Chapter 18. Moving from iMovie to iDVD

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, store several movies on one disc that can be accessed without fast-forwarding (and rewinding, then fast-forwarding again as you try to find selected clips on a tape).

This chapter explains how you can easily export your footage from iMovie and bring it into the equally easy-to-use iDVD software.