Quote I have a very simple need. I want to transfer some family videos from VHS tapes to a DVD playable on a PC or standard DVD player. I don't need or want any frills such as menus/added music/transitions, etc. I just want to move the video and audio onto a DVD without a lot of added bells and whistles. I can't seem to figure out how to do this with Power Director 16. Is this even possible? Thanks.

Yes, you can go directly to Creat Disc.
Content tab, + button, Import videos
Menu Preferences tab, click No menu, button, Apply to All Pages
2D Disc tab, choose options for DVD

Do you have video capture hardware and software to move your movies from analog format to digital format? Amazon has a host of items for sale if you do not.

--Jim

If you want the disc to play a DVD video compliant folder structure that will play in almost any DVD player? Yes.
If you want the disc to simply contain the media file. No.
If you want both. No.

If quality is of any concern, it starts with the VHS player, and the capture device.
May I submit JVC/Panasonic/Sharp using S-video, and a Diamond VC-500?
If you have tapes that wiggle, you need a TBC or a Panasonic ES-10/15/20 as a cheap pass-thru quasi TBC.

The very best captures are done in lossless AVI, but that is attained within a Cyberlink product only by a 32 bit version of PD.
Lossless eliminates the majority of compression artifacts from MPEG. Mosquito noise, muddy "fingerprints" in dark scenes, etc.
Your next best choice is to create a new MPEG capture profile, bump it up to 12,000 for archival purposes.

If you create your DVD structure but do not go to disc yet, as well as render to other file formats, you can put both versions on the same disc, allowing of course for space.

You can burn the DVD folders, and rendered files, as well as anything else you deem worthy such as labels, screen shots, information in Word or Notepad, all in one neat package using free Power2Go. The DVD will play in your player, and the other information will be accessible via computer optical drive. HP Envy Phoenix/4thGen i7-4770(4@3.4GHz~turbo>3.9)
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Quote Do you have video capture hardware and software to move your movies from analog format to digital format? Amazon has a host of items for sale if you do not.

--Jim

I've got the capture part done OK. It was burning the DVD that was causing issues.

Quote If you want the disc to play a DVD video compliant folder structure that will play in almost any DVD player? Yes.
If you want the disc to simply contain the media file. No.
If you want both. No.

If quality is of any concern, it starts with the VHS player, and the capture device.
May I submit JVC/Panasonic/Sharp using S-video, and a Diamond VC-500?
If you have tapes that wiggle, you need a TBC or a Panasonic ES-10/15/20 as a cheap pass-thru quasi TBC.

The very best captures are done in lossless AVI, but that is attained within a Cyberlink product only by a 32 bit version of PD.
Lossless eliminates the majority of compression artifacts from MPEG. Mosquito noise, muddy "fingerprints" in dark scenes, etc.
Your next best choice is to create a new MPEG capture profile, bump it up to 12,000 for archival purposes.

If you create your DVD structure but do not go to disc yet, as well as render to other file formats, you can put both versions on the same disc, allowing of course for space.

You can burn the DVD folders, and rendered files, as well as anything else you deem worthy such as labels, screen shots, information in Word or Notepad, all in one neat package using free Power2Go. The DVD will play in your player, and the other information will be accessible via computer optical drive.

Thanks for the advice but that's pretty complicated. I'm not that technically adept. I was hoping for something like the drag and drop function for burnng conventional files on a CD.