iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

Submenus (“Folders”)

Depending on the theme you’ve chosen, iDVD may impose a limit of six or twelve buttons on a menu screen. Fortunately, that doesn’t mean you’re limited to twelve scenes in a movie, or twelve movies per DVD. You, or iDVD, can accommodate more movies by creating submenus—additional menu screens that branch off from the main menu—and even sub- submenus (Figure 16-8).

You may have seen this effect already, in fact, if you’ve tried to create an iMovie DVD containing more than a handful of chapter markers.

You can also create this effect manually. Whenever you choose Add Submenu from the + pop-up menu at the lower-left corner of the screen, iDVD adds a submenu button to the current menu screen. In some themes, especially those that began life in previous versions of iDVD, this button looks like an actual folder; in most, it’s simply a new text button.

Behind the scenes, this button represents a second menu screen, a blank canvas with room for yet another six or twelve buttons.

Navigating Submenus

Navigating iDVD Folders while building your project is pretty easy, once you master these tips:

• Open by double-clicking. Double-click any folder or submenu button to “open” it—that is, to bring up the menu screen it represents.

  WORKAROUND WORKSHOPTemporary Buttons

  When you try to add more buttons to a menu screen than iDVD can handle, the program gracefully announces that you’ve added too many buttons.

  If you click OK, iDVD eliminates the new button you tried to add. If you ...