iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Phase 3: Hand Off to iDVD

Once you’ve added your chapter markers in iMovie, you’re ready to hand off the whole thing to iDVD, where you can do your menu design and DVD burning.

Start by saving your iMovie project. Then choose Share → iDVD and, in the confirmation dialog box, click Share.

Your hard drive whirs, thunder rolls somewhere, and after a few moments, you wind up in iDVD itself. If this is your first time using iDVD, the factory-setting design is called Travel, in which a clarinet tootles away, confirming your arrival in iDVD Land (Figure 15-6). If you’ve run iDVD before, you see whatever design theme you used last.

Figure 15-6. In iDVD, you add, edit, and manipulate the buttons, pictures, movies, and titles that will make up the menus for your DVD.Note that in iDVD 6, the “drawer” that used to be a slide-out component has become a permanent fixture, always open and always on the right. It’s the portion identified here as the Themes pane.

To stop the endlessly looping music and animation, locate and click the Motion button (identified in Figure 15-6), or just press ⌘-J.

Tip

To turn off the Apple logo that appears in the lower-right corner of every iDVD Project, choose iDVD → Preferences and turn off “Show Apple logo watermark.”