User manual APPLE IDVD 6 GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] 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: Â 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. Â Chapter 2, "iDVD Tutorial": Takes you through one path to creating a DVD. [. . . ] If you add a short movie, it plays repeatedly in the drop zone; if you add a still image, the image fills the drop zone. Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 23 7 Click the Preview button to see the images play. The images will "loop, " or keep playing continuously, so click the Exit button on the DVD remote control when you've seen enough. 8 Choose File > Save to save your work. Add Transitions With all this content and good-looking menus, it would be great to have transitions to smooth the movement from the menu to your movie and slideshow when the viewer clicks a button on the menu. To set transitions for the main menu: 1 Click one of the buttons on the menu to select it, then choose Edit > Select All Buttons. 3 Choose Push from the Transition pop-up menu, shown below. 4 Click one of the arrow buttons next to the Transition pop-up menu to set the direction you want the transition to move. Note: You can only click the arrow buttons for transitions that allow you to set the direction of the transition. 5 Click the Preview button and use the DVD remote control to select the menu buttons one by one and view the results. 6 Choose File > Save to save your project. 24 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Did You Know?--Filling Drop Zones Quickly Some themes have multiple drop zones and even dynamic drop zones that move in the menu background. You can quickly and easily fill these drop zones in your project using Autofill or the drop zone editor. To fill drop zones automatically with your content: m Click the Menu button, then click Autofill. To open the drop zone editor: m Double-click a drop zone, or click Edit Drop Zones in the Menu pane. For more information about using the drop zone editor, see iDVD Help. Step Eight: Change the Look of Buttons Button styles are designed to fit the theme. Buttons can be text only, or they can be different shapes that have text, a still image, a slideshow, or video on them. When you preview your project, notice that the video actually plays in the button. In this step, you'll change the shape of a button and choose an image for each one. To change button shapes: 1 Double-click the Scene Selection button to open the scene selection menu. 2 Select one of the scene selection buttons on the menu and choose Edit > Select All Buttons. Try different button shapes until you find one that looks good on your menu. Once you have a button shape you like, you can change the images on the buttons. To change the image on a button: 1 Click a button once to see the Movie pane, shown below. Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 25 Note: If the button links to a slideshow, you see the Photos pane you learned about in "Step Seven: Customize the Main Menu" on page 22. 2 Move the slider left or right until you see the frame you want to show on the button. If you don't want the buttons to show moving video, deselect the checkbox in the corner of the Movie pane. 3 Choose File > Save to save your work. Did You Know?--Creating Custom Themes Once you design the background, music, text, and buttons on your menus the way you like, you can save your customized menu as a custom theme. A custom theme appears in the Themes pane, in the Favorites set of themes. [. . . ] When you add a soundtrack, this is automatically set to "Fit To Audio" so the slideshow and the soundtrack finish at the same time. Transition pop-up menu and direction controls: Choose a transition that moves from one slide to the next. With some transitions, you can use the arrow buttons to pick a direction for the transition to move. Audio well: Drag a song or iTunes playlist here to play it in the background while the slideshow plays. [. . . ]