18. Moving from iMovie to iDVD

My father had amassed a pretty large videotape collection over the past several years. So you can imagine that he did a fair bit of eye-rolling as DVD discs quickly gained in popularity, because now he needs to build a DVD collection, too.

DVD has several key advantages over VHS. The discs are smaller than videotapes, their image and sound quality are much better, and discs don’t degrade over time (at least, not remotely as fast as tape, a fact you’re no doubt aware of if you have an aging wedding or graduation video sitting on a Clips pane). And DVDs are interactive: jump to your favorite scene in a movie; play a director’s commentary while watching a movie; or, in the case of making and playing iMovie videos, ...

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