Do you want to develop your customized DVD menus? You need to know that although there are several good programs in this segment, DVDStyler is undoubtedly one of the best we can find. It is a platform that will allow you to find your style when developing your initial menu for a DVD that you are thinking of burning and adding to your library.

How does this application work? Straightforwardly, since the first thing you have to do is insert the background image that best suits what you are looking for, you can select one predefined by the program or generate your own. Once you have determined the background, it will be time to go to the buttons that perform actions.

A detail you must consider before using this platform is that the files you import to it to generate a menu must be converted to compatible formats, so that you might need a converter. Once you have them inside the application, you can copy and paste all the necessary objects until that initial screen is exactly as you want.

And what formats does this program allow us to work with? Usually, the most common formats for audio and video, although we can point out in the first case the AC3, MP2, and MP3 formats, and as for video, some like VOB, XviD, DivX, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MPEG, and AVI. As long as you work with these formats mentioned above, you can be sure that you will not experience any problems.

Once you have imported the file in any of the formats mentioned above, it is time to develop the menu itself, and you should know that you can add all the buttons you want, making them smaller, moving them, or changing their text, as the case may be. You can also add single words or phrases; if you want to give it some color, you can open images to be added to the menu and use them as buttons or decorations.

A positive feature of DVDStyler, which is not available in all programs in this segment, is that it allows us to develop menus for both NTSC and PAL formats. Although nowadays, most programs and playback devices do not have any drawbacks, it is always interesting to know that we have these valuable extras.

Can I add chapters with this platform? Sure, you can create your covers for each chapter and then set up buttons that allow you to access them if you intend to record several different videos, the different series chapters. That's no problem for DVDStyler.

And once you have determined a menu for your DVDs, it's time to add all kinds of elements to your video, among which we can mention subtitles or any audio. This way, if you have an English-language movie, for example, and want to add Spanish subtitles, you can paste the text file on top of it without needing any other software.

When you have the file ready, having made all the changes and with the additions you are interested in, you should know that you can either generate the DVD burn to disc or store it in ISO format if that is what you intend. This is an advantage because you are not forced to have a burner on that same computer, and you can send the ISO file to another computer with a burner to finish the process later.

DVDStyler will also allow you to create all kinds of photo slideshows, thanks to which you can move from one image to another, adding a musical background that you consider appropriate, creating a sort of home movie. And although this is not its primary function, we can not fail to appreciate some of these add-ons.

An important consideration that you have to consider regarding this program is that although it is translated into Spanish, we can not say that the translation is perfect and that sometimes makes the use a little complicated. Considering that many of the actions this software performs are somewhat technical, we recommend you use it in English, as it will probably be easier that way.

In our experience of use, when testing this program, we have found an exciting alternative when developing a menu for our DVD, with additional options to add audio or subtitles that can save us the installation of some other complementary software. If you are looking for a program with these features, you should try it.

Finally, we didn't want to forget to mention that this program has a portable version, which, although it doesn't have exactly all the functions we said before, could get you out of trouble in an emergency. Of course, the great advantage of DVDStyler portable is that it does not require installation; therefore, you will be able to run it without any problems from any USB storage device.