iDVD Getting Started Get to know the iDVD window and controls and learn how to create your own DVD 1 Contents Chapter 1 3 3 4 5 6 7 7 7 8 10 12 13 16 20 22 25 26 30 35 36 37 38 39 40 43 44 45 46 Welcome to iDVD Using This Document What's New in iDVD 6 Anatomy of a DVD Finding Out More iDVD Tutorial What You'll Learn Before You Begin Step One: Locate the Movies, Photos, and Audio Files to Use in the Tutorial Step Two: Create a New Project Step Three: Choose a Theme for Your DVD Step Four: Add a Movie and Scene Selection Menu Step Five: Add a Slideshow Step Six: Change the Look of Text on Menus Step Seven: Customize the Main Menu Step Eight: Change the Look of Buttons Step Nine: Organize Your Project in Map View Step Ten: Burn Your DVD iDVD at a Glance iDVD Window Themes Pane Menu Pane Buttons Pane Media Pane Project Info Window Drop Zone Editor Slideshow Editor Map View Chapter 2 Chapter 3 2 1 Welcome to iDVD 1 This document teaches you how to use the basic features of iDVD, and tells you about the new features in iDVD 6. You can use iDVD to create DVDs that contain your own movies, slideshows, and music, 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. Using This Document This document is organized into three chapters. You can use the chapters in the order that suits you, but the following order is recommended:  Chapter 1, "Welcome to iDVD": Gives a brief description of the major new features in this version of iDVD, tells you where you can find more information about iDVD, and provides a brief introduction to some terminology you'll need to know.  Chapter 2, "iDVD Tutorial": Takes you through one 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 the basic features of iDVD, 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 2.  Chapter 3,"iDVD at a Glance": Shows you the controls in the iDVD window and tells you what they do. 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 2. You can also use the chapter as a quick reference while you create your own iDVD projects. 3 What's New in iDVD 6 iDVD 6 adds many new features that make DVD creation faster and easier, with more professional results than ever.  Magic iDVD: Choose a theme, select your movies and photos, and iDVD creates a complete DVD project for you. Magic iDVD projects include a main menu with buttons for your movies and slideshows and scene selection menus for movies with chapters. Drop zones are filled automatically with your content. You can burn the DVD or continue editing it like any other iDVD project.  Widescreen all the way: Now you can author widescreen DVDs with widescreen themes, menus, movies, and slideshows. And with its new, resizable window, iDVD makes it even easier for you to work in widescreen projects.  Next-generation iDVD themes: New, Apple-designed themes showcase both standard and widescreen projects. Each new theme family includes a coordinating main menu, chapter or scene selection menus, and extras.  Fill drop zones automatically: Add your videos and photos to all the drop zones of a DVD menu with just one click. The new drop zone editor is easier to use and makes short work of filling the drop zones on a menu.  Flexible DVD menu and button editing: Now you can design DVD menus and buttons exactly the way you want. Adjust the volume of the background audio and make it fade in and out. Choose from more button styles, customize the button highlight color, and set the in and out points for motion buttons. Go ahead and mix button styles on a menu if you'd like--you're the creative force behind your DVD.  Improved slideshows: Slideshows have never looked so good. Now your slideshows can include titles and comments, and one slideshow can hold thousands of slides. You can create slideshows from iPhoto books and import Keynote slides to make a professional presentation DVD.  Enhanced map view editing: Now you can reorganize even the largest DVD project with a simple drag and drop. Drag and drop DVD menu icons in map view to move elements from one menu to another. You can even delete a section of the DVD project and the menus reconnect automatically. Map view alerts identify potential problems with your DVD before you burn it to a disc.  Multiple drive support: If you have multiple disc burning drives, iDVD now lets you pick the drive you want to use to burn a DVD. For the latest news and information about iDVD 6, go to the iDVD website at www.apple.com/ilife/iDVD. 4 Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD 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 you see on your television or computer screen when you insert a DVD into an optical drive or DVD player is called the main menu. And when you create your own DVD, that menu is the first thing you'll build. The menu can be a simple black screen with the contents of the DVD listed, or it can have still or moving background images with clickable text or graphic buttons, as in the example below. Buttons Navigation When you click a button on a DVD menu, something happens: A movie or song starts to play, a slideshow appears, or you see another menu (called a submenu). A submenu is simply another way to lead your viewers to more content. You can have many submenus on your DVD. When you design your own menus, you'll add buttons that take the viewer wherever you want them to go. Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD 5 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 that you want to use again, you can save the modified theme as a favorite and use it for other projects. So what are you waiting for? It's time to create your first DVD. Did You Know?--Quickly Creating a DVD The choice is yours in iDVD 6. If you don't have the time to spend creating a DVD, you can choose one of the quick DVD features built into iDVD 6. Use the OneStep DVD method to create a DVD directly from your DV camcorder. This is useful if you want to transfer your unedited video footage from your camcorder to a disc that plays automatically and doesn't include menus. For a quick DVD with a professional menu that includes buttons, take a step up from OneStep DVD and create a Magic iDVD. When you open iDVD, just click "Create a Magic iDVD." Then choose a theme and select the media and music you want in your DVD. That's it! iDVD builds your DVD and burns it to the DVD disc format of your choice. For more information about OneStep DVD and Magic iDVD, see iDVD Help. Finding Out More Your computer comes with a built-in help system for iDVD. When iDVD is open, you can choose Help > iDVD Help in the menu bar. When iDVD Help opens, you can type a word or phrase in the search field at the top of the page or click one of the topic areas to find out information about a certain topic. You'll find links to other helpful resources on the main iDVD Help page, such as a Hot Tips website and the Apple Support website. For the latest news and information about iDVD 6, go to the iDVD website at www.apple.com/ilife/idvd. 6 Chapter 1 Welcome to iDVD 2 iDVD Tutorial 2 This tutorial takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a simple iDVD project using your own movies, photos, and music. When you're done with the tutorial, you will have a complete project ready to burn on a DVD. What You'll Learn If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, you will build an iDVD project that includes a movie, a main menu, a menu to let viewers go directly to a specific scene, and a slideshow. You'll also learn to do the following:  Start an iDVD project.  Bring media from your other iLife applications into an iDVD project.  Customize the iDVD menus.  Make and customize slideshows.  Use map view for efficient editing.  Burn a DVD.  Play a DVD. As you go through the tutorial, look for the "Did You Know?" boxes that point out more things you can do, as well as how to find more information. Before You Begin To make it easier to do the tasks in this tutorial, print the document before you start. In many tasks shown in this lesson and in iDVD Help, you need to choose menu commands, which look like this: Choose Edit > Copy. 7 The first term after Choose is the name of a menu in the iDVD menu bar. The next term (or terms) are the items you choose from that menu. What You Need To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need the following:  A movie, preferably one with chapter markers You can use any iMovie HD format, including DV, MPEG-4, iSight, and 16:9 widescreen movies. You can add chapter markers to your movie in iMovie HD, or you can add chapter markers at set intervals in iDVD. To set them in iDVD, select a movie and choose Advanced > "Create Chapter Markers for Movie" Type a value in the chapter marker . interval box and click OK.  Images for a slideshow in your iPhoto library  Audio files in your iTunes library  A computer with a SuperDrive (This is not required if you will not burn your project on a DVD.) If you have video but no photos, or photos but no video, you can still use this tutorial. Your final results will be different, but you will still have a project that you can burn to a disc. Experiment a little and have fun. Undoing Changes As you're designing your DVD, you'll naturally fine-tune and change things many times. You can undo any unsaved changes by choosing Edit > Undo. You can do this as many times as necessary, stepping back through the edits you've made one by one. You can always delete saved text and other design elements, or revise your project by making other design choices. Step One: Locate the Movies, Photos, and Audio Files to Use in the Tutorial Before you start your project, take a few minutes to identify the movies, photos, and audio files you want to use in your project and make sure they are in the right format for iDVD. These items are automatically in the proper format:  Movies created in iMovie HD  Music files in your iTunes library  Photos in your iPhoto library If you have other files that you're not sure about, look for "file formats" in iDVD Help for more information. 8 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial If you've added songs and photos to the libraries in iTunes and iPhoto, you can access them in the Media pane of iDVD, shown below. If you have audio and image files in folders outside of iTunes and iPhoto, you can drag those folders into the list of photos or audio files in the Media pane after you open a project in iDVD. Movies that are stored in the Movies folder on your hard disk appear automatically in the Media pane. You can also drag movies you keep in other folders on your hard disk to the movies list. Did You Know?--Adding Other Movie Folders to the Media Pane In iDVD preferences, you can specify folders you want iDVD to monitor. Movies stored in these folders are automatically added to the movies list in the Media pane. For instructions on how to do this, go to iDVD Help and search for "add media." Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 9 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:  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.  If the opening dialog isn't showing, choose File > New. Select a location where you want to store your new project, and click Create. If the iDVD window opens with an animated menu and music, click the Motion button, shown below, to stop the animation and sound. Motion button Note: If you created a Magic iMovie and selected the checkbox to send your movie to iDVD, then you already have an open iDVD project that contains Play Movie and Scene Selection buttons. Fo ...