This guide will show you how to use DVD-Ranger to burn a existing video DVD copy from hard disc to a blank.

Introduction & Requirements
DVD Ranger – Download and install this tool.

Step1:
Start DVD-Ranger. Go to the menu “Burn” and click on “Burn VideoDVD” (1). By default, DVD-Ranger will open the burn dialog with the predefined disc type “VideoDVD” (2).

Step 2:
A video DVD have a fixed structure. So the folders “AUDIO_TS” and “VIDEO_TS” are precreated. You cannot delete them.
You have to add your files to the “VIDEO_TS” folder. You can do this by “Drag & Drop” from Windows explorer or add them manual (3).
For video DVD, DVD-Ranger have a special function to add a whole video DVD fileset to the “VIDEO_TS” folder. Just click on menu “File”and select the function “Add Folder to Video_Ts”(4). Select now the folder where the video DVD files are stored, and viola, DVD-Ranger add all the files the right way.

Step 3:
The “VIDEO_TS” folder will contain now the video DVD files. Do not add any other file to this folder.

Step 4:
By default a new disc project have the label “New” (5). To change the disc label click the right mouse button on the disc label and select the function “Rename” from the popup menu (6) . Enter your new name and click “Return. The new disc label is saved now (7).

Step 5:
Select the target device where you want to burn the disk to (8). You can select a single device or if you select “Multidevice” (9) you can burn to more than one device at the same time.

Step 6:
You can use the predefined project settings from DVD-Ranger or change them according to your needs. To change the settings,click on menu “Edit” the function “Settings” (10). Now the “Settings” dialog (11) will pop up, where you can do the changes. Finaly click “Ok” (12) to save your own settings.

Step 7:
Now you are ready to burn the disc to the blank. To start the burn process, click on menu “Burn” the function”Start Burning” (13). Now the burn window opens (14) that will show the progress of the burn process. To cancel a running burn process, click on “Cancel” (15).

Step 8:
If no disk is inside the recording device, like there is still the original, DVD-Ranger will give you this information now, after you inserted a blank, this message will close automaticly.
Remark: If you see, that the wrong recording device is selected, please click cancel and read further on Step 9.

Step 9:
After the burn process has successfully finished, you will see two new activated buttons. If you click on “Save Log” (16) you can save the current burn log file to disk, like to send it to our support.
After you have finished, you can burn a new copy by clicking on “New Copy”. You have also the possibility to save the current project to an ISO disk image file. If you have seen inside Step 9, that the wrong recording device was selected, you can change the recording device by clicking on “Change Device” (17) After this start a new process by clicking on “New Copy”.
To close this dialog, click on Done (18).