Ever wanted to take those video clips sitting around your PC and watch them on your home DVD player? VCD's not cutting it? Read here how to take your home video clips and make them into a bonafide DVD with interactive menus!

[edit] Steps

Download a trial or purchase Ulead's DVD Workshop.
Click on "New Project".
Give it a title, and make sure DVD is bulleted on the media type list.
Pick your TV system (US is NTSC)
Click the small folder icon over the stock video clips in the lower left hand corner. Here, you'll find an explorer window where you can browse to where your video clips are stored.
Use shift+a direction key to select a group (or Ctrl+click to pick specific clips) and then press open.
Organize the video clips into the order you want them to play in.
Look up at the upper left hand corner and you'll see the tab marked "Edit" is highlighted in blue. Click the tab to it's right, marked "Menu". This will take you to the Menu editing/creation screen. Here, you can use pictures pertaining to your project to create high-quality menus. (Google image search or sxc.hu is awesome for some great stock images)
To bind a video clip or menu item to an image or text box, simply click and drag from the bottom toolbars to the item in question.
Take some time to familiarize yourself with the interface, the wizard is very handy for this. (Don't rely solely on the wizard, poke around a lot!)
Once you've buttoned and imaged your menus to your heart's content, click on the upper left hand tab marked "Finish". Here, you'll be notified if any links are missing.
Your DVD project is almost finished. If you've been paying attention, you'll notice a file size indicated in parentheses after your listed project name on the left hand side of the screen. This is your project's total hard disk space imprint post-encoding. See tips for media choices and size modification.
Click on DLT (if you have a capable drive) to encode in that format, ISO to make a disc image, or the flaming disc to burn directly. The encoding menu is pretty straightforward, just make sure that you have sufficient disc space free (usually about 10+ GIGS!).
Let the encoder finish, and enjoy!

[edit] Tips

If the file size of your project is between 0mb and 700mb, you can use a CD-R, this will likely only be done if you use the VCD or SVCD options available in step 3.
If the file size is between 700mb and 4.35GB, you can use a single layer DVD +/- R or RW. This is most common.
If the file size is between 4.35GB and above, it will require a double layer DVD. Keep in mind that sizes above 8GB or so will need to be broken up into multiple discs. This is often more cost-effective (Personal note: Circuit City has great prices on blank DVD+/-R's).
If your project will not fit on your intended media, don't panic. Go back to either of the two prior pages, preferably "Menu" and click the screwdriver and pliers icon (or hit Alt+Enter) at the top left. Click the line that says "Project Properties". At the bottom are the template types, click through them to see the differing output sizes.
Mind that better quality requires more space. The better your raw input files, the easier time the encoder has to compress them.
An easy way to fit over three hours or so on one disc is to make a new template. Pick whatever name you like, and use these preferences. MPEG audio (48KHz), Audio data rate: 128 kbps, Video data rate: 3400 kbps (Constant, two-pass).