iDVD 5 Getting Started Get to know the iDVD window and controls and learn how to create your own DVD 1 Contents Chapter 1 4 4 5 7 8 9 15 16 18 18 19 19 19 22 24 27 29 30 33 34 36 Introduction Using This Document What's New in iDVD 5 iDVD At a Glance Main Window Customize Drawer Slideshow Editor Map View iDVD Tutorial Before You Begin Goals What You Need Create a New Project Add a Movie With Chapter Markers Customize the Main Menu Add a Submenu and Replace Its Background Create a Slideshow Use Map View Check the Status Pane Burn Your DVD Keyboard Shortcuts Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Appendix 3 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. Discs burned using iDVD can be played in most DVD players, including computers with DVD drives and most set-top DVD players. For the latest news and information about iDVD 5, go to the iDVD website at www.apple.com/ilife/iDVD. Using This Document This document is organized into three chapters and a Keyboard Shortcuts appendix, allowing you easy access to the information you'll need. You can use the chapters in the order that suits you, but the following order is recommended. · Chapter 1, Introduction: Gives a brief description of the major new features in this version of iDVD. · Chapter 2, At a Glance: Shows you the controls in the iDVD window. These pages will familiarize you with what each part of the iDVD window is used for. Looking through them will make it easier for you to follow the steps in the tutorial in Chapter 3. You can also use the "At a Glance" for handy reference as you create your own iDVD projects. · Chapter 3, Tutorial: Takes you through a path to creating a DVD. Following the steps in the tutorial with your own media is a great way to get your feet wet and learn your way around iDVD's basic features, so you can confidently explore from there. The tutorial also provides tips on other things you can try, and how to find more information. Specific goals of the tutorial are listed at the beginning of Chapter 3. · Keyboard Shortcuts: Provides easy reference to common keyboard shortcuts. 4 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. The new, Apple-designed themes include dynamic, moving drop zones that take your navigation menus to the next level--making your DVD more visually exciting and professional than ever. OneStep DVD: When you just need to transfer your video footage from your camcorder to a disc, iDVD 5 provides a one click, tape-to-DVD solution. Simply plug in your camcorder, click one button, and insert a blank disc. The tape is rewound and your footage is mastered directly to the disc as an auto-play movie, automatically. This makes creating a DVD easier and faster. High Definition and Widescreen Video: iDVD 5 now imports high definition video (HDV) and 16:9 widescreen formats from iMovie HD. iDVD 5 converts these formats to a standard definition DVD format that allows you to create the coolest-looking DVDs, while retaining the highest quality video. Disc Image Support: iDVD 5 provides a great way to save duplicates of your finished projects directly to your hard disk. Use disc image support to save your project in final form, or to quickly duplicate a disc at any time. Since disc images have been fully encoded, you can burn them to blank DVDs whenever you want, without having to wait for encoding. Full Format Support: Virtually any DVD media available is now compatible with iDVD, including -R, +R, and even +RW and ­RW on some SuperDrives. Chapter 1 Introduction 5 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. Stage-by stage indicators with detailed progress bars--and even a live video thumbnail--show you exactly where you are in the burning progress. · Transitions for Individual Buttons: iDVD 5 lets you set your own custom transitions for each button on your DVD menus. · Optimized Editing: iDVD 5's increased performance makes creating and editing your DVD responsive and quick. Enhanced iLife Support: · iMovie: Support for new iMovie HD formats, including high definition video, MPEG-4, iSight, and 16:9 widescreen movies. · iTunes: iTunes playlist support gives you the ability to use any of your custom playlists in iDVD. · iPhoto: Drag your iPhoto albums directly into iDVD, even new iPhoto folders. Access iPhoto's movie clips and add them to your DVD. Save RAW originals of your photos, when you specify Save to DVD-ROM. 6 Chapter 1 Introduction 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. The pages that follow introduce you to the different views and controls in the iDVD window and the panes in the Customize drawer. Looking at these pages will help you learn the names of the iDVD controls, so you can easily follow the instructions in iDVD Help. 7 Main Window A B E C 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. 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. Placing images in the drop zone gives visual interest to the menu. Double-click the drop zone to open the drop zone editor, where you can set the order of images and short movies that play in the drop zone. Customize: Click this button to open the Customize drawer. The Customize drawer contains all of the tools you need to customize your DVD menu. See "Customize Drawer" on page 9 for details. Folder: Click to create a submenu button on the current DVD menu. A submenu is an additional menu where you can put more slideshows and movies on the same DVD. Scrubber bar and motion playhead: Drag the playhead along the scrubber bar to move slowly through a motion menu. For themes with dynamic drop zones (drop zones that move), the playhead allows you to stop their motion so you can drag movies or photos into them. Slideshow: Click to add a slideshow button to your menu. Double-click the slideshow button to add and arrange photos in your slideshow. Motion: Click to turn the motion and sound on or off while you work. This makes it easier to work on motion menus. Map: Click to open the map view of your DVD. The map view helps you edit and navigate more easily through your iDVD project and is shown in more detail on page 16. B C D E F G H 8 Chapter 2 iDVD At a Glance 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. Burn: Click this button twice to burn your DVD disc when you are finished with your iDVD project. J Customize Drawer The Customize drawer contains all the tools you need to select and customize a menu theme, add your own media to your project, and keep track of how you are using your media resources as you work. Themes Pane The Themes pane is where you select a theme for the menu. When you select a theme from the themes list, it appears in the iDVD main window. A B C A B Pane selection buttons: Click these buttons to switch between the Themes, Settings, Media, and Status panes. Each of these panes is described in more detail in the following pages. Theme sets: Choose a set of themes to preview or choose All to view all the themes at once. No themes appear in the Favorites list until you have customized your own theme and saved it as a favorite in the Settings pane. See "Settings Pane" on page 10 for more information. Themes list: Scroll through the themes that appear in this list to select one for the menu you are creating. Click a theme to select it. C Chapter 2 iDVD At a Glance 9 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 A B Background well: Drag images or movies into this well to make them appear as the background of your DVD menu. Audio well: Drag sound files here to make them play as the background music for your DVD menu. Click the microphone icon in the Audio well if you want to turn off the sound in iDVD as you work. Duration slider: Drag this slider to choose how much of the background movie and music you want to play as a loop. The duration you set applies to both background movies and audio, as well as the video in motion buttons. Your DVD menus can contain a total of 15 minutes of motion. Text controls: Use these controls to customize the look of the text in menu titles, buttons, and text elements. Choose a font from the Font pop-up menu and a color from the Color pop-up menu. Drag the Size slider to the right to make the text larger. Choose a text alignment from the Position pop-up menu. For example, you can choose to have the text appear directly beneath menu buttons, or offset to the left or right, or you can select no text. Different themes provide different text position options. Button controls: Use these controls to set the shape, size, and position of the buttons on the DVD menu. Choose a shape from the Style pop-up menu. Different themes provide different button shape options. Selecting Free Position allows you to move the buttons anywhere you like on the menu, rather than having them aligned to an invisible grid. Drag the Size slider to the right to make the buttons larger. C D E 10 Chapter 2 iDVD At a Glance 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. Save as Favorite: Click this button to save a theme you have customized with your favorite media and settings. Your customized theme will appear in the Favorites list in the Themes pane so you or others can use it again. G Media Pane The Media pane gives you easy access to the movies that are stored on your computer, as well as all the photos in your iPhoto library and all the music in your iTunes library. Movies View Here you can locate the movies that are stored on your computer. Movies stored in the Movies folder on your hard disk appear automatically. If you store your movies in other folders, you can make them appear here, too. A B C D A B Media pop-up menu: Use this pop-up menu to choose whether you want to look at your movies, photos, or music. Movie folders list: Finder folders appear in this list, making it easy to locate your movies while you work in iDVD. You can add any folders where you store movies to this list by making selections in the iDVD Preferences window. Chapter 2 iDVD At a Glance 11 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. Search field: If you have too many movies to easily find what you are looking for, you can type the movie name in the search field to locate it. D Photos View Here you can find all of the photos in your iPhoto library. A B C A iPhoto albums list: Select the iPhoto album that contains the photos you want to use. Drag an album to the main iDVD window to create a button that links to a slideshow containing all of the photos in that album. If there ar ...