The Little iDVD Book
- Main Page
- Table of content
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Dad Test
- Who Should Read This Book
- How to Use This Book
- Part 1: Basic Training
- Chapter 1. In the Beginning
- A (Tiny) Bit of Background
- The Titanic Triumvirate
- How to Make a DVD: The Short Version
- A Short Pictorial
- Chapter 2. Before You Even Think About Burning a DVD
- Planning to Start Planning
- Make Some Notes
- Road Mapping (a.k.a. Development)
- Further Considerations
- Housekeeping: Back Home on the Mac
- DVD Preproduction Checklist
- Chapter 3. Introduction to Making DVDs
- iDVD: It s More Than Just a Program
- Importing and Encoding
- Authoring
- The Grand Finale
- Part 2: A Little Bit Beyond the Basics
- Chapter 4. Shooting and Editing Tips for Great Video
- Shooting Better Movies
- Night and Day
- Not-So-Obscura Camera Technique
- Editing with iMovie 3
- A Few More Neat Techniques
- Chapter 5. Getting Your Stuff into iDVD
- First, Get Your Assets Together
- Let s Do It
- Import Movies and Images
- Create More Menus
- Chapter 6. Working with Menus and Buttons
- Take Control of Menus
- Have Your Way with Buttons
- Chapters: They re Not Just For Books Anymore
- Chapter 7. Adding Audio
- Gather Your Sound Clips
- Import Sound
- Part 3: Wrapping Up
- Chapter 8. How to Back Up or Archive iDVD Projects
- Backup Considerations
- What to Back Up
- What to Back Up To
- What to Back Up With
- Chapter 9. iDVD in Depth
- The Menus
- The Buttons
- The Customize Drawer
- Appendix A. The Pit You Throw Your Money Into
- Budget-Priced Software
- The Apple Pro Products
- Appendix B. Compression for Smart People (the MPEG Story)
- What, Exactly, Is Compression?
- Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty