Chapter 18. iDVD Overview
iMovie took a technology dominated by professionals—movie editing—and made it easy to use for normal people. In some ways, though, iDVD is even more impressive.
Quite a lot of highly technical work goes into creating a DVD—in the background. While you’re focused on choosing which photo should appear on the title page of your DVD, iDVD handles the specifics of building the structure necessary for most consumer DVD players to play back your masterpiece. More importantly, it manages the MPEG-2 compression needed to cram multiple gigabytes’ worth of data onto a shiny platter the size and shape of a regular audio CD.
iDVD also does something that no other program can do: It gives you style. Apple has clearly put a lot of thought ...
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