (CD or DVD). Depending on the device, it can be located internally in your computer or it can be an external device connected by a cable to your computer.

To make a copy of a video on a disc without editing the video.

Video Compact Disc. A compact disc recording standard that allows video to be stored on a CD and played on VCD players and most DVD players.

A file format in which Windows stores sounds as waveforms. Such files have the extension .wav. (Also referred to as .wav)

A piece of software that walks you though a procedure step-by-step. Wizards allow you to accomplish your tasks as quickly and easily as possible.

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a file compression format developed by Microsoft. (Also referred to as .wma)