User manual APPLE IDVD 5 GETTING STARTED

[. . . ] 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. [. . . ] This tutorial takes you through each of these steps to create a basic DVD. You can follow each step or just the parts of the tutorial you want. When you are done, you will have a complete project ready to burn on a DVD. As you move through the tutorial, you'll also see tips for alternative ways of doing tasks as well as how to find out more information about them from iDVD's onscreen help system. 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. 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. 18 Goals If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, you will build an iDVD project that includes a movie with chapter markers and a slideshow, and you'll learn to do the following: · Start an iDVD project. · Use media from your other iLife applications, and bring them into a iDVD project. · Use map view for efficient editing. 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. What You Need To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need the following: · A movie, optionally with chapter markers You can use any iMovie format, including MPEG-4, iSight, and 16:9 widescreen movies, and high-definition (HD) formats such as HDV · Images for a slideshow in your iPhoto library, including iPhoto RAW format · Audio files in your iTunes library, including custom playlists · A computer with a SuperDrive (This is not required if you will not burn your project on a DVD. ) Create a New Project In this section of the tutorial, you will create a new project, locate the movies, photos, and audio files you will use in the project, and select a theme. Open a New Project in iDVD To begin a new project: · If iDVD isn't open, double-click the iDVD application icon on your hard disk. If this is the first time iDVD has been opened, click the "Create a New Project" button in the dialog. · If iDVD is already open, choose File > New. Select a location for your new project, and click Create. Chapter 3 iDVD Tutorial 19 Did You Know?--Starting a Project There are other ways to begin a new iDVD project: · Use the OneStep DVD method to create a DVD directly from your camcorder. This is useful when you need to transfer your unedited video footage from your camcorder to a disc that plays automatically and doesn't include menus. For more information, search in iDVD Help for OneStep DVD. · Click the iDVD button in iMovie to open an iDVD project that contains your iMovie. Use this method when you want to make a DVD that has links to the movie you have just created on its main menu. · Starting in iMovie, use the Magic iMovie feature to automatically transfer autogenerated movies to an iDVD project. Locate the Movies, Photos, and Audio Files to Use in the Tutorial Before you can create a DVD, you need to assemble your images and be sure your movies and audio files are in the right format for iDVD. (Movies created using iMovie are in the proper format. For more information, look for "file formats" in iDVD Help. ) To locate media in the Media Browser: 1 Click the Customize button at the bottom of the iDVD window. 2 Click the Media button at the top of the Customize drawer. Choose Audio, Photos, or Movies from the pop-up menu at the top of the Customize drawer to see the media you have available. [. . . ] Click the text to the right of it to switch between minutes and gigabytes (GB). · The Motion Menus meter shows the total duration of all the menus in the project. You can have up to a total of 15 minutes of motion menus. · The Tracks meter shows the number of tracks and slideshows you have used, including autoplay movies and slideshows. [. . . ]