Export iMovie projects to iDVD
After you're done editing your iMovie, save it, and then click on iDVD. Click the Create iDVD Project button.
An option box will appear. ALWAYS choose Render and Proceed
Welcome to iDVD. Clicking on the customize button opens a sidebar. From here we can change the look of our menu.
THEMES
Clicking on the options menu above the listed themes will allow you to choose themes from different versions of iMac. Select all to view all the themes. For now, let's choose the Anime Pop theme.
Notice how there's a little person icon in the lower right of this option. This means that the theme contains motion.
Motion can be turned on or off using the motion button.
Since we've picked our theme, let's move on to settings.
SETTINGS
This is a complicated-looking sidebar, but not to worry. Here we can change our iDVD menu's titles and media and put pictures into drop zones. However, the first thing we notice is that there's a really irritating tune in the background. Let's get rid of it.
Audio
Let's face it - this song is terrible. Fortunately, it's really easy to trash. Simply click and drag the little audio file out of the sidebar and onto the desktop, where it will disappear with a satisfying little puff of air.
To add a different song to the menu, drag a sound file into this same audio box. Now on to titles.
Titles
The titles are stationary while the animation goes whooshing around the screen. The larger title (circled in blue) is the title of our movie, while the smaller title (circled in green) starts the movie. Each can be changed by single-clicking twice on it (click slowly). While a title is selected, the sidebar also gives you the option of changing its color and size.
There. But now we've decided that the menu will look better with just one title. Simply delete the larger title, and customize the smaller title that starts the movie.
Fabulous. Let's play with drop zones.
DROP ZONES
Drop zones are places to add pictures or video to the menu. To find a file, click on labuser down in the dock and go through the menu to choose media.
Drag the file from the menu and into a drop zone. You can add as many media files as there are drop zones.
APPLE WATERMARK
You may have noticed that the Apple logo is down in the bottom right hand corner of the iDVD screen. To get rid of it, go to iDVD preferences and uncheck Show Apple logo watermark. The watermark is now no more.
Edited on Jan 06 2006 11:17AM by David Pinkham
