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. [. . . ] 2 Select one of the scene selection buttons on the menu and choose Edit > Select All Buttons. 3 Click Buttons to open the Buttons pane. 4 Click a button shape in the list at the top of the Buttons pane. Try different button shapes until you find one that looks good on your menu. The "T" creates a text-only button. 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. Then the button will show only the frame you selected. 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. You can select it to use for future projects, just as you would with any theme. For more information about customizing themes, see iDVD Help. Step Nine: Organize Your Project in Map View As your project becomes more complex, with menus and submenus, being able to see an overview of your complete project would be a big help. You can also use map view to do batch editing and add an autoplay movie to your DVD. In this step, you will use map view to add an autoplay movie to your iDVD project and view the organization of your DVD map. To switch to map view: m Click the Map button, shown below. Map button 26 Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial Map view, shown below, provides horizontal and vertical views for your project. Both views allow you to hide (collapse) sections of the map to simplify the view. You can also zoom in to see more detail in each icon, or zoom out to see the entire project in one window. Disclosure triangle View buttons Zoom slider You can find more information about the icons and controls in map view in "Map View" on page 46. To change the map view layout: 1 Click a view button in the bottom-left corner of the window to switch between the horizontal and vertical map views. 2 Scroll down the map until you find a menu icon with several items linked to it. For example, find the scene selection menu that links to the different chapters of your movie. Chapter 2 iDVD Tutorial 27 3 Click the disclosure triangle. The menu collapses to simplify the map, as shown below. Click the disclosure triangle again to expand the map. [. . . ] Hold the pointer over the sound file icon in the audio well to see the song's title and length (or the title of the first song in a playlist). Move the volume slider left or right to adjust the volume of the audio. Slideshow volume slider: Drag the slider to set the volume for this slideshow. F G H Chapter 3 iDVD at a Glance 45 I Settings button: Click to show slideshow options. You can add Back and Forward visual indicators to the slideshow, set the slideshow to repeat (loop), add files to the DVD-ROM contents, and show or hide titles and comments. [. . . ]