Section 20.2. What You re in For


20.2. What You're in For

In Chapter 21, you can read about using iDVD manually , where you can integrate movies, still pictures, and sound in very flexible ways. But especially at first, most people take one of the two simplest approaches: (a) create the movie in iMovie, and then hand it off to iDVD, or (b) burn your DVD directly using the new OneStep DVD process (Section 20.7).

This chapter guides you through the five broad steps of using iMovie and iDVD together:

  1. Prepare your audio, video, and pictures .

    In addition to movies, iDVD can incorporate audio and graphics files into your shows. iDVD doesn't, however, offer any way to create or edit these files. You must prepare them in other programs first.

  2. Insert chapter markers .

    In a commercial Hollywood DVD, you can jump around the movie without rewinding or fast-forwarding, thanks to the movie's scene menu or chapter menu . It's basically a screenful of bookmarks for certain scenes in the movie. (One way to create these useful scene breaks in iMovie HD is to position the Playhead and then choose Markers Add Chapter Marker.)

  3. Design the menu screen .

    In iDVD terms, menus doesn't mean menus that drop down from the top of the screen. Instead, a DVD menu is a menu screen , usually containing buttons that you click with the remote control. One button, called Play, starts playing the movie.

    Another, called Scene Selection, might take you to a second menu screen full of individual"chapter" buttons, so your audience doesn't have to start watching from the beginning if they don't want to.

    DVD menu design is at the heart of iDVD. The program lets you specify where and how each button appears on the screen, and also lets you customize the overall look with backgrounds and titles.

  4. Burn your DVD .

    To create a DVD, iDVD compresses your movie into the universal DVD file format, called MPEG-2 , and then copies the results to a blank recordable DVD disc. This process, called burning , lets you produce a DVD that plays back either in a computer or in most set-top DVD players.




iLife 05. The Missing Manual
iLife 05: The Missing Manual
ISBN: 0596100361
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 314
Authors: David Pogue

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