DVD Burning Software for Mac OS X (EL Capitan included)

1. iTunes

iTunes is a free program that not just allows you to easily organize, buy, play media files, but also lets you burn your media files including iTunes Radio, TV shows, movies and music to DVD. You can create a new playlist on this free Mac Mavericks DVD burning tool and drag the files you want to add to the playlist. Then control-click on the playlist and select Burn Playlist to Disc to start burning.

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• Pros: Improved search capability. New Colorful interface in new version.
• Cons: Heavy consumption of resources.
• Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android

2. Finder

It is the default file manager found in Mac. To burn discs with your computer, you do not need a third party program. To do so, you can insert empty disc into the SuperDrive. A window will show up on the screen, select the Open Finder and click OK. On the left side, under Places, you will find a list call Untitled DVD. You can rename it. Now, drag and drop the files you wish to burn to the list. Control-click on the list and select Burn option. On the pop-up window, click Burn button.

3. iDVD

iDVD is a popular free Mac Mavericks DVD burning software from Apple. This tool can work well for the creation and authoring of DVDs. iDVD gives the user the capability to author and burn music, photos and movies to widescreen DVD using the internal Mac DVD burner or external device. You are able to preview your creations before burning, which will save you many wasted discs.

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• Pros: Easier to include DVD menus. Easily integrates with iTunes, iMovie and iPhoto.
• Cons: Does not work well with huge video files. Not suite for the professional.
• Platforms: Mac OS X

4. SimplyBurns

This DVD burning software for Mac has a straightforward interface and offers users the capability to create data and audio discs, and you also can rip, copy and burn images already installed on your system. SimplyBurns is easy-to-use. When you open the software, you will see a small window with five square buttons. On clicking one of the buttons, you will be taken to the window specifically designed for the type of burning you are looking into.

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• Pros: Brings all the varied system burning libraries into a single graphical application. Easy to use graphical interface.
• Cons: May not perform as expected when having large projects.
• Platforms: Mac OS X 10.40.x aka “Tiger”, 10.6.x “Snow Leopard”

5. FirestarterFX

Written in Cocoa for Mac OS X, FirestarterFX allows you to duplicate all types of CDs (even those that are not recognized by other Mac OS X applications), burn to SVCD and VCD as well as providing access to a unique set of features like overburning. FirestarterFX is the ideal tool for burning disc images created in the PC world and is able to handle bin/cue files perfectly, which are common on Windows but hard to burn using other tools.

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• Pros: Burn at high speeds, utilizes buffer under-run technology that helps avoid wastage of media and access to CDDV for CD-Text automatic creation.
• Cons: FirestarterFX will not copy DVD-Video or encode your videos to other formats like DivX, MPEG1, MPEG2 or MPEG4.
• Platforms: PPC/Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later