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019-0261.book Page 4 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 1 Introduction 1 Welcome to iDVD. This document helps familiarize you with how to use the basic features of iDVD, and tells you about the new features in iDVD 5. Use iDVD to create DVDs that contain your own movies and photo slideshows, along with professionally designed and easy-to-navigate DVD menus, just like Hollywood DVDs.
019-0261.book Page 5 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM What’s New in iDVD 5 iDVD 5 adds many new features that make DVD creation faster and easier, with more professional results than ever. New Themes With Dynamic Drop Zones: iDVD 5 continues the tradition of delivering the most exciting and innovative theme designs available for your DVDs.
019-0261.book Page 6 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Additional enhancements: • Enhanced DVD Map: Beyond the convenience and power of navigating your entire project, now you can edit your DVD right in the map view. Change themes, remove items, or add movies, slideshows, and buttons with drag-and-drop ease. Even zoom in or out for a detailed close-up view or a bird's-eye perspective. • Detailed Burn Progress: See exactly where you are in the process of burning your DVD with new progress feedback.
019-0261.book Page 7 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 2 iDVD At a Glance 2 This chapter helps familiarize you with all the tools available in the iDVD window. Use it as a reference as you work. When you work on an iDVD project, the menu you are designing is displayed in the main window. You use the controls and options in the Customize drawer to change the look and feel of your DVD menus.
019-0261.book Page 8 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Main Window A B E C 8 D F G H I J 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 place still pictures or a short movie that plays as part of the DVD menu background.
019-0261.book Page 9 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM I Preview: Click to preview your DVD. In preview mode, a DVD player remote control appears on the screen, and you can use it to navigate through the menus and play the slideshows and movies as though you were viewing them on a set-top DVD player. J Burn: Click this button twice to burn your DVD disc when you are finished with your iDVD project.
019-0261.book Page 10 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Settings Pane Use the controls in the Settings pane to customize the look and sound of your DVD menu. Here you can add background video or sound, change the shape of the menu buttons, and change the font and color of the menu text. C A B D E F G 10 A Background well: Drag images or movies into this well to make them appear as the background of your DVD menu.
019-0261.book Page 11 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM F Transition pop-up menu and directional control: Choose a transition that moves the viewer between the button and the action that follows it, such as playing a movie. With some transitions, you can pick a direction for the transition to play using the arrow buttons to the right of the pop-up menu. G Save as Favorite: Click this button to save a theme you have customized with your favorite media and settings.
019-0261.book Page 12 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM C Movies list: Drag a movie from here to a menu to create a movie button. Drag it to a drop zone to create a video loop in the drop zone. To make the movie the full motion background of a menu, drag it to the Background well in the Settings pane (To switch to the Settings pane, drag the movie to the Settings button.) You can add movies to the list by dragging them from the Finder.
019-0261.book Page 13 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Audio View Here you can see all the music in your iTunes library, including music you have created in GarageBand. A B C D A iTunes playlists: Select the playlist that contains the music you want to use, or select Library to see all the songs in your iTunes library. B Songs list: Drag a song or playlist from here to set the background music for the menu.
019-0261.book Page 14 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Status Pane Use the Status pane to keep an eye on your iDVD project resources as you work. A B C D E 14 A DVD Capacity: Check here to see how much space is left in your iDVD project. Clicking the text on the right switches between disc space in gigabytes (GB), and time in minutes. The project’s size is limited by the size of the DVD disc.
019-0261.book Page 15 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Slideshow Editor The slideshow editor displays a list of all the photos in the selected slideshow and provides controls for you to set up how the slideshow plays. A B D C E F G H I J A Slideshow length: Look here to see how long the slideshow will last in minutes and seconds. B Slideshow photos list: Scroll through the list to see the photos in this slideshow. Drag to rearrange the order of the photos in your slideshow.
019-0261.book Page 16 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM I Audio well: Drag a song or iTunes playlist to this well to play it in the background while the slideshow plays. If you hold the pointer over the sound file icon in the Audio well, you can see the song’s title and length (or the title of the first song in a playlist). J Return button: Click this button to exit the slideshow editor. Map View The map view shows you a graphic representation of your iDVD project.
019-0261.book Page 17 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM A Autoplay well: Drag a movie or slides to the well to make them play before the main menu appears on the DVD. Double-click the image in the well to preview the autoplay movie or edit the slideshow. B Main menu: This is the menu viewers will see first when they watch your DVD. Double-click this icon to open the main menu.
019-0261.book Page 18 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 3 iDVD Tutorial 3 This tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a simple iDVD project using your own movies, photos, and music. To create an iDVD project, you must first select a theme from the list in the Themes pane. iDVD provides a variety of professionally designed themes to use for your DVD menus. Customize the theme by adding your own background music, photos, or video loops.
019-0261.book Page 19 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Goals If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, you will build an iDVD project that includes a movie with chapter markers and a slideshow, and you’ll learn to do the following: • Start an iDVD project. • Use media from your other iLife applications, and bring them into a iDVD project. • Customize the iDVD menus. • Make and customize slideshows. • Use map view for efficient editing. • Burn a DVD. • Play a DVD.
019-0261.book Page 20 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Did You Know?—Starting a Project There are other ways to begin a new iDVD project: • Use the OneStep DVD method to create a DVD directly from your camcorder. This is useful when you need to transfer your unedited video footage from your camcorder to a disc that plays automatically and doesn’t include menus. For more information, search in iDVD Help for OneStep DVD. • Click the iDVD button in iMovie to open an iDVD project that contains your iMovie.
019-0261.book Page 21 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Select a Theme for Your DVD A theme is a combination of the background image or movie that appears on your DVD menu, along with the button style, fonts, sizes, and locations for titles and button labels. You can use one of the themes that come with iDVD, or you can customize and create your own theme. In this tutorial, you will learn how to select an existing iDVD theme and customize it.
019-0261.book Page 22 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Add a Movie With Chapter Markers After you have chosen your theme, you can add movies to your iDVD project. In this section, 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, like in Hollywood-style DVDs. (Chapter markers must be set using iMovie or other video-editing software at the time you create your movie, before you add the movie to your iDVD project.
019-0261.book Page 23 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 2 Double-click the Scene Selection button to open the scene selection menu. You see a button for each chapter in the movie. The button names match the names that you assigned to each of the movie chapters when you created them. 3 Click the theme named Kids Theater Two in the Themes pane of the Customize drawer to select it as the theme of the scene menu. This theme was designed to be used as a submenu with the Kids Theater One theme.
019-0261.book Page 24 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Did You Know?—Themes and Scene Selection Menus iDVD includes pairs of themes for you to use when you want to create two levels of menus. The Kids Theater One theme, used in this tutorial, is an example of this. Paired themes allow you to create DVD menus with some variety, while still keeping with the same overall theme. It’s especially useful when you add movies with chapter markers to your project.
019-0261.book Page 25 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Adding Background Images to Drop Zones Background images, slideshows, and movies can be placed within drop zones, which are numbered and labeled on each theme. The drop zone is not a button that lets viewers play a slideshow or movie; it just lets you add interest to your menu background. Note: You can also replace the entire theme graphic with an image, slideshow, or movie.
019-0261.book Page 26 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Changing the Look of Menu Text and Buttons As you modify and design your menus, it helps to turn on the TV safe area, so that you can be sure to keep buttons and text within the viewable area of most TV screens. (The masked area that appears around the border does not appear on your burned DVD.) To customize the text and buttons on the menu: 1 With your project open and the main menu showing, choose Advanced > Show TV Safe Area.
019-0261.book Page 27 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 6 To set a dissolve transition that plays when the movie button is clicked, select the Play Movie button for the movie. Choose Dissolve from the Transition pop-up menu in the Button section of the Settings pane. The menu will dissolve into the movie when the viewer clicks a button on the burned DVD. (To view the results as you work, use the Preview button. For more information, search for “preview” in iDVD Help.
019-0261.book Page 28 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 3 Drag an image file from the Photos pane of the Media Browser to the Settings button. When the Settings pane opens, drag the image to the Background well in the Settings pane. The new background is set, and the drop zone that was on the menu disappears.
019-0261.book Page 29 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 4 To change the background music for the menu, drag an audio file from the Audio pane of the Media Browser to the Audio well in the Settings pane. Did You Know?—Creating Custom Themes Once you have set the background, music, text, and buttons the way you like, you can save your customized menu as a custom theme.
019-0261.book Page 30 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM 11 To make a different image appear on the slideshow button, select the button and drag the slider above it until you see the image you want. 12 Preview the slideshow you have just created by clicking Preview (at the bottom of the iDVD window), and then clicking the slideshow button. 13 When you are finished, click Exit on the DVD remote control to leave preview mode. 14 Choose File > Save Project to save your work.
019-0261.book Page 31 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM View the Autoplay Movie To view the autoplay movie: 1 Click the Map button at the bottom of the iDVD window to open map view. Your current location is selected on the map. 2 If the entire map doesn't fit in the window, drag the size slider at the top of the window to the left to reduce the size of the icons. You can also use the horizontal and vertical scrollers to move through the map, or drag the map to see other parts of it.
019-0261.book Page 32 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Changing Views Map view provides two different layouts for your project: horizontal and vertical. Use the one that best fits your style. Both views allow you to hide (collapse) sections of the map to simplify the view. To change views in map view: 1 In the project you have created, click the Map button to open map view. 2 Click a view layout button at the bottom left of the window to switch between the horizontal and vertical map layouts.
019-0261.book Page 33 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Check the Status Pane You can monitor the space taken up by the various elements of your project in the Status pane of the Customize drawer. m To check the status of your project: Click Customize, then click Status. Four resource meters are displayed. • 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.
019-0261.book Page 34 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Burn Your DVD When you are finished with your iDVD project, you can burn it to a DVD for viewing in DVD players or computers equipped with DVD-reading drives. Burn a disc only when you are sure that you are finished with your project. You can use the following media types to burn a disc in iDVD 5: • DVD-R: can only be used once This is the recommended media for iDVD, since it’s compatible with most DVD players and computers on the market today.
019-0261.book Page 35 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Did You Know?—Saving Your Finished Project If you can’t burn a disc right away, or if you want to move or back up your finished project on another computer, you can archive it or save it as a disc image. Archiving your project creates a copy of your project, keeping all of its elements together and linked within the project file.
Appendix 019-0261.book Page 36 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM Keyboard Shortcuts You can use your keyboard to quickly accomplish many tasks in iDVD. To find the shortcuts for common commands, look in the menus (or see the menu shortcuts below).
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019-0261.book Page 38 Friday, December 10, 2004 10:27 AM www.apple.com/ilife/idvd © 2005 Apple Computer, Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iDVD, iLife, iMovie, and iTunes are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. GarageBand, iPhoto, iSight, and SuperDrive are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc.