Apple iDVD Getting Started Manual

Text of Apple iDVD User Guide:

• 36 Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance iDVD Window A DVD menu: This is where you see the DVD menu you are creating as you build it. Drag movies, pictures, and audio files into this area to create buttons that play your movies and slideshows, or change the look and sound of the background. B Drop zone: Some themes include special areas called drop zones where you can p

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 31 The Project Info window, shown below, provides all this information and more. To check the size of your project: m Choose Project > Project Info. Four resource meters are displayed at the top of the window. Â The DVD Capacity meter shows the size of your DVD, indicated as running time (the total time for all the media and transitions) or as disc space used. Click the text to the right of it to switch between minutes and gigabytes (GB). Â The Motion Menus meter shows the total duration of all the menus in the project. You can have up to a total of 15 minutes of menus that contain motion, such as v

• Apple iDVD, 26 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Note: If the button links to a slideshow, you see the Photos pane you learned about in “Step Seven: Customize the Main Menu” on page 22. 2 Move the slider left or right until you see the frame you want to show on the button. If you don’t want the buttons to show moving video, deselect the checkbox in the corner of the Movie pane. Then the button will show only the frame you selected. 3 Choose File > Save to save your work. Step Nine: Organize Your Project in Map Vi

• Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance 43 Project Info Window You use the Project Info window to keep an eye on your iDVD project resources and monitor the space available on your hard disk and the disc you’ll burn to. To see the Project Info window, choose Project > Project Info. A Disc Name: Type a name for the disc. The disc name can be different than the n

• Apple iDVD, 14 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Important: If dotted lines appear in the picture frame when you drag your movie, move the mouse pointer until the dotted lines disappear and then drop the movie. Dotted lines indicate a drop zone, a special area of a menu. Movies added to a drop zone become part of the menu background, rather than featured movies on the DVD. When you add a movie with chapter markers, the DVD menu title changes to the name of the movie and iDVD automatically creates two buttons on the menu. In the illustration above, you see a Play Mov

• Apple iDVD, 44 Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance Drop Zone Editor The drop zone editor displays all the drop zones in a menu so you can quickly add images or movies to them. To see the drop zone editor, double-click a drop zone, or click the Edit Drop Zones button in the Menu pane. I Media list: See the media included in your project. This list also shows the file type and its location. A checkmark in the Status column indicates the file is available. J Asset list: See the names of the movies in your iDVD project. The Encoding column indicates whether the movie has been encoded. When you click the Burn button, iDVD will finish encoding the movies before

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 17 Your menu should now look like the illustration below. 3 Click My Slideshow to select it, then type More Photos. 4 Click outside the text area to deselect the text, then double-click the My Slideshow button to open the slideshow editor. The slideshow editor, shown below, is a blank screen with the words “Drag images here.” If you don’t see this view, try double-clicking again, either slower or faster than the first time. 5 Click the Media button to open the Media pane, then click the Photos button at the top of the Media pane.

• Apple iDVD, 30 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial When you remove an autoplay movie, the project icon is not removed, so you can drag a movie or photo album to the project icon to create a new autoplay movie. Step Ten: Burn Your DVD Now that your iDVD project is finished, you’re ready to take the final step and burn it to a DVD disc. Before you do, there are still a few things you must do to ensure a good outcome. In this step, you’ll check the project size in the Project Info window, check for errors in the DVD map, check the encoding quality and status, and get ready to burn a DVD. Check the Project

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 29 For example, you could create slides with introductory information or credits that play before the DVD menu appears. To add an autoplay movie: 1 Locate the project icon at the top-left corner of the map. 2 Click the Media button and click Photos or Movies to select the content you want to add. 3 Drag the movie or images to the project icon. 4 Click the Preview button or double-click the project icon to view the autoplay movie you added. When you’re done, click the Exit button on the DVD remote control. To remove an autoplay movie: m Drag the movie out of the project icon. It disappears with a puff of smoke. Project icon

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance 37 Themes Pane You use the Themes pane to select a theme for your project. When you select a theme from the themes list, it appears in the iDVD window. To see the Themes pane, click the Themes button in the iDVD window. A Theme set: Choose a theme family to preview or choose All to view all the themes at once. B Themes list: Scroll through the themes that appear in this list to select one for the menu you are creating. Click the triangle next to a theme family to see all the menus for a theme. C Autoplay icon: Themes tha

• Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance 45 Slideshow Editor The slideshow editor displays all the photos in the selected slideshow and provides controls for you to set up how the slideshow plays. To see the slideshow editor, double- click a slideshow button or an image in a drop zone slideshow. A Slideshow length: See how long the slideshow will last in minutes and seconds. B Lis

• Apple iDVD, 10 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Step Two: Create a New Project With your music, movies, and photos ready for use and in locations where you can easily access them, you’re ready to get started. To start a new iDVD project: Â If iDVD isn’t open, double-click the iDVD application icon in the Dock. If this is the first time iDVD has been opened, click the “Create a New Project” button in the dialog. Â If the opening dialog isn’t showing, choose File > New. Select a location where you want to store y

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD 5 Anatomy of a DVD If you’ve ever viewed a professionally produced DVD, then you’re familiar with the basic concept of a DVD. A DVD can contain a variety of content:  Movies and video clips  Photographs and other still images  Documents or other files that can be copied onto another computer The process of creating a DVD consists of gathering all the content you want to show your viewers, and then designing a way for them to get access to it. Menus The first thing y

• Apple iDVD, 22 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial ∏ Tip: You can select and drag any text object (non-clickable text) on the menu to reposition it. Step Seven: Customize the Main Menu Now that you have an attractive menu with buttons that link to a movie, a scene selection menu, and a slideshow, you can add some polish to your DVD by customizing the menus. In this step, you will learn how to add images to the Fish One menu background, and then add a transition between the main menu buttons and your movie and slideshow. Add Images to the Background You can place images, groups of

• Apple iDVD, 32 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Check Project Files All the items you added to your project are listed in the Media list with the path to their location on your hard disk or another location. In the Type column, you can see whether the item is a picture file, audio file, or something else. A checkmark in the Status column lets you know that the item is present and accounted for. If you move the original file from its location, you can see at a glance that it’s missing because the checkmark w

• Apple iDVD, 18 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Note: If you have not imported photos into iPhoto, you will not see photos in this list. You can open iPhoto now and import some photos (to see the images in the Photos pane, switch to another view of the Media pane view and then switch back to Photos) or you can drag photos directly from other locations on your hard disk to the slideshow editor. 6 Drag photos one at a time or in groups from the images list to the slideshow editor. You can even drag a whole album to the slideshow editor. 7 Arran

• Apple iDVD, 46 Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance Map View You use map view to get a bird’s-eye view of your DVD project. Map view provides a visual representation of how all your submenus, slideshows, and movies are linked together. You can also edit your DVD menus directly in map view, adding or removing elements from your project, and check for errors before you burn a DVD disc. To see map view, click the Map button at the bottom of the iDVD window. I Settings button: Click to show slideshow options. You can add Back and F

• 6 Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD Themes The overall look of a DVD menu and its buttons is called a theme . The theme is defined by the colors and graphical elements used in the menu, the font style and size of text, the button shape, and much more. The professional quality themes provided in iDVD are simple to use and easy to customize. If you make changes to a theme

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 23 To add a slideshow to the drop zone: 1 Click the Media button and then click Photos at the top of the Media pane. 2 Drag a photo album or folder of pictures from the photos list to the drop zone in the menu. Place the pointer directly over the drop zone text until you see the dotted lines appear, then release the mouse button. To select multiple pictures in the list, press the Command key (it has the Apple logo on it) and click the pictures you want. Then release the Command key and drag the pictures to the drop zone. ∏ Tip: You can drag the image in the drop zone to reposition it. 3 Click the first image th

• Apple iDVD, Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 13 Step Four: Add a Movie and Scene Selection Menu After you choose your theme, you can add movies and other content to your iDVD project. In this step, you’ll add a movie that contains chapter markers, so that viewers have the option of jumping to a scene when they watch your DVD, just like a Hollywood-style DVD. When you drag a movie with chapter markers to a menu, iDVD recognizes the chapter markers and automatically creates “scene selection menus” with buttons that link to each of the chapt

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