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[. . . ] Drop zone: Some themes include special areas called drop zones where you can place still pictures or a short movie loop that plays as part of the background. The Customize drawer contains all of the tools you will need to customize your DVD menu. The different panes of the Customize drawer are detailed in See "Customize Drawer" on page 3. A submenu is an additional menu where you can put more slideshows, movies, and text on the same DVD. [. . . ] 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. 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. Button controls: Use these controls to set the shape, size, and position of the buttons on the DVD menu. Selecting Free Position allows you to move the buttons anywhere you like on the menu, rather than having them aligned to an invisible grid. Save as Favorite: Click this to save a theme you have customized with your favorite media and settings. If you do, it will appear in the Favorites list in the Themes pane so you or others can use it again. D E F G 4 iDVD at a Glance 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 C 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: You can add any folders where you store movies to this list by making selections in the iDVD Preferences window. Movies list: Drag a movie from here to a menu to create a movie button. To make the movie the full motion background of a menu, drag it up to the Settings button to switch to the Settings pane, and then drop the movie in the Background movie well. The movies that are stored in the selected folder appear in this list. 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 iDVD at a Glance 5 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 slideshow button that links to a slideshow containing all of the photos in that album. Drag an album with up to 30 photos to a drop zone to create a slideshow in the drop zone. Drag a photo or a group of photos to a drop zone to place a still image in the drop zone. To make a photo the full background of a menu, drag it to the menu or drag it up to the Settings button to switch to the Settings pane, and then drop it into the Background image well. Search field: If you have too many photos to easily find what you are looking for, you can type the photo's name in the search field to locate it. B C 6 iDVD at a Glance Audio View Here you can see all the music in your iTunes library. A B C D A B 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. Songs list: Drag a song or playlist from here to a menu to set the menu background music. Drag it to the Audio well in the slideshow editor to set the background music for a slideshow. To learn more about the slideshow editor, see See "Slideshow Editor" on page 9. [. . . ] 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. 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). Return button: Click this button to exit the slideshow editor. F G H I iDVD at a Glance 9 Map View The map view shows you a graphic representation of all the parts of your iDVD project. [. . . ]