Chapter 15. From iMovie to iDVD

iDVDthe program, the legendturns iMovie movies and iPhoto slideshows into Hollywood-style DVDs that people can watch on TV sets. iDVD is where you design DVDs' main menu screens, add playback controls, and otherwise dress up iMovie movies, resulting in dynamic, interactive DVDs that look amazingly professional. iDVD handles the technology; you control the style.

iDVD 6, in particular, is a big step forward if your goal is to make your DVDs look like commercial Hollywood productions . Not only are there lots of pro-style features and effects, but you can now burn widescreen DVDsthat is, ones with wide, rectangular, cinematic proportions that fit today's plasma and LCD digital TV screens.

The software requirement is iDVD. The hardware requirement is a DVD recorder, inside, or connected to, your Mac.